Lacking the flamboyance or sexy bedroom shaking baritone voices of Issac Hayes or Barry White, David Porter (actually the other half of the Hayes/Porter Memphis Shoals songwriting hit team of the '60s) manages to pull off an interesting concept album. Porter's dramatic rendition of THE MASQUERADE IS OVER is definitely is a strong point and worth the price of the album alone - it's soulful, but if you haven't heard it before its probably very different than anything you've ever heard... part Issac Hayes/Barry White orchestral soul, part like something out of the climax to a modern broadway/rock musical... at the time, maybe only the Beatles were flirting with such orchestral complexity. There's that rap/dialogue with that break beat you've heard before, and the weird and soulful part disco, part movie soundtrack type ending - a tune definitely well ahead of its time and classic moment in soul music.
| A1 | If I Give It Up, I Want It Back | 2:26 |
| A2 | When You Have To Sneak (You Have To Sneak) | 3:29 |
| A3 | Help | 3:37 |
| A4 | I'm Afraid The Masquerade Is Over | 9:43 |
| B1 | Storm In The Summertime | 5:45 |
| B2 | Pretty Inside | 3:33 |
| B3 | Human | 3:48 |
| B4 | Airplane Ticket, Bus Ride, Can I Borrow Your Car? | 3:46 |
