Favorite Christine Vocal
 

What is your favorite Christine lead vocal?

You can choose from any of her songs from Chicken Shack, Fleetwood Mac, or solo albums.

I think my favorite vocal of hers is "Keep on Going," though "Sugar Daddy" is a close runner up.

"Prove Your Love"

One of the sexiest vocals ever recorded.

She never sang a song better than she sang "Calumny."

Great question. And fascinating choices. I have to think on this one!

Over & Over
Oh Daddy
Honey Hi

YMLF
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You Make Loving Fun. Second choice would be Little Lies.

Love her vocal on Honey Hi!

Spare Me A Little
I'd Rather Go Blind
Believe Me

These, and Wish You Were Here.

Each moment is a memory,
time's so unkind
Every hour filled with an emptiness,
I can't hide

Ooh, I forgot about that one!! Love it.

Like the kind you find, at the end of the rainbow

amazing!

Oh Daddy
Wish You Were Here
Think About Me

Yeah... Wish You Were Here is a mighty vocal also. I underrate that but it's actually the perfect example because of what her voice does with a relatively (to Rumours and Tusk) below par song.

"Oh Daddy"
"Isn't It Midnight"
"Only Over You" (yes, I'm serious!)

Heart of Stone
Songbird
Isn't It Midnight

Everywhere

Come A Little Bit Closer

Oh Daddy
Spare Me a Little
Songbird
Sugar Daddy

Honey Hi
Come a Little Bit Closer
Spare Me a Little

- Jake

Why

Gail

That's my favorite, too!!:thumbsup:

Guess I have to go with "Oh Daddy" partly cause that song is mostly vocal with limited music.

This is about the quality of her vocal performance and not the song, right? If I've got that right, then my vote goes for two songs, both of which I happen to love as well.

One More Night (I just think her voice is so silken and beautiful on this track, and to think that it was recorded at a sound check...wow!)

Heart of Stone (see above, minus the sound check bit)

We miss your music a lot Christine. Hope you are happy. :)

Kevin

You're right Kevin--its about the quality of the vocal performance. I love her vocal on One More Night!!

Heart of Stone
Little Lies
Say That You Love Me

Speaking of which, does anyone know anything about "Heart of Stone"? That is a song that has interested and fascinated me for years. It was on the box set, and certainly you can hear Stevie on it, but was it recorded specifically for the box set or is it a leftover from another album and if so which one? Does anyone know?

Heart of Stone, Love Shines, and Paper Doll were all recorded specifically for the box set. If my memory serves me right (it's easy enough to check) Paper Doll is not produced by the same person as the others.

Heart of Stone and Love Shines were recorded specifically for the box set. Stevie did backup vocals on Heart of Stone. Love Shines was just Christine/Billy and of course Mick and John.

Paper Doll was runner up for the '88 GH album, which ultimately went to "No Questions Asked". Supposedly Mick prefered NQA. So Paper Doll gets touched up a little bit by Lindsey and others for inclusion in the box set. It was released as a single in the US. Love Shines was the single abroad.

At least this is what a Ledgie said sometime back. :cool:

There's a lot, right now I can think in

Songbird
Isn't It Midnight
YMLF
As long as you follow

but there's a lot actually

Love Shines is one of my all time top 10 FM songs.

Mick's an idiot. Paper Doll kicks NQA's ass to the curb.:mad:

Wow, someone else likes Honey Hi! And admits it. :) wouldn't be the same without the backing vocals, though. I'd have to say Songbird for the vocal.

But Spare Me A Little is up there.

Add me to the Honey Hi love. Such a sweet vocal.

I also love her vocal work on:

Ask Anybody
Isn't It Midnight
Who's Dreaming This Dream
Hollywood (Some Other Kind Of Town)
Morning Rain
I'd Rather Go Blind

I love love love Ask Anybody

Top on my list. It's just fantastic!

The intro and the solo are breathtaking. Along with beautiful words and vocals.

Her vocals on most of these are great. But, wow, Morning Rain? That's the one studio vocal of Christine's on a Mac record that I think is pretty awful! I think she chose the wrong key for it.

Oh noes! It's an unusual choice I agree. From the very first time I heard the song I knew right then that I'd love it forever (took me years to figure all the lyrics). This song makes me happy and her deeper, strange voice is just so soothing and dreamy to the music. It sounds corny, I know. I can't say if it's technically off vocally (I'm untrained)...but it sure sounds good to me.

Slightly off topic, but I have to say that Prove Your Love is one of Christine's most overlooked, yet best songs. It's a classic and would make my top twenty list. It's written well, and has a haunting aura. There's a hint of jazz in it, and the strings are an unusual but dramatic compliment. Plus, her excellent piano playing is upfront in the mix.

I can only imagine how great Stevie's vocal accents would be in it.

Favorite Christine vocals
 

For me, they are:

Say You Love Me
YMLF
Love Shines
Why
Brown Eyes

Hey, if it makes you happy, that's awesome.

I actually love the music in the song (her piano playing, Kirwan's stinging guitar).

I agree! Oddly, Christine herself doesn't think her vocal's very good on it. I would love to have heard that song re-done on an album like Tusk, when there was so much attention paid to choral-like background vocals.