Like or Dislike - Stop Draggin...

[1934mission]

When I first heard it, I couldn't get enough of it. I still like it, but the album version is best. The video is great too!

[darklinensuit]

Nice little ditty. I love the live version from the HBO concert - the piano & guitar are perfect & Stevie's air drumming is cool.
I'd rank the song with the video, good but not her very best.

- Jake

[amber]

Originally Posted by 1934mission

When I first heard it, I couldn't get enough of it. I still like it, but the album version is best. The video is great too!

Are you my fellow "absolute perfection" voter?

[golden braid]

Originally Posted by Kelly

Uh, drop it already. The only recent performance of it that I like is Stevie's drunken, lyric forgetting one with Sheryl Crow. I strongly dislike Waddy attempting to do Tom Petty's vocals and it is just way out of Stevie's range these days. Sorry.

I love that performance with Sheryl. I think it's cool that they can't remember the lyrics. It just seems to be a more spontaneous effort than Stevie usually gives. Anyway, I love SDMHA. Any Stevie/Tom collaboration is good to me. However, I totally think she needs to drop the song from her set. She's overdone it and I don't appreciate Waddy's vocals. She should only do it if Tom sings it with her for a special occasion.

[GypsySorcerer]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Nice little ditty. I love the live version from the HBO concert - the piano & guitar are perfect & Stevie's air drumming is cool.
I'd rank the song with the video, good but not her very best.

- Jake

Agreed on all counts.

[catinthedark]

I have huge love for the studio version of SDMHA. It was the first Stevie song I fell in love with on the radio when I was about 10 years old. Had no idea who it was by, but I knew I loved the girl singer's voice. To this day, the opening bars give me shivers.

Absolute perfection.

[AliceLover]

I think SDMHA is a great opener. I was so surprised when I was at the TISL concert and she opened with it. I thought it was a great choice, it was nice to see a new opener. Don't get me wrong I LOVE Outside the Rain, but it was so nice to have something new. But in the words of Ryan "Don't mess with Perfection"


Jimmy

funny cause i've actually had a renewed interest in this song (studio version).
it's come out of nowhere, really.

i remember tom petty talking about how the song was basically finished and on his version he was actually singing the melody. stevie's part is louder and it overshadows his part. so i've listened to it the past few weeks concentrating on his vocal and i hear it completely different now. i'd love to hear his version....or, maybe turn stevie's vocal down on the chorus. i know his solo version is on his box set and i actually caught the last minute on the radio about a year ago.

kudos to the song...i loved it when it came out and i bought the 45. this song was really what started it for me. i think it's one of her best vocals. sort of reminds me of "baby doll." (or "doesn't matter at all"?)

as far as now...i don't like it in the lower key. i think it sounds worse than if she were to sing it in the higher key. it's a catch 22 when singers do this. i generally don't like it. i heard blondie do this with "call me" and something was amiss. that goes for "the chain" too. it changes the whole song. i say just don't it anymore. i mean, why not just rearrange the vocals? easy for me to say!

one thing i don't get is how she can sing the crap out of "rock and roll" but not do "stop draggin..." in the higher key.

yeah, waddy is no tom petty vocally, but i still tip my hat to him.

"well won't you...stop draggin my......heart around....SHE SAYS, WELL I DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD DO THAT AGAIN! I DON'T KNOW! I DON'T KNOW!!!
- various RAL performances.

[Hawkeye]

Stop Draging My Heart Around is a danm good song. I love it, and my favorite live version is definitely her live performance with Sheryl Crow, where she just screws everything up, but its SOOOO good.

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by AliceLover

I think SDMHA is a great opener. I was so surprised when I was at the TISL concert and she opened with it. I thought it was a great choice, it was nice to see a new opener. Don't get me wrong I LOVE Outside the Rain, but it was so nice to have something new.


Jimmy

Thank Waddy.
I still wish she'd gone with Bella Donna.

- Jake

[lagringader&r]

I really love Tom Petty, the studio version rocks, and I love the video because Stevie is looking at Tom like she's in awe. I remember reading here what Tom said about Stevie when he first met her - "she was a stoned gone fan!" and she looks like she is in the video. The way she's looking at him is "I can't believe I'm singing with TOM PETTY!" It's so cute. I would only want to hear or see her perform it with Tom, though. That song was made for them and I do think it rocks, unlike Leather and Lace. Ugh.

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by lagringader&r

I really love Tom Petty, the studio version rocks, and I love the video because Stevie is looking at Tom like she's in awe. I remember reading here what Tom said about Stevie when he first met her - "she was a stoned gone fan!" and she looks like she is in the video. The way she's looking at him is "I can't believe I'm singing with TOM PETTY!" It's so cute.

Really? I just see stoned in Stevie's eyes in that.

- Jake

[lagringader&r]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Really? I just see stoned in Stevie's eyes in that.

- Jake

Well he did say "stoned gone fan".

[TheBlueLamp]

This is one of those songs for me that get boring and repetitive...but when you actually sit down and listen to it again, you realise how awesome it is. I've never heard it live so I can't comment on that, but the album version really rocks!

[Kelly]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Really? I just see stoned in Stevie's eyes in that.

- Jake

Me too. Everytime I stick in my music video dvd I think that same exact thing about Stop Draggin. She looks like she is feeling no pain. I really like the hair though. Very cute.