Her Mosty 'Coke'-y Song

[DashingDan]

The SN song that makes my teeth numb just listening to it has to be Mirror Mirror. The title of the song, the insessant and relentless pulsing keyboard combined with the mindless "He said", "Oh well" "not really" lyrics, and her fluttering hyper-nasal incantations just conjure up images of a studio soundboard with one LONG RAIL from the bass knob to high-end knob. Ah...the 80's!!!

What song is the most coke-y to you ?

"I'm SOOOOO HAPPY THAT YOU STAYED"

[David]

I think "Imperial Hotel" -- one of my favorites -- is cokier than just about anything I can think of.

[LukeA]

"I'm SOOOOO HAPPY THAT YOU STAYED"

LOL! Oh, man. That will always be hilarious to me. I have a sound clip of just that quote somewhere- it used to be my Windows signoff sound 8-10 years ago.

[DashingDan]

I think "Imperial Hotel" -- one of my favorites -- is cokier than just about anything I can think of.

Excellent choice!!

[DashingDan]

LOL! Oh, man. That will always be hilarious to me. I have a sound clip of just that quote somewhere- it used to be my Windows signoff sound 8-10 years ago.

I'm glad I made you LOL! :D

[goldustsongbird]

Sister Honey.

And the Nightmare.

Almost all of RAL. :D

[ontheEdgeof17]

Snort A Little

Has Anyone Ever Blown Coke Up Your Ass For You

Nose On Fire

If Anyone Falls....Off The Stage

[goldustsongbird]

Has Anyone Ever Blown Coke Up Your Ass For You



Did you ever... give... it... back? :laugh:

[ontheEdgeof17]

Did you ever... give... it... back? :laugh:

'If you **** with my coke dealer, I'll get real fucking angry."

[AliceLover]

Talk to Me, I Can't Wait, and Sister Honey!!!

Especially in Talk to Me "Is it all that hard, is it all that tough, well now you've taken all my dreams isn't that enough" -------> she says that so fast! And then all the babble at the end!

And I Can't Wait, well I don't think anything needs to be said.

[Dodfather]

I agree - almost anything from Rock A Little,

[skuncles]

Agreed that the RAL album is THE coke album. That's also the album where everything began to fall apart. I really like "Mirror Mirror", it took quite a long time for me to warm up to it, but I really like the song now. Everyone seems to not like "The Nightmare" but when you understand what it's about (which I believe it's about her brief marriage, every single line in the song makes perfect sense in this aspect) the song takes on a whole new feel.

[David]

Agreed that the RAL album is THE coke album. That's also the album where everything began to fall apart. I really like "Mirror Mirror", it took quite a long time for me to warm up to it, but I really like the song now. "Mirror Mirror" shares that pentatonic quality in the modulation with "Joan of Arc," "Battle of the Dragon," and even several tracks on "Tango in the Night" (including "Mystified" & "Little Lies"). Methinks there's a connection somehow, perhaps related to the widespread use of the DX-7.

Everyone seems to not like "The Nightmare" but when you understand what it's about (which I believe it's about her brief marriage, every single line in the song makes perfect sense in this aspect) the song takes on a whole new feel.Only silly people don't like "The Nightmare." It's a beautiful, impassioned song, filled with Weberesque mysticism, surrealistic smoking claws, & wild child cries. It's more "Beauty & the Beast" than "Beauty & the Beast" is. Chris Nicks obviously helped Stevie with the wonderful chords. "The Nightmare" represents, like "Dreams," the perfect blending of form & content -- great pop art.

[wondergirl9847]

'If you **** with my coke dealer, I'll get real fucking angry."

LMAO, Curtis!! I love how you bleeped out the first f***, but not the second. :lol:

[Moz]

As others said, everything from RAL, especially Sister Honey, ICW, and Rock a Little (Go Ahead Lily). Live at Red Rocks is pretty coke induced too. :woohoo:

[paleshadow]

I think her most coke-y song is "Thousand Days".

With lyrics like:

"The closest you've ever come it me was to help me up the stairs
You stood in the middle of the stairway
You nearly dragged me up the stairs"

and:

"If there is no time, and there is no place
And if there was, well, you'd never leave a trace
And as all archangels do to you
And as all arch enemies will finally do to you, too
Well, I found you"

plus"

"The sun is here today now
and I requested a storm"

I think you'd be hard pressed to find a coke-yer song than this.

[ontheEdgeof17]

I agree with the Rock A Little tracks, most definiately.

How about:

Gold Dust Woman
Nightbird
Battle of the Dragon

[goldustsongbird]

'If you **** with my coke dealer, I'll get real fucking angry."

So gangsta.

Talk to Me, I Can't Wait, and Sister Honey!!!

Especially in Talk to Me "Is it all that hard, is it all that tough, well now you've taken all my dreams isn't that enough" -------> she says that so fast! And then all the babble at the end!

And I Can't Wait, well I don't think anything needs to be said.

The part that gets me from Talk To Me is the "veil a swelling tear" line, with that thing she does with her voice. She must have been hanging over that mirror all day.

I agree with the Rock A Little tracks, most definiately.

How about:

Gold Dust Woman
Nightbird
Battle of the Dragon

What's cokey about Nightbird? It never occurred to me. GDW is a given.

Sorcerer is pretty cokey, lyrically. Also Violet and Blue and Whole Lotta Trouble, even though it's from OSOTM.

[ElusiveDreamer]

... Sorcerer is pretty cokey, lyrically. ...

Yes - the first time I heard that song I thought it was all about addiction ... any kind of addiction.

[ontheEdgeof17]

What's cokey about Nightbird?

.

It's random-ness...the way she describes herself....very dark....I picture her looking at herself through her coke mirror as she snorts up.

Without Sandy Stewart, I think this song would have been a total mess. :laugh:

I love the song.

[Moz]

Alice is pretty coke-y too... or perhaps is it more tranquilizer-y...

[BombaySapphire3]

"Alice" is Klonopin era .I agree about most of RAL..I would have to submit Seven Wonders as it was recorded around Halloween of 1985 right before Betty Ford and you know she had to have one last big blow out.It is the very last thing she recorded during the cocaine years.

[petep9000]

The SN song that makes my teeth numb just listening to it has to be Mirror Mirror. The title of the song, the insessant and relentless pulsing keyboard combined with the mindless "He said", "Oh well" "not really" lyrics, and her fluttering hyper-nasal incantations just conjure up images of a studio soundboard with one LONG RAIL from the bass knob to high-end knob. Ah...the 80's!!!

What song is the most coke-y to you ?

"I'm SOOOOO HAPPY THAT YOU STAYED"

Mirror, Mirror
Imperial Hotel
Sister Honey
Juliet demo (post Betty Ford?)
WHRAREDFY (post Betty Ford?)

[petep9000]

"Alice" is Klonopin era .I agree about most of RAL..I would have to submit Seven Wonders as it was recorded around Halloween of 1985 right before Betty Ford and you know she had to have one last big blow out.It is the very last thing she recorded during the cocaine years.

Brilliant, I always count SW as 'old' Stevie, now I know why. Those vocals are still so RAL to be post Betty Ford.

[bellagypsy79]

Sometimes it's hard for me to listen to her sing those songs where she does that "annoying baby" thing with her voice. She never used to sing like that before. Before her voice was so powerful and in your face and dynamic, then when she did "Tango" and "Rock A Little", her voice just changed. It was a different sound. As if she was also getting high off of helium. LOL!

"When I See You Again" (what's the matter baby...)
"Are You Mine" demo
"Rock A Little (Go Ahead Lily)" Which is still one of my favorites
"I Sing For The Things" also one of my favorites
Most of the "Rock A Little" album. I don't have the cd anymore so I can't really listen to the songs to hear them again. It's been a while.

After all of it though I still love her.:wavey:

[goldustsongbird]

It's random-ness...the way she describes herself....very dark....I picture her looking at herself through her coke mirror as she snorts up.

Without Sandy Stewart, I think this song would have been a total mess. :laugh:

I love the song.

It kind of verges on being a mess as it is, lol. I really like it, but there's too much going on in the chorus. They're all singing over each other and it's hard to sing along to.

"Alice" is Klonopin era .I agree about most of RAL..I would have to submit Seven Wonders as it was recorded around Halloween of 1985 right before Betty Ford and you know she had to have one last big blow out.It is the very last thing she recorded during the cocaine years.

I love her vocals on Seven Wonders. It's one of the last great songs she recorded with the Mac.


"When I See You Again" (what's the matter baby...)
"Are You Mine" demo
"Rock A Little (Go Ahead Lily)" Which is still one of my favorites
"I Sing For The Things" also one of my favorites
Most of the "Rock A Little" album. I don't have the cd anymore so I can't really listen to the songs to hear them again. It's been a while.

After all of it though I still love her.:wavey:

When I See You Again is a total coke song! Hate that final "BAAAAYBAY" that she does, though. Cut that out, Stevie. :laugh:

[DashingDan]

It's comforting to know, based on some of the responses on this thread, that many of you have never tried cocaine.

[BellaDonna]

I agree RAL is the most cokey album.. especially Sister Honey, Imperial Hotel and Rock a Little but I have grown to like them more now than I use to. But I do prefer her not-so-cokey voice... it's just a bit too helium-ish as BellaGypsy said. :laugh:

[gldstwmn]

"Alice" is Klonopin era .I agree about most of RAL..I would have to submit Seven Wonders as it was recorded around Halloween of 1985 right before Betty Ford and you know she had to have one last big blow out.It is the very last thing she recorded during the cocaine years.

:shocked: I always thought it was post rehab.

[BombaySapphire3]

:shocked: I always thought it was post rehab.

I actually got the date wrong ,It was c. Halloween 1986 ,after the RAL tour that she recorded it, just before she went into Betty Ford.There is an interview somewhere where she discusses it .Welcome to the Room Sara is post Betty Ford.I'm not certain about When I See You again.

[Sanne2]

What about Rooms On Fire? I know it's post-rehab but "Long nets of white cloud my memory..." is so about coke.

[Dodfather]

Mirror, Mirror
Imperial Hotel
Sister Honey
Juliet demo (post Betty Ford?)
WHRAREDFY (post Betty Ford?)

What is WHRAFEDY? I can't think.... It's driving me mad!

[petep9000]

What Has Rock and Roll Ever Done For You (the only Stevie song where, if held at gunpoint, I would consider lip synching to in drag)

[Christopher]

"What has Rock and Roll Ever Done For You"..... a coke-y song of enormous proportions :laugh:, as is anything recorded during the RAL era, including the demos and songs she was sending from the road to FM for the TITN sessions i.e. "Joan of Arc", "WHRREDFY", "Juliet" & definitely "Seven Wonders" which to me, was the last great nails on chalkboard vocal of that snow dream era!!

I have to add that Stevie's vocals were beginning to show signs of her addiction on "Wild Heart" where Stevie's voice started to change yet again. She was pretty consistent from BD thru Mirage, then she began to become more confident in her singing and took more risks, which produced some of her memorable vocals ever!!

On WH she really started belting and doing even more vibrato then anything ever before. The song "Wild Heart" sounds wildly "coke-y" to me, singing her a** off hitting vocal highs, and not to mention that marathon run towards the end ("even in the darkest places in your heart') that she could never ever dare to duplicate again on stage or in the studio.
"Stand Back" had heavy vibrato and her voice sounded different to me when this was 1st released, and finally I'm surprised no one has mentioned "Nothing Ever Changes" which has some amazing "coke-y" vocals in the verses:nod:

[Dodfather]

What Has Rock and Roll Ever Done For You (the only Stevie song where, if held at gunpoint, I would consider lip synching to in drag)


My God. I don't know this song! Was it a b-side? I thought I knew all of them. Certanly every song mentioned on this thread and all the other ones I've read are familiar. Help!! I have to hear it!

[Dodfather]

Ok. Just heard it on youtube. Now I have to get a copy!

[petep9000]

Ok. Just heard it on youtube. Now I have to get a copy!


I know, right? Isn't it awesome? Isn't it coke-y? LOL

As for 'Joan of Arc' which was mentioned, I thought that was a post-Betty Ford song. When I listen to it, I think of a scary detox ward. EspeciaLly the line where she sings:
"And they came in tired,
and they said "tired was the end of the line..."
well I can't save you
Joan of Arc, this time..."

I figured 'came in tired' means you were at the end of your rope when you arrived at the hospital.

[Supernaut]

I'd have to agree with Mirror Mirror. It's great, but it's a hot mess.

[petep9000]

Stevie must have ingested several kilos during those 'Mirror, Mirror' sessions. She obviously felt strongly about the track, I think I've heard about 8 different takes, one kookier than the next! I just had a thought: anyone remember those creepy bathroom self pics she did,where she has the dark circles under her eyes? Maybe THAT's the mirror she's referencing, instead of the obvious coke mirror reference ?

[krrrby]

You have ALL failed to mention the one demo that Stevie was going to do - and I know it was during the RAL recording sessions...and I think it was like 15 minutes long or something - maybe someone can post it I might have it somewhere...

My Love Is Never Lost I think is the title - she's completely coked out - all the overdubs are terrible...it's like putting 5 of the different versions of mirror mirror together and playing it at once...and then you have the backup girls saying how they are so lost...

OH and let's not forget at the beginning you hear Stevie kinda laughing and saying "It's starting to burn..." like she just took a hit.

THAT my friends is the cokey-ist song.

[Supernaut]

You have ALL failed to mention the one demo that Stevie was going to do - and I know it was during the RAL recording sessions...and I think it was like 15 minutes long or something - maybe someone can post it I might have it somewhere...

My Love Is Never Lost I think is the title - she's completely coked out - all the overdubs are terrible...it's like putting 5 of the different versions of mirror mirror together and playing it at once...and then you have the backup girls saying how they are so lost...

OH and let's not forget at the beginning you hear Stevie kinda laughing and saying "It's starting to burn..." like she just took a hit.

THAT my friends is the cokey-ist song.

Please post this!

[Gypsycat999]

I guess you mean that krrrby:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jlmn3dwim2y
Any chance someone could post these bathroom pics with the rings under the eyes???

[Fannymac]

Sister Honey.

And the Nightmare.

Almost all of RAL. :D

AGREED!!!!

[BombaySapphire3]

I guess you mean that krrrby:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jlmn3dwim2y
Any chance someone could post these bathroom pics with the rings under the eyes???

Some of them are in the booklet in the Enchanted box set.

[petep9000]

I guess you mean that krrrby:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jlmn3dwim2y


Wow, what a hot mess THAT was. Never heard it before! Interesting though, it sort of gives you the idea of the process of formulating the vocal parts in a song.

[goldustsongbird]

My Love Is Never Lost I think is the title - she's completely coked out - all the overdubs are terrible...it's like putting 5 of the different versions of mirror mirror together and playing it at once...and then you have the backup girls saying how they are so lost...


This reminds me of that crazyass Jim Ladd interview from 1983. Everyone is there, including Sandy Stewart, and they are completely f&cked up. They're all talking over each other and trying to sing together. :laugh: They're all lost.

[ChristyL17]

Wow, what a hot mess THAT was. Never heard it before! Interesting though, it sort of gives you the idea of the process of formulating the vocal parts in a song.


I agree, interesting listening experience for sure! :nod:

[Supernaut]

I guess you mean that krrrby:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?jlmn3dwim2y
Any chance someone could post these bathroom pics with the rings under the eyes???

Oooh....turns out I actually had this. It does sound like a mess, but it's kind of cool to hear them putting the song together. I assumed this was from Bella Donna or Tom Monheit sessions or thereabouts based on the audio quality and her voice. Most demos/outtakes from RAL have poor audio quality and her voice was much craggier in those days.

Also, who's singing with her? She's definitely singing over a track of herself, but it sounds like there are others besides Sharon & Lori... Anyone know for sure?

[petep9000]

Also, who's singing with her? She's definitely singing over a track of herself, but it sounds like there are others besides Sharon & Lori... Anyone know for sure?

Maybe Maria Vidal? Marilyn Martin? Tai Babylonia?

[Janis_no1]

Snort A Little

Has Anyone Ever Blown Coke Up Your Ass For You

Nose On Fire

If Anyone Falls....Off The Stage

oh so laugh out loud funny!! :lol:

sister Honey... omg what is she on about!

[Stevieforever]

Yes, I would have to put my vote on "Sister Honey" as well. I have listened to it for years and I really have no clue what she's talking about.

[JazmenFlowers]

Sister Honey
Gold Dust Woman
Sorcerer

[Skyveris]

The classic Gold Dust Woman has to be the quentessential "coke'y" song. Just listening to it puts me in an altered state of mind... that I rather like, haha.

-Matt

[DashingDan]

The classic Gold Dust Woman has to be the quentessential "coke'y" song. Just listening to it puts me in an altered state of mind... that I rather like, haha.

-Matt

I'd say Gold Dust Woman is more trippy than zippy...but that's just me.

[Skyveris]

I'd say Gold Dust Woman is more trippy than zippy...but that's just me.

Gold Dust Woman from the Rumours Tour in Japan was definitely one of those! ;)

-Matt

[Supernaut]

Come to think of it Sister Honey sounds like it IS about coke:

"strange fascination, some kind of temptation"
"she will help you make up your mind"
"...it's your last chance, cause she's almost gone now/and she'll go FAST jet plane/and then FAST like a star stream/and she'll hit you with a fury/whispering the words one more time..."
"don't let that golden hair get in your way, baby"