Trouble In Shangri La favourite song!

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by amber

Thank you so much. Now that is a beautiful song. WTH happened? That's some serious bad judgment putting the other version on.
Edit - It did need some lyrical editing though. There are a few clunky spots. But musically it is much more compelling.

Welcome I don't think the album version is bad, I still love it. After all I fell in love with the song initially on the album. It's just not as compelling as the demo as you've stated.

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by RockALittle250

Yes, Stevie said Love Is and TISL were the first songs written for the album, hence the '94-'96ish sounding demo.

But didn't she start writing for TISL after the dance tour which would make it 98-99? When did she meet with Tom Petty when he told her to write her songs herself (and if only she didn't write a song about that!)?
Edit: I think you may be right. I found this quote from Stevie:

Tom [Petty] can say stuff to me that nobody else can. I said, "Will you help me get started on this, help me write some songs?" And he got angry with me. He said, "Yeah, you had a couple of bad years, but you need to reinvent yourself. You're one of the best songwriters I know. You don't need help." I went home that night and told everyone, "This is it - I'm starting a new record."
~Stevie Nicks, Q magazine, May 2001

If she had a bad couple of years maybe Tom was referring to the Street Angel period and maybe she started writing TISL before The Dance and then the whole Dance thing happenned so it got delayed a couple of years. So the question is did she start writing for TISL pre-The Dance or post The Dance (the newer songs of course)? That will answer the question of when the Love Is demo is from.

[amber]

But I thought she said in that boot at that bar or whatever, that Sheryl wrote Love Is "for" her. And once again, I'd like to point out that in that boot, Sheryl says "for you, or about you?"

*realizes I could just check liner notes, but is too lazy to find CD*

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by amber

But I thought she said in that boot at that bar or whatever, that Sheryl wrote Love Is "for" her. And once again, I'd like to point out that in that boot, Sheryl says "for you, or about you?"

*realizes I could just check liner notes, but is too lazy to find CD*

You're confusing "Love Is" with "It's Only Love" (which Sheryl wrote for Stevie). How dare you! Ha ha totally kidding but that Sheryl Crow diddy doesn't compare to my Love Is masterpiece

[SapphireSister]

Ok so I'm slightly obsessed with my Stevie Nicks chronology...The song and concept of TISL was "inspired by", written during, whatever the O.J. Simpson Trial which was 1995-1996 so it looks like TISL was pre-The Dance meaning the Love Is demo could possibly have been around this period but I tend to believe the demo that we got from the TISL sessions was later, 1999. Screw all this speculation, I'll just call Stevie and ask her.

[amber]

Originally Posted by SapphireSister

You're confusing "Love Is" with "It's Only Love" (which Sheryl wrote for Stevie). How dare you! Ha ha totally kidding but that Sheryl Crow diddy doesn't compare to my Love Is masterpiece

oops, I suck. Sorry, TISL is my least favorite album. But Sheryl did still say that on the boot I have.

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

I love this album... it's usually in a three-way tie for me with 'The Wild Heart' and 'Rock A Little.'

I voted for "Bombay Sapphires." There's not a single line in that song that I don't relate to, to the core of my being. I had a relationship which is perfectly summed up in those lyrics.

"You -- beloved,
Were to me -- everything that love stood for.
To love one another for a while, was enough...
It was all that I lived for.
How can I go on without you,
Can I go on without you...
I tell myself -- this time I'm going to have to move on...."

And, yes, I was eventually able to see past him to the white sands.

I Never liked this song untill last week. Stevie nicks info. posted the alternate version, and I havent been able to stop listening!!!!!!! IT IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!
She sings it better, adds extra lyrics, and it does not sound "over produced" you can also hear stevie clearer because there is no macy gray. but seriously THIS VERSION is in my top 12 stevie songs ever now!

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by Phoenix

I Never liked this song untill last week. Stevie nicks info. posted the alternate version, and I havent been able to stop listening!!!!!!! IT IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!
She sings it better, adds extra lyrics, and it does not sound "over produced" you can also hear stevie clearer because there is no macy gray. but seriously THIS VERSION is in my top 12 stevie songs ever now!

YOU'VE SEEN THE LIGHT, congrats !
(Hence my name, it's my special song).

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by amber

oops, I suck. Sorry, TISL is my least favorite album. But Sheryl did still say that on the boot I have.

Your least favorite? Oh Amber girl, what are we going to do with you. Yes she wrote it for her but that doesn't mean it's about her as if she's "in love with her". Here are Stevie's own words in regards to "It's only Love". Sheryl wrote a song through Stevie's eyes, that's what I get from it. Wrote lyrics that Stevie herself would say.

How did it feel to have Sheryl Crow write "It's Only Love" for you and about you?
"Well, she came up the stairs carrying her guitar, and she just sat down and played it for me. And she told me, "I went home and I just was really thinking about all your stories and all the stuff you've been through" because now that we've been friends for four years I've just about told her all the great stories, she knows them all and that's really what she wrote the song about, all my different relationships and the men that I was with and the men that I'm still good friends with and really care about. They're all still out there and around me, and she finds that pretty amazing. I think that's what inspired her to write the song you know, "sometimes lonely is not only a face that I have known." And she sees my life: I am not married, I don't have children, and I made that choice. I knew if I had children I would have to take care of them and I couldn't hand them over to a bunch of nannies. So I knew if I had a baby I would stop making music and I would start being a mom. And I decided in my life, that my mission was to make people happy. It was more important. I only just got a dog two years ago, and trained her myself. And that's the motherliest thing I've ever done."

~Stevie Nicks, Sonicnet interview, June 2001

[amber]

Cool. This sounds fairly believable. And I find it hard to believe that someone would find it hard to believe that TISL is my least favorite album. It's the album with the least vocal gymnastics, the dullest. I still like 4-5 songs okay - I just don't think they are as amazing as previous albums, because her voice is so limited. I still like some songs on it quite a bit, though.

[Serrart]

I voted for TISL, but it's really a tie between TISL, Fall From Grace, It's only Love, Fall From Grace, Planets Of The Universe, Love Is.

Romy

[Sahara]

Fall from Grace. You could cut that passion with a knife.

[Red]

Originally Posted by 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!

Wow, ditto!

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by amber

Cool. This sounds fairly believable. And I find it hard to believe that someone would find it hard to believe that TISL is my least favorite album. It's the album with the least vocal gymnastics, the dullest. I still like 4-5 songs okay - I just don't think they are as amazing as previous albums, because her voice is so limited. I still like some songs on it quite a bit, though.

I was just surprised, you are totally entitled to your opinion and I did not mean to knock you I agree with the part about the least vocal gymnastics but I think the album is a stellar compilation of songs that are amazing both lyrically and musically. I don't find it dull in the least.

Some people are shocked when they find out Bella Donna is my least favorite album behind Street Angel. It has the least amount of songs I'm in love with even though her voice is dynamite.

[sparky]

Originally Posted by amber

And I find it hard to believe that someone would find it hard to believe that TISL is my least favorite album. It's the album with the least vocal gymnastics, the dullest.

TOSOTM has more vocal gymnastics ? I would say that LWTG is maybe a front handspring, but other than that, it is a record of basically front somersaults, and at times, egg rolls. The vocals sound like they were recorded while she was in bed. On a four Klonipin day.

TISL at least has the "never thought we'd ever hear it again" falsetto, some wailing in the title track, and the back handspring and twist of FFG. I am not sure I agree with your assessment, Frank.