Which Album Should I Buy / SYW and DVD Questions

[Street_Dreamer]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

And Matt, I didn't discourage anyone from buying Behind The Mask . Much like Street Angel, it's kind of a mixed bag for me though. However, there are some truly great songs... Freedom and Save Me are amongst Stevie and Christine's strongest Mac career offerings in my opinion. I do like Billy and Rick's harmonies on songs like Hard Feelings and Do You Know. But overall they just never seemed to really assimilate into the band... on this album they simply feel spliced in. Their own material seems totally unrelated to the rest of the album, much like I'm a Roadrunner and The Derelict were out of place on Penguin. Stevie's offerings here are almost sad too... but how terrible they are kinda shows just how low she was when this album came out, and makes them great artistic expression to me. But truly, I wouldn't discourage anyone from buying this (or any other) album. I wouldn't necessarily recommend anyone buy it first... but it's definitely a chapter of Mac history that is very interesting, and must not be looked over.

My comment wasn't directed toward you, but to another person who said to not even bother purchasing BTM. But I definitely agree with you about Billy and Rick being "spliced in" on the album. It's sad because both guys are so talented and could have really done some great things in the band had they been allowed more freedom within the band. Oh well...

Matt