Fireflies [Archive]

ontheEdgeof17

01-03-2005, 09:51 PM

So, how come this is only on Live? During what era was it written? (Tusk maybe?)

And isn't it great? :]

It is a Tusk era song. There are a few studio demos/outtakes out there. One outtake I call 'offkey' is so horrible! Stevie sounds awful :lol: It makes me laugh.

I love this song a lot. The main reason I do is because it is along the same vein as The Chain.

GateandGarden

01-03-2005, 09:53 PM

It is a Tusk era song. There are a few studio demos/outtakes out there. One outtake I call 'offkey' is so horrible! Stevie sounds awful :lol: It makes me laugh.

I love this song a lot. The main reason I do is because it is along the same vein as The Chain.Off-key singing is pretty much always entertaining. :laugh: It seems strange to me that it's a Tusk era song, because, for some reason, it really doesn't seem like any of her other Tusk songs to me.

Hillary

amber

01-03-2005, 10:03 PM

GateandGarden

01-03-2005, 10:07 PM

seriously, one of you should send it to me... :DI have a remix I can send you that I got off the StevieNicks.info site. If I send you the one of the CD, I'd have to send it as a .wav file, though, because I don't have the software to convert it. But I'll do it if you have the space in your e-mail inbox. :woohoo:

Hillary

amber

01-03-2005, 10:08 PM

I have a remix I can send you that I got off the StevieNicks.info site. If I send you the one of the CD, I'd have to send it as a .wav file, though, because I don't have the software to convert it. But I'll do it if you have the space in your e-mail inbox. :woohoo:

Hillary
:D [email protected]
:xoxo:

GateandGarden

01-03-2005, 10:10 PM

:D [email protected]
:xoxo:I'm on it. :)

amber

01-03-2005, 10:17 PM

I'm on it. :)
thank you! I actually don't know how to send songs, i better learn that. I imagine you just right click and then pick the email option... :p :shrug: :xoxo:

GateandGarden

01-03-2005, 10:28 PM

thank you! I actually don't know how to send songs, i better learn that. I imagine you just right click and then pick the email option... :p :shrug: :xoxo:I haven't tried that yet. I know that from Yahoo mail, you can choose the "attach files" option when you're composing an e-mail, find the file on your hard drive by pressing the "browse" button and looking for it. A friend of mine told me about this site you can use for e-mailing music to people called You Send It (http://s12.yousendit.com/). It's very cool because you can use it to send files up to 1GB.

Hillary

ontheEdgeof17

01-03-2005, 10:36 PM

thank you! I actually don't know how to send songs, i better learn that. I imagine you just right click and then pick the email option... :p :shrug: :xoxo:

Did you get it? I wanna know your thoughts. :wavey:

amber

01-03-2005, 10:38 PM

I haven't tried that yet. I know that from Yahoo mail, you can choose the "attach files" option when you're composing an e-mail, find the file on your hard drive by pressing the "browse" button and looking for it. A friend of mine told me about this site you can use for e-mailing music to people called You Send It (http://s12.yousendit.com/). It's very cool because you can use it to send files up to 1GB.

Hillary
oh, that's right!
lemme check if i got it yet...

amber

01-03-2005, 10:44 PM

ooo, i got it! It has a country kinda rocking vibe, right?
it's pretty good, kinda undramatic...thank you so much!!!!! :xoxo:

WildInTheWind

01-03-2005, 10:47 PM

I think there are several studio versions of FireFlies. Maybe not, I'll have to check. I love the song on the live album, though!!

~*~becky~*~

Hawkeye

01-03-2005, 10:53 PM

I think the version on LIVE can be considered the song's studio version since it really was never performed live, it was recorded new for the album.

And it's absolutely one of her BEST songs. I always forget it because of it not being on any album, but when I remeber it, it's easily in my top 10 Stevie songs. It's amazing. I think it's a more poetic band song then The Chain (which is great but more obvious)

GateandGarden

01-03-2005, 11:06 PM

ooo, i got it! It has a country kinda rocking vibe, right?
it's pretty good, kinda undramatic...thank you so much!!!!! :xoxo:You're welcome! I just sent the live one. Let us know what you think about that one.

Hillary

amber

01-03-2005, 11:16 PM

You're welcome! I just sent the live one. Let us know what you think about that one.

Hillary

oh, ok! thank you so much! :xoxo:

David

01-04-2005, 12:23 AM

I think there are several studio versions of FireFlies. Maybe not, I'll have to check. I love the song on the live album, though!!I'm curious about these studio versions. I've heard a couple of different takes from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium rehearsals -- Chris, for example, switches back & forth between organ & grand piano from one performance to the next. But I've never heard a "Fireflies" with Fleetwood Mac that was specifically tracked in a studio. Do these recordings really exist?

NicksIllume

01-04-2005, 12:50 AM

I cannot say how much I adore Fireflies. Unfortunately, I only have the version from the Live album.

I would love to believe...I believe what you say.
In the drama of the moment, oh, there's no easy way.
No one ever leaves. Every one stays...close till the fire...fades.

Chain of Chains

01-04-2005, 02:03 AM

And isn't it great? :]

Sure is! :]

Wild_Heart03

01-04-2005, 03:59 AM

Oh I love this song, it's one of my favorite of the "Tusk"-era songs. I particularly love this one demo I have of it, with Stevie singing along rather slowly while the piano plays. It's short, but I always laugh when I hear Stevie say in kind of a pleading voice "I think I need some water.."

GateandGarden

01-04-2005, 10:10 AM

skcin

01-04-2005, 11:55 AM

The stiletto cuts quick, like a whip through the air...

LOVE this song! I'm with Hawkeye, definitely in my Top 10 (when I remember it.) Great to sing along to!

ontheEdgeof17

01-04-2005, 12:14 PM

The stiletto cuts quick, like a whip through the air...

I love that line!

The only line that is odd to me is the "like a sailing ship, not one of us runs." :shrug: Who knew ships could get up and run.

strandinthewind

01-04-2005, 12:15 PM

I love that line!

The only line that is odd to me is the "like a sailing ship, not one of us runs." :shrug: Who knew ships could get up and run.

that line is an example I think of her ability to say many things with a simple statement.

Is it:

not one of us runs away

or

not one of us runs (operates) the ship (presumably the machinery of FM)

or

some other meaning

I think she is brilliant when she does this.

Mad4stevie

01-04-2005, 12:20 PM

It is a Tusk era song. There are a few studio demos/outtakes out there. One outtake I call 'offkey' is so horrible! Stevie sounds awful :lol: It makes me laugh.[/I]

I love this song, too!

And the "offkey" version is just too funny - a must for any lover of this song :) While funny, it is almost painful to listen to!

ontheEdgeof17

01-04-2005, 12:28 PM

that line is an example I think of her ability to say many things with a simple statement.

Is it:

not one of us runs away

or

not one of us runs (operates) the ship (presumably the machinery of FM)

or

some other meaning

I think she is brilliant when she does this.

She just slaps two lines out of her poetry books and makes a lyric.....and we tend to look into it further than what she meant it to be.

Good points, though....I like the "operation theory". That might be mine from now on :woohoo:

wondergirl9847

01-04-2005, 12:32 PM

One of my favorite Stevie songs, and I prefer the remix/outtake/alternate/whatever (LOL) to the Live version. I love how Fire flies means two things, which is why I agree with Strand that the sailing ship thing can mean two things. In other words, there is no leader of the band, no one "runs" the band, per se, I guess. :shrug: Also, no one runs away from the band, they stick with it, through thick and thin.

David

01-04-2005, 01:46 PM

I love how Fire flies means two things, which is why I agree with Strand that the sailing ship thing can mean two things. In other words, there is no leader of the band, no one "runs" the band, per se, I guess.
Didn't Mick Fleetwood still run the band at the time?

Also, when does everybody think those Santa Monica Civic Auditorium recordings were made? I think it was a rehearsal for the last leg of the tour, so at some point in June or July 1980.

strandinthewind

01-04-2005, 01:58 PM

Didn't Mick Fleetwood still run the band at the time?

Also, when does everybody think those Santa Monica Civic Auditorium recordings were made? I think it was a rehearsal for the last leg of the tour, so at some point in June or July 1980.

I agree Mick was in charge at the time, apparently to everyone's later chagrain. But, I think she is being romantic here and visualizing FM as this big ship they are on and though they may try to guide it, it has a life of its own when the five get together and that life/ship guides itself, which was into superstardom.

Then again, she could been wasted and wrote "that's why I wear my hair in a bun" and when recording thought in a haze that she had to run, but it came out "not one of us runs" :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

David

01-04-2005, 02:21 PM

Then again, she could been wasted and wrote "that's why I wear my hair in a bun" and when recording thought in a haze that she had to run, but it came out "not one of us runs" :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:Given Stevie, that seems logical!

I think she meant "no one of us runs from the firelight" -- the fireflies in Fleetwood Mac stay put. In an interview a few months before, she said, "No one leaves Fleetwood Mac. No one will let go" (Jim Ladd Innerview 1979).

jbrownsjr

01-04-2005, 05:24 PM

Yes Mick was in charge as long as Stevie, LB and Chris let him. (in that order)

AliP

01-05-2005, 01:16 AM

I love this song too! I'm always switching back and forth between Fireflies and Gypsy as my favorite Stevie FM song. I think of this song as a better reflection of FM rather than The Chain.

not one of us runs (operates) the ship (presumably the machinery of FM)

Good point! I never thought of it that way.

Johnny Stew

01-05-2005, 01:36 AM

Yes Mick was in charge as long as Stevie, LB and Chris let him. (in that order)

I don't know... I think quiet, unassuming Christine had more influence in that band than we may think. :nod:

Chain of Chains

01-05-2005, 09:04 PM

I love that line!

The only line that is odd to me is the "like a sailing ship, not one of us runs." :shrug: Who knew ships could get up and run.

For years I thought she sang: "Like a sailing ship, tossed upon the rocks"
I think I finally found the lyrics in a music book and was surprised.

"some call it my Nightmare, my 5 fireflies" :thumbsup: