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Fleetwood Mac - Behind the Mask Audio CD

A fair review of the Fleetwood Mac "Behind the Mask" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Fleetwood Mac reviews here, or go back to the Fleetwood Mac tabs.

Fleetwood Mac Band: Fleetwood Mac
Title: Behind the Mask
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Release Date: 1990-03-29
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Skies the Limit 2: Love Is Dangerous 3: In the Back of My Mind 4: Do You Know 5: Save Me 6: Affairs of the Heart 7: When the Sun Goes Down 8: Behind the Mask 9: Stand on the Rock 10: Hard Feelings 11: Freedom 12: When It Comes to Love 13: Second Time

muddy sound
98 or whatever I paid was to much. just listened to this cd- terrible sound maybe its good- but since it sounds like im underwater or in another room like its muffled id say 1.


It's hardly even a mask
It isn't because Lindsay Buckingham left, either--they're just plain uninspired. Overlong and showcasing the most banal production I've ever heard, "Behind the Mask" is an album without flavour or purpose. Nicks' "Freedom," co-written with Heartbreaker Mike Campbell, is passable, but the other eleven tracks make a pit of gravel look galvanized. On "Hard Feelings," Buckingham replacement is even insensate enough to sing: "Still you want to be friends/But I don't want to be just friends. " The most interesting part of the record is the spellbinding cover image, commissioned by Fleetwood to depict the band's spiritual essence, which shows a girl clearly representing Nicks leaving the band behind her--which Nicks actually did three years later.


The only song I like is "Freedom"
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Fleetwood Mac minus Buckingham= Still Fleetwood Mac
I've also read the reviews by those who feel FM was just as good without him and that this album (as well as the album TIME ) should be given a break. I've read all the reviews by those who feel FM took a nose dive when Lindsey Buckingham left the band. I tend to agree with the latter reviewers. Everyone who "found" FM after Buckingham and Nicks joined could not possibly see the band without these two, and that anything put out under the FM name without those two should be regarded as a travesty.
I say BULL! Just as there was a very good Genesis before Phil Collins , there was a very good Fleetwood Mac (several, actually) before Buckingham and Nicks joined. There was even a Fleetwood Mac before Christine McVie. Mick Fleetwood and John McVie have always had a talent for finding good singers, players and writers to join the band.
The fact that Buckingham and Nicks brought the band a great deal more success doesn't take anything away from the pre and post B and N lineups. Give these lineups a chance. Open up a little and see what the other players have to offer. Danny Kirwin, Peter Green, Bob Welch,Dave Mason, Billy Burnette,Rick Vito. . . . all these people are talented and worthy of a listen. And, like it or not, all are part of Fleetwood Mac history. They should be given some respect. After all, Mick Fleetwood and John McVie have made very few mistakes in choosing players. As long as John McVie and Mick Fleetwood are there, there will always be Fleetwood Mac.


Worthy, but somehow, the spark just isn't there
After Lindsey left in high dudgeon in 1987 after a dispute over touring, Mick Fleetwood went out and recruited Billy Burnette (son of rock'n'roll pioneer Dorsey Burnette) and Rick Vito to fill the gap. I've been following the Mac - and especially Stevie - for over two decades, and I must agree with the consensus that they're at their best when both Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks are in the mix. I saw them in concert several times with the Mac in 1987 and 1990, and they were very good, likeable live performers. They try hard - and I give them A for effort - on "Behind the Mask", and they do blend well with the other group members, but there's just not quite the same fire and zing there is when Lindsey is doing his thing onstage and behind the mixing board.

Actually, Christine McVie has to carry most of the burden of this album (and does so very well, in truth, as in "Save Me" and "Skies The Limit"). It's important to understand, when considering Stevie Nicks' work here, that at the time she was really screwed up by Klonopin, which had been prescribed to her in the first place as a measure to help combat her former cocaine addiction, but which, in turn, she ended up getting hooked on. Stevie herself has said on numerous occasions since breaking Klonopin's hold that, in her opinion, that drug was actually worse for her than cocaine, because at least cocaine didn't interfere with her creative processes. Whatever the case, she doesn't have, unfortunately, any really memorable songs on "Behind The Mask" - which is more the pity when compared to her terrific work the previous year (1989) on "The Other Side of the Mirror") (Side A of the LP is still, IMHO, one of the best slabs of Stevie music I've ever heard). None of her songs here quite measure up, again IMHO, to "Rooms On Fire" or "Whole Lotta Trouble".


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