Best Stevie "Snippets?"
 

I've been listening to more Stevie songs lately.. usually I'm more of a Lindsey girl, but you know.. I have love for all the Mac people. Anyway.

I was just kinda wondering, what are some of your favorite "Stevie Snippets" ?? I don't mean an entire lyric, an entire chorus, or verse.. just a quick little phrase. Let me know what some of your favorites are, and, whether you like that phrase in particular because of the words, the way she says it, or other. I've got to think for a bit about this, but for instance..

in Seven Wonders, I adore the way she says, "if i hope, and if i pray, ooo then it might work out someday.." because of her voice at that part.

Sarah

(just to let you know, I just typed up a very long reply and it got erased. Don't you hate that?)

Since you brought up Seven Wonders, I love the part where she sings "that kiiiiind of intensity". It's just, well, intense :p

If we can include Stevie's live exercisms here :laugh: I would have to say my favortive is GDW from The Dance...."and go HOOOOOOMAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!" Go Stevie! Who knew she could still do that? And to think they left GDW off the CD. Absolute travesty. They could have atleast released a 2CD limited edition of the Dance with ALL the songs included: Gold Dust Woman, Gypsy, Go Insane (atleast we now how that!), Over My Head, and Songbird. (good version of OMH, but not my favorite. I love the early ones with Stevie singing backup on the "your love is like a circus wheel" part. She sounds great on it esp. during the White Album tour.

okay....let me think of some more.......

Lady from the mountain- "did she call out, did she say please save me....whooaaa tonight...." once again, love the intensity.

Dreams (the Dance)- "here I go again I see the crystal visions". She gives that line a special oomph (sp? lol) that she never had before.

Wild Heart- "blame it on my WILD HEARRTTTT!!!!...even in the darkest places of your mind..." I guess by now you can figure out I love it for the intensity!

wow, there are tons. Way too many to post right now! and, if I can cheat, I love the way she sings the entire SOTM from the Mirage video. It's just incredible :nod:



:wavey: adam:wavey:

From "She Loves Him Still":

So, how are you?
Have you learned to deal with it?
"Oh, no," she says, "No, I have not learned"
You see, I cannot deal without it
So the flame still burns
The flame burns on

I think this verse says VOLUMES about her and LB.

From "Think About It"

Take on the situation
But not the torment.

Lots of wisdom in that, IMO.

From Seven Wonders, when it goes back to the first verse and she says "It's a certain time, it's a certain place..."

From I Don't Wannna Know, the end, "Oooooooooooh, I don't wanna KNOW-oooooooooooh!"

From Everybody Finds Out, "Don't you know, Don't you know-ooooooooooooooh!"

I have more, I just can't think of any at this late hour...

Silver Springs

"...I'll follow you down 'til the sound of my voice will haunt you..." just popped into my head.

Some of my favorite "vocal snippets" are....

The "vamp" on the Wild Heart....the way she sings the whole last part of that song is just so uninhibited.....she REALLY throws it all out there.

Same with the "vamp" on Nightbird...when she sings..."and you feel the touch...the touch that you want so much..."

And in Beauty and The Beast...when she's practically whispering..."my beauty...my beauty"

(The Wild Heart is my absolute favorite Stevie album)

Other favorite "vocal snippets..."

When Stevie sings..."You didn't mean to meet her you cry...oh, but the sun goes down every night..."She's practically 'biting' those words out...(as if she is saying..."yeah, right buddy..")

I love her voice behind her voice during the chorus of "Straight Back"....(Hours and hours of waiting for you) and the fade out in the end of the song....very mystical.


Lyrically.....I could post LITERALLY a hundred of them.......but a FEW of my favorites are:


"So I close my eyes softly...'til I become that part of the wind that we all long for sometime..."

"Even though the living is sometimes laced with lies......it's alright"

"And she in all her magic, with hands as quick as light...took him to be a challenge...and went into the night."

"The two of us......estranged sometimes for their very survival...outraged at each other...engaged to each other in their hearts.....but they live apart." :distress:

"Like Alice thru the looking glass...she use to know who she was"

"Well, I either say too much or I don't say enough....well, I play too hard but still i'm not tough enough..."


Okay....I won't bore you anymore.....still I could go on!!

I've always loved the snippet of "Love Changes" when Stevie sings "Ooh you stand there, you've got nothing to hold..."

I love the way she says the words "got nothing"...just one of those little quirks, I guess :D

Since I have hundreds of favorites (Stevie fan since childhood, here!) I could never list them all. I'll toss out a few that come to mind right now, though:

Talk to Me: I LOVE her voice on the 'to veil a swelling tear' part.

Wild Heart: the ending...the sound of her voice on 'blame it on my wild wild wild WILD HEART!"

The Highway Man: 'a dream begun in wine'

Bella Donna : '...but the woman is so tired...and so the woman disappears'

Silver Springs (the Dance): '...never get away, never get away' (enough said, I think! lol)

I thought of a few more:

Twisted (near the end): "And the sun goooooes down, CHASING down the demons, you think you hear demons, I think YOU are the demons!"

Stand Back: "Why don't you taaaaaaaaaaake me home?"

And agreeing with TwoTricky on Nightbird: "You feel the touch, it's the touch that you WANT SO MUUUUCH!"

By the way, mine are purely vocal snippets. I have tons of favorite lyrics too.

I absolutely love Twisted.....but in the end she is in the background singing "the sun goes down".....love that......I also love in If You Ever Did Believe the background vocals all through the song.... whoas and ahas.......I did not do them justice so go have a listen......and the line "have you forgotten me", and of course the "baby don't leave me"....I might as well just put the whole song in.....

there are many, of course, but I was singing in the shower along with my Tusk CD this morning, and a couple stood out during "Angel":

"and we both pretend.... no great pretender" <--- I LOVE how she says "no great pretender" it is so sultry and sexy.

and when she wails after "that girl was me" and "track a ghost through the fog" towards the end.... so great! :) that's one of the parts they show her doing during the Tusk documentary, if i'm not mistaken...

"Angel" is such a great song~ :nod: she just rocks out with her voice during that whole song.


xx Meredith

Rooms On Fire: At the end, the "There is maaagic" line and then "I have known this much longer..."

Ooh My Love: "Ooh hey, hey baby, no one can take you away from me, no one..."

Something Exquisite: "In the dim light of her room she feels a strange misgiving." I had this song in my head all last week and couldn't remember which song it was. Also "brilliant are your colors baby."

"Ooh downstairs where the big old house is mine, Ooh upstairs where the stars still laugh and shine..."

One of my favorites is in my signature. The way she sings it on stage is priceless.

"A dream as the thunder wakes her...." ~ Highwayman~

"Well every boy must learn to be a man, maybe i can help you, yes I can" ~ If I were You~

"Look at me with daggers, it wont DO you any good!!"
~Freedom~

"so she stays up NIGHTS ON END" ~When I see you again"

"she came to you when you were aloonnee" ~ Kind of woman


I also love that part in wild heart "blame it on my wiiiiiiiiiiiiild heart"

Chris

From the Silver Springs demo in '77:

"Time cast a spell on you
You won't forget me
Go ahead and TRY"