Let's Talk About...I CAN'T WAIT

Dodfather · #1 08-18-2009, 03:06 PM

Still on the Rock A Little drive here, been listening to that album loads lately!

So what are everyone's thoughts on this track then? I know it's one of Stevie's most popular, or certainly seems to be. I love the Letterman story about how he played the video over and over until she appeared, and how she "fired" her managers who said she wouldn't do the show!

This is actually one of the tracks I know least about. All I know is that she wrote the words after Rick Nowels wrote one of the most "exciting" tracks she'd ever heard. That makes sense in relation the urgency of the lyrics etc but does anyone have any more info about their actual influence etc? It's definitely one of mer more frantid, dramatic lyrics.

Even though it was co-written with Rock Nowels, who is one of my favourite pop writers because of all the great songs he did with Ellen Shipley for Belinda Carlisle (I LOVE Belinda!) I've never actually been over keen on this song. I do love the loud wailing rock vocals at the start though. I know Stevie still likes this song, as shown by her kicking off Crystal Visions with it...even though I still think that that coompilation is downright weird! For that reason it's perhaps something of an oddity in her mid 80s output in that she still acknowledges it!

One other thing, in Crystal Visuions Stevie says that it was only ever performed live once and because it was so difficult it was a distsater and they never did it again. Now, we all know she did sooooo much coke in the 80s but didn't she perform it throughout the entire Rock A Little tour? She can't have forgotten all of them! Or was it really just the once?

Does anyone have a clue what some of the rushed, crazy lyrics are towards the end?

So, thoughts?

p.s: I'm already thinking about what my next track will be for this thread and I'm going to go for one that I actually have things to say about rather than just searching for info about ones I don't know much about! haha...

FMlex · #2 08-18-2009, 03:55 PM

First, this song is catchy as hell. Sure the lyrics aren't Stevie's deepest, but it's catchy and has a good beat!

Second, the music video makes me smile. Especially the close ups, her facial expressions are just so cute!

Stevie Nicks - I Can't Wait @ Yahoo! Video

P.S. You gotta love Mick too!

GrahnNicks · #3 08-18-2009, 04:08 PM

I read somewhere that I can't wait was recorded in just one take. I think she said it herself, they just went in the studio and did it. Perfect at once.

True/false?

It's a good song, a floorfiller at the clubs in Stockholm as I remember it.

But I like her voice better on The wild heart, one can hear on Rock a little that the drug's are on it's way to really damage it.

Dodfather · #4 08-18-2009, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by GrahnNicks

I read somewhere that I can't wait was recorded in just one take. I think she said it herself, they just went in the studio and did it. Perfect at once.

True/false?

It's a good song, a floorfiller at the clubs in Stockholm as I remember it.

But I like her voice better on The wild heart, one can hear on Rock a little that the drug's are on it's way to really damage it.

I heard that ot was Talk To Me she did in one take..maybe both of them?

Dodfather · #5 08-18-2009, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by FMlex

First, this song is catchy as hell. Sure the lyrics aren't Stevie's deepest, but it's catchy and has a good beat!

Second, the music video makes me smile. Especially the close ups, her facial expressions are just so cute!

Stevie Nicks - I Can't Wait @ Yahoo! Video

P.S. You gotta love Mick too!

Oh I do like the video...it's so random with Mick breaking her out of prison!

nailatixela · #6 08-18-2009, 04:19 PM

Stevie did this song the entire RAL tour. She forgot all the others I guess. I wonder what preformance of it she remembers? It was great. It was a mess - but it was a great mess.

I heard this song was done in one try. We don't have any other takes from it, so we have to take her word for it. (Maybe?)

I love the video for this song. It's actually my favorite solo video of Stevie's. Love the song itself too. I always thought it would be cool if Stevie opened with ICW and came down those large stairs at the start of every show.

golddustdrummer · #7 08-18-2009, 04:28 PM

I've heard the lyrics are about Joe Walsh.

LikeAWillow · #8 08-18-2009, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by golddustdrummer

I've heard the lyrics are about Joe Walsh.

I hadn't heard that, but the dark intensity of I Can't Wait does seem to channel what we know about their relationship.

Blame it on something at first sight
Put the blame on me, if you want to

She always said that with the two of them, it was either split up or die, and who can you blame when faced with that kind of love?

Black_Moon · #9 08-18-2009, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by nailatixela

Stevie did this song the entire RAL tour. She forgot all the others I guess. I wonder what preformance of it she remembers? It was great. It was a mess - but it was a great mess.

I heard this song was done in one try. We don't have any other takes from it, so we have to take her word for it. (Maybe?)

I love the video for this song. It's actually my favorite solo video of Stevie's. Love the song itself too. I always thought it would be cool if Stevie opened with ICW and came down those large stairs at the start of every show.

I don't think she did it the whole tour... for the first leg she did definitely. And the video is my favourite of Stevie's solo ones too!

daniellaaarisen · #10 08-18-2009, 04:41 PM

I don't have a single live "I Can't Wait". Help, my kind Ledgies??

golddustdrummer · #11 08-18-2009, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by LikeAWillow

I hadn't heard that, but the dark intensity of I Can't Wait does seem to channel what we know about their relationship.

Blame it on something at first sight
Put the blame on me, if you want to

She always said that with the two of them, it was either split up or die, and who can you blame when faced with that kind of love?

she has said before that she would've given up everything if he (joe walsh) could've just been serious for 15 minutes - I'm paraphrasing but it was something close to that.

I think she couldn't wait on him. couldn't wait for him to be serious, settle down, commit? hell I don't know....but she couldn't F-ing wait lol

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Originally Posted by daniellaaarisen

I don't have a single live "I Can't Wait". Help, my kind Ledgies??

me either!

vermicious knid · #12 08-18-2009, 04:42 PM

I think it is awful. I have thought it was a shlocky tacky mess since the first time I heard it. The way the melody of the chorus apes the synth note for note seems lazy as well.

golddustdrummer · #13 08-18-2009, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by vermicious knid

I think it is awful. I have thought it was a shlocky tacky mess since the first time I heard it. The way the melody of the chorus apes the synth note for note seems lazy as well.

"shlocky tacky mess"

you kind of just summed up the 80s.

michelej1 · #14 08-18-2009, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by vermicious knid

I think it is awful. I have thought it was a shlocky tacky mess since the first time I heard it. The way the melody of the chorus apes the synth note for note seems lazy as well.

Yeah, I don't dislike it, but I agree that it's lazy and gimmicky. I'd still rather she did a song like this in concert over Rock and Roll. I'd rather have her own hokey stuff than a cover.

Michele

David · #15 08-18-2009, 05:53 PM

I think she did I Can't Wait the whole tour in 1986.

I always liked the thing. It's a big, noisy contraption. It's all so obviously just a cheap pump-up -- but that's Rick Nowels to a T. I don't think Stevie herself had anything to do with the music track. I think Rick & the other musicians pulled all that together, & Stevie wrote some words tailored to the instrumental. In that sense, it was as much a collaboration as Nightbird or If Anyone Falls.

Before the 1986 tour started, I dreamt that Stevie opened her tour -- & her show -- in Japan with this song. It seems I was expecting a flashier high-tech Wild Heart show in 1986.

I Can't Wait always seemed like the obvious first single to me (because it is so obviously a radio song), so its exclusion from the singles market was weird.