Would Behind The Mask have been better with "Paper Doll" on it?

[jbrownsjr]

I can't stand Second Time, but I love WISYA... I guess I'm weird ..

[seanthompson]

Here's my 'Behind The Mask' playlist on my IPOD. It includes Paper Doll. Love it!


Skies The Limit
Desiree
Save Me
In The Back Of My Mind
Behind The Mask
Love Is Dangerous
Do You Know
When The Sun Goes Down
Stand On The Rock
Hard Feelings
Freedom
When It Comes To Love
The Second Time
Intuition
Affairs Of The Heart
Paper Doll
Make Me A Mask
Love Shines
Heart Of Stone
No Questions Asked
As Long As You Follow
Fleetwood Mac - Rockline Interview 1988, parts 1-9

And there you go.

[louielouie2000]

I adore Paper Doll... like others have said, it's just infectious and fun (despite the dressing down Stevie is giving someone in the song). Speaking of the song being about dressing someone down, does anyone have any opinions as to whom Paper Doll is directed at? I've always considered it to be aimed squarely at Mick Fleetwood. But it could just as easily have been about a former lover... Jimmy Iovine comes to mind. The songs strikes me as being about someone who was in the music industry. Maybe that's just me.

Regarding whether or not it would improve Behind The Mask? I've actually never thought about that. I rather enjoy the song as a stand alone track. I suppose it would blend in quite well with Rick and Billy's folksy material, though. Perhaps it could have replaced Affairs Of The Heart... which is a lovely enough song, but doesn't add to the rest of the album stylistically.

[johnnystorms]

i'm a bit torn on Paper Doll... i loooove the bridge: "well i have forgotten you and your beatiful eyes..." but i find the verses a bit clunky. i also think the boy's voices on the chorus a bit too loud. it is a good song though. just not sure where it fits in Stevie's recorded ouvre.

[mitzo]

Paper Doll has a kind of comic feel to it, with the oom pa pa background and her vocals about being "off the wall' and so on. It was a different type of Stevie. Not a persona I would have loved to see her pursue, but kinda neat, really, in that one song. It was like she was having a good laugh at herself, maybe.

[chriskisn]

Originally Posted by ejof17

I adore BTM. Love Is Dangerous is fabulous! Desiree would have been great on this album and sure, Paper Doll too!!

Great to see some BTM love. It was (if I remember correctly) the second FM album that I bought after the Greatest Hits. I think I bought Time just afterwards - hence my love of both BTM and Time. I'd go as far as to say that BTM is the best FM album since Penguin/MTM/HAHTF trio of the early 70's. See elsewhere in the archives for my undying love for Penguin.

Paper Doll is a great song (as was Desiree), and they would have only added to what was already an awesome album.

Freedom was perhaps the best Stevie song since her Tusk days.

[chriskisn]

Originally Posted by seanthompson

Here's my 'Behind The Mask' playlist on my IPOD. It includes Paper Doll. Love it!


Skies The Limit
Desiree
Save Me
In The Back Of My Mind
Behind The Mask
Love Is Dangerous
Do You Know
When The Sun Goes Down
Stand On The Rock
Hard Feelings
Freedom
When It Comes To Love
The Second Time
Intuition
Affairs Of The Heart
Paper Doll
Make Me A Mask
Love Shines
Heart Of Stone
No Questions Asked
As Long As You Follow
Fleetwood Mac - Rockline Interview 1988, parts 1-9

And there you go.

Heart of Stone, Christine McVie's second best song IMO (second after "Isn't It Midnight") and it didn't even make it onto an album.

[mikebise]

I remember when Stevie gave that one interview, recalling when she did something (recorded a song?) that she really did not want to do, but she did it anyway, to keep the peace. Later, she regretted it, and she told her father, who said, "Well, you could have said 'No'."

So, I always think of Stevie's dad when I hear "Paper Doll", giving her a bit of advice.

[skuncles]

I like the "Behind The Mask" album, I mean it's no "Rumours" or even "Mirage", but as an album I like it. It's better than "Time" which to me is hands down the worst Mac album ever, but it is an ok pop album in general. As for the outtakes from "Mask", I think all of them would have only helped the album.
Because of this post I had to add "Behind The Mask" to my iPod, I even added "Kiln House" which is probably the MOST quirky of all the Mac albums (and another favorite of mine!).

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by mikebise

I remember when Stevie gave that one interview, recalling when she did something (recorded a song?) that she really did not want to do, but she did it anyway, to keep the peace. Later, she regretted it, and she told her father, who said, "Well, you could have said 'No'."

So, I always think of Stevie's dad when I hear "Paper Doll", giving her a bit of advice.

Stevie was talking about the BN album cover when she recounted her father's advice. I like that line in Paper Doll too. It makes me think she is saying, "Well, a simple 'no' would have sufficed. It didn't have to be WW3."

Michele

[aprilsrain]

Originally Posted by chriskisn

Heart of Stone, Christine McVie's second best song IMO (second after "Isn't It Midnight") and it didn't even make it onto an album.

Heart of Stone is fabulous. To me, it's her second best song losing to "Why".