Like or Dislike: Nightbird

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Most voted to do The Wild Heart next, so I'll get it started.

Personally, this has never been a big favorite of mine. The harmonies are beautiful, but the lyrics are pretty bad (with the exception of the chorus & the last verse.) Stevie loves blankets? I think I know what she meant - being all nice & warm & protected in your home with your friends & family; keeping warm bundled up in front of the fire when it's cold outside - but still. "The blankets that I love" does not do it for me. I don't mind "boots all summer long" but "the real color of my skin" is odd. I think this song is about Robin dying, and I get what she was trying to express, but I don't feel it.

The music - eh. All I hear is the synthesizer (it takes over the song), and the drum machine sounds almost identical to Stand Back. That bothers me for some reason.

Her SNL live performance of this with Lori is great, they really hit it out of the park. Would I love it so much if they had done it every night on that tour? Probably not. It's so special since it was one time only. I wonder why it never made the setlist, since it was released as a single (hard for me to believe it made #33 - I NEVER remember hearing this on the radio back in 83/84. Never.) I would have liked to see it done in Vegas, though, since Lori was back.

EDIT: almost forgot the Solid Gold performance, so I guess it was done twice. Still speacial, though.