Sick Of You

[shackin'up]

http://wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=48503&archive=83784

It's the second song on this show. It starts around 2 min 35.

It's generic. It's a one idea song. With a lot of repetition. But those last ninety seconds, nothing changes, but still makes it worthwhile.

Hmm, I hate to admit it. But I really like it. It's weird, even kinda funny, singing I'm so sick of you the whole time in that lovely tone and voice.

[elle]

http://wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=48503&archive=83784

It's the second song on this show. It starts around 2 min 35.

It's generic. It's a one idea song. With a lot of repetition. But those last ninety seconds, nothing changes, but still makes it worthwhile.

Hmm, I hate to admit it. But I really like it. It's weird, even kinda funny, singing I'm so sick of you the whole time in that lovely tone and voice.

thank you!! and, WATL in the mix at 2:06:57? :nod: :thumbsup: should i take that as a sign? WATL anywhere makes me happy. :]

[redtulip]

Thank you for posting this! I really like it, it is simple but it's for a soundtrack so I wasn't really expecting anything groundbreaking. It sort of needs to be poppy and catchy and I think it is. I'll definitely listen to it! :nod:

[elle]

It's generic. It's a one idea song. With a lot of repetition. But those last ninety seconds, nothing changes, but still makes it worthwhile.


Thank you for posting this! I really like it, it is simple but it's for a soundtrack so I wasn't really expecting anything groundbreaking. It sort of needs to be poppy and catchy and I think it is. I'll definitely listen to it! :nod:

agree with those 90 seconds at the end shackin'up. and also agree with your characterization of the whole song redtulip. not sure whether i like it or not really. probably not something i'd give much attention if it was not LB, honestly. but sounds like it will be appropriate accompaniment (is that a word?) for certain movie scenes, which was probably the goal.

[redtulip]

agree with those 90 seconds at the end shackin'up. and also agree with your characterization of the whole song redtulip. not sure whether i like it or not really. probably not something i'd give much attention if it was not LB, honestly. but sounds like it will be appropriate accompaniment (is that a word?) for certain movie scenes, which was probably the goal.

That is exactly what I was thinking. I can even imagine exactly the type of scene this will be played over, some type of fight between the married couple I'm sure, where they are feeling bad afterwards. I think it will fit well in the movie.

I'm also liking his singing on it a lot, not sure why. I probably wouldn't listen to it either if it wasn't Lindsey, but that's ok, I'm liking it!

[RockawayBlind]

The vocal will take some getting used to, but I think this song is 4 and half minutes of pop brilliance. It recalls things like Trouble and Time Bomb Town when Lindsey was painstakingly crafting very pretty pop songs that had just enough of an edge. The guitar is very tasty, and it reminds me of one of the reasons I am drawn to Lindsey Buckingham -- it's that ability to come up with hooks that really pull you in. It's something that, frankly, I've missed with the "minimalist" approach he's been taking lately.

This is almost like going back in time, away from SWS stuff, back to a poppier Lindsey era. And... I believe it may give us a glimpse of the FM material he worked on with John and Mick. I hear a steady snare there that could be Mick, though it could just be Lindsey messing with GarageBand drum loops.

[elle]

The vocal will take some getting used to, but I think this song is 4 and half minutes of pop brilliance. It recalls things like Trouble and Time Bomb Town when Lindsey was painstakingly crafting very pretty pop songs that had just enough of an edge. The guitar is very tasty, and it reminds me of one of the reasons I am drawn to Lindsey Buckingham -- it's that ability to come up with hooks that really pull you in. It's something that, frankly, I've missed with the "minimalist" approach he's been taking lately.

he sounds like he's about to throw up :p - which i guess makes all the sense it the world if he's singing how he's sick of someone :cool:

This is almost like going back in time, away from SWS stuff, back to a poppier Lindsey era. And... I believe it may give us a glimpse of the FM material he worked on with John and Mick. I hear a steady snare there that could be Mick, though it could just be Lindsey messing with GarageBand drum loops.

yeah i don't like Trouble and similar kind of music he made in the past, GOS1 and SWS are more my cup of tea... although i guess that doesn't say much b/c there is a huge range of songs on those 2 albums. plus i love love love SHN and Rodeo which i guess one can characterize almost as poppy as can be :shrug:? but i agree with you that this may be the glimpse on his new FM material. although i hope not; i hope this is really very soundtrack-specific.

EDIT: i do like the guitar parts a lot. although they do sound very Mediterranean to me.

[TrueFaith77]

With these 3 tracks and the 8 tracks he recorded with Mick&John... that's a new Lindsey solo album's worth of music. wow.


ETA: wow those last 90 seconds are sublime.

ETA2: I think this song is about Stevie.

[D.W-Suite]

The end of this song sounds almost like it would fit on the 1975 white album, nice to see Lindsey return to his banjo-esque lead guitar lines.

[Bandon]

Don't care for it....bland.

[michelej1]

This is nice, thanks.

I'm afraid it's going to be the best of the 3 songs, from what I've heard.

I agree about it fitting in the movie, from the previews I've seen where they are fighting, yet banding together to annoy other people comedically (like when room service comes in the room and he tells them he's seen a rodent). That goes with: I'm so sick of you, no one else will ever do. Bickering and laughing in the same breath.

I like Trouble just fine, but I think Time Bomb Town is on another level. I don't think this is as good as Trouble and I believe very few things are as good as Time Bomb Town.

Michele

[WildHearted]

The vocal honestly sounds fine to me. Much better than the ghastly breathy stuff he sometimes ventures into.

I like it a lot. Nice lead lines, catchy. It's simple but good.

[Sleepless-Child]

he sounds like he's about to throw up :p - which i guess makes all the sense it the world if he's singing how he's sick of someone :cool:



Ah, see! You also think it's weird :D.
I like the song, melody and all, just not the lyrics really (mainly chorus).

[Sleepless-Child]

This is nice, thanks.

I'm afraid it's going to be the best of the 3 songs, from what I've heard.

I agree about it fitting in the movie, from the previews I've seen where they are fighting, yet banding together to annoy other people comedically (like when room service comes in the room and he tells them he's seen a rodent). That goes with: I'm so sick of you, no one else will ever do. Bickering and laughing in the same breath.

I like Trouble just fine, but I think Time Bomb Town is on another level. I don't think this is as good as Trouble and I believe very few things are as good as Time Bomb Town.

Michele

Time Bomb Town is one of my favorite LB songs, never figured why so many people disliked it. Way to do a song for a movie, that still worked on its own, independently.

[TrueFaith77]

omg the song following Sick of You... is that what I think it is?!?! wow, i love Sick of You but then this radio station outclasses it right after...

[michelej1]

Half of the time he's saying "sicka you". The other half, the "of" is enunciated.

Michele

[Jondalar]

this song is excellent, Lindsey continues to grow as an artist, this song sounds like a Fleetwood Mac song

[McTrouble]

I LOVE it - because it is simply so...........Lindsey!:xoxo:

[AliceLover]

Like everyone else has said, it's simple, but I'm really loving that last minute or so. Sounds like an outro that could have been on the White Album or something! Loving this song!

Any MP3's available yet?

[elle]

Like everyone else has said, it's simple, but I'm really loving that last minute or so. Sounds like an outro that could have been on the White Album or something! Loving this song!

Any MP3's available yet?

no, MP3s will be available this tuesday.

[KindOfWoman90]

omg the song following Sick of You... is that what I think it is?!?! wow, i love Sick of You but then this radio station outclasses it right after...

i was thinking the same thing! love this station! i really enjoyed the song after Sick of You, but i didn't recognize it... what was it?

[TrueFaith77]

i was thinking the same thing! love this station! i really enjoyed the song after Sick of You, but i didn't recognize it... what was it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEWswHtQUkc

[PenguinHead]

The vocal honestly sounds fine to me. Much better than the ghastly breathy stuff he sometimes ventures into.

I like it a lot. Nice lead lines, catchy. It's simple but good.

I feel the same; not a fan Lindsey's whispered vocal turns, which are more creepy than intimate.

The lyrics are extremely pedestrian (the song begs for more witty/clever writing). Still, I'm glad the song has a lighter, less serious tone. Lindsey's lyrics and delivery are sometimes so intense and heavy, it's refreshing to hear something that doesn't take itself too seriously.

[AliceLover]

Ok after the 30th listen, I'm really digging it. :nod:

[KindOfWoman90]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEWswHtQUkc

Oh my gosh, I think I'm becoming more impressed by this radio station.

[michelej1]

I feel the same; not a fan Lindsey's whispered vocal turns, which are more creepy than intimate.



That would make UTS the ultimate stalker album.

Michele

[pattyfan]

Wow, love this song. Thanks so much for posting. ;)

Kevin

[michelej1]

So, now that I've heard all 3, Sick of You is the one that I end up humming.

Michele

[Madness Fades]

Must Be an LB fan, they play Walk a Thin Line at 2:07.
I have listened to the entire show. It was excellent

[sodascouts]

The instrumentation is pleasant but jars with the lyrics and the disgusted tone of his vocal (appropriate considering the subject matter).

The lyrics are generic and unimpressive; the chorus is especially lazy. It doesn't even make sense. "I'm so sick of you / No one else will ever do / I'm so sick of you." It's like he was looking for a rhyme and didn't even care if it had a logic to it. No one else will ever do in order to make him sick? Or are we supposed to insert "but" in there? At any rate, could there be a more uninspired lyric than "No one else will ever do"? And, of course, it gets repeated ad nauseum.

I agree that the outro is terrific, though.

[michelej1]

The instrumentation is pleasant but jars with the lyrics and the disgusted tone of his vocal (appropriate considering the subject matter).

The lyrics are generic and unimpressive; the chorus is especially lazy. It doesn't even make sense. "I'm so sick of you / No one else will ever do / I'm so sick of you." It's like he was looking for a rhyme and didn't even care if it had a logic to it. No one else will ever do in order to make him sick? Or are we supposed to insert "but" in there? At any rate, could there be a more uninspired lyric than "No one else will ever do"? And, of course, it gets repeated ad nauseum.

.

I see it as a reflection of the mental paradox that I assume is portrayed in the movie. You're in a rut. Your spouse takes you for granted. The spouse's habits are ultra annoying. Yet if you had to do it all over again, you couldn't imagine yourself with anyone else and can't think of a life without them even if you do want some changes in the relationship. So, I don't think the chorus is nonsensical but I agree with you about "no one else will ever do" . That is about as lame and sixties dated a lyric "as filled me with all of his charms" is. Michele

[shackin'up]

I see it as a reflection of the mental paradox that I assume is portrayed in the movie. You're in a rut. Your spouse takes you for granted. The spouse's habits are ultra annoying. Yet if you had to do it all over again, you couldn't imagine yourself with anyone else and can't think of a life without them even if you do want some changes in the relationship. So, I don't think the chorus is nonsensical but I agree with you about "no one else will ever do" . That is about as lame and sixties dated a lyric "as filled me with all of his charms" is. Michele

HEY!!! It's the poet that he is!

[elle]

HEY!!! It's the poet that he is!

:laugh: except he never claimed he's a poet.

[michelej1]

Lindsey told Charlie Rose that when he first met Stevie at that youth function she considered herself a poet even then and she gave him some of her stuff (don't know if she wrote it for him or just recited it or what) and he said he was quick to criticize it and added that nothing's changed.:laugh:

Michele

[jellyman10]

Also brings to mind:
"I'll be there if you want me to
No one else that can ever dooooo"

Lalalala. I like it. I like it very much. :nod:

[AliceLover]

"Sick of You" appeared in a scene in the movie. It was played as a transition song at the beginning of a party. You could hear Lindsey faintly.

[elle]

"Sick of You" appeared in a scene in the movie. It was played as a transition song at the beginning of a party. You could hear Lindsey faintly.

yeah i actually thought it sounded better as used in the movie, than when i just hear that song as a track.

[juniper]

I see it as a reflection of the mental paradox that I assume is portrayed in the movie. You're in a rut. Your spouse takes you for granted. The spouse's habits are ultra annoying. Yet if you had to do it all over again, you couldn't imagine yourself with anyone else and can't think of a life without them even if you do want some changes in the relationship. So, I don't think the chorus is nonsensical but I agree with you about "no one else will ever do" . That is about as lame and sixties dated a lyric "as filled me with all of his charms" is. Michele

I dunno - I was thinking about this song apart from the movie, bcz I read somewhere that he may have had this laying around before Apatow asked him for some songs. About lyrics, Lindsey often (!!) compares his solo work to painting - I think he looks at each song component individually as to how it contributes to the whole. Also, I think in his SFSM interview, he says that he's moved away from 'hey baby you left me' type lyrics and moved on to lyrics that are more abstract, and that he considers that growth. Given that, I would have to think that the ultra-simple, easy-rhymy lyric is very deliberate.
Maybe the song is describing some frustration in coming up with more complex lyrics – they are coming out to simplistic, too obvious. They are keeping him up at night; he can’t keep them from his mind. He even recycles the easy ‘no one else could ever do’ from Monday Morning. The ‘You,’ then, could be referring to himself/writer’s block of his own creative powers. And so the lyrics reflect exactly that.
Orrrrrrrrr, it could just as easily be about being sick of the never-ending analysis of the attraction/tension between him and SN. How exhausting to be defined and dogged by that your whole creative life – like being one half of a Siamese twin! You can’t ignore that the word ‘dream’ is in every verse – this could be a clear reference to SN. As always, he ends with one foot out the door – never leaving all the way. And again, the line ‘no else could ever do’ is a reference to that – it’s as if he’s saying ‘even after all this time, since the day I wrote Monday Morning - dang, that’s still true!?’ – like he doesn’t even believe it himself. If that’s the case, though, I like that the melody and tenor of the song seem more resigned and accepting of this fact – almost amused by it even. Maybe he’s finally accepting his past in his own Lindsey way – yeah, I’m sick of it already, but you know, it is what it is, let’s just make some nice music.
And I agree, lovely outro!

[lbfan]

And I agree, lovely outro!

Great outro (I don't know if this a music industry term or if Elle coined it, but I like it). The Sick of You outro is on par with the studio version of Bleed to Love Her and Rock Away Blind. I don't believe LB is much of a "jam session player" (and may have stated such in the past, although the song Tusk did grow out of a rehearsal "jam" session), but the outro on these songs have a great "feel" to them (can't describe it very well, just that they make me feel like swaying to the sounds of the music). Sick of You and Bleed to Love Her outros are very much the FM sound that LB is responsible for. This could be a poll question - LB's best or your favorite outro.

[elle]

Great outro (I don't know if this a music industry term or if Elle coined it, but I like it). The Sick of You outro is on par with the studio version of Bleed to Love Her and Rock Away Blind. I don't believe LB is much of a "jam session player" (and may have stated such in the past, although the song Tusk did grow out of a rehearsal "jam" session), but the outro on these songs have a great "feel" to them (can't describe it very well, just that they make me feel like swaying to the sounds of the music). Sick of You and Bleed to Love Her outros are very much the FM sound that LB is responsible for. This could be a poll question - LB's best or your favorite outro.

i have no idea how legit the term is, but i can't take any credit for it.

you know, i've seen tweets floating around saying LB is the best outro guitarist / songwriter there is. he does have so many great outros, it would be interesting to try to list them, or pick favorites. :thumbsup:

[michelej1]

Maybe the song is describing some frustration in coming up with more complex lyrics – they are coming out to simplistic, too obvious. They are keeping him up at night; he can’t keep them from his mind. He even recycles the easy ‘no one else could ever do’ from Monday Morning. The ‘You,’ then, could be referring to himself/writer’s block of his own creative powers. And so the lyrics reflect exactly that.


I think some lyrics are definitely simplistic for a reason, like Oh Diane. In fact, if the couple were older, I might even think that Sick of You was meant to be retro, to mirror the sound of the early years of their relationship. But since they got together about 15 years ago, late nineties, I don't think that's the case. In Lindsey's personal life, his early years would be the sixties and lyrics like those would fit in there, certainly.

Michele

[TerraRhiannon]

I pictured him staring right into Stevie's eyes and playing this and I laughed the whole way through.
But I like the song a lot, it sounds great.