Dreams or Landslide demos or outtakes?

[silvasprings]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

There's an almost mechanized/digitized sound to her voice in this song; it's hard to put in words. The distinctive thing about Stevie's real, natural voice is that it sometimes vibrates in-and-out of pitch, especially when she is singing the low notes- maybe a quarter tone or less. It's very subtle. But on the SS version, everything is perfectly in pitch and there seems to be something off about her tone too. Again, it's hard to describe, but there is something vaguely artificially sweetened about it. I don't know what the technical term is for it, but at times I can hear the audio equivalent of "pixelation" in her voice, which you hear a lot in autotuned songs; you can really hear it on the last "well" of the song.

This is the best way I've heard this described! I was trying to explain this to some people the other day. Top 40 radio stations just sound "pixelated/mechanized" to me (*cough* I'm talking to you Gaga, Katy Perry etc etc)
This version of Landslide is no where near as good as the version on Crystal Visions. The first time I listened to the Soundstage CD I thought it sounded strange, especially Beauty and the Beast. It just didn't sound right to my ears.