Sable On Blonde (Help)

[SortaSavageLike]

Sable On Blonde. Geedit? Ha Ha!

[TheWILDheart]

Sable means black - the colour. So Sable on Blond, dark upon light. Maybe it was that she felt a certain relationship wouldn't work because the people in it were too different and were in the relationship just for the hell of it. "Dark upon light, because it hurts too much" - It hurts that deep down she really know's it's not meant to be because the 2 are so different. "Was it thorn in your side, something that you hide" - although things may have started out good, she feels like he thinks it is his duty to be in the relationship now and he is hiding it from her. And so she just wishes he would be honest about it instead of sparing her feelings "because it hurts too much"

I dunno, maybe I'm just thinking too much but that's what I think anyway.

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by amber

Thank god that multi color bic pen was in it, or we wouldn't have gotten the great songs.


I'd also like to add that I would like Sable on Blond much better if it didn't start with those elevator dentist office sounding "ahahahahahahaahah"s. Yuck.

Sable on Blonde has Allways been one of my favorite Stevie songs ever. Sombody had told me a story about a song where stevie "calls on excalibur" and that was it, I loved the song before i even heard it. I allways thought that "learn to be a stranger...blonde on blonde" went along with the theme of "SISTERS OF THE MOON" Where stevie feels like she is afew diferent people in one. (just like the cover of wild heart, and what she has said about what sisters of the moon is about. HER, and then the OTHER her. She is now very settled in that role, she has learned to be that other person, also, isnt her hair like a brownish blonde naturally, but "STEVIE NICKS" has BLONDE hair, so she has to litterally color blonde on the color blonde to keep up with the image. The press kit explains the excalibur part perfectly and beautifully.
and I do also believe that this song is about her saying to some relationship, "no it is not me it is YOU. (baaaaabay)

NOW, IF SOMEONE COULD EDIT OUT LAME BACKUP SINGER OOOO,OOOH AAAAHH BEGINNING! i WOULD LOVE THE SONG EVEN MORE.
(really, please someone)

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by amber

I'd also like to add that I would like Sable on Blond much better if it didn't start with those elevator dentist office sounding "ahahahahahahaahah"s. Yuck.

Originally Posted by Phoenix

NOW, IF SOMEONE COULD EDIT OUT LAME BACKUP SINGER OOOO,OOOH AAAAHH BEGINNING! i WOULD LOVE THE SONG EVEN MORE.
(really, please someone)

I love that part! It's so pretty and ethereal.

Oh well.

[jbrownsjr]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

I love that part! It's so pretty and ethereal.

Oh well.

me too i like the backing vocals.

[petep9000]

Stevie was big into fur coats in those days, I've seen pics of her wearing them and in one interview she bragged about how fabulous it was to walk into a 'fur salon' and come out with three coats. Maybe the title of SOB is a reference to Sable, which is a type of fur bearing critter that they make coats from. And blonde, her hair.

Someone commented that they thought Sable was black, maybe it can be dyed for coats or something because as I recall from my art-school days my sable paintbrushes were an auburn/brown color.

And ditto to everyone here who said the "ahhah hah haaaa huh-haaaa" parts were a little excessive.

[priestofnothing]

A sable is a type of fur yes, but a sable is also a black or dark piece of clothing worn in mourning.... like mourning the death of someone.

I've heard a sable referred to as that black kind of netting that Stevie sometimes wears over her hats, covering her face.....

So Sable on Blonde would be that black netting on top of her blonde hair....


.... i think that is the imagery for the song title ....

[Sorcerer386]

Originally Posted by priestofnothing

A sable is a type of fur yes, but a sable is also a black or dark piece of clothing worn in mourning.... like mourning the death of someone.

I've heard a sable referred to as that black kind of netting that Stevie sometimes wears over her hats, covering her face.....

So Sable on Blonde would be that black netting on top of her blonde hair....


.... i think that is the imagery for the song title ....

Wow, I never even thought of that. That's really cool.

[amber]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

I love that part! It's so pretty and ethereal.

Oh well.

Indeed it is. Much like elevator/dentist office music. Soooothing....

[trackaghost]

I always thought the title of the song was a reference to Bob's Blonde On Blonde.
It seems too similar not to be.
Could it be about him perhaps? Did she know him around that time?
I know it's been said that they had some kind of affair later on...

[MissyWiggy]

Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

Sable means black - the colour. So Sable on Blond, dark upon light. Maybe it was that she felt a certain relationship wouldn't work because the people in it were too different and were in the relationship just for the hell of it. "Dark upon light, because it hurts too much" - It hurts that deep down she really know's it's not meant to be because the 2 are so different. "Was it thorn in your side, something that you hide" - although things may have started out good, she feels like he thinks it is his duty to be in the relationship now and he is hiding it from her. And so she just wishes he would be honest about it instead of sparing her feelings "because it hurts too much"

I dunno, maybe I'm just thinking too much but that's what I think anyway.

You! you.... you... nabber! just cos I told you about the whole sable meaning black thing.... stealer of explanations!
I still don't actually get it though ah well... ur still a nabber

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by MissyWiggy

You! you.... you... nabber! just cos I told you about the whole sable meaning black thing.... stealer of explanations!
I still don't actually get it though ah well... ur still a nabber

Actually I looked it up on dictionary.com after your vague explanation the other day .

[MissyWiggy]

Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

Actually I looked it up on dictionary.com after your vague explanation the other day .

woah woah woah
"rewind and freeze" while i have a heart attack....
you. dictionary. you. dictionary. my brain is overcome... *screams as head explodes into a puff of blue smoke*

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by MissyWiggy

woah woah woah
"rewind and freeze" while i have a heart attack....
you. dictionary. you. dictionary. my brain is overcome... *screams as head explodes into a puff of blue smoke*

is that ANY way to talk to the person who introduced you to Stevie in the first place AND who has your Tori Amos ticket?

[Nixxxed]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

I know it's been said that they had some kind of affair later on...

I've never heard that.

Off to vomit now.