"Sable On Blonde" Appreciation Thread

The Tower · #1 03-26-2006, 03:06 AM

"Well, have you come to see...
That my face- it is not seeeeee-een
Oooh, outside my frost-covered windows"

"Just how deep....
Do-oo you hold that dream-a?!?!?
In your hands each night??
Well, in your hands each night???
Whoa, in your hands each night?!?!??

Oooooo......

Well, I think it was you-ouuuu, bay-beh......
This time....."

Stevie Nicks rules my universe...

strandinthewind · #2 03-26-2006, 03:13 AM

Child - she SOARS on that. How many notes are above the T measure? Certainly the SEEENNNNNNN

That song on The Enchanted tour would have kicked it - I mean she hit the same notes on SA.

Phoenix · #3 03-26-2006, 03:20 AM

Sable on blonde is a Sexy song.There just seems to be alot of passion in Stevies voice. The whole song just has a cool feel to it IMHO.I love at the end when She is singing the "This time I think it was you babe....." Plus, I really like Mic Fleetwoods opening drums.

(I'll save my complaints about the back up singers UHHgAAGAHHSs in the begining for another thread

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The Tower · #4 03-26-2006, 03:30 AM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Child - she SOARS on that. How many notes are above the T measure? Certainly the SEEENNNNNNN

That song on The Enchanted tour would have kicked it - I mean she hit the same notes on SA.

The song in written in G flat, with her whole Dreams/Rhiannon chord structure. Sheer greatness......

strandinthewind · #5 03-26-2006, 03:32 AM

She lowered fifth, dominant tone of the C major scale

But at least Chopin and Schubert liked it

foxyluva · #6 03-26-2006, 03:45 AM

There are no Stevie songs I can say that I don't like - but this song is not all that good to me. My least fav on WH

Sahara · #7 03-26-2006, 07:18 AM

A lovely, lovely song. So atmospheric and sexy. Love it.

ontheEdgeof17 · #8 03-26-2006, 08:10 AM

Top 10 Stevie song for me......

...I hated it when I was younger...seemed so "old" and "adult-like".....but now...I understand it so much and appreciate the lyrics and know how she felt when she wrote it....Absolutely beautiful.

wheart · #9 03-26-2006, 09:14 AM

Always been one of my absolute favorites. I love the third "In your hands each night" toward the end. I've always loved the lyrics, too.

JazmenFlowers · #10 03-26-2006, 02:17 PM

one of my all-time favorites. everything about this song is strong, yet fragile. her vocals kick much ass.

that's why I included my version of it on the Gold Dust Project.

DavidMn · #11 03-26-2006, 05:21 PM

For me, it's about a 5 out of 10. Middle of the road.

Janis_no1 · #12 03-26-2006, 05:23 PM

I've got to be quick so my one post has to be to this!

I absolutely love and appreciate that song! Abslutely love it, it was the first Stevie song that haunted me in my dreams as it was highlighting something happening at the time... funny how her songs do that. I had the line "well i think it was you baby... this time" and the line would just repeat itself over and over again during the course of the day.

What a fabulous song!

SapphireSister · #13 03-26-2006, 06:29 PM

For years this was one of my least favorite Stevie song mainly due to the music (it's slightly on the boring side) BUT in the last few months I've gotten so into the lyrics that I've learned to appriciate the song. IMO they are some of her best and as a general rule if I don't like the music to a song there is no way I'm going to like the song no matter how good the lyrics are but SOB is the exception. The music has really grown on me because of the incredible lyrics. Now that being said, they are also some of her most enigmatic lyrics and I'm not sure what this song is about exactly but it just doesn't matter because whatever the hell she is saying the words are just so damn beautiful. Even when I hear Stevie talk about this song and say what it's about I'm still confused. I'm sure as with most of her songs there is a lot going on that we will never know about.

"Was...freedom by choice
Or baby...was it love
Was it a thorn in your side
Something that you hide
Something you don't touch
Because it hurts too much"

That's my woman, simply gorgeous!

wheart · #14 03-26-2006, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by SapphireSister

For years this was one of my least favorite Stevie song mainly due to the music (it's slightly on the boring side) BUT in the last few months I've gotten so into the lyrics that I've learned to appriciate the song. IMO they are some of her best and as a general rule if I don't like the music to a song there is no way I'm going to like the song no matter how good the lyrics are but SOB is the exception. The music has really grown on me because of the incredible lyrics. Now that being said, they are also some of her most enigmatic lyrics and I'm not sure what this song is about exactly but it just doesn't matter because whatever the hell she is saying the words are just so damn beautiful. Even when I hear Stevie talk about this song and say what it's about I'm still confused. I'm sure as with most of her songs there is a lot going on that we will never know about.

"Was...freedom by choice
Or baby...was it love
Was it a thorn in your side
Something that you hide
Something you don't touch
Because it hurts too much"

That's my woman, simply gorgeous!

But isn't she singing "something you don't TRUST because it hurts too much? It sure sounds like it. That always bugged me because I like the original lyric better.

SapphireSister · #15 03-26-2006, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by wheart

But isn't she singing "something you don't TRUST because it hurts too much? It sure sounds like it. That always bugged me because I like the original lyric better.

Nope, it's definitely TOUCH (I just checked the album and the nicksfix) and I always though it was touch, not trust. I like touch better I think. It makes sense that you don't want to touch something (or go near a person) because it hurts too much as in it will hurt if you continue to be around this person and have a love affair with them.