Everybody Finds Out

JazmenFlowers · #1 11-09-2005, 11:23 AM

I'm so upset that more wasn't done with this song. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. The strings and other instrumentation on this song is top notch, in my opinion. I love the little break towards the end (the "don't you know" part). It could have been an awesome video or single and a remix would have been amazing. I hate that it was just left on the CD. I really like it and wish it had gotten more attention.

The Tower · #2 11-09-2005, 11:33 AM

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I'm so upset that more wasn't done with this song. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. The strings and other instrumentation on this song is top notch, in my opinion. I love the little break towards the end (the "don't you know" part). It could have been an awesome video or single and a remix would have been amazing. I hate that it was just left on the CD. I really like it and wish it had gotten more attention.

Hell, yeah.

It should have been the leadoff single. Lindsey should have been shot for the "metallic voice" production on it. Stevie's vocal is blistering. They should have done it live- they could have done a change-up on the arrangement to allow the lead vocal to be done right.

I think SYW would have sold a LOT more copies if they had done a great video for this and promoted the **** out of the single. I mean, "Peacekeeper" is alright... but I think selecting that song as lead off single (combined with the running order) sunk the album.

dissention · #3 11-09-2005, 11:38 AM

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Lindsey should have been shot for the "metallic voice" production on it. Stevie's vocal is blistering. They should have done it live- they could have done a change-up on the arrangement to allow the lead vocal to be done right.

I totally agree. I fecking loathe that tinny, AM-radio effect that he uses constantly. That vocal she laid down is one of the best she's done in YEARS. I'm not totally crazy about the song itself, but lately I've been playing it and loving it just because it's so darned fun. It's Stevie's "Believe."

I do wish that they had opened the song like the alternative version opens, though; loudly and abruptly.

JazmenFlowers · #4 11-09-2005, 12:13 PM

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I totally agree. I fecking loathe that tinny, AM-radio effect that he uses constantly. That vocal she laid down is one of the best she's done in YEARS. I'm not totally crazy about the song itself, but lately I've been playing it and loving it just because it's so darned fun. It's Stevie's "Believe."

I do wish that they had opened the song like the alternative version opens, though; loudly and abruptly.

yeppers

Highwayman · #5 11-09-2005, 11:41 AM

This was THE most un-FM sounding song on the CD. It should have been kept for TISL or another solo outing. I don't think John Mick or Lindsey really played on it. Christine certainly would not have done those keyboards. Solo stuff... I love the song, but it just didn't "sound like them."

I didn't hear a single until I got to RTTG. Steal Her Heart Away should have been the single, Bleed To Love Her should have been a single, RTTG should have been a single with a super cool video. Peaskeeper and SYW? No. Killed the album.

dissention · #6 11-09-2005, 11:44 AM

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Peaskeeper and SYW? No. Killed the album.

I heard Say You Will in Big Lots. 'Nuff said.

You have a point in regards to it sounding very un-Fleetwood Mac. But that's my beef with the whole album; with the exception of a few songs, it sounds like two solo albums thrown in a blender and offered up to consumers. Great songs, but as an album, it's woefully inept.

jkmaletic · #7 11-09-2005, 12:04 PM

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I heard Say You Will in Big Lots. 'Nuff said.

You have a point in regards to it sounding very un-Fleetwood Mac. But that's my beef with the whole album; with the exception of a few songs, it sounds like two solo albums thrown in a blender and offered up to consumers. Great songs, but as an album, it's woefully inept.

What the hell could you have possibly been doing at Big Lots??

(sorry- couldn't resist)

dissention · #8 11-09-2005, 12:11 PM

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What the hell could you have possibly been doing at Big Lots??

(sorry- couldn't resist)

I buy my dish detergent there.

cliffdweller · #9 11-09-2005, 04:35 PM

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I heard Say You Will in Big Lots. 'Nuff said.

For some reason I have a hard believing you were EVER in Big Lots

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dissention · #10 11-09-2005, 04:42 PM

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For some reason I have a hard believing you were EVER in Big Lots

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Sorry. Jerry Van Dyke makes me do crazy things.

Jyqm · #11 11-09-2005, 12:19 PM

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I don't think John Mick or Lindsey really played on it.

Who do you think played on it?

Highwayman · #12 11-09-2005, 02:57 PM

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Who do you think played on it?

No idea; whoever played on TISL. Sound perfect for that album. Sounds like it was left off TISL, she brought it to FM and they just "plunked" it down on the album as is.

ELIUD · #13 11-09-2005, 03:24 PM

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No idea; whoever played on TISL. Sound perfect for that album. Sounds like it was left off TISL, she brought it to FM and they just "plunked" it down on the album as is.

I'm sure the rest of the band is playing on the song. The drumming is Mick's best in my opinion. This is a link to the Enchanted Mistress website that is currently hosting a different mix of the song. They identify it as an "early mix" of EFO. But I've heard this before and I believe it is the Everybody Finds Out center channel mix from the DVD audio. Some of the music is pulled out of it and you can really hear Lindsey signature guitar style in the song.

Really do you think they would have plunked a song down from Stevie's solo work without adding to it or maybe "fixing" it? Preposterous.

ELIUD · #14 11-09-2005, 11:52 AM

I agree 1000% about Everybody Finds Out as a lead single. This song represents the album so much better as another side of Fleetwood Mac. An adult contemporary rock band that can create new and relevant music. Not the classic rock nostalgia band that everybody thinks of it as.

sparky · #15 11-09-2005, 12:08 PM

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They should have done it live- they could have done a change-up on the arrangement to allow the lead vocal to be done right.

You and I both know this would have been a bitter disappointment live. Never would have been done in the proper key, and let's face it - Stevie never sings a song at this tempo live. I don't know why but she doesn't.