Whats Wrong with "Paper Doll"?
 

I was reading the No Questions Asked thread, and a lot of folks were bashing Paper Doll. its not the best fm/stevie song but its a good tune. it appears on the Chain box set, and the very best of Fleetwood Mac double cd.

so your thoughts people why do you like it? why dont you like it?

i like it because of the lyrics and the beat. stevie's voice is a little crackly and dry sounding, sounds like it was recorded after she had a cold.

I dunno why some people dislike it; I find it innocuous. I can imagine Stevie doing a little jig while singing it... :laugh:

lol - I know what you mean about the jig.

I really don't know 'Paper Doll'. I've heard it but I don't know it. It's sort of bouncy and catchy. I was humming it for weeks.

It's on the Very Best Of?! I totally had no idea.
The song doesn't matter to me one way or another, but I like the track a lot. It has a lot of the qualities I like: absence of crowding, clarity, island percussion, even a funky B3 groove. The Buckingham/Dashut touch is all over it.

David, what do you mean by "island percussion"?

Only the 2CD version or "american" version..(i don't know why it's refered to as that because it is available in the UK). I don't know why it's on there though. Was it a single?

I guess it was, although not a successful single. But the band or the label or somebody even released a video for it so I guess it was a single.

Caribbean instruments: steel drums, batá drums, shekerés (gourd rattles), congas, guataca, güiro &c. I don't know whether these things were used in the recording, but the atmosphere the band created percussively was redolent of the tropical islands of the Caribbean. The kind of atmosphere you find in salsa, rumba, reggae, merengue & so forth.

Which leads to the question: What other FM songs have this sound? "Did You Ever Love Me" (with actual steel drums) off "Penguin" is one.

OMG there's a video for it :eek:!? Where can i find it?

On YouTube.com

Oh right ... hahaha. My mind went in an entirely different direction. Thanks.

Thanks :)

I'm in the middle of Listening to 'Bella Donna' at the moment so I will watch it in a bit

Here it is, for anyone who's curious:



I think it's pretty lame ... were they trying to stay under their budget of $150 or something? They couldn't even get the band together to do a couple live shots? I wonder how invested FM was in this new lineup.

the song is so cute. it's like Angel, to me, in that it seems like a fun little ditty, but if you were to sit down and read the lyrics, it's very serious...at least to me. the video sucks major ass.

and I love to shimmy my ass to it. I always think of people in cubicles at work on a hum drum day...then this song plays and they all start opening up wine coolers and putting sunscreen on their noses...

whoa, we were off the wall - my favorite line

Yeh I was thinking that. It's like the "Familly Man" video. Just a load of bits of other video's...most obviously "Seven Wonders".

Hey has anyone watched the SOTM performance from the Tusk video on YouTube? I have just watched it and it's AWESOME!