Let's talk about..Some Become Strangers

gypsy4life · #1 08-21-2009, 08:29 AM

I thougth I'd add one to the "Let's talk about" agenda...

I had never really given this song much thought until I put in my RAL tape, and have repeated it over and over for about a week.

I am getting hooked on this song for the moment. I like the lyrics, and the music is 80s, but, hey, it was recorded in the 80s!! It's just catchy, and overlooked, I think.

My favorite line : thing is, time was, part of me used to love you,part of me still does...

Anyone else????

marinnette · #2 08-21-2009, 09:44 AM

I love this song!!! favourite line: I don't really need this in my life, why don't we forget about it? (come and take my soul)....sounds funky!!!!!!!

golddustdrummer · #3 08-21-2009, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by gypsy4life

My favorite line : thing is, time was, part of me used to love you,part of me still does...

my favorite line too

LOOOOOVE this song

Question: did Stevie not write any of this? just looked at the credits and it lists David Williams, Amy Latelevision, Peter Rafelson.

JazmenFlowers · #4 08-21-2009, 10:29 AM

one of my absolute favorite songs, not only on RAL, but of all albums. love it!

Dodfather · #5 08-21-2009, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

one of my absolute favorite songs, not only on RAL, but of all albums. love it!

Great Choice!

This is not the world, this is not the world... this song has grown on me a lot lately! Am still on a big Rock A Little kick right now.

Just running out now but I'll have a think and post the results of said thinkage later on..

David · #6 08-21-2009, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by golddustdrummer

Question: did Stevie not write any of this? just looked at the credits and it lists David Williams, Amy Latelevision, Peter Rafelson.

Correct. The Williams Brothers -- a struggling pop act at the time -- recorded it on one of their albums. I love their slower, more grinding version & the sprightly funky rendition on Stevie's album. I went to see the Williams Brothers in concert in Hollywood in the 1980s (they opened for Suzanne Vega), hoping to see Stevie Nicks, but she was a no-show.

It would have made a good live tune in Stevie's set in the old days.

michelej1 · #7 08-21-2009, 12:17 PM

Oh, my favorite non-Stevie-penned, Stevie song, because I think it falls in perfectly with the message of songs she did write. Superb.

I like the whole thing. I like the "thing is, time was" part quoted above, but I also like, "I could never make it better for you, anyway." Just the way she sings it. Her voice seems to carry a whole relationship arc in one sentence. Exhausting all efforts to make it work, maybe for years and then just summing the whole affair up very quickly: I could never make it better for you, anyway. No matter what I did. Love Changes reminded me of this part.

Now the memory of giving you is giving out. Whoa.

Then, didn't want to be the one to say goodbye in a stranger's eyes. That captures it even better than the title phrase, which is pretty good in itself. By the time they parted, he was just someone she didn't know or recognize anymore.

Then, I like the ending and the exchange of words from "some become strangers" to "soul become a stranger."

I don't really understand the "this light here" part.

Whatever, I love this song.

Michele

daniellaaarisen · #8 08-21-2009, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by michelej1

Now the memory of giving you is giving out. Whoa.

Magic. That's my favorite line of the entire song.

I agree with Michele (as usual). I am usually against all songs recorded by Stevie that she does not personally write, but this is one of the few exceptions.

fleetwoodtrick · #9 08-21-2009, 06:14 PM

I didn't know Stevie didn't write Some Become Strangers!

That's my favorite song off of RAL! Especially the the I don't really need this in my life part. I think Stevie sounds so cute there. Such attitude, LOL.

michelej1 · #10 08-22-2009, 01:31 PM

Some Become Strangers transitioning into Beauty and the Beast (you're not a stranger to me) would be a nice seque.

Michele

Christopher · #11 08-22-2009, 02:35 PM

Great song...Loved it then and it still holds up well today. Even though she did not write it, she totally owns it in her delivery. I always felt this song was buried on RAL and should have been given more attention. It should have been a 3rd single contender along with If I Were You..... instead of HAEWAFY.

michelle2677 · #12 08-22-2009, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

one of my absolute favorite songs, not only on RAL, but of all albums. love it!

meh. i like your version better.

i just have NOT been able to get into this song. of course, i'm on about a 5 year delay, liking lindsey songs, so who knows. maybe one day it'll hit me. that's what happened with street angel and sable on blond. used to HATE those songs. now, naturally

i love them.

LukeA · #13 08-30-2009, 02:42 AM

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Musicman408 · #14 08-30-2009, 08:46 AM

This has always been one of my faves from RAL. Can't really pinpoint why, other than it's a cute little slick song with good attitude!

Enchanted_Stevi · #15 08-30-2009, 10:49 AM

I LOVE this song. I never really listened to the RAL album all the way through before until a couple months ago. I do LOVE this CD as well as this song.