Looking for timeframe of various demos - Page 4

Nathan · #46 03-17-2010, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by mikebise

I was told "Impossible Task" was from the Rock A Little era. However, listening to that second version just now that you mentioned, the guitar sounds like the guy from Venice who played on several demos. Stevie met him in 1989... So, I have no idea. Now I would put it in 1991 with "The Mix-Down" and "The Dance".

"Secret Love" was on Almanac in Autumn 1978, so your instincts are correct.

"Tied Up (In Promises)" is Rock A Little for sure, but I've always wondered why Stevie recorded a 1982 Olivia Newton-John single.

I am not sure if "What Has Rock and Roll Ever Done For You?" was recorded in time for Rock A Little; it could have been. For some reason, I think of it in that burst of creativity Stevie displayed stemming from her February 1986 tour of Australia with Tom & Bob:

Whole Lotta Trouble
You Like Me
Two Kinds of Love
Juliet

Just guessing, of course. But the lyrics seem to suggest Tom & Friends.

Mike,

What is You Like Me?

mikebise · #47 03-17-2010, 04:23 PM

The Fall of 1987 I had bought Laura's album with "Cry Wolf" (and "Whatever I Do, Wherever I Go" ~ the Hazell Dean cover, and "Shattered Glass"), and then in February 1988, I was undergoing Air Traffic Controller training in Oklahoma City. I had this dream that Stevie covered "Cry Wolf"!

In my dream, Stevie's vocals were very "When I See You Again", very Red Rocks (because that concert had just premiered on Showtime in Feb 1988). I was SO surprised when The Other Side of The Mirror came out and "Cry Wolf" was listed and STUNNED when it actually was the Laura Branigan song. But Stevie's vocals weren't quite as ragged as my dream...

Some of the outtakes of it are, though...

mikebise · #48 03-17-2010, 04:26 PM

Stevie wrote "You Like Me" in 1986, and the Williams Bros. covered it and released it on their album in July 1987 (along with their version of "Some Become Stangers", the song they wrote). (Mike Campbell wrote the music and plays guitar on the Williams Bros. version).

NO ONE I know of has Stevie's version of "You Like Me", but it is an AMAZING SONG!!!!! Even just hearing the cover.

Bitter, snippy, taunting, conceited... SO many emotions Stevie runs through in that rocking song!

mikebise · #49 03-17-2010, 04:28 PM

"You Like Me"
Stevie Nicks/Mike Campbell

Don't read your words into my words
Don't let the weight on your shoulders pull you down
No matter what you heard
Don't you believe everything that goes around
Oh, your rage I see through

You like me, don't you
You can't hide the feeling
Your lies I see through
You like me, don't you

Don't read your words into my words
Remember the words...don't do it
Wrote me a letter of hate or of love
Well, I could do without it
You stand there and accuse me
And you want to know "Who is it?"
Well, you ought to know who is it
Oh, your rage I see through

You like me, don't you
No, you can't hide the feeling
Your eyes I see through
You like me, don't you

Never say I don't need you to love me
'Cause I need you to love me
And as hard as I try...
You know you can't hide the feeling

You like me, don't you?
You like me, don't you?
You can't hide the feeling
(You can't hide the feeling)
Your eyes I see through
(Your eyes I see through)
You like me, don't you
(You like me, don't you)
You like me, don't you
(You like me, don't you)
But you can't hide the feeling
(You can't hide the feeling)
Your eyes I see through
(Your eyes I see through)
You like me, don't you
You like me, don't you
You like me, don't you
You like me, don't you

Oh, well your rage, I see through
You like me, don't you?
But you can't hide the feeling
Well, your eyes I see through
You like me, don't you?

nailatixela · #50 03-17-2010, 05:00 PM

Anyone know where we can hear the Williams Brothers version of You Like Me?

SapphireSister · #51 03-17-2010, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by mikebise

Stevie wrote "You Like Me" in 1986, and the Williams Bros. covered it and released it on their album in July 1987 (along with their version of "Some Become Stangers", the song they wrote). (Mike Campbell wrote the music and plays guitar on the Williams Bros. version).

I wish "Some Become Strangers" was not one of my favorite songs on RAL since she didn't write it but if you love a song you love it. It really is a phenomenal song and should have been released as a single. For some reason it makes a huge difference to me if Stevie wrote a song as opposed to someone else writing it or her collaborating. I just can't feel the same way about a song if she recorded it but didn't write it. Does this make sense? Anyone?

StreetAngel95 · #52 03-17-2010, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by SapphireSister

I wish "Some Become Strangers" was not one of my favorite songs on RAL since she didn't write it but if you love a song you love it. It really is a phenomenal song and should have been released as a single. For some reason it makes a huge difference to me if Stevie wrote a song as opposed to someone else writing it or her collaborating. I just can't feel the same way about a song if she recorded it but didn't write it. Does this make sense? Anyone?

oh absolutely! Easily my favorite off of RAL

"Part of me used to love you, part of me still does..."

LOOOVE IT! It just saddens me that i'm not listening to STEVIE'S genius....y'know?

...it's my ringtone...hehe

mikebise · #53 03-17-2010, 05:15 PM

Yes, I feel the same way about "Call On Me For Magic". I love Stevie's voice!

But even if she didn't write three other songs on Trouble in Shangri-la, it's hard for me to include "Call On Me For Magic" in a collection of the era, no matter how much I like it.

Which is weird, since Stevie's voice is so beautiful on the song. But I get more out of a song that tells a little bit more about her life. I know it's strange.

It's nothing that I didn't know...

SapphireSister · #54 03-17-2010, 05:15 PM

Check out Laura Branigan's "Cry Wolf". It's actually not as bad as I would have thought. Doesn't compare to Stevie's but I'm not biased or anything

. Too bad Laura died from a brain aneurysm. She had a beautiful voice. I love her song "Self Control".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgl_Vv3mPaw

SapphireSister · #55 03-17-2010, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by StreetAngel95

oh absolutely! Easily my favorite off of RAL

"Part of me used to love you, part of me still does..."

LOOOVE IT! It just saddens me that i'm not listening to STEVIE'S genius....y'know?

...it's my ringtone...hehe

Oh that's great to know others adore it as much as I do! I can honestly listen to that song like 15 times over and not get bored of it. When you think about it though the lyrics are very Stevie:
Thing is
Time was
Part of me used to love you
Part of me still does
This light here
Some become stranger

Best part of the song...BABY YO, BABY YO (you're no stranger not that I am)

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SapphireSister · #56 03-17-2010, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by mikebise

Yes, I feel the same way about "Call On Me For Magic". I love Stevie's voice!

But even if she didn't write three other songs on Trouble in Shangri-la, it's hard for me to include "Call On Me For Magic" in a collection of the era, no matter how much I like it.

Which is weird, since Stevie's voice is so beautiful on the song. But I get more out of a song that tells a little bit more about her life. I know it's strange.

It's nothing that I didn't know...

Here's a funny story: I emailed the guy who wrote Call On Me For Magic recently letting him know how awesome it was that Stevie recorded his beautiful song. I also congratulated him on his work on Love changes on TISL and he wrote back: "Thanks. What's TISL?"

mikebise · #57 03-17-2010, 05:28 PM

Hey, Stevie made up THAT part of the song!!!!!

Plus, Stevie changes some of the lyrics, so it's been Stevie-ized!!!

All that "Go on, take your soul away, stranger!" stuff is made up by Stevie. "I don't really need this in my life! Why don't we forget about it?" Pure Stevie, no Williams Brothers there!

Plus the extra ad libs on the outtakes!

"I'm not any stranger than you are!"

Christopher · #58 03-17-2010, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by mikebise

Hey, Stevie made up THAT part of the song!!!!!

Plus, Stevie changes some of the lyrics, so it's been Stevie-ized!!!

All that "Go on, take your soul away, stranger!" stuff is made up by Stevie. "I don't really need this in my life! Why don't we forget about it?" Pure Stevie, no Williams Brothers there!

Plus the extra ad libs on the outtakes!

"I'm not any stranger than you are!"

Totally Agree!!! plus she added the great kiss-off lyric "I don't really need you in my life....why don't we forget about it!!!!"
I'm surprised Stevie didn't try to hijack a co-writer copyright ala "Seven Wonders" "All the way down to Emmiline", She must have been in a generous mood LOL!

The Williams Brothers version is a totally different vibe, less funky, more linear and melancholy, and doesn't pack the wallop that Stevies does! Also consider Stevie only covers a song that captures exactly what she would have written anyway, with few exceptions. Remember the whole "Reconsider Me" fight she had w/ Jimmy, saying she would never say those words....never write that sentiment in a song. Of course Stevie was a speeding, out of control, freight train by that time in her career. Love the RAL era!!!.... All those crude and killer kiss-off lyrics.
"If you tell me, One more time.....Oh baby, take it easy. Well, you won't see me ever again!"
"Have Fun, TELL THE WORLD!"