Say You Will album- Winners Battle
 

This might be the toughest choice yet.

Blech... both are middle of the road dullness. :sorry:

Predictions...
 

Well, about a week ago before separate SYW battles started, I predicted in another thread that, based on the Rumours-era battle trends so far, Thrown Down will win the SYW poll.

I hope I'm proven wrong...;) Lindsey had too many strong songs on SYW imo (possibly reflected in his evenly divided poll results - 5 songs between 5 and 7 votes, SYHA winning with only 13). In Stevie's poll TD annihilated all other songs with 27 votes (runner-up EFO getting only third of that).

I was one of the people having hard time deciding on the song I like best from Lindsey's while the only song I really like of Stevie's is Destiny Rules - and that one hardly got any votes, being everybody's 3rd choice, it seems. So, in the absence of DR, and since there are only two Lindsey's songs I don't like from SYW (WTWCT and Say Goodbye), there is no competition for me - SYHA it is!

Plus, although I think TD is typical and cute song in the manner of some Mac songs of the past (opening reminds me of Tusk documentary, Ken Caillait and Richard Dashut working on songs), hearing it played at Home Depot for some reason really ruined it for me...

Thrown Down is a great song, but completely average compared to Illlume, Running Through The Garden, and Everybody Finds Out, all of which have a radical sound imo. Same with Steal Your Heart Away, which is poppy fluff. I think Murrow is one of the greatest FM songs ever, and that and Illume really are the stand out tracks from this album, too bad neither got picked.

You forgot to mention your favorite track: Silver Threads And Golden Needles.:lol:

I agree with absolutely everything you said here... but that's not surprising :). I wish you could have been old enough to go to Say You Will concerts with me to hear such songs and Murrow and Come live... they were just so epic.

I am actually a little surprised the Ledgies went for more middle of the road tracks for their favs vs the more edgy songs on Say You Will, though.

Murrow was never performed live.

Yes it was! Only a handful of times, but it had a very Come-like guitar solo :)

Ooh, difficult. I lovelovelove both of these songs. However, in the end, Stevie fantardism won over.

Does Stevie sing any of her songs anymore?
Sing is the key word here. Anyone?

You didn't even need to ask this question :laugh:

Do we have any live recordings to prove this?

There is Murrow live on Lindsey's Soundstage too. Don't know how similar/different it is from the full Mac SYW tour version, but it was filmed some time in 2004 i think.

Really wish i went to see SYW tour... although LB performed Come on GOS tour so guess there is hope he'll do either of these songs if he tours again.

Seriously? Look at the trends...:shrug:

Out of the 2......Steal your Heart Away. Better tune. Stirs emotions in me more then Thrown down EVER could.

Mick

Last night it was very close votes, and I check this morning to see "Thrown Down" with twice the votes of "Steal Your Heart Away"! :laugh:

Actually one thing I've noticed in all these battles is that the first 10 or so votes cast tend to go to the song that won't actually win...:shrug:

Very ISA, to me. And Lindsey just tacked it on and even said, "I'm stealing from myself."

Michele

:laugh::laugh: I know it isn't anything special, and I can't even love it the same anymore now that I know the song's story :distress:

I have no recollection of Murrow being played on the SYW tour. "Come" was great live; so much better than the album version.

Have we been reading the same board for the past 8 years? :laugh:

My commenting on my surprise with Ledgies chosing middle-of-the-road pop tunes as their favs from Say You Will is derived from my 10 years of experience here. Ledgies love the wilder Mac moments... the Rosebud Rhiannon, the Mirage Sisters Of The Moon. It just baffles me that in turn they prefer this Adult Contemporary fluff from Say You Will over the more rocking songs, that's all. To each their own, of course. I respect all opinions. It just seems what Ledgies say they value isn't necessarily equating with the way they're voting here, and that's all I was pointing out.

Just as much as Lindsey ever has, I guess.

This whole thing has been quite interesting. Certain songs I thought would do well, didn't and vice versa. Only a few of my favorites have progressed forward in the battle. But that's the whole purpose of the "Battle of the Songs" to find out what is that #1 Favorite FM song.

See what happens on Dec 3rd when the winners start battling!

Generally, the poppy and accessible songs have usually prevailed in these types of "competitions." In fact, I believe "Steal Your Heart Away" won one of these before. I remember during that epic "Tusk Survivor" game all the Lindsey fans were peeved his experimental stuff was repeatedly voted off. :laugh: We all took things so seriously on here then. :o

Yeah I saw that stuff. I wasn't a Ledgie then or even a FM fan back then, but it was one of the reasons I wanted to do a full scale discussion/battle of the FM catalog. And doing it by vocalists, giving each vocalist 1 song in the album battles.

Tusk survivor. What won?

I remember that. Things were so deliciously bitchy back then. :woohoo:

I'm still a fan of hers, I just wish
she wouldn't talk her songs
out. The monotonous tone of her
voice on the Say You Will
album drives me crazy.

I get where you're coming from. I think most of us long for the days when she would belt out Rhiannon or Sisters of the Moon. Alas, getting older sucks more d*** than a brothel.

Just like I wish Lindsey would stop the whispery Under the Skin vocals, it probably won't happen. :shrug:

Storms won over I Know I'm Not Wrong.

Poll Update
 

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I think he tended to play it more during his solo shows.

Winner Update