Like or Dislike: Stand Back
 

I don't even know what to say about this song. This, along with Edge, is just classic Stevie to me. Most everyone is familiar with it, even the most casual fan. The lyrics - well, yes, they can be confusing at times (I'm not going to even start on her explanations - "well, you know, like standing in a welfare line...") But I love it anyway.

Somehow, despite all the synthesizers, this sounds like a rock song to me, not a dance tune. I mean, you can dance to it & everything, but it's not really a "dance" song. KnowwhatI'msayin?

Live - spectacular. I love the energy she gets when she's singing. The drum intro can get pretty tired, but this tour's percussion w/ Taku & Jimmy was really incredible. Mac or solo, I really don't care, it's all good - LIB is exceptionally great. But I have yet to hear a live version that disappointed me. Sure, some are better than others, but I've never thought any live version I've heard was truly terrible. I do, however, think she does it better now than in the past. Sounded way too much like the studio version on the 83 tour - it's way looser now, more hard rockin'.

The video? In all it's 80's cheesy glory? I adore it, of course. Grew up with it when we first got MTV. Civil War version - sure, I'll take that one too. :nod:

5 kicks.....In my top 5 songs.

always my favorite... it was the very first Stevie song i ever heard, when i was like 4... i loved it then and i love it now... there is no other Stevie or FM song with the same kind of driving excitement in my opinion... and when it is played live, nothing beats it... it was and always will be Stevie's "moment to shine" song :nod:

Um.... *points to sig* :laugh:

Love it, of course! Definitely one of Stevie's bigger-known songs, and one of the best. I still remember the first time I heard it, just thinking "Wow! What a great song!" And that video too, who could forget Stevie on the conveyour belt, chiffon billowing in the wind?

Big, big love for Stand Back. It really was the song that got me into Stevie and the Mac for that matter. It just flowed so right out of FM radio. Everytime.

I also love both videos, for different reasons, certainly the unreleased civil war version for creativity and the released version for sheer playfullness and silliness. Something about that treadmill. I have never been the same on a treadmill since seeing this video. I wish the treads at the gym would go the other direction into a bright light with wind machines.

Several Billion kicks.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it.

However -

( Isn't there always a "however?" :] :rolleyes: )

Stevie, I feel sure, would give huge credit to Prince,

who wrote the keyboard part - which, let's face it, is 80% of the song.

But that's all right . . . isn't it??? :rolleyes:

And -

I hear that Stevie did NINETEEN continuous spins, full-throttle,

during "Stand Back" in the second Las Vegas show.

Which leads me to my point -

Stevie rocks the zero-to-sixty in under 2.9 -

GO STEVIEEE! YAAAAAYYYYY! :lol:

:) I gave it 5 KICKS, just because it is classic Stevie.


Would you believe that is it one of my least favorites off WH? Up until I started collecting bootlegs and hearing it live, it was a favorite. Now, the album cut fails to make the cut due to the awesome live versions that are out there.

My favorite version forever and always will be LIB. Not fully do to the fact that I was there and you can hear a scream of mine in the song, but do to the fact that it is a flawless vocal....love the screams, the "takkkke" is phenonmenal, and the energy is out of this world. This summer's SB was rocking, too. I didn't like how the "takkkkke" became "taaa taaa ttaaa taaake" and dropped in key. But what can ya do?!

Second place goes to Storytellers for the "TIIIME of your life!"

Forget it?

It's emblazened into my memory for all TIME!!! HA-HA! :laugh: :shrug:

5 high kicks--one of the top 5 faves of all time--especially live. This is stevie at her best!!

How can someone not like this song? Definitely one of her best, and I love twirling around with her! :p 5 high kicks most definitely.

I fell in love, when I was only 8. I am still deeply in love.
And I like the album version. I like them both. The album version has a sexy something that the live one's don't have, and the live ones have a rockingness the studio one doesn't have.

I really really love seeing this song done live. It is always one of my favorites at the concerts. It's so fun and high energy. BUT....I always skip it on the album. Even on bootlegs. I really only like it if I am there. So I gave it 3.

Looks like I am the only one who didn't give it 5 high kicks. :o

5 kicks live, 4 kicks for the album version.

5 kicks, only cos there arent more options! How could you not like this song?! (sorry, i know, personal choice :) ) To me, its Stevie at her best. It just rocks.

~Nicki

I gave it only 3 kicks. I dont feel this song should even be uttered in the same breath as Edge of 17, but it seems those two are her most popular songs. The Studio version is along with BATB and IAF the only songs I ever skip from The Wild Heart (man I loved her choice of songs from this album to be included on Timespace :laugh: ) Its still OK, but it so doesnt live up to the praise it gets. Now ths live versions are MUCH better. I think most of those get 5 kicks. The absolute best version of this song is without a doubt the Woodstock 98 version. That version deserves 6 kicks. But the song for me really kind of sucked on this past Gold Dust Tour, the kicks and spins are fine but she put no effort vocally into it.

I love this song. And even though I've heard it a bunch of times in concert, I never get sick of it because it has so much energy. I actually rarely listen to the studio version and much prefer the live versions, epsecially recent live versions. On the Wild Heart tour it didn't kick nearly as much ass as it does now.

I thought she wrote the actual notes and he came in and played it? She did not write all of the music? Which parts exactly did he write? This is serious if you are saying Prince wrote 80% of the music to Stand Back. My panties are now in a roll. :confused:

FAVORITE SONG OF ALL TIME
(I'm sure you guys are thrilled I didn't write a novel for this one. That pretty much sums it up ;)).

My favorite Stevie song to sing out loud. :p

Anyone who doesn't like this song, better "STAND BACK"! :nod:

5 kicks! 5 million kicks!!!! Easily one of her best! :blob1:

I thought it was:

"I feel in Love, when I was only 10
The years disappeared
much has gone by since then"


Oh sorry....different song...... :wavey:

Yeah because the music to Stand Back is SO Danmed GOOD :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Duh Duh... Duh Duh Duh Duh... Duh Duh Duh Duh Duh... Duh Duh Duh

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Ahhhh....my favorite part....*sigh*.

Probably my favorite song live!

3 High Kicks for the album version. About a million kicks for any live version. I was never really a fan of this song until I heard some live versions, and now the album version seemed a touch brittle.

5 high kicks. It's the song that convinced me of Stevie's abilities, the first solo song of hers that I felt any connection to (I had heard Bella Donna before and had been bored by it, at first). And of course most of the live versions rule. :nod:

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Love this song, but have to say I wasn't blown away by the live version I heard on the SYW tour. (That's the only time I've ever heard it live.)

funny, i thought the "Say You Will" version was one of the best "Stand Back's" i ever heard... :wavey:

"1 high kick"

Bleh. It was good at the beginning, not her best by any means. The synth sound from the album version is so dated. Live? Eh. I'd rather have something else. This, along with Dreams, Landslide, and Rhiannon should be perma-shelved from live performances. Something fresher, please- especially considering the date on this milk carton is 12/31/85...

Yeah, maybe it's just me! (I saw it in Hartford btw.) It seemed a little rushed. That was just my impression, but like I said, I am certainly no expert on live Stand Back!

SB was my favorite Stevie song for a long time, and would probably still make my top five if I really thought about it.

LOVE Stand Back. The lyrics, music, and energy Rule. I love that she performs it all the time!

4 high kicks. Classic Stevie. Gets a one-kick reduction for the album version being less interesting than live versions.

5 high kicks! Great track!

The only time it ever really worked live was in 1983, but it worked beautifully then. Fleetwood Mac really butchers it, & once her solo bands started copying Fleetwood's arrangement, they butchered it too.