Ranking SEEDS WE SOW tracks

[TrueFaith77]

Originally Posted by MrStevie

I can't pick. My preferences change by the hour. I've been playing the whole cd in order repeatedly for days. I like the running order. I like the cd as an entire work. If the Stones cover was left off I wouldn't object. End of Time really should be the closer.

Let's make this analysis official:
The ChiliD Challenge: The Derivations of SWS Tracks
http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=48648

[dontlookdown]

Stars Are Crazy and When She Comes Down:
Easily up there with the greatest songs of his almost 40 year career.

I'm a huge Under The Skin fan. Gift of Screws didn't really sink in or stick with me for very long. Not sure where Seeds We Sow fits in, but I agree - it's one of his best solo albums.

Re: politics - "The middle class is doing just fine..." huh? What rock have you been hiding under?

[wondergirl9847]

Well, I've not had as much listening time as I would prefer before doing this, but I'll play along anyway and I retain the right to change this...which I'm sure I will, later.

LOVE:
Stars Are Crazy (MAN, I wish he had written this completely because I adore it.)
Seeds We Sow (I sing this to myself quite a bit during the day. )
Rock Away Blind
In Our Own Time
Illumination

LIKE:

The Way Love Goes (wish the chorus wasn't so distorted. LOVE the verses though!)
Gone Too Far
One Take
End of Time (both versions)
When She Comes Down
She Smiled Sweetly

MEH:

Sleeping Around the Corner
Seeds We Sow (Electric)

[TrueFaith77]

Originally Posted by dontlookdown

Re: politics - "The middle class is doing just fine..." huh? What rock have you been hiding under?

Like X, I'm more worried about people who can't eat or who don't have access to health care and for whom the education system is closer to incarceration and who live in dangerous neighborhoods with unresponsive police.

The middle class (like me) is doing just fine.

[Nico]

I know no one is sitting around waiting for my list, but I intend to post one very soon. I'm just very transfixed by the album and, as a whole, I think it's stunning. I can listen to it all the way through without skipping a track, which is a HUGE telling point for me as to adoring something. I normally skip songs on even albums I love dearly. Anyway, give me some time to think about this...

[Peestie]

All I can really say is that the ones that wouldn't be my favourite are

When She Comes Down
Seeds We Sow (electric)

That's not to say that I don't like them. I won't skip WSCD but I just think it's a bit less interesting than the others. SWS(electric) is really fun but I just feel that the words don't fit it and the singing should have been done a bit more with a smile and wink than so erm... dramatic. It's a nice b-side but IMO it doesn't belong anywhere near the album.

I'd actually quite like a whole album in the style of Sleeping Around the Corner and SWS(electric). It's chunky, fun and something he hasn't done really since GI. I adore his acoustic and electric playing but when he meshed it with synths on GI it was really quirky and he captures some of that fun on the two bonus tracks for this one.