Like or Dislike: Doing the Best That I Can

[StreetAngel86]

Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

I can't tell you how often I quote lyrics from this song or in my mind, sing it to myself in times of dire strain. it is Stevie at her lyrical best...

while it does have a mystical, airy fairy vibe to it, it is the totally in your face strength that makes it my favorite on TOSOTM

holy **** jason
you sig pic is utter sex!
like seriously

DtBIC is my tied favorite Stevie song ever.
I love it coz it's depressing and coz it's like REAL Stevie.......it's not a romanticized fairytale world. I like how it's raw and a really simple {musically} song. I have it on my phone as my message alert and my supervisor at work heard it go off and he's like 'WOAH that was so 80s' THat is the only downside with the music

So many good lines.......and the way she sings them

my fave line is actually And the whispered secrets...go on and on
No one says anything to anyone i had to base my email on that. who hasn't been talked about behind their back and then found out about it GRRR


In my distress...well I wanted someone to blame me
In my devastation...I wanted so to change
In my way...disaster was the only thing that I could depend on...



but ESPECIALLY

Because fate causes fortune
and fortune takes it away
And then fortune causes nightmares...
nightmares that make you crazy

and then i get chills when the music picks up

what's not to love about this song. AWESOME

i posted this the other week, but does anyone have the 2nd demo of this.........that's like 11 minutes long?

I have 3 bones to pick with this song tho.......WHY was it left off Enchanted, WHY wasn't it the last song on TOSOTM and WHY hasn't it been performed live {and i mean in concert, not the sing along around the piano thing}

:: sigh ::

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by carrie721

Beauty And The Beast.

O yeh.....duh!

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by StreetAngel86

holy **** jason
you sig pic is utter sex!
like seriously

thank you

I love all the lines you quoted.

[jannieC]

I love this song so much that I keep coming back to this thread to see what everyone else is saying about it.

[ClintonScott]

does anyone have a live version, or demo of "doing the best i can"? would you post it if you have it? thanks.

i love this song, but it is dying for a key change somewhere towards the end. and i wish that *only* Stevie would have done the background vocals, i think it would have been more powerful...

[BlackWidow]

Originally Posted by DavidMn

About a 5 out of 10 for me.

yea..not a great vocal..she has to be in good voice for me to like it!
I love her..but I need to hear singing..not talking..not screaming..not straining..a clean vocal...
Plus I get nervous when the arrangements are geared up for the back up singers to hit all the high notes..my pet peeve. It seems patched together.

[BombaySapphire3]

Sure it has a very late 1980s Europop feel but it works for the song ,like a critic at the time pointed out it is very similar to Tanita Tikarim's one great song 'Twist in my Sobriety"..a very different sound for Stevie .she has never come up with anything else like it and certainly in her top 5 of the last 20 years.

[BlackWidow]

Originally Posted by StreetAngel86

holy **** jason
you sig pic is utter sex!
like seriously

DtBIC is my tied favorite Stevie song ever.
I love it coz it's depressing and coz it's like REAL Stevie.......it's not a romanticized fairytale world. I like how it's raw and a really simple {musically} song. I have it on my phone as my message alert and my supervisor at work heard it go off and he's like 'WOAH that was so 80s' THat is the only downside with the music

So many good lines.......and the way she sings them

my fave line is actually And the whispered secrets...go on and on
No one says anything to anyone i had to base my email on that. who hasn't been talked about behind their back and then found out about it GRRR


In my distress...well I wanted someone to blame me
In my devastation...I wanted so to change
In my way...disaster was the only thing that I could depend on...



but ESPECIALLY

Because fate causes fortune
and fortune takes it away
And then fortune causes nightmares...
nightmares that make you crazy

and then i get chills when the music picks up

what's not to love about this song. AWESOME

i posted this the other week, but does anyone have the 2nd demo of this.........that's like 11 minutes long?

I have 3 bones to pick with this song tho.......WHY was it left off Enchanted, WHY wasn't it the last song on TOSOTM and WHY hasn't it been performed live {and i mean in concert, not the sing along around the piano thing}

:: sigh ::

I truly admire your passion for Stevie!
However I find the eras you love very sad and depressing. I just connect
those albums at a time when she was so lost and overweight and very unhappy. Not to mention a major shift in her voice that caused her to be made fun of by many and was no longer on par with Top 40 airplay. The drug addictions..etc. It wasn't included on Enchanted because maybe she is not in love with that song..or it bums her out too...It wasn't the last song on OSOTM..because it was too heavy..much like WISYA was not the last song on Tango.I love much of her darker and mysterious songs too..but there was just too much darkness..for me that is not her appeal. The line that says it all was.."WELL I PAID A PRICE FOR IT!"

I pray that is not the REAL Stevie....

[JazmenFlowers]

here's my demo of this song.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/3pb3sa

[Janet]

Oh yay! People like this song.

I really got into Stevie in 1998 when I got her boxset. I loved her with the Dance but the boxset put me over the edge!

OSOTM is overall a weird album for a 20 year old to get into in the late 90's...it's very 80's and out there. But I loved that song...from day 1.

Of course now, I love anything that comes out of her mouth ( yeah...everything LOL) but that song was always the stand out to me in that album ( now I think it's Cry Wolf).

I thought many would not like it...but it's nice to see so many do!!

[BombaySapphire3]

Originally Posted by Janet

but that song was always the stand out to me in that album ( now I think it's Cry Wolf).

anyone care to start a poll for that one?

[StreetAngel86]

Originally Posted by BlackWidow

I truly admire your passion for Stevie!
However I find the eras you love very sad and depressing.

that is not done on purpose i just happen to like Stevie ala 85-94 (well 98 lol) better than any other because those eras encompass my favorite songs and really made me a Stevie Nicks fan when I was initally a FM fan.

I just connect
those albums at a time when she was so lost and overweight and very unhappy.

yes. so do i but it is not just about that stuff. i know it's hard to differentiate between the music of the time and Stevie's r/l but not liking 10 years of some pretty good {yes a lot of average} music just because Stevie was in a really ****ty place really pisses me off {of people in general not directed at you or anything } i'm sure people would view TOSOTM & SA negatively whether or not Stevie was on drugs or in rehab or over weight but that those things influence peoples opinion pretty much all the time is sad.

It wasn't included on Enchanted because maybe she is not in love with that song..or it bums her out too...It wasn't the last song on OSOTM..because it was too heavy..much like WISYA was not the last song on Tango.

and Love Is isn't heavy?
i think WISYA totally should have been the last song on Tango too good solid songs should always end a cd and leave you wondering
But the Enchanted thing always interested me.....like Stevie put SA on her "masterpiece collection" Who here besides me thinks SA is a masterpiece? pretty much nobody. but DtBIC is way more intense and masterpiece-like. and i'm sure she 'loves' it more than anything she put on SA right? i mean there was nearly 10 years to remove herself from whatever she was feeling when she wrote/recorded that. I totally agree with you in that maybe she didn't love it or didn't like wot it represented, but then if that's what she thinks.....2-3 years later she's doing TISL? i would think THAT would be more of a raw nerve.

I love much of her darker and mysterious songs too..but there was just too much darkness..for me that is not her appeal. The line that says it all was.."WELL I PAID A PRICE FOR IT!"

see, not everyone likes the same stuff. that's ooright. for me personally, i like the VERY VERY dark, mysterious songs. that's just my preference. if DtBIC had been written for BD or TISL and was reflective of another situation and time in Stevie's life, i'd probably still like it. But i like it MORE because of when it was written

I pray that is not the REAL Stevie....

i do. coz then it would diminish the meaning of the song for me.
if she wrote that and didn't mean it..well it would suck

[BlackWidow]

Originally Posted by StreetAngel86

that is not done on purpose i just happen to like Stevie ala 85-94 (well 98 lol) better than any other because those eras encompass my favorite songs and really made me a Stevie Nicks fan when I was initally a FM fan.



yes. so do i but it is not just about that stuff. i know it's hard to differentiate between the music of the time and Stevie's r/l but not liking 10 years of some pretty good {yes a lot of average} music just because Stevie was in a really ****ty place really pisses me off {of people in general not directed at you or anything } i'm sure people would view TOSOTM & SA negatively whether or not Stevie was on drugs or in rehab or over weight but that those things influence peoples opinion pretty much all the time is sad.



and Love Is isn't heavy?
i think WISYA totally should have been the last song on Tango too good solid songs should always end a cd and leave you wondering
But the Enchanted thing always interested me.....like Stevie put SA on her "masterpiece collection" Who here besides me thinks SA is a masterpiece? pretty much nobody. but DtBIC is way more intense and masterpiece-like. and i'm sure she 'loves' it more than anything she put on SA right? i mean there was nearly 10 years to remove herself from whatever she was feeling when she wrote/recorded that. I totally agree with you in that maybe she didn't love it or didn't like wot it represented, but then if that's what she thinks.....2-3 years later she's doing TISL? i would think THAT would be more of a raw nerve.



see, not everyone likes the same stuff. that's ooright. for me personally, i like the VERY VERY dark, mysterious songs. that's just my preference. if DtBIC had been written for BD or TISL and was reflective of another situation and time in Stevie's life, i'd probably still like it. But i like it MORE because of when it was written



i do. coz then it would diminish the meaning of the song for me.
if she wrote that and didn't mean it..well it would suck

Well..the good news is she got out of the hole she dug herself in!
She reminds me of Joni Mitchell. THAT VOICE! AH! I love Joni in all eras too..but miss her voice from the beginning. That was what put them on top for many years..The Voice. It kills me to know it is gone. I miss her voice I fell in love with. She is still great..but its a different great...Thanks for being open to my comments..I do love you in the mix!!!!

[wheart]

I like this song...I don't love it. I COULD have loved it if were produced better but I won't go down that road again. The vocal and the lyrics are great. It does maintain a haunting quality and the melody is great. Those fake drums bug me a lot but otherwise, a great little tune.

[wheart]

Originally Posted by BlackWidow

Well..the good news is she got out of the hole she dug herself in!
She reminds me of Joni Mitchell. THAT VOICE! AH! I love Joni in all eras too..but miss her voice from the beginning. That was what put them on top for many years..The Voice. It kills me to know it is gone. I miss her voice I fell in love with. She is still great..but its a different great...Thanks for being open to my comments..I do love you in the mix!!!!

I adore Joni Mitchell as well. It is very sad to listen to her voice now and the way it was. SUCH a difference. I think Joni is incredibly talented and writes amazing songs so I'll always love her, as you said, in every era.