Best Part of Battle of the Dragon

[Hawkeye]

what is everyones favorite part of Battle With the Dragon, the minute slow intro or the remaining more rocking part.

This is rare for me, but I prefer the intro to BOTD way more to the rest of the song. It's so haunting and her voice is perfect. My favorite line is "I see myself remaining when all of you are gone" I say that to myself anytime Im in some sort of competitive situation especially if i feel like an underdog. No I see myself here when all others are gone.

[djdanii]

my fave part is "I see something, I see a handsome soldier"
(i'm in the military and would like to believe I am handsome :laugh: )
I love the whole song in general, its one of my all time fave Stevie songs

[petep9000]

I can't think of any part of the song that I prefer, it's so exquisite, def high on my list

[wheart]

This song is amazing, on my top 10 Stevie song list for sure. I love the layered background vocals of Stevie and the girls, especially when Stevie starts chanting "you're not listening to me" towards the end. I LOVE it.

[marinnette]

uff hard question...

"the beautiful, the senstive and the oh so very young..." "at least i'm learning, but i cannot live without your songs" and also the intro...i don't know, i love the whole tune.

[nailatixela]

This song is amazing, on my top 10 Stevie song list for sure. I love the layered background vocals of Stevie and the girls, especially when Stevie starts chanting "you're not listening to me" towards the end. I LOVE it.

It's all great - I love all of it but that is also my favorite part at the ending. It rocks! :thumbsup:

[ontheEdgeof17]

And the reason I paint you in my paintings
...and the reason I record the sounds of your voices....



Such a haunting, beautiful song. It should have been a single. I wish she highlighted more.....as in, sang it live.

[gldstwmn]

Wish it to end
Wish it to end
And then the lonely sound of the synth trailing off into fade out.

[BellaDonna93]

I love that songs and my fav parts have always been these two:

"The reason that I paint you in my paintings and the reason I record the sound of your voices"

"I can live here without you, at least I'm learning. But I cannot live without your songs"

It's like I'm singing it to Stevie, and that's why they mean so much to me! But really, I'm not learning to live without Stevie!!!!

[Musicman408]

I can't really think of just one part of the song I like. It's one of my favorite demos all the way around!

[JazmenFlowers]

^^^
it's actually not a demo; well, there is a demo, but the song was actually finished and released. it was released on the American Anthem soundtrack and as a b-side to Sometimes It's A Bitch.

I really like:

The beautiful and the sensitive and the oh so very young
We are adapting to your silence
I can live here without you
At least I'm learning
But I cannot live without your songs

I really love this song too. one of my favorites. I love to sit at the piano and sing and play. I might put a video up on YouTube.

[wondergirl9847]

But I cannot live without your songs

One of my fave Stevie songs.

[David]

I like the very beginning. Who wrote that catchy little five-tone hook that keeps coming back throughout the track?

I wish the sessions with Petty had materialized on "Rock a Little."

[petep9000]

The beginning has an unusual but lovely feeling to it, some sort of an Asian vibe which I always found so compelling.

[David]

The beginning has an unusual but lovely feeling to it, some sort of an Asian vibe which I always found so compelling.That's the ol' pentatonic (or five-tone) scale in use. Very Asian. If you have a piano, think of the sound you get by playing only the black notes -- that's five-tone! Fleetwood Mac also used this atmosphere in "Little Lies" & "Mystified" & even in "Make Me a Mask."

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The great Maurice Ravel used the pentatonic in his Mother Goose Suite for piano, especially in the third section -- called "The Empress of the Pagodas" (where I get my label for Stevie Nicks).

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[starshine]

I just love the whole song BOTD....one of my Top 10 songs for sure --always!!! Its hard to pick just one line etc.....one of Stevie's best for sure & I love how her voice sounds on it!! awesome song!!:thumbsup:

[Jupiter]

My favorite part is the way her voice slows and carries the following lyric:

"The beautiful and the sensitive and the oh so very young"

[petep9000]

That's the ol' pentatonic (or five-tone) scale in use. Very Asian. If you have a piano, think of the sound you get by playing only the black notes -- that's five-tone! Fleetwood Mac also used this atmosphere in "Little Lies" & "Mystified" & even in "Make Me a Mask."

The great Maurice Ravel used the pentatonic in his Mother Goose Suite for piano, especially in the third section -- called "The Empress of the Pagodas" (where I get my label for Stevie Nicks).


I think I hear it in 'Gypsy', and maybe in the opening of 'Skies The Limit'? And 'Seven Wonders'! Come to think of it, it's prominent in 'Tango' album.
And Madonna uses it on 'Take A Bow'? Or, am I not catching what a pantatonic really is?

[David]

I think I hear it in 'Gypsy'Yes, it's definitely used on the ostinato guitar figure on "Gypsy," which was one of Lindsey's coolest additions to the track. It isn't there on any previous demo or session recording with Stevie or her friends or the Heartbreakers. And that figure really is the musical heart & soul of the track. It totally changes the atmosphere. It's probably one of the most memorable hooks in pop. Good call, John.

and maybe in the opening of 'Skies The Limit'? Yes, a bit in "Skies the Limit" intro. Good one.

And 'Seven Wonders'! Come to think of it, it's prominent in 'Tango' album.
Yes, on "Seven Wonders" too. And Vito even added a five-tone figure at the very end of the performances in 1987, which you can hear on tour recordings.

Very prominent on "Tango" -- I consider the Asian atmosphere created deliberately by Buckingham to be the most fundamental musical motif of that album.