When I See You Again Appreciation Post!

[Johnny Stew]

Originally posted by Cristian
I'm not posting here anymore because this is an appreciation thread, right? We bashers aren't welcome?

Given the fact that you winked, Christian, I get the feeling that you didn't really feel like you weren't welcome to post in the thread. At least I hope you didn't feel that way. Certainly everyone's always welcome to post their opinions regarding any topic in any thread, but since this was meant as an appreciation thread, it would have been nice if it had remained that way.
The song sure gets bashed enough everywhere else on this board, it wouldn't have hurt for there to have been one thread where people could just discuss what they like (or love) about it.

Ah well.

Originally posted by face of glass
Ok EricBliss. If your post was intended as a bait for a Lindseyhead, you’ve caught one.
I realize why some people have been offering a different perspective on Stevie’s contributions to TITN recently; they’re tired of the seemingly endless bashing of “WISYA� and “WTTR…S� that has been going on for quite a while. It has been suggested that the main blame should not be poured on Stevie anymore, that Lindsey should be its main target.

I'm not sure of Eric's motivations, but I know... and he'd be the first one to admit this... that he's not really a major fan of Stevie's work, so I don't think it was his intention to divert blame towards Lindsey, in order to defend Stevie. After all, Stevie definitely didn't escape his criticism here either!
Maybe he was just playing Devil's Advocate.

Originally posted by face of glass
I don’t believe that Stevie has ever been inactive in deciding of the content of her songs. Not even when recording Fleetwood Mac albums.

In the past, Stevie has said that she didn't have as much control over the outcome of her songs as she would have liked to have had, within Fleetwood Mac. I think she used the term "hi-jacked" once, in describing how she sometimes felt her songs were no longer in her hands.
But that really was "back in the day," when I think she had fears that Lindsey might try to sabotage her songs out of anger or spite.

These days she has said that she implicitly trusts Lindsey to not do something to one of her songs that she would absolutely hate. And she has said that if there happens to be something she doesn't like, she knows she can go to him about it, and that they'll work together to make it so that they're both happy with it.

(The rest of this isn't directed at Gaius. Just some of my thoughts....)

In my opinion (as if people don't already know I feel this way), there isn't any "blame" to be placed regarding the outcome of "When I See You Again," because I think the track is aces just the way it is.
It's not for everyone, and it never will be (even though I still feel that the song can touch the listener, if they let it)... but I think it's simply perfect.

In my opinion, the song conveys what the artist (both Stevie as the songwriter, and Fleetwood Mac as a whole) wanted it to, and that's why it's on the album.
They had other tracks to choose from... "Juliet," "Joan Of Arc," and "What Has Rock And Roll Done For You," for example... but they went with this one. I assume this means they liked the song and the texture it provides alongside the other tracks. Forgive me if that sounds naive, or like some "tired excuse."

No film, painting, book, poem, or song is ever going to appeal to every single person out there... but I imagine every artist's hope is that their work will elicit some kind of emotion in people, good or bad.
When a work of art is met with indifference, that's when the artist should really worry.

Love it or hate, no one can deny that we sure do talk about "When I See You Again" more than any one Fleetwood Mac song you can name!