Say You Will: Your favorite songs, grouped by singer

[mitzo]

Stevie's best solo album. Lindsey's production makes her nine tracks here really incredible.

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by mitzo

Stevie's best solo album. Lindsey's production makes her nine tracks here really incredible.

Not Make Believe is probably my favorite.
I think SYW’s Running Through the Garden BLOWS the RAL demo away

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

Not Make Believe is probably my favorite.
I think SYW’s Running Through the Garden BLOWS the RAL demo away

I really like Not Make Believe, too!

[David]

The vote goes to Lindsey for me. When I first heard “Red Rover” in 2001, I was amazed at how strange and beautiful it was. Quite frankly, I didn’t know he had it in him by that point. I also loved the Zevonesque “What’s the World Coming To?” and the Kingston Trio tribute “Steal Your Heart Away.” Great songcraft on both of those. “Say Goodbye” is probably a career high point for him, too — one of the best love-and-loss ballads in years with words that tear at your heartstrings. (You’re reminded of Stevie’s words in “Gypsy” — “Faces freedom with a little fear, I have no fear, I have only love” — when you think about the guy in this song, moving on.)

Stevie has great ones — “Destiny Rules,” “Goodbye Baby,” “Illume” — but the edge goes to LB.

I only wish the album had been engineered by Dashut and Caillat. It’s a painfully top-heavy, overcompressed experience to listen to it. I can barely tolerate it.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by David

I only wish the album had been engineered by Dashut and Caillat. It’s a painfully top-heavy, overcompressed experience to listen to it. I can barely tolerate it.

I think this is my main problem with the album, too. I do not like WTWCT. However, without the compression, that song might glisten to my ears. It really does sound compressed in so many great moments of the album.

[UnwindedDreams]

Originally Posted by David

The vote goes to Lindsey for me. When I first heard “Red Rover” in 2001, I was amazed at how strange and beautiful it was. Quite frankly, I didn’t know he had it in him by that point. I also loved the Zevonesque “What’s the World Coming To?” and the Kingston Trio tribute “Steal Your Heart Away.” Great songcraft on both of those. “Say Goodbye” is probably a career high point for him, too — one of the best love-and-loss ballads in years with words that tear at your heartstrings. (You’re reminded of Stevie’s words in “Gypsy” — “Faces freedom with a little fear, I have no fear, I have only love” — when you think about the guy in this song, moving on.)

Stevie has great ones — “Destiny Rules,” “Goodbye Baby,” “Illume” — but the edge goes to LB.

I only wish the album had been engineered by Dashut and Caillat. It’s a painfully top-heavy, overcompressed experience to listen to it. I can barely tolerate it.

Someone corrected my singing of Gypsy to say it’s “Her face says freedom” How does that make sense?

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

Someone corrected my singing of Gypsy to say it’s “Her face says freedom” How does that make sense?

no. it's 'faces freedom'

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

no. it's 'faces freedom'

not if you were a child and enough.

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by David

The vote goes to Lindsey for me. When I first heard “Red Rover” in 2001, I was amazed at how strange and beautiful it was. Quite frankly, I didn’t know he had it in him by that point. I also loved the Zevonesque “What’s the World Coming To?” and the Kingston Trio tribute “Steal Your Heart Away.” Great songcraft on both of those. “Say Goodbye” is probably a career high point for him, too — one of the best love-and-loss ballads in years with words that tear at your heartstrings. (You’re reminded of Stevie’s words in “Gypsy” — “Faces freedom with a little fear, I have no fear, I have only love” — when you think about the guy in this song, moving on.)

Stevie has great ones — “Destiny Rules,” “Goodbye Baby,” “Illume” — but the edge goes to LB.

I only wish the album had been engineered by Dashut and Caillat. It’s a painfully top-heavy, overcompressed experience to listen to it. I can barely tolerate it.

Yep hard to listen to for exactly the reasons you cite.

And I agree about the lyrics to Say Goodbye.... quite profound actually.

[aleuzzi]

Originally Posted by David

The vote goes to Lindsey for me. When I first heard “Red Rover” in 2001, I was amazed at how strange and beautiful it was.


“Say Goodbye” is probably a career high point for him, too — one of the best love-and-loss ballads in years with words that tear at your heartstrings. (You’re reminded of Stevie’s words in “Gypsy” — “Faces freedom with a little fear, I have no fear, I have only love” — when you think about the guy in this song, moving on.)

Yes—for me, Red River and Say Goodbye are the gems here. Just when I thought his best days were behind him, he turned in these performances. Wow. Just wow.