Stevie Nicks picks her 10 favourite songs of all time

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by cbBen

Whatever he may have once said, he did continue to perform it – or at some stage resumed doing so. It's on one of his few live albums: Solo Acoustic, Vol. 2 (2008): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_A...#Track_listing

I remember an old interview maybe from the 1980s where he said it was one song he does not perform live. He hated the song and purposely gave it to the soundtrack as a throw away that he did not want on his upcoming album.
However I did some online research and his therapist has made him come around to the song.

cut and paste:
Browne has called this an "unabashed pop song." Most musicians would want their most popular songs on their albums, but Browne was OK having it on the Fast Times at Ridgemont High soundtrack, despite the advice of his former label boss David Geffen, who told him he was nuts for giving it up.
Around this time, Jackson Browne was working on songs for his Lawyers In Love album, which was released in 1983. He didn't consider "Somebody's Baby" for the album because he didn't think was an "important" song - just a meaningless pop tune.

Browne's therapist helped bring him around. On the After the Deluge podcast, Browne said he was ragging on the song during one of his sessions, but the therapist set him straight, telling him: "You've got it all wrong. This is about something important. Everybody wants to belong to somebody. Everybody wants to feel loved and this is the most fundamental thing."