Favorite Song from The Dance

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Originally Posted by billwebster

"Bleed To Love Her" is my pick in this poll. It's better than the studio version. In fact, I wonder why they even bothered recording it again. They did not do that with "My Little Demon"..

A) "Bleed To Love Her", the studio version, was already 99.999% finished when The Dance project came up. It was the song that triggered the whole reunion special & tour. After the hoo-ha regarding the song being the one that "got everyone back together", they couldn't very well, in good conscience, leave the studio version off the next album, regardless if it were a "Lindsey Buckingham" or a "Fleetwood Mac" album. Similar situation with "Steal You Heart Away"...there were 3 earlier released versions before the version on SYW. While it is usually the norm to release a studio version BEFORE a live version, this time was flipped (not exactly new in Fleetwood Mac's history; they've always been known to "test" new songs in live situations well before a new album comes out...at least up until 1980, that is). And, being that the live arrangement was pretty much just a truncated version of the studio take, I'm one that pretty much thinks that the only reason it WAS shortened (and it does pretty much come to an ABRUPT end compared with the studio take) was due to TV restrictions and Lindsey rearranged the song at the last minute for The Dance broadcast.

B) The studio version of "My Little Demon" wasn't quite finished when Fleetwood Mac got their hands on it and it was mainly going to be saved by Lindsey for his next solo project, which got delayed for so long, his entire focus changed & it was left for posterity.