Stand Back & Little Red Corvette - Page 3

krrrby · #31 10-05-2005, 12:44 AM

About Don't Come Around Here No More...
I found this from Songfacts.com

First one:
"Stevie Nicks sang back up on this. Tom had originally planned to give this song to Stevie for her album at the time. He ended up singing it for fun one day and changed his mind." (my comment - wouldn't that have been SO cool if this was on OSOTM??)

Response to the first one:
"I think you're getting this song confused with either "Insider" or "You Can Still Change Your Mind". Stevie Nicks didn't sing backup on "Don't Come Around Here No More". And Dave Stewert of the Eurythmics did not direct the video -- it was directed by Jeff Stein. Dave Stewert co-produced Southern Accents, the album this is from."
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Now about the whole Prince ordeal here...
Who in gods name knows if it was written about each other (eventually one of them will have to publish their damn book and we'll find out!), but I noticed some patterns here (if given the facts are true)...

- Perhaps sometime Stevie and Prince met...la de da...moving on...
- Prince writes LRC about Stevie
- Stevie hears LRC and writes Stand Back as somewhat of a response (and of course her marriage)
- Did Prince also write When Doves Cry during this time? "This is what it sounds like, when doves cry..." Perhaps another response song?
- And then do you notice how in RAL shows Stevie starts singing "I know what it sounds like when doves cry"

I could be totally wrong here but to me it just seems like the puzzle fits somehow...but an interesting concept if you ask me

UndoingTheLaces · #32 10-05-2005, 01:20 AM

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Originally Posted by krrrby

I could be totally wrong here but to me it just seems like the puzzle fits somehow...but an interesting concept if you ask me

Yeah yeah yeah, and Paul is dead.

UndoingTheLaces · #33 10-05-2005, 01:23 AM

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Originally Posted by iamovercome

that is fascinating. or course, whenever anyone has a new interpretation of a song it fits perfectly...but we'll never know...and about being too randy for stevie...i dunno, she was pretty...um...out there in those days so who knows...think of the legend behind 'sister honey'

Okay, I missed this one. I love Sister Honey. Could someone please fill me in on this?

LiquidBlue5000 · #34 10-05-2005, 01:28 AM

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Originally Posted by krrrby

Now about the whole Prince ordeal here...
Who in gods name knows if it was written about each other (eventually one of them will have to publish their damn book and we'll find out!), but I noticed some patterns here (if given the facts are true)...

- Perhaps sometime Stevie and Prince met...la de da...moving on...
- Prince writes LRC about Stevie
- Stevie hears LRC and writes Stand Back as somewhat of a response (and of course her marriage)
- Did Prince also write When Doves Cry during this time? "This is what it sounds like, when doves cry..." Perhaps another response song?
- And then do you notice how in RAL shows Stevie starts singing "I know what it sounds like when doves cry"

I could be totally wrong here but to me it just seems like the puzzle fits somehow...but an interesting concept if you ask me

Ooooh, what a clever observation...

I always found that odd that Stevie would sing "I know what it sounds like when doves cry"...

anyway.. here are the lyrics to "When Doves Cry" as well..

Dig if u will the picture
Of u and I engaged in a kiss
The sweat of your body covers me
Can u my darling
Can u picture this?

Dream if u can a courtyard
An ocean of violets in bloom
Animals strike curious poses
They feel the heat
The heat between me and u

How can u just leave me standing?
Alone in a world that's so cold? (So cold)
Maybe I'm just 2 demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father 2 bold
Maybe you're just like my mother
She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry

Touch if u will my stomach
Feel how it trembles inside
You've got the butterflies all tied up
Don't make me chase u
Even doves have pride

How can u just leave me standing?
Alone in a world so cold? (World so cold)
Maybe I'm just 2 demanding
Maybe I'm just like my father 2 bold
Maybe you're just like my mother
She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry

How can u just leave me standing?
Alone in a world that's so cold? (A world that's so cold)
Maybe I'm just 2 demanding (Maybe, maybe I'm like my father)
Maybe I'm just like my father 2 bold (Ya know he's 2 bold)
Maybe you're just like my mother (Maybe you're just like my mother)
She's never satisfied (She's never, never satisfied)
Why do we scream at each other (Why do we scream, why)
This is what it sounds like

When doves cry
When doves cry (Doves cry, doves cry)
When doves cry (Doves cry, doves cry)

Don't Cry (Don't Cry)

When doves cry
When doves cry
When doves cry

When Doves cry (Doves cry, doves cry, doves cry
Don't cry
Darling don't cry
Don't cry
Don't cry
Don't don't cry

LiquidBlue5000 · #35 10-05-2005, 01:29 AM

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Originally Posted by UndoingTheLaces

Okay, I missed this one. I love Sister Honey. Could someone please fill me in on this?

supposedly it's about female masturbation

UndoingTheLaces · #36 10-05-2005, 02:14 AM

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Originally Posted by LiquidBlue5000

supposedly it's about female masturbation

Sure it is... if you're on CRACK! LOL! Okay, She Bop I can see. Sister Honey? Okay, I'd like to hear how someone came up with this.

Moony · #37 10-05-2005, 02:23 AM

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Originally Posted by LiquidBlue5000

supposedly it's about female masturbation

I thought it was about Stevie's vagina.

LiquidBlue5000 · #38 10-05-2005, 02:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Moony

I thought it was about Stevie's vagina.

maybe that's it then... I know it was one or the other.. or both

Kelly · #39 10-05-2005, 07:49 AM

While it would be quite cool for Prince to have written LRC about Stevie, I do not think the timeline fits. He wrote the song before he ever met her. She says she heard the song on the radio and immediately bought the cassette, then wrote Stand Back. The lyrics to Stand Back, IMHO, are about her true feelings on her wedding. That is why we never get the real story..we hear crazy talk about welfare lines and all that. Think about the first lyrics...
"no one looked as I walked by"...down the aisle
"just an invitation would have been just fine"...a wedding invitation..getting the invite was bad enough but witnessing it was even worse.
"said no to him again and again, first he took my heart, then he ran"....she didn't marry someone who actually captured her heart. He took her heart and ran with it and she still loves him but said no to marrying him.
"No one knows how I feel, what I mean, unless you read between my lines"....I might say I don't care about him (her true love) and that I want this marriage with Kim but the truth is very different. All the "no man called"s and "no man cames" makes me think that she wanted her true love to stop this wedding....she stood in her room, waiting for him to tell her she was making this big mistake. She was getting ready for the wedding but her mind was on this other person. Would he try and stop her? Did he care enough to call? No, he did not call so then we hear Stevie's anger...ie..hurt. "so I walked on down the line away from you.....you'll be standing in a line"....she did it, married Kim. Now this other man is just like all the others who want her but don't have her. He can get in line like all the rest.
The lyrics about the willow and bending indicate Stevie's willingness to try and change..she was willing to really try with this relationship IF he came and told her he loved her. She really seemed to want this man to tell her she was making a huge mistake with this wedding.
So, I honestly do not think Stand Back's lyrics have anything to do with Prince. I also think it is one of her most revealing songs, showing her angst, confusion, loneliness and desperation at the choices she was making. The underlying emotion stays hidden because it is a rocking dance tune but the lyrics do speak for themselves.

Raeven Skye · #40 10-05-2005, 08:38 AM

wow, Kelly...that was really a great interpretation of a song that a lot of people just don't get....

part of me would like for it to be like this, tho: Prince wrote LRC....Stevie thinks it's about her, so she writes SB out of anger...calls Prince as a f**k you, but he's oblivious...so he comes into the studio and lays down keyboard tracks for it. Let the tennis match begin!
But...I do think it's interesting how she adds the "doves cry" line in EO17. And I think it is Stevie on the All Over You.

strandinthewind · #41 10-05-2005, 08:48 AM

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Originally Posted by gldstwmn

I was listening to it the other day and swear it's her. If not, Sharon's doing a damn good imitation of her.

I will always maintain that though Sharona mostly sings higher than La Nicks due to her position in the harmony, she can sound a lot like La Nicks when she sings lower. I realized this mostly on the TISL tour when La Nicks' voice failed and she relied heavily on Sharon. I also think Sharon sounds enough like La Nicks (not completely mind you) that I did a double take in the Landslide band warm up on the recent Today show stuff.

gldstwmn · #42 10-05-2005, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by LiquidBlue5000

supposedly it's about female masturbation

There's no way the song is not about cocaine.

gldstwmn · #43 10-05-2005, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I will always maintain that though Sharona mostly sings higher than La Nicks due to her position in the harmony, she can sound a lot like La Nicks when she sings lower. I realized this mostly on the TISL tour when La Nicks' voice failed and she relied heavily on Sharon. I also think Sharon sounds enough like La Nicks (not completely mind you) that I did a double take in the Landslide band warm up on the recent Today show stuff.

Yup. That 10 second clip that Ed posted sounded a lot like Stevie.

David · #44 10-05-2005, 11:27 AM

Wow, everybody has a very vivid imagination! I'm reading some absolutely wild interpretations here. Well, whatever makes the song come alive for you, I guess.

David · #45 10-05-2005, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by gldstwmn

There's no way the song is not about cocaine.

That's what several party people told me a long time ago. "sister honey" was street slang for coke.

The idea that Miss Priss is going to write, record & release a song about or with imagery of pudenda really stretches credulity to the breaking point, does it not? I mean, c'mon, people. . . .

this is a lady who threatened to quit a band that named its album "Tusk" -- Genitalia are genitalia, & Stevie Nicks is Stevie Nicks, & nary the twain shall meet (at least not in song).