Like or dislike: Homeward Bound

DavidMn · #1 05-25-2006, 12:46 PM

I was listening to this song yesterday and it's really starting to grow on me.

chiliD · #2 05-25-2006, 01:11 PM

I really like Christine's piano on it. Danny kicks some butt on the guitar, too.

bretonbanquet · #3 05-25-2006, 02:17 PM

The only problem I have with the studio version is Chris's vocal - she was surely capable of a better performance - otherwise it's a great song. The live versions I've heard kick ass.

macfan 57 · #4 05-25-2006, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by bretonbanquet

The only problem I have with the studio version is Chris's vocal - she was surely capable of a better performance - otherwise it's a great song. The live versions I've heard kick ass.

I agree about the vocal. Musically, I love the song. It was recorded during that "vocally challenged" period for Chris. That Heroes bootleg version is fantastic!!

DavidMn · #5 05-25-2006, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by macfan 57

I agree about the vocal. Musically, I love the song. It was recorded during that "vocally challenged" period for Chris. That Heroes bootleg version is fantastic!!

Heroes? I thought it was on Bare Trees?

macfan 57 · #6 05-25-2006, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidMn

Heroes? I thought it was on Bare Trees?

"Homeward Bound" is on the Bare Trees album. I was referring to the live 1974 Hempstead bootleg version.

Gailh · #7 05-26-2006, 05:50 AM

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Originally Posted by bretonbanquet

The only problem I have with the studio version is Chris's vocal - she was surely capable of a better performance - otherwise it's a great song. The live versions I've heard kick ass.

I agree with you on that.

I'd love to hear a live version of it.

Maybe MacFan could post it? Grovel Grovel

Gail

macfan 57 · #8 05-26-2006, 06:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Gailh

I agree with you on that.

I'd love to hear a live version of it.

Maybe MacFan could post it? Grovel Grovel

Gail

Gail, I'll post "Homeward Bound" from the Hempstead boot later this morning. I've got to eat breakfast first.

I'll be surprised if you don't really like it.

Gailh · #9 05-26-2006, 07:05 AM

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Originally Posted by macfan 57

Gail, I'll post "Homeward Bound" from the Hempstead boot later this morning. I've got to eat breakfast first.

I'll be surprised if you don't really like it.

You are a little treasure!

Gail

Richard B · #10 05-29-2006, 04:58 PM

"So I'll have another drink and a cigarette just to consule myself somehow"

Yeah, I love it. Always have. Her voice fits perfectly to the lyrics of being worn out, fatigued and sick of traveling.

"Home life to me seems really neat"

**jbrownsjr** · #11 05-31-2006, 01:06 AM

i've always loved the studio version... hmmmm

don't like the live as much...

goldustsongbird · #12 05-31-2006, 08:52 PM

I've never heard the live version(s). Anyone care to share? Mary Anne?

macfan 57 · #13 06-01-2006, 05:38 AM

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Originally Posted by goldustsongbird

I've never heard the live version(s). Anyone care to share? Mary Anne?

I posted it earlier in this thread.

You'd better hurry, it's expires in another day. It's from Hempstead, NY in Oct. 1974.

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.ph...05EB955ABB2740

David · #14 06-02-2006, 11:35 AM

"Homeward Bound" is an interesting song because you tend to think of pining ballads filled with homesickness as being slow, languid melodies, not rollicking rock & roll songs. So Chris deftly creates a tension here, given the anomalistic pairing of plaintive lyrics & powerchorded, rolling, even crunching music, which creates an emotional dichotomy & a thematic disjoint, leaving the listener breathless & disjangled, cruising in the neurasthenic twilight of a jingly buzz.

goldustsongbird · #15 06-02-2006, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by macfan 57

I posted it earlier in this thread.

Oh, duh. I have to learn how to read. I was too late, though, the file expired.