"Julia" ~ My Favourite Version

mikebise · #1 03-19-2010, 02:09 PM

Well, second favourite, but I don't have a Masters quality version from The Wild Heart.

But I LOVE this outtake from Bella Donna! I prefer Stevie singing "She does two things" over "She would suffer for the love". I just like it better.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zzimzdylinl

mikebise · #2 03-19-2010, 03:10 PM

Wow. No responses in the least.

How about an edited-down version of the piano demo?

http://www.mediafire.com/?mrydhrdmezn

Christopher · #3 03-19-2010, 03:26 PM

I Like this one...never heard it before.....It's very raw.

But I agree, I would love to have the Wild Heart version, I haven't heard it in a while, and from what I remember it was a tad more uptempo, edited tighter. Do you have that one Mike ? I have it somewhere on some of the CD's bootlegs I bought off Ebay in the 98' or so.

The piano demo you posted is an edited version of the 9:38 min. demo, where she seems a little bit, Ummm Tipsey, High or both......"That Note! This F**king Note" LOL. Love it.

Nathan · #4 03-19-2010, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Christopher

I Like this one...never heard it before.....It's very raw.

But I agree, I would love to have the Wild Heart version, I haven't heard it in a while, and from what I remember it was a tad more uptempo, edited tighter. Do you have that one Mike ? I have it somewhere on some of the CD's bootlegs I bought off Ebay in the 98' or so.

The piano demo you posted is an edited version of the 9:38 min. demo, where she seems a little bit, Ummm Tipsey, High or both......"That Note! This F**king Note" LOL. Love it.

Here is the crappy WH version, if that's what you were looking for. I don't know of any others that exist.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/ntinjnqyrnm/Julia.mp3

Post that Take 5, Money Bee.

Nikolaj · #5 03-19-2010, 06:53 PM

If I can figure it out, I'll link the Take 5. But it seems to have the 'Julie' and 'two things' segments Mike referred to, so I'm a little confused. These things do get mislabeled. But the 6:15 version seemed to be the one that was considered the master and purchased from storage and shared here in early 2007, and most everyone said it was the clearest sounding cd-quality, definitive 'Julia'.
Unless not!
OY (Goodnight).

mikebise · #6 03-19-2010, 06:57 PM

Mediafire was F&C#ED UP for me today, just uploading those other two versions. It's not working at all for me now.

I Can't Wait 'til I get DSL!!!!!!!!! Very soon, hopefully!

seekerj · #7 03-19-2010, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by mikebise

Wow. No responses in the least.

How about an edited-down version of the piano demo?

http://www.mediafire.com/?mrydhrdmezn

Well, I was going to respond, but I get the feeling you'd rather not hear from me! lol... (That is, if you even remember me from the "reel list!)

But seriously, I agree with you on this one! I like this one a lot!

- Jim

mikebise · #8 03-19-2010, 03:35 PM

Christopher, I'm always looking for a clearer copy of "Julia" from The Wild Heart!

I edited this piano demo of "Julia" down from 18:07. I was just trying to find it as a complete song, without false starts or other stuff. Although I love "That note! It HAUNTS me! That ****ing note!" But I was just trying to make a version for people to put in their Stevie Collections.

Nice seeing you again, Jim!!!!!!!!!

"You want the poet in a hurry? Sara!"

StreetAngel95 · #9 03-19-2010, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by mikebise

"You want the poet in a hurry? Sara!"

oh, i thought it was, "You Want the poet in our hearts? Saraaaa"

Nathan · #10 03-19-2010, 04:43 PM

Nice thread Mike.

Julia is definitely one of my favorites. As someone else said recently, it's very much in the style of Sara, or the Rock A Little demos. Romantic, tender, and a little bit grandiose. It's very Roy Bittan.

But as much as I love it, it really doesn't seem to have a place on either album she demoed it for.

I'd like to see her call rename the song 'Suffer For The Love', or 'Two Thing', or 'Light of the Sunset', or something else...and then re-record it. All the same musicians and in the same style, but just, like, ****in' hangin' out over the ocean. Or rope off a big section on the beach and then move all the equipment and the players out there, and do it.

I like the first one you posted, Mike, I'd never heard it before and it's interesting. I wish I could tweak the vocal levels. I'd really love to just have a finished, released copy of it.

She runs -- like the wind

When I run through your door

I am freed from my slavery

You return to me

For in my house

She does you

She loves you

mikebise · #11 03-19-2010, 04:59 PM

Oh, I've easily fit "Julia" onto Bella Donna! The ultra-polished, mixed and mastered "Julia" fits in very well onto the album as I have sequenced it, moving some tracks around, adding the outtakes.

I think the synth songs make "Julia" not quite fit on The Wild Heart, although it goes well with "Gate and Garden", "Wild Heart", "Enchanted" and "Sable on Blond". That album is very schizophrenic, as USA Today reviewed it. I love it, and that version of "Julia", but I think the individual songs hold up well, but maybe not the entire album as a collection. IMO.

"And I open this wine..." Was that an actual lyric, or was Stevie making it up as someone was opening up the Mogen David?

David · #12 03-19-2010, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by mikebise

Well, second favourite, but I don't have a Masters quality version from The Wild Heart.

But I LOVE this outtake from Bella Donna! I prefer Stevie singing "She does two things" over "She would suffer for the love". I just like it better.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zzimzdylinl

Fantastic song--always been one of my favorites. Thanks, Mike!

Roy Bittan's business is also quite pretty here. Really sets the mood.