You Like Me - an overlooked song?

PenguinHead · #1 02-20-2007, 01:44 AM

"You Like Me" is sort of an overlooked, obscure great Stevie song. Granted she didn't sing it, but she wrote it with Mike Campbell and it appears on the 1987 Williams Bros album Two Stories.

Interestingly, Mike Campbell produced the entire album, which also contains the song Some Become Strangers. The song reeks of Stevie and the music sounds like Tom Petty. It's a rocking tune, and one of my favorites on the album (I actually have the CD!). What do others think of it? Has anyone ever heard it?

Don't read your words into my words
Don't let the weight on your shoulders pull you down
No matter what you heard
Don't you believe everything that goes around

Oh your rage I see through
You like me don't you
You can't hide the feeling
Your lies I see through
You like me don't you

Don't read your words into my words
Remember the words "don't do it!"
Wrote me a letter of hate or of love
Well I can do without it

You stand there and accuse me
And you want to know "Who is it?"
Well you ought to know who is it

Never say I don't need you to love me
Cause I need you to love me
And as hard as I try...
You know you can't hide the feeling

GarboSpeaks! · #2 02-20-2007, 02:23 AM

I've actually never heard this song. But I do look for the album everytime I'm at some record place. It seems pretty hard to come by. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough. Anyone know the story how it came to be? Such an odd "outing" for SN. Not someone we are familiar w/ her working with often or ever for that matter.

MacMan · #3 02-20-2007, 05:27 AM

Not sure how it came to be, but they were signed to Warner Bros. in the late 80's/early 90's. Incidentally, these two guys (twins) are the nephews of Andy Williams and got there start on The Partridge Family...

Here's the song. I can imagine Stevie screaming this one - not so much today, but back in the 80's she could have done the job.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/b2zj4r

JazmenFlowers · #4 02-20-2007, 09:18 AM

those lyrics are effin hot! I'd love to hear Stevie krank this out.

rbs3676 · #5 02-20-2007, 10:02 AM

I used to play this song on my radio show all of the time.
Certainly something that Stevie should have done. It's a great track.

rbs

gldstwmn · #6 02-20-2007, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by GarboSpeaks!

I've actually never heard this song. But I do look for the album everytime I'm at some record place. It seems pretty hard to come by. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough. Anyone know the story how it came to be? Such an odd "outing" for SN. Not someone we are familiar w/ her working with often or ever for that matter.

They wrote Some Become Strangers.

DWIG · #7 02-20-2007, 12:42 PM

I love this song. I used to listen to it years ago, when it first came out, and think, how unlike a Stevie song it is, but as the years have passed i can see how she could have done a great job on it herself

Have looked for the CD for years, but never found it, so cheers for posting (any chance you could post 'some become stangers?)

Cheers

Dave

Christopher · #8 02-20-2007, 12:52 PM

I always though this was one of the great Stevie KISS OFF songs....along the lines of Long Way To Go & Freedom etc... She should have recorded it!, maybe she did and its in a vault somewhere? I assume it was collaborated and written for possible inclusion on RAL, it certainly befitted her attitude at the time. And besides, the Williams Bros. vocal on it does not have the intensity that Stevie probably would have created with those lyrics.....I can here her belting this one out along the lines of Imperial Hotel.

PenguinHead · #9 02-20-2007, 01:42 PM

I'm glad others are aware of this song and share my love for it. Absolutely one her best "piss off" songs! It's a shame she never recorded it. I feel lucky to have had the smarts to snatch up the CD when it was available.

The Williams Bros. are an interesting, if obscure duo. Twin brothers, and completely creepy dweebs when they were younger and appeared on the Partridge Family. It seems the producers tried to use that appearance to launch their career. I loved the Partridge Family but remember hating them with a vengence; they were so unappealing. (You have to see that episode to believe it!) Apparently the public thought so too, because they fell into obscurity soon after.

Later on, when they were much older they re-emerged, sans the dweeb factor. They are actually very talented sings, songwriters and musicians. They put out several CDs in the late eighties-early nineties. I wonder what they're doing now.

DWIG · #10 02-20-2007, 02:16 PM

I bought a CD by them, when i was in the US, a few years ago (think it was just called 'The Williams Brothers'). Unfortunately it wasn't the one with 'You like me' on it!!
They did a track for the soundtrack of a film called Grace of my heart, but don't know anything else about them - though there is a small website about them if you search

I totalyy agree that this is a long lost Stevie gem and would love to hear her record it (think it would sound a bit like Fall from grace)

Dave

MacMan · #11 02-20-2007, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by DWIG

I love this song. I used to listen to it years ago, when it first came out, and think, how unlike a Stevie song it is, but as the years have passed i can see how she could have done a great job on it herself

Have looked for the CD for years, but never found it, so cheers for posting (any chance you could post 'some become stangers?)

Cheers

Dave

Here's "Some Become Stranger"

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ldsgfc

GarboSpeaks! · #12 02-20-2007, 10:31 PM

Besides thank you for the songs, MacMan, those 2 pics in your sig. Holy Cow. I can not stop staring at them. Great collage of the purple SN, and what a great SA thingy in motion! lovely!!!!!

jeffd8382 · #13 04-16-2010, 01:17 AM

Would anyone be able to re-upload the Williams Brothers version of "Some Become Strangers" and their recording of "You Like Me"? I'm considering buying this on CD, but would like to make sure it's a good buy... Thanks in advance if anyone can help out!

SapphireSister · #14 04-16-2010, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by jeffd8382

Would anyone be able to re-upload the Williams Brothers version of "Some Become Strangers" and their recording of "You Like Me"? I'm considering buying this on CD, but would like to make sure it's a good buy... Thanks in advance if anyone can help out!

Yeah yeah, somebody please re-upload

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NoLight77 · #15 04-16-2010, 08:31 PM

I didn't get to hear You Like Me...can it be posted again? Thank you!