"Sable On Blonde" Appreciation Thread
 

"Well, have you come to see...
That my face- it is not seeeeee-een
Oooh, outside my frost-covered windows"

"Just how deep....
Do-oo you hold that dream-a?!?!?
In your hands each night??
Well, in your hands each night???
Whoa, in your hands each night?!?!??

Oooooo......

Well, I think it was you-ouuuu, bay-beh......
This time....."

Stevie Nicks rules my universe...

Child - she SOARS on that. How many notes are above the T measure? Certainly the SEEENNNNNNN :wavey:

That song on The Enchanted tour would have kicked it - I mean she hit the same notes on SA.

Sable on blonde is a Sexy song.There just seems to be alot of passion in Stevies voice. The whole song just has a cool feel to it IMHO.I love at the end when She is singing the "This time I think it was you babe....." Plus, I really like Mic Fleetwoods opening drums.:thumbsup:
(I'll save my complaints about the back up singers UHHgAAGAHHSs in the begining for another thread:laugh: )

The song in written in G flat, with her whole Dreams/Rhiannon chord structure. Sheer greatness......

She lowered fifth, dominant tone of the C major scale

But at least Chopin and Schubert liked it :cool:

There are no Stevie songs I can say that I don't like - but this song is not all that good to me. My least fav on WH :sorry:

A lovely, lovely song. So atmospheric and sexy. Love it.

Top 10 Stevie song for me......

...I hated it when I was younger...seemed so "old" and "adult-like".....but now...I understand it so much and appreciate the lyrics and know how she felt when she wrote it....Absolutely beautiful.

Always been one of my absolute favorites. I love the third "In your hands each night" toward the end. I've always loved the lyrics, too.

one of my all-time favorites. everything about this song is strong, yet fragile. her vocals kick much ass.

that's why I included my version of it on the Gold Dust Project.

For me, it's about a 5 out of 10. Middle of the road.

For years this was one of my least favorite Stevie song mainly due to the music (it's slightly on the boring side) BUT in the last few months I've gotten so into the lyrics that I've learned to appriciate the song. IMO they are some of her best and as a general rule if I don't like the music to a song there is no way I'm going to like the song no matter how good the lyrics are but SOB is the exception. The music has really grown on me because of the incredible lyrics. Now that being said, they are also some of her most enigmatic lyrics and I'm not sure what this song is about exactly but it just doesn't matter because whatever the hell she is saying the words are just so damn beautiful. Even when I hear Stevie talk about this song and say what it's about I'm still confused. I'm sure as with most of her songs there is a lot going on that we will never know about.

"Was...freedom by choice
Or baby...was it love
Was it a thorn in your side
Something that you hide
Something you don't touch
Because it hurts too much"

That's my woman, simply gorgeous!

But isn't she singing "something you don't TRUST because it hurts too much? It sure sounds like it. That always bugged me because I like the original lyric better.

Nope, it's definitely TOUCH (I just checked the album and the nicksfix) and I always though it was touch, not trust. I like touch better I think. It makes sense that you don't want to touch something (or go near a person) because it hurts too much as in it will hurt if you continue to be around this person and have a love affair with them.

Maybe we should just ask stevie..... ???

Of course, because then we'll get the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth :laugh:!

why?

( I'm not being sarcastic or something, I'm literally asking - I don't know a lot about "chord structures," etc. )

I do totally love this song also, though, and just in terms of the lyrics and the total performance, composition etc. I agree, I think it's total genius. :)

This song is my favorite Stevie solo probably only tied with "How Still My Love." I nearly melted the first time I heard it -- and I sort of still do when I play it. :rolleyes:

Uhhhh - i.m.o. neither Nicksfix or the liner notes are always 100% accurate.
"Official" yeah, "100% correct, always, every time" - uhhhh - no.
But I think maybe I agree with you, it sounds like "touch" to me also... Seems to connect with the surrounding lyrics a little better, too, I think. Connects with the "thorn in your side" line, also, I think -
be careful of the roses 'cause they have thorns, etc.

Well, possibly mine, too. It's beauty, it's beauty, it's beauty.

There is also something interesting aboutthis song: You can sing it in a heavy metal voice & it still sounds "right." :confused: :thumbsup:

Do you have a sound file of this to share? I mean you, singing it in heavy metal voice.:thumbsup:

I, uh ... well ... I ... uhhh ... I errrrrrr ... aye-aye-aye ..... :shocked:

yes well you know that if five different people ask her we'll get five different answers! :laugh:

What is "The Gold Dust Project?"
http://www.buckinghamnicks.net/bn/images/SnLTusk.JPG

Maybe I have to listen to it again - after all you people raving on about it I feel as if Im missing out :laugh:

:laugh: peer pressure!! :rolleyes:

i love the end part too!!! i just soooooooooo love this song. :wavey:

I had to too, have another listen, it had been awhile... It's still a great song... Nice, easy listening, groovy sound...

If you did, I might like the song more. :D
It's my second most skipped on WH (after gate and garden).
It's growing on me, though. Good lyrics, flat music. (hi, Sapphire!)

Shoot well there are some people who dont like it... hmmm there you go. I used to hate I Will Run to You because of the terrible 80's sounding synth at the 2.15 part... used to **** me, and i guess still does.

I like Nothing Ever Changes too... oh i just like so much Stevie. Guess thats why im here huh! :laugh:

I'm totally into Nothing Ever Changes right now. BTW, did you send Emmeline her thingy? :wavey:

You know what the strangest thing about that comment is -- not the content itself, rather that I completely understand what you're saying.:thumbsup:

I put up my response on the Off Topics thread. As i posted i sent emmiline her article since either just beofre or just after xmas. I put a return address on it but haven't received it back. I cannot send her another one either as i bought 6 copies: four for the ledgies who wanted it, and the other two for me. Emmline asked for one too after i bought them and i sent her the one out of my two. I only had one pm from her just under a week before she put up the thread and i had been flat out so didn't even know till i received an email from a ledgie friend telling me to get online and check my pm's then to go to the Off Topic section. Not much further i can do... i sent it, emmiline didn't receive it and i dont have another to send. Not much either of us can do unfortunately :o

That is totally the hook. I loves it. (the "I can turn all your music on" part. It's soooooooo sexeh!)
I, too, think it would sound good onstage, and also it would have been a good choice for a single. At the time.
That is sweet SOB is one of your faves. I really do like the lyrics, I wish the music was more dynamic, less flat chords - but it's still okay. To me it is a subtle song, for to grow on me.
Currently my faves (behind Stand Back, the eternal fave) are WH (I used to not like it, suddenly I love it :shrug: ) and Enchanted and Nightbird and Nothing Ever Changes. :laugh:
Nightbird harmonies are death defying.
Enchanted probably seems a strange choice, but it really gets me rollicking. In fact, I would call Enchanted a rollicking good time. Never liked it as much live, but in the context of Wild Heart, I love it a lot. It's a "screamer". (meaning, I love it cause I can just let loose and sing it loud and sloppy)

Im totally all about Nothing Ever Changes :thumbsup:

Iv'e been listening to Sable On Blonde constantly over the last day - and I have to say its still not really all that good to me :sorry:

I LOVE everything Stevie - but SOB will be in my bottom 10

Sable On Blonde? On of her best. It took a long time, but it grew on me & it's now one of my faves. She's so passionate.

"In your hands each night!"

"This time I think that it was you babe...WHOOOAAAAOOOAAAAOOOOAAAAOOOOOOOO!"

Good stuff.

Oh, and Nothing Ever Changes is fantastic too.

"Sable on Blond" is one of my favorites, though it took me some time to warm to it. I love the lyrics, and it's my favorite vocal from her on WH.

"Nothing Ever Changes" is another great one. I was listening to it on repeat in the car yesterday. :D

Ooh, I'll complain about it! (Great spelling, btw - "UHHgAAGAHHS" is just how it sounds!) That kickoff almost, almost makes me dislike the song. It is so...sickeningly sweet, I guess?

But the rest of it is so great I can't help but love it. It's got some of her best imagery - the frost covered windows, "in silence she says 'Excalibur'". I don't know how well it would work live, but I wish she had tried it back on the WH tour.

I can give some love to Nothing Ever Changes too. Now that song should have been a staple in her setlist for the past twenty years over something like INTK.

OMIGOD, what has the world come to when chiliD comes to the Stevie Nicks Ledge to drop some love on a Stevie solo song??? :eek: :shocked:

"Sable On Blond"! :thumbsup:

From my first listen back in '83 until I heard "Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind" just before the release of Street Angel, "Sable" was my favorite solo Stevie song. I just wish "blond" was spelled correctly...it annoys the hell out of me that the trailing "e" is omitted.

ChiliD's Top 5 Stevie solo songs:

1) Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind
2) Sable On Blond
3) No Spoken Word
4) If I Were You
5) That Made Me Stronger