Behind the Mask reviews

[SteveMacD]

Originally Posted by chiliD

I think Fleetwood Mac (that incarnation with Rick & Billy) would've done a WHOLE LOT better version of "Whole Lotta Trouble" than what got unleashed upon the world on TOSOTM.

Go figure. The ONE blues song she writes, and she does NOT use Mick, John, and Chris, who were British blues legends, or Rick, himself also an ex-Bluesbreaker. Really, you couldn't find more blues cred than what she had, and of course, she'd do the obvious and cut that as a solo artist...

Yeah, "Rooms On Fire" would've been a good Fleetwood Mac song, too; but, I kind of like it the way it is. "The Second Time" is the only Stevie sung tune on BTM that I would ****-can. If they could've gotten "Paper Doll" ready in time, that would've been a great replacement.

Personally, I'm not a big fan of PD, either. I'm also not a fan of TOSOTM, save for a few songs. That whole era gave us a bunch of crap, and I can't listen to or watch any one release all the way through. "Rooms..." is a killer song, and I'd rather it had been released with the stronger FM material than solo, IMO. But, yeah, "The Second Time" is pretty terrible.

Honestly, though, I think they would've been best off if they had parted company with Stevie and Lindsey in 1980 and gotten together with Richard and Linda Thompson. The Thompsons needed a label and were in the process of splitting up, but were recording the brilliant "Shoot Out The Lights" album. Based on subsequent albums, it would have been much, MUCH better than what we got (especially by 1991, with RT's "Rumor and Sigh" and it's "1952 Vincent Black Lightning").