"What Are Your Thoughts On......" A New Series .... Part 1: Love Is

Musicman408 · #1 02-25-2007, 12:27 PM

So I got this idea. I would love to have a thread where we all just discuss our thoughts on a sinle song. EVERYTHING about the song. We disect it and analyze and talk about every little detail. What we love, what we hate and all of that good stuff.

I hope you all like this idea, because I think it would be cool to get a general rule of opinion on certain songs, you know what I mean? Just figure out what the majority of Stevie Fans think. Just thought that this would be really cool and I hope you all agree.

So anyway, in this, the first part of the series, we will be discussing the song "Love Is" from Stevie's TISL.

Quite frankly I think this is such a beautiful song and I LUUUUURRRRVE it!!!! It is beautiful. I think that the lyrics are so expressive and they get to me EVERY-TIME I listen to it.

trackaghost · #2 02-25-2007, 02:07 PM

Paula does threads like this, discussing certain Stevie and Mac songs, I don't think she's done Love Is though.
I think Love Is is beautiful, very Stevie, although I wonder if it was originally intended to be a duet. The first verse just feels like a call and response.
I love the production on it, but I think there's a really nice sparser, piano version floating around.

Musicman408 · #3 02-25-2007, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by trackaghost

Paula does threads like this, discussing certain Stevie and Mac songs, I don't think she's done Love Is though.
I think Love Is is beautiful, very Stevie, although I wonder if it was originally intended to be a duet. The first verse just feels like a call and response.
I love the production on it, but I think there's a really nice sparser, piano version floating around.

Yeah, I have the piano version somewhere, but I don't think it is on my computer.

Musicman408 · #4 02-25-2007, 02:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trackaghost

Paula does threads like this, discussing certain Stevie and Mac songs, I don't think she's done Love Is though.
I think Love Is is beautiful, very Stevie, although I wonder if it was originally intended to be a duet. The first verse just feels like a call and response.
I love the production on it, but I think there's a really nice sparser, piano version floating around.

Where can I find the ones Paula has done?? So I don't do any repeats.

trackaghost · #5 02-25-2007, 02:29 PM

I've just found it on my computer, I'll post it in a bit.

trackaghost · #6 02-25-2007, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Musicman408

Where can I find the ones Paula has done?? So I don't do any repeats.

Probably the best way would be to search under Paula's profile - her username is skcin and search for threads started by her.
I don't think she did any of the TISL songs though.
And they're worth reading, there's more interesting stuff in those threads!

trackaghost · #7 02-25-2007, 02:42 PM

I just looked she's done:

Dreams
http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=31319

I Don't Wanna Know
http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=28917

Second Hand News
http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=28730

Doing The Best I Can
http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=27424

Fire Burning
http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=27288

All TOSOTM album it seems (sorry I got bored linking to them!) and others too

Probably some of the older ones would be worth redoing though, as I didn't realise some of them were so old!

Musicman408 · #8 02-25-2007, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by trackaghost

I just looked she's done:

Dreams
http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=31319

I Don't Wanna Know
http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=28917

Second Hand News
http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=28730

Doing The Best I Can
http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=27424

Fire Burning
http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showthread.php?t=27288

All TOSOTM album it seems (sorry I got bored linking to them!) and others too

Probably some of the older ones would be worth redoing though, as I didn't realise some of them were so old!

Thanks for the links, I'll definately check them out....

Now back to Love Is. I really love the lyrics to the first verse. The conversational vibe to me is just so beautiful.

Musicman408 · #9 02-25-2007, 06:49 PM

Are we the only couple that absolutely LUUURVE this song???

trackaghost · #10 02-25-2007, 06:56 PM

This thread will probably pick up tomorrow Ethan
Everyone's off watching the Oscars!

Musicman408 · #11 02-25-2007, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by trackaghost

This thread will probably pick up tomorrow Ethan
Everyone's off watching the Oscars!

I hope so, and NOOO not because I want a popular thread, but because I wasnt to have some meaningful discussions on Stevie's song. I love Stevie and love her songs, and talking about them is great.

LUUUUURRRVE ME SOME STEVIE!!!!!!

foxyluva · #12 02-25-2007, 07:18 PM

I prefer the mid-90s piano demo to the one on TISL, but love it either way

Kris10723 · #13 02-25-2007, 07:48 PM

I loved this song the first time that I heard it. When I bought TISL when it first came out, it was my favorite song on the album and still is. But I've recently heard the demo version and I love that even more!!!! I love the few extra lines that are in the demo 'knowing that it must be to you like your angels arms'. Absolutely beautiful!!! **I wonder who she's talking about there** But anyway, I think that this is one of my favorite songs that she's written.

steviefan59 · #14 02-26-2007, 09:24 AM

hi all...love is is 1 of my favs but i prefer the demo to the tisl version...the demo imho is so much better...not just her voice but i like the simplicity over production...to me just stevie and the piano is much better sounding like the tower too...take care...pat

skcin · #15 02-26-2007, 03:21 PM

Do a thread title search for "like or dislike" in the Stevie forum, they'll all pop up. There's a thread for every song from every solo Stevie album except TISL - just never got around to it. Never did any of the soundtrack or Timespace tunes either.

And I like "Love Is."