Worst production on a song - Page 2

nix4life · #16 05-20-2006, 07:03 PM

i have not heard either of the demo versions

would love to though
any one have em??

as for my least fave production - id have to go with "i miss you now" on tisl

i would just skip over it everytime
- just so lush and sllllloooooooooooowwwwwww.
lullabye to me - and not in a good way - more in a altar boy falling asleep during mass kinda thing
- but for some reason the words really stuck with me - so , , , i started tootling around on me old guitar and before long came up with a real rocking number - i am new to these boards so i don't know how to post a song - but - when i figure it out i'll post it if anyone wants to hear it as a rock song - its an audience recording of a live performance of it

StreetAngel86 · #17 05-20-2006, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by wheart

I agree on SWY's "Smile at You" but my choice would be "Doing the Best that I can". This song COULD have been been great and powerful if it was produced by anyone other than Rupert Hine. Those faint keyboards don't reflect the true spirit of the song at all. I don't like her vocal, either. Very lackluster but my biggest problem with the song are the programmed drums. They ruin the song.

NO EFFING WAY!

DtBIC is perfection

RAW is the way to go uh huh!

wheart · #18 05-21-2006, 08:00 AM

2. Smile At You (Say You Will, 2003)

This skeletal, grossly understated 2003 production was quite a shock to the system if you had been raised on Nicks’ previously unreleased classic demo of scorned lover’s rage. If it wasn't bad enough to declaw this once rockin' beast, a sloppy edit at 2:34, meant to be transitional but instead sounding almost like a skip on a record, adds insult to injury.

So very, very true!!! My least fav song on SYW. That one should never made it on the record

David · #19 05-21-2006, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by wheart

2. Smile At You (Say You Will, 2003)

So very, very true!!! My least fav song on SYW. That one should never made it on the record

I have not played that album in a loooong time, but I heartily dislike that track, too. In earlier years, it would not even have been used as a B-side.

SpyNote · #20 05-21-2006, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by wheart

2. Smile At You (Say You Will, 2003)

This skeletal, grossly understated 2003 production was quite a shock to the system if you had been raised on Nicks’ previously unreleased classic demo of scorned lover’s rage. If it wasn't bad enough to declaw this once rockin' beast, a sloppy edit at 2:34, meant to be transitional but instead sounding almost like a skip on a record, adds insult to injury.

So very, very true!!! My least fav song on SYW. That one should never made it on the record

I call this version Smile at You 2003 (Lindsey's Revenge)

UndoingTheLaces · #21 05-22-2006, 02:26 AM

I really admire Stevie and Fleetwood Mac, so I don't often like to bitch about them, but there is one song that has been bugging me so I will vent this one time. I thought Running Through The Garden had so much potential to be a great rockin' out song, but there is something really dry about Lindsay's guitar playing. Like it's a bad video game music. The tune is okay, Stevie's singing is great, but it all sounds really one dimensional and flat to me (not flat as in the musical scales, just flat as in not having much body).

elie · #22 05-22-2006, 03:56 AM

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Originally Posted by UndoingTheLaces

I really admire Stevie and Fleetwood Mac, so I don't often like to bitch about them, but there is one song that has been bugging me so I will vent this one time. I thought Running Through The Garden had so much potential to be a great rockin' out song, but there is something really dry about Lindsay's guitar playing. Like it's a bad video game music. The tune is okay, Stevie's singing is great, but it all sounds really one dimensional and flat to me (not flat as in the musical scales, just flat as in not having much body).

I agree. It sounds too 80's IMO, but I like it anyway.

Also, I think I prefer the outtake of Storms to the version that appears on the album. Still not complaining though, since it's one of my favorite songs anyway..

Dreamz19 · #23 05-23-2006, 01:25 AM

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Originally Posted by SillyDreamer

What's your vote for worst production on an otherwise promising Stevie Nicks song?

Mine would have to be the released version of Twisted. Maybe it's because I became accustomed to the demo first, I dunno... but man, I simply cannot sit through it. The rhythm, the vocals, the guitar solos.... everything about it is painful to me. It just seems so contrived, or something... if by chance it comes on while my iPod's on shuffle I get sort of agitated, and then I have to immediately stop the song midway and change it to the demo, which soothes me. From Stevie's Enchanted liner notes, it seems that she was less than satisfied with the finished product, as well.

Who produced that piece of crap? Was it Lindsey? Shame on him.

Anyway, what do you all think?

I will say "Planets of the Universe" on TISL. I don't think it's horrible but I absolutely love and prefer the demo version from the Rumours reissue CD.

Dreamz19 · #24 05-23-2006, 01:26 AM

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Originally Posted by vermicious knid

The Say You Will version of "Smile at You". Did Stevie just forget how awesome it once was? And to think that that is the only version that a lot of people will ever know.

I actually like "Smile at You" on SYW. But I have never heard the demo so I can't compare.