Least Favorite Stevie song from Say You Will [Archive]

Silver Springs

07-23-2011, 05:26 PM

As soon as you put the poll up, I'm voting Silver Girl. Definitely the weak link on an otherwise breathtaking album. Though most of the time I do feel as though that opinion is a rare one to have. Say You Will tends to get quite a critical reception.

MacShadowsBall

07-23-2011, 05:27 PM

As soon as you put the poll up, I'm voting Silver Girl.

That's why I put it first, easy access!

Silver Springs

07-23-2011, 05:29 PM

That's why I put it first, easy access!

Haha. Give the public what they want, after all ;)

RickRobert

07-23-2011, 06:07 PM

Not voting, love all these songs.

... owait didn't notice Silver Girl there

*vote*

bluefox4000

07-23-2011, 06:14 PM

michelej1

07-23-2011, 06:22 PM

I voted for Silver Girl, but I want to get RTTG out of there pretty fast as well. I was almost paralyzed with the urgency to eliminate them both.

Michele

darklinensuit

07-23-2011, 06:42 PM

Proudly voted for EFO. I hate the production & am not crazy about her voice early in the song. I almost went with "Destiny Rules", where I like the production but hate the vocal throughout the whole song, or "Smile at You", where I like the vocal but hate the production, or "Illume", where Lindsey's doctored vocal is cringeworthy. Blast away.:wavey:

- Jake

vivfox

07-23-2011, 08:03 PM

Silver Hurl.

I cracked up when you listed it in the poll with duh!!!

MacShadowsBall

07-23-2011, 08:19 PM

Silver Hurl.

I cracked up when you listed it in the poll with duh!!!

I noticed most Ledgies dislike it alot and assumed it would get the most votes. Heck it might win the whole contest!

McTrouble

07-24-2011, 04:42 AM

Seeing as Silver Girl will win. I'm voting Illume. Because It.......never.......ever.........ENDS. One long bore that goes ON.......and on.........and.....on......and on. Actually most of her songs here are puke.

Mick

Hurrah - someone who completely echoes my own sentiments regarding this rubbish! :laugh:

Even though I don't like Silver Girl it doesn't drag on as long as Illume.

However, I do completely love this album - it could just do without a few of Stevie's songs!

Dodfather

07-24-2011, 08:45 AM

It's a cliched choice but yeah, it has to be Silver Girl. I don't actually mind the chorus at all and quite like it but those verses.... no, Stevie, no!

louielouie2000

07-24-2011, 10:45 AM

Everybody Finds Out. I think the lyrics are great, downright racy for Stevie. I just think the production is a cheesy afterthought.

Dodfather

07-24-2011, 10:58 AM

Everybody Finds Out. I think the lyrics are great, downright racy for Stevie. I just think the production is a cheesy afterthought.

No way! :wavey: I love the production on that song - espeiclaly the strings at the end. Unususual for Fleetwood Mac and they just work so, so well... "Don't you koowwww...."

michelej1

07-24-2011, 12:35 PM

No way! :wavey: I love the production on that song - espeiclaly the strings at the end. Unususual for Fleetwood Mac and they just work so, so well... "Don't you koowwww...."

I love the production, but it does make you think more Tango than 2003. But yes, not something I would have expected from the Mac at all.

Michele

holidayroad

07-24-2011, 01:48 PM

:sorry: I actually like Silver Girl! The song that gets on my nerves is Running Through the Garden!

Dodfather

07-24-2011, 02:50 PM

:sorry: I actually like Silver Girl! The song that gets on my nerves is Running Through the Garden!

I've been reading that several people seem to think this and I don't understand why. I love it, think it kicks ass and wish it had been done live more than just the very few times (maybe even just one?) on the tour. Oh well, the joys of differing opinions!

GypsySorcerer

07-24-2011, 02:59 PM

You know, the version of "Silver Girl" that was heard in the Destiny Rules documentary wasn't too bad. What ended up on the album was yucky.

jellyman10

07-25-2011, 11:12 AM

Voting for 'Silver Girl', but there is a fair old cornucopia of crud to choose from here. SYW is the only Mac album on which I prefer LB's songs to Stevie's. I love 'Illume' and 'TD', and a few flashes of 'SYW' and 'EFO', but that's about it. 'RTTG' feels a tad hysterical. 'Smile At You' is just a shadow of what that song could've been. A shame, really.

caroline79

07-25-2011, 12:39 PM

:sorry: I actually like Silver Girl! The song that gets on my nerves is Running Through the Garden!

I like it too! Not my favorite but I don't think its terrible. My vote goes to Goodbye Baby. Stevies vocals are awful! The Tower was much superior. It's the only Stevie song on the album I skip.

Christopher

07-25-2011, 01:23 PM

I don't despise Silver Girl as much as most. It a decent little ditty that I can listen to every once in a while, much better than the likes of "Jane":eek: But, it is the weakest composition of all Stevie's SYW tracks.

darklinensuit

07-25-2011, 01:31 PM

I don't mind "Silver Girl". It's not my favorite, but I don't get the hate for it.
The hate for RTTG baffles me even more. It's a huge step down from the demo (Lindsey's vocal & the three-note thing on the guitar annoy me), but it's still my favorite track & never should have left the live set.

- Jake

ontheEdgeof17

07-25-2011, 03:20 PM

I voted Smile At You. It just pales in comparison to what could have been.

I actually like "Silver Girl", but alas....:rolleyes:

bangdrum

07-25-2011, 03:34 PM

Really hate Silver Girl, hate Goodbye Baby almost as much. I love both RTTG and EFO, and think Thrown Down is terrific. I think it's best to look at SYW Smile At You as essentially a different song from the old demos - saves the trouble of complaining about changes when both recordings are, independently, very good songs. Illume does go on for far too long, but it's at least musically more interesting than usual.

elle

07-25-2011, 04:38 PM

i have to go with silver girl, although i regularly have to skip these other songs too:

Illume
Smile At You
Running Through the Garden
and many times Goodbye Baby.

The only Stevie song that i really really like on SYW is Destiny Rules (and that one could use non-nasal vocals, of course). i'd enjoy SYW as an album much more if most of Steve's SYW songs are replaced by some of her IYD songs. (which gives me hope that i might like next FM album if DS does end up co-producing it!)

louielouie2000

07-25-2011, 06:07 PM

:sorry: I actually like Silver Girl! The song that gets on my nerves is Running Through the Garden!

I like Silver Girl too. I think it's got an especially pretty chorus.

Neal

07-25-2011, 08:29 PM

"Silver Girl".

There are some nice lyrics, but the bad ones outweigh them...

mylittledemon

07-25-2011, 09:33 PM

Goodbye Baby

vivfox

07-25-2011, 09:47 PM

Goodbye Baby

IMO another example of a great demo destroyed by the album version.

pattyfan

07-26-2011, 12:10 AM

This CD for me is really hit or miss. I hate Silver Girl, Illume, Everybody Finds Out, and Running Through the Garden.

I love all the others. I know that a lot of people don't like Stevie's vocals on Smile at You but I absolutely love them. But I have to say that this is the first thing she's ever done with Lindsey that has songs that I just can't listen to (the four I mentioned above).

Kevin

Dodfather

07-26-2011, 03:02 AM

Goodbye Baby

IMO another example of a great demo destroyed by the album version.

I just don't understand why she's putting on that nasally/baby voice for the album version... it's really annoying and detracts from what could have been a beautiful song.

vivfox

07-26-2011, 06:35 AM

This CD for me is really hit or miss. I hate Silver Girl, Illume, Everybody Finds Out, and Running Through the Garden.

I love all the others. I know that a lot of people don't like Stevie's vocals on Smile at You but I absolutely love them.

No one has a problem with her vocals on Smile at You. Have you heard any of the 3 demos for that song? What we have a problem with is the album version lacks the fiery passion of the demos. The album version is good but majorly subdued.

As for you not liking RTTG and EFO, get ready for the firing squad. Two other Ledgies are tied up there waiting to be executed.:lol:

RickRobert

07-26-2011, 08:00 AM

No one has a problem with her vocals on Smile at You. Have you heard any of the 3 demos for that song? What we have a problem with is the album version lacks the fiery passion of the demos. The album version is good but majorly subdued.

She didn't HAVE the fiery passion in 2003...

P.S. The album version is imo leaps and bounds ahead of any demo version. Though I do cringe at the "I should have turned away and ran, just as fast as I can" line...

KarmaContestant

07-26-2011, 02:30 PM

Illume. Everything else is pretty good.

People refuse to admit it, blaming the "lyrics" but I believe they just hate Silver Girl because Stevie said she wrote it about Sheryl Crow.

markolas

07-26-2011, 08:34 PM

Really hard to vote on this one. RTTG and Destiny Rules are the only SN songs from this album that I still listen to. Illume would be great if not for LB's Zelda Rubinstein "Go into the light" vocal. Say You Will needs another verse. This version of Thrown Down is bland beyond belief. EFO is...meh. Silver Girl is nice. I have trouble w/ some of the lyrics to Smile at You. GB is also bland. So, it's hard to vote for a least favorite, b/c I dislike the songs that I do dislike just about equally.

michelej1

07-26-2011, 08:44 PM

Illume. Everything else is pretty good.

People refuse to admit it, blaming the "lyrics" but I believe they just hate Silver Girl because Stevie said she wrote it about Sheryl Crow.

I don't like Think About It either and I love Christine.

But Jane did make me dislike Jane Goodall -- and chimpanzees.

Michele

elle

07-26-2011, 10:30 PM

Artemis

07-26-2011, 11:05 PM

Smile At You. Easily. I love her vocal on it, and the production... apart from the weird attempts to add in a chorus. The turned away and ran parts and the aaaaahhhs... no. Bloody awful. Like Viv said, I much prefer the passion in the demo versions. Although it starts off so promising... it quickly becomes farcical.

I actually quite like Silver Girl, I thought the chorus was actually pretty funky. :laugh: It just has a few really unfortunate lines that throw off a pretty neat song.

KarmaContestant

07-27-2011, 10:58 AM

nope, not lyrics. grating, incredibly boring song.

:laugh: Aw, it's not so bad. I mean - it's not great, mind you.

What am I saying? I don't even listen to it. :lol:

MacShadowsBall

07-27-2011, 12:27 PM

I actually like "Silver Girl"! :eek: For some reason, it reminds me of Stevie's Streel Angel album. :shrug:

Poll closes in about 5 hours.

jbrownsjr

07-27-2011, 12:57 PM

Is it weird that I love When I See You Again, and hate Silver Girl?:shrug:

jellyman10

07-27-2011, 03:11 PM

Is it weird that I love When I See You Again, and hate Silver Girl?:shrug:

Not round my way, cuz I'm the same.:nod: