Dance This Mess Around
 

I'm curious what everybody thinks about this idea...

I recently "revisited" some old B-52's classics thanks to my ipod and decided that Stevie would do an incredible version of "Dance This Mess Around".
If you imagine the way she finished off Gold Dust Woman on the Dance tour, you can probably hear her version of this great old B-52's track.

Should we start a petition and get her to do it?

I know on a good night, Stevie knows how to have fun and she doesn't take herself so seriously that she would eschew this idea.


I've never used the word eschew in a sentence before.

Cheers

Would you say that to Bob Dylan? :laugh:

Yep. The Bob Dylan comment FOREVER changed the way I feel about her.
Delusions of grandeur...

:nod: She's an egoist. Anyone with half a brain can see that at 500 paces. Same with everyone else in that band, with the exception of John and Chris.

When she made that comment she was'nt saying she was as good as Bob Dylan. She was talking about his liberal use of tenses

I took it to mean that: I am an artist of the same caliber as Bob Dylan. IF you wouldn't question Bob Dylan's usage, HOW can you question mine?

"WOULD YOU SAY THAT TO BOB DYLAN?", clearly, IMO, indicates that she places herself in the same catagory. Like I said, delusions of grandeur. :cool:

Yes I agree with you about John and Chris after all " she is with the rythym section not part of the frontline" and he is "just an old fart bass player" a couple of my favorite quotes from them :blob2: :blob2:
Stevie was talking about their similar STYLE of writing and I thought it was a funny quote. :blob2:

Ok that is the way YOU took it, but it also possible she meant it in a different way. Besides I think all rock stars have to have some delusions of grandeur just to be able to do what they do :cool:

Not Christine. :xoxo:

And exactly who was that who had the window removed in the hotel suite so the piano could be delivered :laugh: :laugh:

Hoteliers must have cringed to hear of their coming. Nicks’s rooms had to be repainted pink, so a white piano was required. And Caillat recalls at one European stopover a window frame was removed and a crane deployed to get a baby grand into Christine’s suite.

http://www.fmlegacy.com/TakeItToTheLimit.html

Some people never let go.

I'll quote Stevie from Cream Magazine:
"I'm no Bob Dylan."

It says to me: ''Are you being objective enough, Lindsey? Would you say the same to any other songwriter who abitually uses a rich and loose imaginary like, for instance, Bob Dylan, or are you patronizing me again?''.

Besides humble rockstar are protected by WWF. :nod:

Romy

Yes, I would think the same of anyone who made that comparison. I just think it was quite an egotistical remark to make, especially on camera.

Oh Hillary, my opinion had already been declining for several years. :eek: :lol: :sorry:

I was referring to the meaning of Stevie's remark, not yours, Homer, sorry for not being clear enough. :p

Romy

Fair enough. I suspected as much but I was responding to this.
It seems to suggest that it inspired a dramatic change in your opinion of the Welsh witch.

Why are you wasting time debating with a troll? :laugh: ;)

She said it before the doctumentary was filmed. Several years ago, in fact.

Eh, he was just itching to find another criticism to levy at Stevie. ;)

A quote from Cream magazine can't possibly current. Didn't that mag (very popular great music mag from the 1970s) go out of circulation years ago?

The whole Bob Dylan "controversy" is silly to me. It was such an off-the-cuff remark. When rabid fans study things so intensely, any slight gesture, remark or action can be misconstrued, blown out of preportion, theorized and passed down until sometimes it becomes acknowledged as fact.

It seems unrealistic to me think that Stevie's PR people sat down with her to say "Stevie, there's been a lot of negative backlash regarding your Bob Dyan comment. This is hurting your image and career. We need to do damage control! Please let us issue a statement clarifying your stance...before Rolling Stone runs the cover story expose' headlined "STEVIE? YOU"RE NO BOB DYLAN!"
If her quote was so inflaming, wouldn't there have been more media about it? Should she have Katy Couric interview her so she can clear her name? Bob Dylan should probably issue a response. I think the only place where the "issue" is even thought about is right here.

But then again, it's only my theory! :]

It's not current. It's from several years ago... in 1987, to be exact.

I think Stevie's "I'm no Bob Dylan" statement is a more accurate reflection of how she views herself as a songwriter, than to twist her comments from the documentary to make it sound like she thinks of herself as a female Bob Dylan.

She used Dylan as an example when talking to Lindsey about not following the "rules of writing," but she could have easily inserted the name of ANY contemporary songwriter there. Hell, Lindsey himself has played fast and loose with the "rules of writing" and "grammar" (for example: "You can't plant no seed").

Nothing aggravates me more than Lindsey singing "I should've turned away and ran/Just as fast as I can" on Smile At You. Gawd, that burns my ass. :laugh:

I wonder if he had the same convo about that as he did when it came to Thrown Down. Or maybe Stevie did it on purpose to piss him off. :lol:

people, people.

Hello! Am I in the Room?

Tangentialize much?

Bob Dylan and Stevie Nicks. Why are we wasting our time.
That reminds me of people who constantly try to compare New York and Los Angeles. Stevie IS no Bob Dylan. But neither is any other master songwriter I can think of right now. Neil Young, Springsteen, Joni Mitchell, Jeff Tweedy, etc.

But for a change of subject, I was thinking the other day -

What do you think a Stevie Nicks version of The B-52's "Dance This Mess Around" would sound like?

:woohoo: Good one

To get back to the original intent of the post: I don't know that particular song, but after hearing R&R and CD I am all for more covers. I always thought she could do a kick ass version of Joplin's Piece of My Heart

Yeah, I think it was a great one. Thanks for allowing me to express my opinion.
FOR the(my) record, after Bella Donna(a masterpiece, which I've listened to twice this week), and Wild Heart,- well, RAL, and OSOTM, sucked, IMO! That is just my opinion, but I stand behind it. Me being a huge fan of hers fell by the wayside, after purchasing such tripe. RAL wasn't terrible, but OSOTM was craptacular, IMO. I'm amazed at the blinders some of you wear, but only for her, not the rest of the band. Again, thanks for allowing me to express my opinion here.

I have to say - though Homer is often wrong, stubborn, muleheaded, and one who incorreclty bashes the chiffoned one and all who worship at her altar - he is no troll, which I think he was just called.

Note: wrong, stubborn, muleheaded, etc. could easily be applied to moi - though being a resident chiffonhead grants me automatic exoneration and immunity :wavey: :wavey:

I was wondering exactly that... I think someone brought it up a couple of days ago... :wavey:

You are free to express your opinion, but you should take others into consideration as well. You seem to think your opinion supercedes everyone elses. Your only participation in a Stevie thread is to remind everyone of your negative opinion of her, which is why I found the troll thing funny. I know you are not a troll.
There are many that may feel you have blinders on when it comes to Chris, but how many rush to tell you that every chance they get? I am all for having discussions and listening to others opinions just not when they are so predictable. I enjoy and often agree with your post when your not taking a cheap shot at Stevie :wavey:

I should probably bite my tongue and leave it at that but what the heck, I suppose I started this.

You've claimed before that your incessant Stevie slamming was solely done because you get a kick out of putting chiffonheads in a twirl and ruffling their feathers. Your very own holy crusade to knock the heathen goddess off her pedestal. :rolleyes:
So your hiding behind the role of a poster being victimized for expressing his opinions when reminded of your own modus operandi is glaringly out of character my dear, especially in the light of such a little jab. Where has that wonderful sense of humor we keep hearing about gone to? Self-derision not included? :shrug:

Surprise, surprise! (copyright Gomer Pyle)

Guilty as charged.
I've stated many times that my issue is far more with the Army, than it's General.
YOU name called. Not me, dear.
I've just tired of you, and this argument. It wasn't a long journey, in reaching it's destination.

can we all agree that maybe some of us have a little too much free time?

you know, there's some great organizations out there that could use some volunteer help...

I could certainly use some help around here, mowing the yard, and cleaning the pool. C'mon over tomorrow. Be here at 9AM sharp! :cool:

Bless you!

And ALL this came from someone asking if Stevie took herself too seriously, at which point I mentioned the Bob Dylan comment(and you agreed, Hillary, I might point out). Things, collectively, rolled downhill from there.