tusk reissue!
 

Mmmmmmmm ... I got mine in the mail yesterday and y'all. The "I don't want to be a cleaning lady" demo of Sara alone is enough to merit the price of the album. So tragic. So beautiful. Kind of makes me want to take a time machine back to 1978-79 and give Stevie a big hug and tell her it's okay....

Um, all right. Sometimes I get a little incoherent over good music, so if you don't like the spacy gushy posts, I apologize. I'm new in these here parts. ;)

Welcome to the board!

Many of us already heard the Cleaning Lady version of Sara from bootlegs, and most agree that it is the best version of the song.

Paula

Thanks for the welcome!

Actually, I've heard quite a bit about the "cleaning lady" version, probably through some of the Ledge's sister sites, and I could hardly BELIEVE my delight when I realized that they were, in fact, going to let it out at last.... Legally that is. ;) I guess they just couldn't put a close-to-nine-minute opus on an LP in 1979 -- the album being enough of a risk as it was -- but DANG.

Okay. I'll stop with the gushing for today, if I can. Thank you for your patience.

I gave in and downloaded it a few weeks ago. I also download the remastered demo that was posted a few weeks ago and I have to say I like it better. It's a little longer and the guitar seems to be stronger. Maybe when I hear the remastered version of 'cleaning lady' it will be on top.

Wishing I had money to buy the reissues...

Lala, I wish I had the money also. I wish I can find the CD's. Fleetwood Mac is not a big seller in Canada.
Who wants to pay $ 39 for each.
So I guess we are out of luck.

I love the sound of the Cleaning Lady version. Not quite so distant. I love the album version's ethereal quality, too, but this isn't so heavy.

- Jake

I like the cleaning lady version a lot. But I don't really like Sharon or whoever is singing in the background. They sound way off and very weird.

I like Sharon in the background. This is definetly a great version of Sara, I don't know if I like it more then the album version, but maybe.

But my favorite Stevie song on the Tusk reissues is the Storms disc 2 version, that kicks ass. It doesn't seem so damn depressing anymore. I love the way it flows, much better then the album version in my opinion.