Trouble In Shangri La favourite song!

[Janis_no1]

What is your favourite "Trouble In Shangri La" song NOW... 5 years on.
What was my favourite a few years ago isn't now, so lets have a little survey as to what we are all enjoying the most now..

This is to coincide with Trouble In Shangri La's debut 5 years ago!!

The only problem is that a poll can only have max 10 options, so i have culled
7. Love Is
8. Love Changes
9. I miss you AND

I truly love this album, its always in my car stacker even though i have difficulty singing along with it due to the key

[foxyluva]

I voted for the song "TISL" but my real favourite is 'I Miss You' - which you did not include

[Janis_no1]

im sorry... if i could of put it in there too i would of. I just knew that i'd hav eto cut someone's favourite. My Favourite is TISL now, yet it used ot be fall from grace just coz it was the rock song of the album.

Damn i wanted to put on display what each username voted for but i cant change it....

[David]

Originally Posted by Janis_no1

What is your favourite "Trouble In Shangri La" song NOW... 5 years on.
What was my favourite a few years ago isn't now, so lets have a little survey as to what we are all enjoying the most now..

This is to coincide with Trouble In Shangri La's debut 5 years ago!!

The only problem is that a poll can only have max 10 options, so i have culled
7. Love Is
8. Love Changes
9. I miss you AND

My favorites were culled, so I had to vote for Everyday as favorite song. I don't know what songs on TISL Stevie wrote & what songs were written by other people, but my favorite TISL song is Love Changes & my favorite TISL track is It's Only Love.

[Janis_no1]

Originally Posted by David

My favorites were culled, so I had to vote for Everyday as favorite song. I don't know what songs on TISL Stevie wrote & what songs were written by other people, but my favorite TISL song is Love Changes & my favorite TISL track is It's Only Love.

oh david... i've upset thee keeper of all amazing photo's that are stevie!!

whats the difference between song and track? do you mean lyrically and finished?

[Janis_no1]

man... im just getting in trouble! ****

[David]

Originally Posted by Janis_no1

oh david... i've upset thee keeper of all amazing photo's that are stevie!!

oh don't worry about it. just be prepared for tsunamis & earthquakes.

whats the difference between song and track? do you mean lyrically and finished?

I explained it really well a few days ago but I don't want to search. A song is the combination, on paper, of the lyrics & the musical structure (which includes chords, key & time signatures, vocal or melody line & dynamic indications/markings, if any). A track is a fixed sonic form of a song (or other composition) that requires specific technology to hear (for example, you need a CD player to play a track on a CD).

A track is a snapshot of a song at a specific moment in time, & does not vary. A song can be performed at any moment in time, in any number of conditions with any number of variables operating.

I can go to my piano right now & play the SONG rhiannon--with any number of variables operating, such as tempo & style--but I cannot play the track rhiannon on my piano.

so I like the SONG Love Changes the best, but I like the TRACK It's Only Love the best. But of the songs/tracks you listed, I like Everyday the best as both track & song.

Christ, I'm wordy!!

[Janis_no1]

Originally Posted by David

oh don't worry about it. just be prepared for tsunamis & earthquakes.


Christ, I'm wordy!!

sorry but its impossible for me to have a tsunamis, and earthquakes are unlikely where i am in melbourne australia. So ner ner

and in regards to you being wordy,.... hell yeah!! I have a brain freeze when i read your posts!!
I never knew the difference between a song and a track... now let me try to see if i remember.... a track is something that you cannot recreate the song with variables... doesn't sound the same in any other format other than what is on the album for example. And a song is something you can take away, change the tempo or vary instruments and it still sounds true. ... Am i close?

[carrie721]

Originally Posted by Janis_no1

sorry but its impossible for me to have a tsunamis, and earthquakes are unlikely where i am in melbourne australia. So ner ner

and in regards to you being wordy,.... hell yeah!! I have a brain freeze when i read your posts!!
I never knew the difference between a song and a track... now let me try to see if i remember.... a track is something that you cannot recreate the song with variables... doesn't sound the same in any other format other than what is on the album for example. And a song is something you can take away, change the tempo or vary instruments and it still sounds true. ... Am i close?

i think you're on the right track (pun not intended) ... i think david's just saying that "love changes" is a great composition while "it's only love" is great because of how it was put together on the album. (please correct me if i'm wrong, david!)

[foxyluva]

"Its Only Love" is easily the worst song on TISL

[Jyqm]

Originally Posted by Janis_no1

I never knew the difference between a song and a track... now let me try to see if i remember.... a track is something that you cannot recreate the song with variables... doesn't sound the same in any other format other than what is on the album for example. And a song is something you can take away, change the tempo or vary instruments and it still sounds true. ... Am i close?

Getting there. Think about the Grammys, where they have awards for both "Record of the Year" and "Song of the Year." "Record of the Year" awards the track, the finished product, as it was sung/performed/arranged/engineered/produced for whatever album or single. "Song of the Year" awards the songwriter; it's an award about the composition itself.

Or think about covers. "Edge Of Seventeen" is a song. It has been recorded both by Stevie Nicks and by Lindsay Lohan. Those are two different tracks of the same song - arranged differently, sung differently, produced differently, performed and recorded at different times and places.

Or think about demos and remixes. "Planets of the Universe" is a song for which we know of a bunch of different tracks. There's the demo version on the Rumours reissue, there's the album version, there's the extended version, and there's the various dance mixes. Those are all different tracks.

Back to the original question: This is an easy one - "Fall From Grace." This was Stevie's most rocking track in a very long time. The music and the production are great, and Stevie's vocal is just one big four-and-a-half-minute can of whoop-ass. And the lyrics are great, they're compelling and intense, with minimal but very effective use of her usual tropes (alone in my room, high priestess, gossamer wings); and thank you to the ladies for convincing Shanks to leave all of the words in.

"Maybe I am calmer now
Maybe things are fine
Maybe I made the whole thing up
Maybe it isn't a lie
Maybe the reason I say these things
Is to bring you back alive
Maybe I fought this long and this hard
Just to make sure you survahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhve"

**** yeah. Now that's a mission statement.

[macmar71]

I pick my second favorite (Planets Of The Universe)as my favorite was not listed as a choice (I Miss You)

[JazmenFlowers]

a tough choice for me between TISL and FFG...but I chose TISL

[cliffdweller]

I chose Fall From Grace.

It used to be Sorcerer, but I'm kind of burned out on that song, it's on too many of my compilations!

[BlackWidow]

[QUOTE=Janis_no1]What is your favourite "Trouble In Shangri La" song NOW... 5 years on.
What was my favourite a few years ago isn't now, so lets have a little survey as to what we are all enjoying the most now..

This is to coincide with Trouble In Shangri La's debut 5 years ago!!

The only problem is that a poll can only have max 10 options, so i have culled
7. Love Is
8. Love Changes
9. I miss you AND

I truly love this album, its always in my car stacker even though i have

difficulty singing along with it due to the key

I CANNOT VOTE SINCE "I MISS YOU"...is MISSING!