Which "Silver Springs" Do You Prefer? Live Or Studio?

[celestenadia]

Which "Silver Springs" do you prefer? Live or studio?

[DownOnRodeo]

Dance version all the way
Studio outtake has it's charms... but The Dance version packs a punch.

[Cristian]

Live version. Lindsey uses his guitar in a much better way than his "pedal" (?) guitar in the studio version. And the Dance version has the charm of putting Christine's passionate piano to the front of the mix. Way cool, and emotive.


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[golddustchic]

The live version all the way!! That crazy electricity between Stevie and Lindsey is unbeatable...I especially love the Landover version...wow! what an amazing performance

[Hawkeye]

Going against the grain here but it's the studio version hands down for me. especially the way it sounds ion TVBOFM. I mean here voice is so much better. And to say it lacks the punch is insane. She gets into this version just as good as she does in the dance.

[DownOnRodeo]

Originally posted by Hawkeye
And to say it lacks the punch is insane. She gets into this version just as good as she does in the dance.

Well I for one wasn't talking about her voice, necessarily. The music, arrangement, production, harmonies - all combine for something more potent IMO. In fact I hadn't even considered her voice in coming to that decision, as I agree it's equally impassioned in the original. But the music of that one is so..I Don't Wanna Know! lol

[Laurrhi]

I've gotta agree with you, Hawkeye... I can hear just as much intensity in the studio versions (I like the outtakes better) as in the Dance version (which is kickass as well), but she's just focusing it differently. I heard someone once talking about how they liked some other song of hers better now that she's older because she's lived through it instead of being in it and I guess that makes sense; people will just like one version better...

[EnchantedStorms]

I actually like them both the same, I think. Although I usually end up listening to the Dance version, for some reason. Silver Springs is an awesome song. Timeless, IMO. To me, it is almost like comparing two different songs. I love the studio version, because she's singing it as she's living it...there is a certain....I don't know....vulnerability? in her voice and in the words that isn't there on the Dance version. She's "hoping" she will haunt him. lol. But I love the Dance version, because of all that's gone on, that she's made it through and lived to tell about. There was a certain amount of truth in the lyrics that was proven with time, and to me, the Dance version shows that she knew that, and got a certain amount of satisfaction from letting everyone else know it, too. lol! Gotta love Stevie when she lets her emotions show onstage. Powerful stuff.

JMO.


~Angela~

[shackin'up]

Originally posted by EnchantedStorms
I love the studio version, because she's singing it as she's living it...there is a certain....I don't know....vulnerability? in her voice and in the words that isn't there on the Dance version. She's "hoping" she will haunt him. lol. But I love the Dance version, because of all that's gone on, that she's made it through and lived to tell about.

JMO.


~Angela~

That's perfectly my vision on this matter, well said! So, because I was touched by it (and cried) for the first time in 1978 when I heard Go Your own way's B-side, I voted for the studioversion.

[Nicks Fan]

The Dance version is hands spwn the best. Just watching her as she slowly gets closer to Lindsey on stage and begins singing louder right when she screams the line "Never Getaway Never Getaway Never Get Away!!!!! still gives me chills. her voice and the musical arrangement (Love the Paino) are all marevelous

[SmthngOfADreamr]

I'm an idiot - I just voted for studio but I meant to vote for live. So subtract one vote from studio and add it to live

I voted for live because hearing the live version of this song on the radio in 1997 was pretty much my first introduction to FM. The studio version with her little meek voice doesn't really do it for me the same way - although the version on VBOFM is certainly an improvement from the other studio version I've heard.

[golddustwoman77]

I would definitely say live. I mean how can you beat the chemistry between Stevie and Lindsey in the Dance version on Silver Springs. You can hear it in the song, and you can see it in the performance. It just sends chills up and down my spine. The studio version doesn't do that!

[FiercestCalmSea]

Ok let me start by saying i used to hate this song::::ducks:::: It was just that i became a fan by watching the Dance and seeing Rhiannon...so that was my fav...and all the kept playing was the SS video...i was like "ugh...this SONG"..i had no idea the signifigance of it being played at the time..anyway...over the last few years it has grown on me...and the live version is the best..all that emotion flowing...it's great(but,i still like Rhiannon better,lol.)

[DrummerDeanna]

Since this was one of the songs that really made me fall in love with this band, I have to say the Live version...the one on the Dance...it's just blow you away good IMO...and I absolutely love it!

[Sorcerer386]

The thing about the voice differences between the studio version and the live version is basically just about Stevie's range. Stevie had no trouble singing some of the notes in '77, but with her lower range she has to push to get them out, thereby leading to the idea she's putting "more" into it. And hey, it works. I love The Dance version much better than the studio version. The only part where it's reversed is near the very end of the studio version (on VBOFM) when she belts "Follow you DOWN till the SOUND of MY VOICE will HAUNT YOU!!!!!!" But NOTHING beats The Dance at the end when she's chanting "Neeeever get away!" I would really have loved to see this song done in 1982 when, I feel, her voice was strongest on stage. Even Stevie admits that by '82 she lost a lot of her inhibitions about thinking she couldn't sing and was just there to back up Lindsey.