"When I See You Again"

MarkMc1990 · #1 01-10-2014, 05:44 PM

This song is underrated! I think Lindsey's part at the end really makes the song.

Dex · #2 01-10-2014, 05:48 PM

Yes, Lindsey's vocal proves there is a good sing hiding in WISYA. I love his part.

However, the moment Stevie starts wheezing out "WHASSAMATTAHBAYBEHHHHH!?" I just really can't cope. I need to pretend Lindsey sings the entire thing. Her worst vocal ever.

If this was introduced into a live set, either with Stevie on lead or as a true duet with Lindsey, I'd probably enjoy it very much.

BlueDenimLamp · #3 01-10-2014, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by MarkMc1990

This song is underrated! I think Lindsey's part at the end really makes the song.

Isn't this the song Stevie tricked him into singing on and after his vocal was finished she snuck back in the studio and removed all the vocals on the end of the song but his...

Jondalar · #4 01-10-2014, 08:09 PM

Lindsey makes this song. Otherwise, it's bland.

Dreamz19 · #5 01-11-2014, 12:55 AM

I am in the minority, but I love this song and I like Welcome to the Room Sara. I actually prefer both over Seven Wonders.

gssmith · #6 01-11-2014, 01:30 AM

I actually love the song. I like her raspy voice on it. It gives me chills. I love Lindsey singing on it at the end too. Welcome to the room Sara aint a bad song either.

sparky · #7 01-11-2014, 05:29 AM

This song is the ultimate Garbage Stevie Song.

Never deserved a demo. Shouldn't have been on an album.

It will forever be grist for all those who think she is a terrible songwriter. It was her at her worst vocally and as a writer. The Bottom Of The Barrel.

Dex · #8 01-11-2014, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by gssmith

I actually love the song. I like her raspy voice on it. It gives me chills. I love Lindsey singing on it at the end too. Welcome to the room Sara aint a bad song either.

I find WTTRS perfectly likeable. I think it'd get a lot less flack if it had been a filler song on TOSOTM. On TITN, as one of only two new Stevie-penned songs and the first we'd heard from her in 3 years, it's a pretty sorry choice, though.

Macfanforever · #9 01-11-2014, 10:23 AM

I love this song.

mitzo · #10 01-11-2014, 10:30 AM

Loved this song at first listen. It is the unbelievably raw emotion that works .... the broken voice and the fragments of images and meanings in the lyrics. Stevie sounds drained and exhausted and worn out from crying, and uttering the last bits and pieces of feeling that she can. To me it is a weird masterpiece from start to finish. But I am always attracted first to slow, maudlin, weepy, incoherent Stevie.

Dex · #11 01-11-2014, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by mitzo

Loved this song at first listen. It is the unbelievably raw emotion that works .... the broken voice and the fragments of images and meanings in the lyrics. Stevie sounds drained and exhausted and worn out from crying, and uttering the last bits and pieces of feeling that she can. To me it is a weird masterpiece from start to finish. But I am always attracted first to slow, maudlin, weepy, incoherent Stevie.

I've heard your take on this song before, and I love it. I wish I shared it. I get none of the emotion from this song. It just sounds to me like she wasn't really sure how to sing a song of this nature at that point in her "voice changing" (for lack of a better term). There are many occasions where she emotes a lyric beautifully and I am totally with her on it, even if it isn't technically perfect. This song is no such occasion, for me.

Jondalar · #12 01-11-2014, 06:54 PM

She dropped the ball on tango in the night and she knows it. Christine songs and Lindsay songs are stellar and hers are by far the weakest. After Rumours, Tango in the Night is Fleetwood Mac's most popular album worldwide.

I will say that her vocals on the album were stellar, especially for Seven Wonders. But the two songs she wrote for the album were the pooh. That is permanent. No matter how many excuses she gives that album will live on with her being the weakest writer on it by far.

AnthonyMI · #13 01-11-2014, 07:03 PM

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But the two songs she wrote for the album were the pooh.

yes. POOH. Or some other word that means pooh, only meaner.

Seven Wonders was not even written by Stevie.

I guess we can give her a break though. If she had stayed on the coke she would be dead going on 25 years now.

Jondalar · #14 01-11-2014, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by AnthonyMI

yes. POOH. Or some other word that means pooh, only meaner.

Seven Wonders was not even written by Stevie.

I guess we can give her a break though. If she had stayed on the coke she would be dead going on 25 years now.

I didn't say Seven Wonders was but her vocal on that song is terrific.

Dex · #15 01-11-2014, 07:11 PM

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She dropped the ball on tango in the night and she knows it. Christine songs and Lindsay songs are stellar and hers are by far the weakest. After Rumours, Tango in the Night is Fleetwood Mac's most popular album worldwide.

Sad but true. Usually when an artist underperforms, that work fades into obscurity relatively quickly. But with TITN some of the worst work in her career is stuck on a widely popular and celebrated album. So many are exposed to it who are unlikely to be very forgiving. And on a repeat basis. Eesh.

In fairness, there's other schlock on that album which takes the heat off Stevie a bit. Unlike Rumours, Tango has a number of weak songs. Almost half the album actually isn't really particularly good.