Can I Get Some Love For When I See You AGain - Page 5

amber · #61 12-17-2004, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

I also feel that fragile, hoarse whisper (ah-ha! Stevie's the Hoarse Whisperer!

) that she sings it with, is so in-tune with the emotionality of the song that it would not have had the same effect if she had recorded it a few years prior or a few years later.

Exactamundo, Stewleone! i LOVE stevie's voice there. no one else could've conveyed so much, with so little....

ricohv · #62 12-17-2004, 01:49 AM

I like the song - sometimes more than others. I even like Welcome to the Room...Sara...sometimes. I feel they don't work well with the album though. Seven Wonders fits nicely, the other two just don't fit. Lindsey and Chris meshed so well on that album-Stevie just seemed strangely out of the loop. That is probably what I dislike most about them-they seem to be sort of road blocks in the album. It's rolling along nicely, and then clunk-there's a Stevie song that doesn't fit, thrown down like a barricade someone once said. I would say lyrically I like WISYA better than Family Man (JMO) but even there Family MAn fits the album better and flows into the big picture (the album as a whole) nicer.

It is really difficult to decribe Stevie's voice-especially in songs like that. I mean, we can all try, but would anyone who didn't know her really get a realistic sound in their heads from these decriptions? To me it sounds like if you have a head cold and you talk in your cootchie-cootchie-coo baby voice (and that sounds negative but I do like it). She phased into that voice hear and there on Rock A Little, which I beleive the People magazine review of that album said something like "Stevie sounds like a bizare mix of Edith Piaf and Elmer Fudd". Now there's a description, huh?

And since this is an appreciation thread, I will say, the line after that read, "But Nicks is too smooth a pro to allow her vocal idiosyncracies to mar the record..."

Ricoh

Vianna · #63 12-17-2004, 08:40 AM

I LOVE WISYA. Always have. Esp. the Lindsey guitar work at the end..

The lyrics are haunting, especially in the context of where Stevie was at the time...just back from rehab, wondering how people were going to react to her now..

The one I don't particularly like on that album is Family Man.

amber · #64 12-17-2004, 01:07 PM

I'm listening to it again, and i like it even more than i thought. I'd prefer Lindsey didn't sing, though. contrary to popular opinion.

I mean, she coulda fit in like, five more heartbreakingly beautiful 'wassamatababies' during that time.

**jbrownsjr** · #65 12-17-2004, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

I'm listening to it again, and i like it even more than i thought. I'd prefer Lindsey didn't sing, though. contrary to popular opinion.

I mean, she coulda fit in like, five more heartbreakingly beautiful 'wassamatababies' during that time.

oh lord!!!!

amber · #66 12-17-2004, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by jbrownsjr

oh lord!!!!

hehehehehe!!! Unfortunately, i'm not really joking!

**jbrownsjr** · #67 12-17-2004, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

hehehehehe!!! Unfortunately, i'm not really joking!

Unfortunately, I believe u!

face of glass · #68 12-17-2004, 03:57 PM

My favourite review quote on "When I See You Again" is by George Starostin:

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...and 'When I See You Again' is an even lower point for the band than 'Everywhere' or 'Family Man': Nicks croaking? Lord! She sounds like a dying dog! This probably means that her voice really was starting to deteriorate, so she couldn't handle gentle, quiet vocals without giving the effect that sends the nasty kind of shivers down your back. That's the trouble with voices, you know: don't put too much in your voice, it's sure to let you down some day.

Almost reads like a compliment, methinks.