Favorite Vocals

[dissention]

After the riot that was caused over on the Rumours board over some rather bland vocals, why don't we talk about our favorites. Here are mine:

Every song from Tusk!
Straight Back
That's Alright
Silver Springs (The Dance)
Everybody Finds Out
Trouble In Shangri-La (not only a fab vocal, but one of her best lyrically!!!)
Fall From Grace
Love Is
Long Way To Go
Edge of Seventeen
Nothing Ever Changes
Sable On Blonde
Goodbye Baby

[Josh2003]

I think she sounds great on "Touched by an Angel"...her voice has that perfect vibrato...

[dissention]

Originally posted by Josh2003
I think she sounds great on "Touched by an Angel"...her voice has that perfect vibrato...

That's a good one, too. I think she rocked on If You Ever Did Believe, also. At first I thought Sheryl Crow was singing the high background parts, but when I saw the video, it was Stevie. :)

[DownOnRodeo]

You know what I'm going to say Dissention, don't you :laugh:

Not Make Believe <-- sexayy vocals. I swear that song was seriously sped up. If those are the results they should do it more often!! :nod:

[dissention]

Originally posted by DownOnRodeo
You know what I'm going to say Dissention, don't you :laugh:

Let me take a WILD guess...

Could it be...

:eek: :eek: :eek:

Not that!!!! Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!! Repent!!!!

[EnchantedSLN]

My alltime favorite vocal from Stevie is on Beautiful Child.

Apart from that:

Landslide
Silver Springs (77 & 97)
Rock A Little
Garbo
At Last
Gate & Garden
Storms
Doing The Best That I Can
Insider
Rose Garden
If You Ever Did Believe
Nightbird
Midnight Wind
Goodbye Baby
Seven Wonders
Silent Night
Destiny
Running Through The Garden
Sorcerer
Leather & Lace (demo versions)
Twisted (soundtrack version)

My friends are usually surprised to learn that Landslide (Fleetwood Mac) & Rhiannon (The Dance) are even sung by the same person, given how much Stevie's voice has matured. I like the whole spectrum for different reasons... in the early days it was pure & beautiful; in the early/mid 80s she had the smoke-and-whisky thing going on (like in I Sing For The Things-- I think it's gorgeous, but I know a lot of people hate that), and now her voice has a depth and warmth to it that is very heavy, very comforting.

[The Chain]

I Can't Wait
Rock A Little
Running Through The Garden
Smile At You
Talk To Me
Nightbird
Leather And Lace
Storms

[gldstwmn]

Rhiannon (FM Live 1980, Live At The House Of Blues,1994)
Sisters Of The Moon (Mirage Video 1982)
Mistaken Love
China Doll
Nothing Ever Changes
Stand Back (Solid Gold performance, Red Rocks Performance)
Fall From Grace
Landslide (FM Live 1980)
Silver Springs (The Dance)
Gold Dust Woman
Straight Back (Mirage Tour Rehearsal)
Smile At You (Mirage outtake)
Angel
Beautiful Child (Say You Will Tour 5/7/03)
Gypsy (Acoustic version, Arizona Heart Institute Benefit 2000)
Violet & Blue
Sorcerer (Buckingham Nicks demo)
How Still My Love (Rock A Little Tour)
Sleeping Angel
Planets Of The Universe (piano demo)

[darklinensuit]

Garbo!!!
Kind of Woman
Nightbird
Nothing Ever Changes
Sable on Blond
Wild Heart
The Highwayman
Blue Lamp
Bella Donna
Whenever I Call You Friend
No Spoken Word
Rock a Little
I Can't Wait
Running through the Garden
At Last
Touched by an Angel
Somebody Stand by Me
Landslide
Goodbye Baby

Two Honorable Mentions:
Talk to Me is such a hard song to sing, but she did great.
I love the way she sings the word "passion" in the red rose line in Gate and Garden.

- Jake

[Johnny Stew]

Frozen Love
Rhiannon (1976 'Rosebud' performance)
Landslide (1998 Letterman appearance, w/Lindsey)
Dreams (#1: 1980 'Live' version, #2: 1987 'Tango' concert video)
Gold Dust Woman (1997 'The Dance')
Silver Springs
Sara
Sisters Of The Moon (1982 'Mirage' concert video)
Beautiful Child (then & now)
Bella Donna
Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
Edge Of Seventeen (1998 'Storytellers' version)
How Still My Love
Outside The Rain (#1: 'Red Rocks' version, #2: 1994 House of Blues radio show version)
Sleeping Angel
Gypsy
Wild Heart
Gate & Garden (the song's not a favorite of mine necessarily, but the vocal is terrific)
Nightbird
Stand Back (1983 Oakland, CA. version... as heard on the 'Dreamer' boot)
Sable On Blond
Beauty And The Beast
Violet And Blue
Rock A Little
I Sing For The Things
Talk To Me
The Nightmare (12" maxi-single version)
If I Were You
Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You
BATTLE OF THE DRAGON
Seven Wonders
When I See You Again (is anyone really surprised to see this on my list? ;) )
Silent Night
No Questions Asked
Whole Lotta Trouble
Ghosts
Fire Burning
Cry Wolf
Juliet
Doing The Best That I Can
I Still Miss Someone
Real Tears
Freedom
Love Is Dangerous
Sometimes It's A Bitch
Love's A Hard Game To Play
Paper Doll
Blue Denim
Greta
Destiny
Listen To The Rain
Unconditional Love
Maybe Love
Kick It
Jane
God's Garden
Somebody Stand By Me
Twisted
Free Fallin'
Sweet Girl (demo version from 'Enchanted')
If You Ever Did Believe
Crystal
Trouble In Shangri-La
Candlebright
Sorcerer
Planets Of The Universe
I Miss You
It's Only Love
Love Changes
Bombay Sapphires
Fall From Grace
Love Is
Touched By An Angel
Thrown Down
Illumé
Smile At You
Running Through The Garden
Everybody Finds Out
Destiny Rules
Not Make Believe
Goodbye Baby


Well, you asked! :laugh:
Consider yourselves lucky I didn't also list all of my favorite backing vocals! ;)

[darklinensuit]

Originally posted by Johnny Stew
Seven Wonders
Destiny
It's Only Love


Sorry I left these off my list!:nod:

- Jake

(p.s. I thought I was the only one who preferred Enchanted's Sweet Girl to The Dance's.)

[Neal]

Waaaay too many to list, so here's my top 10 (for today at least...)

Outside the Rain
If Anyone Falls
No Spoken Word
Rooms on Fire
Maybe Love...
Trouble in Shangri-La
Gold Dust Woman
Storms
Straight Back
Everybody Finds Out

[xdreamsunwindx]

Hmmm... In no particular order...

Thrown Down
Straight Back
Landslide (The Dance)
Rhiannon (Rosebud)
Long Distance Winner
Races Are Run
EFO
Angel
Kind of Woman
Beautiful Child
Sara
Not Make Believe (You're not the only one who loves the vocal on this one, Joe :laugh: )
POTU
SOTM (Mirage)
Whenever I Call You Friend (even though I hate Kenny Loggins)
Long Way to Go
No Spoken Word

There are many more, believe me.

[skcin]

Originally posted by EnchantedSLN


My friends are usually surprised to learn that Landslide (Fleetwood Mac) & Rhiannon (The Dance) are even sung by the same person, given how much Stevie's voice has matured. I like the whole spectrum for different reasons... in the early days it was pure & beautiful; in the early/mid 80s she had the smoke-and-whisky thing going on (like in I Sing For The Things-- I think it's gorgeous, but I know a lot of people hate that), and now her voice has a depth and warmth to it that is very heavy, very comforting.

I so agree, Tiff! You just described the way her voice has changed perfectly!

My faves:

Beautiful Child (live - every one I've heard is just incredible))
B&tB
Doing the Best That I Can
At Last (the chills I get from this song - wow!)
TISL
It's Only Love
Sorcerer (old demo w/ LB where they're screaming at the end)
Rhiannon (Rosebud)
Insider
Bella Donna
Frozen Love
Somebody Stand By Me
Angel
Silver Springs (the Dance)
Stand Back (SYW Tour)
Eo17 (White Wing Dove Tour)


Paula

[ricohv]

Hmmm-way too many too list but the first few that come to mind:

SARA-beautiful perfect vocal with the slight echoey effect-sums up all that was perfect with the sound of the Mac at that time

Whenever I Call You Friend- a very spirited vocal, reaching and sustaining high notes (and sounding very natural at it too!) that I don't think she had done before or since. Also incredible clarity in her vocal and just the right amount of Eartha Kitt growling in parts.

Wild Heart-I think it was the RS review for The Wild Heart where they said (about the title song) something like "her voice is not a perfect instrument technically but when she cranks it up she can wail with the best of the blues mamas" and belt it out she does, a la Janis, in parts of that "epic" song. Gawd I remember playing that song so loud on the big clunky headphones in high school and just thinking how incredible and INTENSE it was. Still is!

Ricoh

[laurie816]

Some of my favorites include:

Landslide (The White Album) and I like the live version of FM's 1980 album where she dedicated it to London.

Rumours:
Gold Dust Woman (especially the howling at the end)

Mirage:
That's Alright (such a fun song and her voice is so sharp here)

Bella Donna:
After The Glitter Fades
Edge Of Seventeen
Leather and Lace
The Highwayman
(she can really do a ballad)

Wild Heart:
Wild Heart
Nightbird
Nothing Ever Changes (such emotion in that one)
Sable On Blond (just how deep do you hold that dream)

Rock A Little
Rock A Little (she sounds so wistful)
I Sing For The Things
No Spoken Word

Tango:
Call me Crazy but I like her on Welcome To The Room...Sara

OSOTM:
Ooh My Love
Doing The Best That I Can (Escape from Berlin)
Juliet ( Love this song)

*sorry nothing really stands out for me on Behind The Mask

Trouble In Shangri-La
Trouble In Shangri-La
Planets of The Universe
Fall From Grace

Say You Will
Thrown Down
Running Through The Garden
Goodbye Baby

*honorable mentions go to
Battle of The Dragon...I absolutely LOVE this song. So mystical.

Twisted (but only on the soundtrack to the movie. Her duet with Lindsey is amazing and I love the "I know...You know...watching you go is like dying" lyric and the way the sing it...CHILLS

Reconsider Me
Garbo
Sleeping Angel
and any live version of Rhiannon where she tears it up!!

[darklinensuit]

Originally posted by laurie816

Tango:
Call me Crazy but I like her on Welcome To The Room...Sara


If you're crazy, so am I. (Not that this issue is in dispute.:) )
And did you leave out Street Angel on purpose?

- Jake

[laurie816]

Originally posted by darklinensuit
If you're crazy, so am I. (Not that this issue is in dispute.:) )
And did you leave out Street Angel on purpose?

- Jake

Whoops!!:laugh:

You'll notice the time was close to 7 am which means I was only half way through my first cup of coffee...not fully awake until the second cup and after the Rugrat goes off to school:laugh:

In any case, my favorites off of Street Angel are:

Greta and Rose Garden
(sadly that's about it on that one):(

[diamondsnake]

Originally posted by Johnny Stew
Frozen Love
Rhiannon (1976 'Rosebud' performance)
Landslide (1998 Letterman appearance, w/Lindsey)
Dreams (#1: 1980 'Live' version, #2: 1987 'Tango' concert video)
Gold Dust Woman (1997 'The Dance')
Silver Springs
Sara
Sisters Of The Moon (1982 'Mirage' concert video)
Beautiful Child (then & now)
Bella Donna
Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
Edge Of Seventeen (1998 'Storytellers' version)
How Still My Love
Outside The Rain (#1: 'Red Rocks' version, #2: 1994 House of Blues radio show version)
Sleeping Angel
Gypsy
Wild Heart
Gate & Garden (the song's not a favorite of mine necessarily, but the vocal is terrific)
Nightbird
Stand Back (1983 Oakland, CA. version... as heard on the 'Dreamer' boot)
Sable On Blond
Beauty And The Beast
Violet And Blue
Rock A Little
I Sing For The Things
Talk To Me
The Nightmare (12" maxi-single version)
If I Were You
Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You
BATTLE OF THE DRAGON
Seven Wonders
When I See You Again (is anyone really surprised to see this on my list? ;) )
Silent Night
No Questions Asked
Whole Lotta Trouble
Ghosts
Fire Burning
Cry Wolf
Juliet
Doing The Best That I Can
I Still Miss Someone
Real Tears
Freedom
Love Is Dangerous
Sometimes It's A Bitch
Love's A Hard Game To Play
Paper Doll
Blue Denim
Greta
Destiny
Listen To The Rain
Unconditional Love
Maybe Love
Kick It
Jane
God's Garden
Somebody Stand By Me
Twisted
Free Fallin'
Sweet Girl (demo version from 'Enchanted')
If You Ever Did Believe
Crystal
Trouble In Shangri-La
Candlebright
Sorcerer
Planets Of The Universe
I Miss You
It's Only Love
Love Changes
Bombay Sapphires
Fall From Grace
Love Is
Touched By An Angel
Thrown Down
Illumé
Smile At You
Running Through The Garden
Everybody Finds Out
Destiny Rules
Not Make Believe
Goodbye Baby


Well, you asked! :laugh:
Consider yourselves lucky I didn't also list all of my favorite backing vocals! ;)

Good Lord, Johnny!

Here are mine:

Crying in the Night (She'll come curlin' round you like fingers!)
Dreams
Goodbye Baby
I Sing for the things
When I see you Again
Freedom
Desert Angel
Silver Springs (Dance)
Whenever I call you Friend
Trouble in Shangri-la
Love Is
Running through the Garden
Everybody Finds Out
Illume

[celestenadia]

OK. I'm gonna try to do this album by album...
And I'm gonna HAVE to include harmonies:p
Say You Love Me
I Don't Wanna Know
Angel
Rhiannon Live
Edge Of Seventeen
Gypsy
Wild Heart
Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You?
Little Lies
Long Way To Go
The Second Time
Blue Denim
Silver Springs
Silver Springs Live
Sleeping Angel
Sorcerer
Silver Springs (VBOFM alt mix ending)
Running Through The Garden

[Johnny Stew]

Originally posted by diamondsnake
Good Lord, Johnny! :laugh: I know, I know. :)

As it is, I forgot to include "One More Big Time Rock And Roll Star," "Ooh My Love," and "Thousand Days." :nod:

[darklinensuit]

Originally posted by Johnny Stew
:laugh: I know, I know. :)

As it is, I forgot to include "One More Big Time Rock And Roll Star,"

I love the chorus but hate the vocal on the "undercover music lover" lines, and I'm usually a fan of the RaspaLittle voice. Also, IMO it's out of place on Enchanted: It belongs on Disc 2, and The Highwayman belongs on Disc 1.

- Jake

[dissention]

Originally posted by darklinensuit
the RaspaLittle voice

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[~nightbird~]

I'll add mine into the mix...

Solo~The Highwayman

With FM~Storms

Duet~Midnight Wind

[darklinensuit]

I'd like to add How Still My Love as well.

- Jake

[diamondsnake]

Whenever I call you Friend has some awesome vocals. She hits notes I didn't even know existed!

[SpyNote]

The one that stands out for me is Sleeping Angel. She delivers such a rich, compelling vocal.

[golddustchic]

Here are some of mine:

Sleeping Angel demo

At Last ( I was totally blown away when I heard that for the first time)

Illume

Some of my favorite vocals of Stevie's are when she sings harmony like:

Insider (this is one of my absolute favorite vocal moments for Stevie...and the live version is astonishing as well)

Midnight Wind ("Come ON DOWN!!")

Magnet and Steel

[cliffdweller]

I'm going to mix solo with F.M.

Silver Springs
Landslide
Rhiannon
Gold Dust Woman
Dreams
Sara
Storms
Sister of The Moon
That's Alright
Nothing Ever Changes
EO17
Gold and Braid
Violet and Blue
Blue Lamp
How Still My Love
Illume

[cliffdweller]

Originally posted by darklinensuit
I'd like to add How Still My Love as well.

- Jake

Great minds think alike. :nod:

[4Buck]

SILVER SPRINGS - THE DANCE

LANDSLIDE - THE DANCE

FIREFLIES - live album

THAT'S ALRIGHT - MIRAGE

[darklinensuit]

Originally posted by 4Buck
SILVER SPRINGS - THE DANCE

LANDSLIDE - THE DANCE

FIREFLIES - live album

THAT'S ALRIGHT - MIRAGE

I take it you don't like any of Stevie's scratchy or deep vocals.

- Jake

[snwriter]

Sleeping Angel has got to be one of her best vocals ever. And Lindsey had nothing to do with it. Jimmy I. probably didn't like it too much either since it was left off Bella Donna.

Somebody Stand By Me and Twister (with LB) are also great.

Sara is stupendous, as is Sisters of the Moon.

Thrown Down is noteworthy from her latest work, and so is Sorcerer from TISL.

IMO, some of her worst vocals are the SA title track and Thousand Days.