My Heart in Vegas
 

I love this song more then words can describe (can't we all relate to these lyrics at one time in our life: my eyes still close when someone speaks your name, my heart still stops when I stand before you, etc.) Anyways, do you think there is any chance she may do this in Vegas? I know it is a really long shot but if she does anything new I hope she does this song. I really can not wait to find out what songs she will be doing in Vegas.

It's never even been released. :shrug:

She must have been unhappy with it for some reason or another if she didn't release it on TISL (thankfully), so I don't think she'd ever perform it live. She was scared ****less when she did the new songs from TISL on that tour and those were songs that she had just put out. I can't foresee her taking such a risk.

I just want her to resurrect Sable On Blonde.

Really, you think she was nervous about doing new TISL songs? Didn't she perform one for the Grammys or something?

She certainly feared new SYW songs. I still wish she would have done RTTG more then just that one night. And in the DR doc you can see that she was practicing Illume and Everybody Finds Out. Why didn't she do one of those live?

As far as EFO goes, I think it was difficult to transfer to the stage because it is so heavily produced in the studio. It may just not have worked. I hope she will do it someday, but I doubt it.

I highly doubt Stevie would do an unreleased demo-- My Heart-- at her Vegas shows.

Stranger things have happend - see Gold and Braid at the Bella Donna shows :shrug:

I could see My Heart being the single/new song for this "rumored" greatest hits compilation that may or may not be coming out in 2005 that Stevie may or may not be touring to support (thanks for keeping us fans in the know, The Nicksfix :rolleyes: ).

If so I could definitely see her doing it in Vegas!

The Blockbuster Music Awards, and she was (nervously) shaking her dress so much it's a wonder she didn't tear it off. Of course, I thought she nailed it and by the end of the song, it seemed clear she did too, from the way she high-fived Sheryl and walked off the stage like she owned it.

'My Heart' in Vegas? To borrow from the book of Diss, monkeys will come flying out my butt before that happens. It would make no sense... for all Stevie knows none of us have ever heard of it. She seems reluctant enough to try new songs that have been released, let alone throwaway tracks from a previous record.

Gold and Braid...
 

My Heart in Vegas?? No way.

Back when she did Gold and Braid...she was more willing to try new things, be flexible, loose...now? Forget it. Even if she had the guts to try something like that it would be dropped after the first night or Stevie would only give us a half ass performance of it from lack of confidence and nerves.

Someone said ,and I think Stevie said in that Jim Ladd interview that the Vegas show HAS to be under and hour and half, so I dont see he filling the time up with an unreleased demo...I would be willing to bet money she doesn't do that song..lol. Plus IMO it's not that great of a song

Chris

:laugh: :lol:
At least there's only a couple of them, now. And one of them is more for planning purposes.... :o

:lol: :lol: :lol:

:xoxo:

I'm so smitten. :laugh: :xoxo:

But you're leaving out Mabel Normand. She's totally gonna rock out to that baby.

Christopher is 16 and an excited new fan... I say let him ask whatever question he wants to ask. No one has to reply if they don't want to. :)

I'm so sorry.

I just thought that My Heart seems like it would be good live song. And I sort of started the thread hoping to spark some interesting conversations about "My Heart", since I love the song to death. I'm just really excited about going to Las Vegas, it seems like a lot of the people who aren't going keep getting upset by the amount of Vegas threads. I guess I should have taken that under consideration.

I don't like it. Too melodramatic and Streisand-esque for my taste. The music simply slaughters it. I can see why it was left off of TISL.

Oh, but just imagine it with my parody lyrics, Homie. :laugh:

I like it, but I don't feel we'll hear anything unreleased in Vegas. :shrug:

:laugh: Those? Were hysterical.

I am furious at this private messaging ****. Every time I click to read the one you just sent me, my browser crashes. This computer can bite my tit. And you better not be telling me to "shove off," bitch. :p

I AM SO NOT.

I wondered why you hadn't read the last few I sent you. One of these days, you need to just give me your phone number. Or a real email address. :wavey:

Once I can get this PM **** to work, you can have my email. :xoxo: I actually had my phone disconnected last week because the phone lines are being rewired and I'm not giving Verizon any more money than I have to if the reception is going to be ****ty for awhile. My internet has been screwy because of it all and it takes forever for pages to load. I couldn't even get onto PageSixSixSix today. *weeps*

In any case, you should see the charges I've racked up on Ben's cell. :lol:

Rock and Roll.




I can only imagine. :laugh:

I've never owned a cell phone and never will, but those peak hours are killers. I was knocked for a loop when he showed me the bill and the charges I made just for two days at the end of March. Too bad I'm not paying a dime. :laugh:

The general assumption here and with other posters is that songs -- "My Heart" for example -- are left off of albums because they are "not good enough."
I don't believe that is always the case. (I personally think "My Heart" is a great Stevie song).

There are numerous, varied reasons why songs are cut. More often than not, artists may record many more songs than needed, knowing that not all will make it on an album. If a song isn't "good enough" (a very subjective term), then why was it recorded at all?

I'm not familiar w/this song. What are the chords?

Only heard it once & can't remember it.

But Gold & Braid was planned for BD, dropped for some reason, & then stevie turned right around & put it in her show in 1981. We were all just freakin out because nobody knew what it was & most of us even assumed she didn't write it because it didn't sound like her.

well I mean are the chords just her typical A minor ****?

not really because Blue Lamp wasn't a gem in '81 -- it was brand new. They just put it on the soundtrack for that dumb cartoon. It made sense to sing it live.
She ain't gonna sing My Coronary, we all know it......did you ever read Whack Your Porcupine" by Kliban?

Stevie doesn't work very hard on her chords, does she?

She doesn't exactly have the unerring sense of melody that Sting had with "fortress around my heart" or "every breath" or "fields of gold"

Instead she meanders melodically more like style council's "my ever changing moods" -- only without the hip jazzy quality

Just once before I die (although I'm not going to die), I want to hear stevie use a diminished 5th chord. But she can't just throw it in .... it needs to be in the RIGHT place. It has to create imagistic or sonic resolution in our minds.

For the same reason that the likes of Thrown Down was recorded for TISL and then tossed: the end result wasn't to her satisfaction.

wonder why she didn't name it "Thrown Out"?

it's a funny funny book....lemme see if I can find it.....

http://snipurl.com/dwxo

My God, trackaghost. Take a chill pill. We're not discussing the fate of the world here. I'm sorry if you felt so deeply offended by my opinion.
That wasn't my intent.

My statements were presented not as fact, but as theory, directed to no one in particular. It wasn't a dissertation. (And it had none of the unexplicable bitter nastiness that you have spewed at me.)

The irony of this is that, in actuality, we are on the same page!
Go figure.

Academy is looking for new Oscars host... I think they should ask David. :nod:

Romy

Look out!! Vesuvius is gonna blow!!

Well, not really unless you' ve fallen in it :D

Romy

I'm completely lost as to what bearing it has that I didn't post a message for a long while after an incidental (and idiotic) spat. I don't follow your thought. Regardless, I'm not here to offend people or cause riffs. I'm sorry if my post bothered you. Let's kiss and make up, please? :)

I should have just been more specific on why I think some songs never get released. I'm making the point that the factor(s) are not as simple as a song being deemed as below par. Here are a few speculative senarios:

Too many songs recorded -- not enough room on an LP
Too many songs recorded -- didn't want the cd to be too long
After several attempts, the song was just forgotten
Song didn't fit the flow and mood of the album
Stevie didn't like the way it was produced
Stevie's producer convinced her to leave it off the album
Stevie decided to save it for another album
It was intended for a soundtrack, but never used
The record company's people didn't like the song
Legal problems regarding publishing rights
Stevie had a "Reconsider Me" moment

I just meant sometimes we all let insignificant or trivial things get to us, even you have.
But I'm good to make up if you are :)

Groovy! :blob2:

Back to the topic at hand...

I really think the lyrics in My Heart are beautiful. I think we can all relate to them after a breakup or if you are in love with someone you can't be with, etc. My favorite lines are "My heart still stops, when I stand before you. My heart still breaks, when you take my hand. My eyes still close when soemone speaks your name..." I think she is obviously talking about Lindsey. They may be broken up but for a few hours every night on any Fleetwood Mac tour (I'm guessing she is refering to the Dance) they do stand before one another and hold hands. And in interviews she often closes her eyes "when someone speaks his name". I don't know, I love the song and I think her voice is perfection. I love her nasally voice and her voice on this song is very nasal but still strong.

I agree - I love the lyrics. I don't care for the musical arrangement or the instrumentation. I've even gotten over my eye-rolling at "windows like the eyes to the soul"... because I've heard and read it messed up like that countless other times since the song surfaced! :laugh: I always found it funny, because it would have worked rhythmically for her to say "eyes.... like windows to the soul..." I guess she didn't for some crazy unknown reason! My favourite musical part, though, is after the third chorus, when she goes, "and you understaaaaaahaaaand....." into the musical bridge.