Favorite Song from The Dance
 

Everywhere vs Bleed to Love Her vs Silver Springs vs The Chain

Vote for your favorite.

Poll closes in 4 days. :cool:

Has to be Silver Springs

Mick

the chain. epic performance.

Bleed To Love Her - so much more powerful than the studio version on SYW!

I wholeheartedly agree! Love that song, particularly that version. I like the SYW version too, but prefer the Dance version much better.

It's actually one my wife and I's "songs".

well i WANTED to vote for the GHASTLY sugar daddy... then realized it was SO ghastly it didn't get a chance to BE on "the dance" by FM??!! LOL:lol:

You ehh... you okay there? :shocked:

My favorite is "Gypsy"... :mad:

...but this "Silver Springs" is rightfully legendary... and definitive.

A forgotten song brought to its' rightful place in FM history with a performance only Stevie Nicks could deliver with such passion and emotion. "Silver Springs" for the win!

Watch it. Some of us love Sugar Daddy. And in my opinion it's better than about 95% of the stuff on The Dance.

Even though I love Silver Springs this is not my favorite version. I don't know why, but it just doesn't have that "wow" factor for me that I know it has for a lot of you. This might be my favorite version of The Chain though.

I agree. It's funny but seeing it on tour was much more powerful than that DVD for me. And it's not just when I saw it live. Even when I watch it on the boots when Lindsey is stomping his foot, as if to spur Stevie on and she is screaming and backing away, moving her mic stand across the stage, as he pursues . . . I find that very exciting. Also, unlike corny things they have done such as Say Goodbye or the Tusk dance, I found that SS kind of had a spontaneous feel every night that tour, but the officially recorded performance wasn't even a highlight of the DVD for me.

Michele

YES. I will never understand the HATE that Sugar Daddy gets! It's a fun, ROCKING song!
In my all time FM top 20(if not 10).

I think I'm the only one who likes "Sugar Daddy" but not "Everywhere".

- Jake

No no. I've never been a big fan of Everywhere(even though I'm a huge Chris fan). Sugar Daddy is much better than Everywhere...

They are so different. The 1975 Christine is way different than the 1987 Christine.

I much prefer Sugar Daddy.

"Bleed To Love Her" is my pick in this poll. It's better than the studio version. In fact, I wonder why they even bothered recording it again. They did not do that with "My Little Demon".

"Temporary One" should also not be underestimated. Christine could have recorded a great solo album in the late 90s if she had wanted to do so.

But the best song to come out of this time period is "Twisted".

I totally know what you mean. Especially Temporary One for me. I love that song and it was so perfect on The Dance I can't imagine hearing a different version of it.

You're not the only one Jake. I like Sugar Daddy. I'm not a fan of Everywhere. I just think Christine has had far superior songs than that. I don't get the love for that song over the others.

For me Everywhere just has an aural quality that's very evocative. Like a tinkly choir, puts me in mind of tiny crystals echoing in layers. The delicate music is almost hypnotic really, without the vocal. Then, you add the vocal, which is light and speaks of an awkward humility that the sounds help voice (you know that I'm proud and I can't get the words out), I find it very moving.

I don't hear the song and think, "wow that's a jam!" I kind of hear and try to sing the "ahhh ahhhhhh" part to myself and feel what it's like not to want to be parted from someone ever.

Michele

perfect :thumbsup:

Wow!! Love this ^^

I think Silver Springs is gonna win this poll. :lol:

I voted for it, but The Chain really is a close second for me. :cool:

A) "Bleed To Love Her", the studio version, was already 99.999% finished when The Dance project came up. It was the song that triggered the whole reunion special & tour. After the hoo-ha regarding the song being the one that "got everyone back together", they couldn't very well, in good conscience, leave the studio version off the next album, regardless if it were a "Lindsey Buckingham" or a "Fleetwood Mac" album. Similar situation with "Steal You Heart Away"...there were 3 earlier released versions before the version on SYW. While it is usually the norm to release a studio version BEFORE a live version, this time was flipped (not exactly new in Fleetwood Mac's history; they've always been known to "test" new songs in live situations well before a new album comes out...at least up until 1980, that is). And, being that the live arrangement was pretty much just a truncated version of the studio take, I'm one that pretty much thinks that the only reason it WAS shortened (and it does pretty much come to an ABRUPT end compared with the studio take) was due to TV restrictions and Lindsey rearranged the song at the last minute for The Dance broadcast.

B) The studio version of "My Little Demon" wasn't quite finished when Fleetwood Mac got their hands on it and it was mainly going to be saved by Lindsey for his next solo project, which got delayed for so long, his entire focus changed & it was left for posterity.

While Silver Springs will win this (and it is a marvelous song), I gave my vote to Bleed to Love Her. It is just breathtakingly beautiful. :)

I love "The Chain" too, but I love the Mirage Tour version the best.

Does "My Little Demon" show up anywhere in studio form?

There are a couple of studio outtakes floating around...usually linked with the leaked GOS tracks (even though it wasn't on the leaked GOS disc). Both outtakes are easily recognizable as "My Little Demon", however, neither comes close to the arrangement that was played live by Fleetwood Mac for The Dance.

The slower tempo on the demo was very effective, in my view. Made the song less campy.

Michele

Campy is a good word choice. I would love to hear the studio takes..

I loved that song when I was ten (My Little Demon); may have been my favourite. Anyway, I'm too late for the poll but The Chain and Silver Springs that appear here are my favourite renditions; Lindsey's quiver brings home Chain and SS was Nicks at her vocal best.

Bleed to Love Her was an amazing song too; I love the Say You Will take, but this one is light years better.

No - he was banned from the studio for repeated unreasonable behaviour. Namely a never ending cycle of trying to make Lindsey a Batman fan again and again when he just wasn't having any of it.... :p:D

I knew it!!!