Like or Dislike: Nightbird
 

Most voted to do The Wild Heart next, so I'll get it started.

Personally, this has never been a big favorite of mine. The harmonies are beautiful, but the lyrics are pretty bad (with the exception of the chorus & the last verse.) Stevie loves blankets? :laugh: I think I know what she meant - being all nice & warm & protected in your home with your friends & family; keeping warm bundled up in front of the fire when it's cold outside - but still. "The blankets that I love" does not do it for me. I don't mind "boots all summer long" but "the real color of my skin" is odd. I think this song is about Robin dying, and I get what she was trying to express, but I don't feel it.

The music - eh. All I hear is the synthesizer (it takes over the song), and the drum machine sounds almost identical to Stand Back. That bothers me for some reason.

Her SNL live performance of this with Lori is great, they really hit it out of the park. Would I love it so much if they had done it every night on that tour? Probably not. It's so special since it was one time only. I wonder why it never made the setlist, since it was released as a single (hard for me to believe it made #33 - I NEVER remember hearing this on the radio back in 83/84. Never.) I would have liked to see it done in Vegas, though, since Lori was back.

EDIT: almost forgot the Solid Gold performance, so I guess it was done twice. Still speacial, though. :D

One of the most magnificent vocals she has ever recorded and she SOARED on it live :cool:

Oh, great, now I have to listen to Wild Heart....oh, and so far I don't like Nightbird that much. Good vocals, but....

This is my absolute favourite Stevie solo song, all I can hear on this are sweet heavenly harmonies and resonance a-plenty. And since lyrics aren't that important to me (it's the performance that counts for me the most when it comes to Stevie), I don't care if the ones on "Nightbird" seem less hard-hitting than some others she's written.

As Naomi Judd once said on Star Search, "FA-IVE STER-ARS"


This was my favorite Stevie song when I first became a fan. It's passionate, it's different, it has Robin written all over it.

Yes, the SNL performance is classic...nothing will ever top that. And rumor has it that the song was suppose to be added to the set, but Stevie decided to begin work on RAL, then continue the WH Tour.

LOVE LOVE LOVE Nightbird :nod: Excellent vocals - just a beautiful song!

Eh, 2 stars from me. Like everyone said, the vocals and harmonies are great, but the lyrics are among her worst, imho. :shrug:

I'm also still holding a grudge against it for outlasting 'Rooms On Fire' in the Singles Survivor... :cool:

I LOVE this song. Amazing vocal. I love how she belts "The touch that you want so muuuuuuuch!" The chorus contains some of my favorite Stevie lyrics ever. I think the melody is beautiful, as well.

Nightbird RULES! Top 5 Stevie song ever. Great harmonies. Great lyrics. Great emotion. Great vocals. I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

4 out 5 stars. I really really like this song. It took some time to grow on me but I love the darkenss and mystery it envokes and I also love the vocals and harmonies as many have said. Too bad she did not write the music. I think the lyrics kick ass. It doesn't get much better than "I wear boots all summer long". That's classic La Nicks to me.

My main complaint about this song is I love the verses and not the chorus. I get really into the first verse and then I hear "and when I call you..." and poof I'm over it and waiting for the second verse to kick it. I wish the song had a better chorus because it would have been a Lindsay favorite if so. Weak chorus, so sad.

Edit: Now that I have it in my head, I love this song and it's one of my top 5 for lyrics.

I loves it. And I'm so happy you're doing The Wild Heart now. We can finally get to the meat of her solo work and not the table scraps. :thumbsup:

love it! Top 5 for sure!

one of her best !!!!!!!

I love this song. It has pretty harmonies, vocals, and lyrics. I wish the music was a little better. I would prefer maybe less synthesizer and real drums. I do love the live performance on Solid Gold and I think it would have been great if Stevie and Lori had sung it in Vegas.

I'm surprised to hear you say you liked it live since I thought you once said you didn't like her performances back then. :shrug: