Seven Wonders

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by BLY

To this day Seven Wonders ranks in the top Ten of my all time favorite Fleetwood Mac songs. Every time the song comes on I have to crank it up. Tango might have been the Buckingham/McVie album but I think Seven Wonders was the best "Band" song ( after Little Lies)

It's such a good song. I love the atmosphere of the intro and the 3 voices on the chorus. I'm sad they dropped it from the set.

[bsavi4]

Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

It's such a good song. I love the atmosphere of the intro and the 3 voices on the chorus. I'm sad they dropped it from the set.

I think the song doesn't deserve to be bashed like it sometimes is, but it certainly isn't a very strong composition. The tune is catchy but nothing special. The verses are clunky and contain the word "hand" way too often. The chorus is the best part, and it's so good that it makes it easy to forget how bad the verses are. It should've made Greatest Hits because it went to #17, but let's not get carried away here. It's still a dog relative to Stevie's compositions on the first four albums.

[sanders8323]

Just to clear up the song's peak chart position, it did in fact peak at 17 in Canada and 19 in the US.

[UndoingTheLaces]

I think the 12" remix is way better than the album version. It softens the whole thing up a bit and really lets you enjoy the warmth of the synths.

There's this little piano thing that goes on during the instrumental break that I never understood. It always seemed out of place. But there's a part of a demo on YouTube where you can hear a whole fast paced guitar strumming thing where the piano compliments it really well. But I always thought the piano alone didn't sound so great. I was happy in the 12" that they removed it.

They also put a softer echo on her voice and have her voice repeat when she sings "a certain time... a certain place" and it's a great effect.

[mitzo]

7 Wonders brought me back to Stevie and FM after some years of disappointment following Belladonna. 7 W was all over the radio in the summer of '87 and caught me. I bought the TITN album and Stevie's 3 songs there made me an instant fan again. Oddly, 7 W, Welcome to the Room, and especially WISYA worked much better for me than all of Belladonna and 90% of Wild Heart.

[Nick]

Originally Posted by mitzo

7 Wonders brought me back to Stevie and FM after some years of disappointment following Belladonna. 7 W was all over the radio in the summer of '87 and caught me. I bought the TITN album and Stevie's 3 songs there made me an instant fan again. Oddly, 7 W, Welcome to the Room, and especially WISYA worked much better for me than all of Belladonna and 90% of Wild Heart.

While I agree 7W was great, I totally disagree that WISYA is better than anything on Stevie's solo albums. Child please.

[sorcerer999]

Originally Posted by Nick

I totally disagree that WISYA is better than anything on Stevie's solo albums. Child please.

I wholeheartedly agree! Better than BD and WH? WTF???

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by mitzo

7 Wonders brought me back to Stevie and FM after some years of disappointment following Belladonna. 7 W was all over the radio in the summer of '87 and caught me. I bought the TITN album and Stevie's 3 songs there made me an instant fan again. Oddly, 7 W, Welcome to the Room, and especially WISYA worked much better for me than all of Belladonna and 90% of Wild Heart.

I'm with you on Stevie's Tango stuff... but you lose me at BD and WH...

It's good stuff. Whatever Stevie was smokin.. it worked.. Great albums.