Seven Wonders (Early Version)

[Andyleo]

Just downloaded this from iTunes. I love the "Rock A Little" singing she does after the point where the original fades out. Very interesting to listen to but it will never come close to the brilliance of the original for me.

[SisterNightroad]

Oh thanks, I was about to post about it.
If someone wants to listen to it without buying you can do it here on Soundcloud, you just have to use an extension like Hola who lets you access to site from other countries and select "Spain": http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20170216.../1491290.shtml

[tango87]

Me too! It's a bit less sophisticated than the final version, isn't it?

I still can't work out what she's singing in the bridge, even though it's a bit clearer - it sound like 'carer'... or even 'Karen'!

[Andyleo]

I know, I've listened a few times now and like you said it's much clearer but I can't decipher that word either. I used to think it was "Sara" though I can't hear an S.

[SisterNightroad]

Fleetwood Mac – hear an unreleased version of Seven Wonders
We’ve got an early version of one of the standouts from Tango in the Night for you. Have a listen and let us know what you think

Fleetwood Mac have spent the past few years reissuing their peerless back catalogue in the obligatory remastered, expanded, deluxe editions. Last year brought us the 1982 album Mirage, which somehow managed to make an album already slathered in cocaine sound even more cokey, all sheen and shine.

Next up is Tango in the Night, coming out on Warner on 10 March, and we’ve got this early, unreleased version of the Stevie Nicks track Seven Wonders for you. It’s longer but also a little harsher than the album version, drawing out the fatalism of the chorus and de-emphasising the keyboard hook.

Tango in the Night came out five years after Mirage, and had originally been planned as a Lindsey Buckingham solo record – Nicks spent only two weeks in the studio with the band because she was concentrating on her solo career. Be thankful that it became a full-band record, because the album became defined not by his songs but by the contributions of the other writers; without the two singles from Christine McVie – Everywhere and Little Lies – it would be a very different record. While many Mac fans might have their favourite writer in the group, it takes all three of Buckingham, Nicks and McVie to balance the group. It was noticeable how different the shows with McVie back in the band were to those when the group was performing only the Buckingham and Nicks songs; it was if her songs were the bridge between Nicks’s airy proto-gothiness and Buckingham’s barely suppressed rage.

That balance is what makes Tango in the Night so great. For all that the music is of a piece – sophisticated, slick, without ever being over-complicated – it manages to shift through moods effortlessly. Buckingham is on edge throughout and has explained that Big Love, his single from the album, gets misinterpreted: when he sings that he is “looking out for love”, he doesn’t mean he is looking for love, he is putting himself on guard for it. In the title track, he’s restless, discomfited (“Try to sleep, sleep won’t come”); Caroline upbraids a woman who is crazy and lazy; Family Man seems to be a hymn to domestic stability, but even then he can’t help observing that “the road gets tough”.

McVie’s songs appear much more straightforward. Everywhere is a simple, gorgeous statement of love; Little Lies its counterpart, the realisation that the feelings of Everywhere depend on self-deception. Nicks’s are neither straightforward, nor angry: Welcome to the Room … Sara was written after treatment at the Betty Ford clinic, and uncertainty echoes throughout her contributions (“If I see you again / Will it be the same?” she asks on When I See You Again. “If I see you again / Will it be over?”), and Seven Wonders exemplifies that, with Nicks confronting the notion that even living to see the seven wonders will never match what she has lost.

Have a listen: https://www.theguardian.com/music/mu...-seven-wonders

[Wdm6789]

Only available in the U.K. Wtf?

[Andyleo]

Try this one

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...uttake-w467411

[FuzzyPlum]

My god, that sounds atrocious. The last minute or so sounds decent but the rest of it is really plodding and clunky. I don't know whether it is but it sounds so much slower than the final version. Good job Lindsey polished this up into something so much better.

[MikeInNV]

Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

My god, that sounds atrocious. The last minute or so sounds decent but the rest of it is really plodding and clunky. I don't know whether it is but it sounds so much slower than the final version. Good job Lindsey polished this up into something so much better.

You're right about the slower tempo, but other than that I think I prefer this version. Musically I like the more subdued keyboards, and the vocals at the end are great!

[KenB]

I actually like this version a lot. I don't mind that it's a bit slower, although certainly the rhythm track needed to be seriously beefed up. Most of all I like that the keyboards are toned down, lending more emphasis to Stevie's vocals, which are some of her only excellent latter-day work. As much as I love the original, the keyboards were overwhelming (and too synthetic).

[TheWILDheart]

I honestly think that this is the same vocal take as the album version but with all Lindsey's production taken off. Certain moments are identical. I mean that part where she makes a noise rather than singing before the 2nd chorus is the same as the album take - "wweeeellll ablab I'm sorry but...".

Maybe the album version is multiple versions shoved together?

[SisterNightroad]

Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

I honestly think that this is the same vocal take as the album version but with all Lindsey's production taken off. Certain moments are identical. I mean that part where she makes a noise rather than singing before the 2nd chorus is the same as the album take - "wweeeellll ablab I'm sorry but...".

Maybe the album version is multiple versions shoved together?

Yes, it's very likely.

[FuzzyPlum]

Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

I honestly think that this is the same vocal take as the album version but with all Lindsey's production taken off. Certain moments are identical. I mean that part where she makes a noise rather than singing before the 2nd chorus is the same as the album take - "wweeeellll ablab I'm sorry but...".

Maybe the album version is multiple versions shoved together?

Isn't Seven Wonders the song that she supposedly only did one or two takes of? I can't remember. Anyway, yes, it does sound the same.

[Macfan4life]

I got all excited for nothing
Yes it is the same vocal track as the album. Its probably just the original cut before all the fancy production and add ons. Big deal
I wish the group worked together more during this time and there were real lost demos of songs we never heard. I dont see this "new revealation" as being that different than what is on the album. Really grasping at straws to find something "new" about Tango.

[FuzzyPlum]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

I got all excited for nothing
Yes it is the same vocal track as the album. Its probably just the original cut before all the fancy production and add ons. Big deal
I wish the group worked together more during this time and there were real lost demos of songs we never heard. I dont see this "new revealation" as being that different than what is on the album. Really grasping at straws to find something "new" about Tango.

You really aren't fussed about TITN are you?