SYW production

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by ELIUD

...the rinky dinky keyboard, the coma-inducing melody.

Honey, it's bad.

honey? when did we become tight like that?

I like it, so eat yellow snow.

[ELIUD]

Silver Girl is so bad I wanna hit on the nose with a rolled up newspaper.

[JazmenFlowers]

Originally Posted by ELIUD

Silver Girl is so bad I wanna hit on the nose with a rolled up newspaper.

surely there's someone around here that can take care of that.

[shackin'up]

Sorry dears, I read this one and I have to say:

YES. Strand is right.
Stevie Nicks is the biggest commercial draw in FM-with BN.
Totally true.
But the draw is based on work she did before 1983, and in hindsight, one must confess that the quality of the work that Chris and Lindsey did during Stevies creative haydays were equally important artisticly. After that, only Lindsey brought freshness and new bite to the band. Commercially a failure, artisticly....something else. And one can hate RTTG, but those guitarparts are KILLING.

[nightbird89]

Originally Posted by SpyNote

She even changes opinions in her songs over time!

1981
"Well it's one more link in the chain/I can't believe that"

1986 (possibly even earlier)
"Well Mick said Stevie this is one more link in the chain/Well I have to believe him"

lol that's great!

[rianbay1]

Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

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you beat me to it. if the world were longing for more Christine McVie as FMtastic's posts seem to suggest (sorry if I'm misinterpreting), then why wasn't ITM insanely popular? how many copies did ITM sell anyway?

30,000 copies at last count. If I remember right, that was a couple of months after it came out.

[foxyluva]

After reading this entire post, I can't believe some of the things that have been said about my precious "Say You Will" - I don't give a flying **** how much it sold or any of the other crap that has been mentioned - the album ****ing rocks, and thats all there is to it

[SpyNote]

Stevie has also changed her mind in these songs...

1979
Now it's gone
It doesn't matter what for
When you build your house
Call me

1980
It's never gone
It always matters what for
When you build your house
I'll come by


And sometimes she's changed her mind within the same chorus...

1983
It's alright
It's alright
To be standing in a line

1986
It's alright
It's alright
It's really not alright!
To be standing in a line

But that's OK because as Stevie explained in 1988...

So today she says
Well I've changed my mind
Well that's a woman's right, they say

[nix4life]

Stevie has also changed her mind in these songs...

1979
Now it's gone
It doesn't matter what for
When you build your house
Call me

1980
It's never gone
It always matters what for
When you build your house
I'll come by



i always thought that both of those were in the song the whole time -

only the last one was "ill come by and all the previous were "call me home"
but i may be confusing the live and studio versions -
ill have to listen to both and see

and two weeks ago i got to hear them back to back on my random play -
4000 songs on there and it played sara studio and sara live one after the other - now that is a day maker

[Serrart]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

No I have not. I still maintain that and her commercial success is part of that. She knew without it LB and FM would not have a chance at the record company getting behind them like it did. Again, why else would she go back to that drama?

Does it really piss you off that she is so popular?

That's a rethoric question right? She will never be forgiven for that, the genius suffered too much for that reason.

Romy

[Serrart]

Originally Posted by ELIUD

Silver Girl is so bad I wanna hit on the nose with a rolled up newspaper.

I liked the refrain, and I'm still curious aboput the demo with a flute. I guess Lindsey must have it since nobody from Stevie camp has stolen it yet ... just kidding.

Romy

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by diamondsnake

I know a lot of people like "Come"

Nothin wrong with that!

[DavidMn]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

Not taking the bait

ThaT Was quite the interesting little catfight there.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by shackin'up

Sorry dears, I read this one and I have to say:

YES. Strand is right.
Stevie Nicks is the biggest commercial draw in FM-with BN.
Totally true.
But the draw is based on work she did before 1983, and in hindsight, one must confess that the quality of the work that Chris and Lindsey did during Stevies creative haydays were equally important artisticly. After that, only Lindsey brought freshness and new bite to the band. Commercially a failure, artisticly....something else. And one can hate RTTG, but those guitarparts are KILLING.

I disagree in that I think LB's creativity lacked on the SYW songs he produced in 2001, etc. I am not talking about the GOS stuff, which was done a decade or so earlier. For example, I think WTWCT is juvenile for a person of his talent.

Conversely, Stevie displayed IMO much more creativity on TISL (the song) and the lyrics of Thrown Down, which most agree was written after The Dance. So, I think it is incorrect to say La Nicks hayday was over after say 1983.

But, yes, all of their work was important artistically. Personally, I think CM's work on Tusk is amongst the best of just about any artist.

Tone - I am not slamming any member of the band. I am just noting what I think and why.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by Serrart

That's a rethoric question right? She will never be forgiven for that, the genius suffered too much for that reason.

Romy

I know - and it seemingly just burns the Stevie bashers up that someone of in their opinion such little talent could possibly eclipse the serious artist known as LB, who they think eschews the spotlight and would never be a commercial sellout - as they hum along to GYOW as they watch a rental car commercial on television Again, LB is brilliant and that is that. Stevie, though less talented, by her own admission, musically - has a draw that LB will never have and that is that.