Your Favorite Song Stevie Did NOT Write - Page 4

DestinyRules · #46 03-13-2011, 12:37 PM

I'm gonna cheat big time, but I'll also give you reasons why I had to mention these songs:

"Whenever I Call You Friend" (Mostly on its own merits, but I used to sing this song at karaoke with a friend who is also a Stevie fanatic. We didn't just *sing* the song when we were on stage, we *felt* it.)
"Midnight Wind" (Just love the vocal, and that song literally saved my grade in a class one semester)
"Face The Promise" (I always loved this song from the moment Bob Seger put out the CD. I'd sing along to the song imagining Stevie singing it or even doing her kinda moves. Then when SHE sang it, it blew my mind.)
"It's Only Love" (I'm normally into Stevie's rockers, not her ballads. Having said that, the imagery Sheryl created when she wrote this song tapped into Stevie like few other writers have. It's just a gorgeous song with a great vocal.)
"I Need To Know" (I thought it was a blah song when I heard Tom Petty do it. The first time I heard Stevie do it, I fell in love. When I sing this one at karaoke, I HAVE TO do it a la Stevie.)
"You Wreck Me" (I guess I always thought Stevie should have tried this song and I'm glad she finally did.)
"Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind" (This song was a part of my life in my early 20s. I loved it so much and I still enjoy the images the song brings out in my mind.)
"Seven Wonders" (This is another of those place in my life songs. It takes me back to those days when I was a young teenager and I was trying to figure out my way through the world.)

I do kinda like "Too Far From Texas". I frickin' HATE "Every Day".

WildHearted · #47 03-13-2011, 01:36 PM

Seven Wonders takes the cake for me.

Just under that, I'd say Talk To Me and Whenever I Call You Friend

jcalzaretta · #48 03-13-2011, 04:38 PM

Clearly Stop Draggin My Heart Around. That is by far her best song she did not write. I think people just forget that she did not write it.

Second for me is Reconsider Me.

BombaySapphire3 · #49 03-13-2011, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by jcalzaretta

Clearly Stop Draggin My Heart Around. That is by far her best song she did not write. I think people just forget that she did not write it.

Second for me is Reconsider Me.

Stop Dragging my Heart Around was my pick as well.Like I mentioned earlier in this thread I think it was an unpopular choice(no one else even mentioned it)by virtue of the fact that it was so popular and her biggest solo hit,much in the way that I suspect "Dreams " does not rate as high as it should amongst many hardcore fans.IMHO it is pretty much a perfect song.

PenguinHead · #50 03-13-2011, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by windbecame

i will go with Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind...
as far as Seven Wonders goes.... i thought that somewhere here or on the rumours thread there was an interview with Sandy Stewart where she said Stevie changed SO MANY words on the song that she was pi--ed off for a while..not just one word..hence the writers credit. there was something else about the song being named "Aaron" which is what Stevie's saying between verses... and whoever her manager was told Sandy she could pull the song but would lose out on a lot of money. So Sandy let the song stay "rewritten" by Stevie

I always had the perspective that Stevie didn't determinately mean to change the words on Seven Wonders. I recall an interview where she said she didn't have the proper lyrics with her, so she remembered what she could (and we all know what a sharp memory Stevie has!) and ad-libbed the rest. She wanted to re-record the vocals with Sandy's lyrics, but Lindsey said that the vocal was so good he didn't care about the lyrics.

It was one of my favorite songs on the album when it came out. Since then, I'm on the fence with it. Lyrically it's not very cohesive, with a somewhat clunky premise that never reaches its potential, or the the vibe of the music. I suspect Sandy's lyrics, would have made it a stronger song. I can understand how Sandy would have been upset over the butchered version of the song as it came to be.

BombaySapphire3 · #51 03-13-2011, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by PenguinHead

I always had the perspective that Stevie didn't determinately mean to change the words on Seven Wonders. I recall an interview where she said she didn't have the proper lyrics with her, so she remembered what she could (and we all know what a sharp memory Stevie has!) and ad-libbed the rest. She wanted to re-record the vocals with Sandy's lyrics, but Lindsey said that the vocal was so good he didn't care about the lyrics.

And Lindsey was correct..The Seven Wonders vocal was unrepeatable by that time being as it is the very last recorded vocal of the pre-Klonopin and pre-rehab Stevie Nicks .Recorded over Halloween Weekend in 1986 just days before her admission to Betty Ford.To hear that song is to truly hear the last gasp of an era.

tabruns · #52 03-13-2011, 10:29 PM

"Seven Wonders" (Stevie's only good song on that album, unfortunately), "Stop Dragging My Heart Around" and "Talk To Me" are my favorite non-penned Stevie songs.

Going off on a tangent here.....how is it that Stevie could have really good songs in her vault like "Annabel Lee", "Planets of the Universe", "Smile At You", and "Sorcerer" and yet songs like "Welcome to the Room...Sara" and "When I See You Again" end up on Tango In The Night and all the songs of hers on Behind the Mask (which to me are all pretty pedestrian efforts). I understand that "Secret Love" basically was 'lost' and never offered to Mac but they never took any of the other ones. Any speculation why?

Artemis · #53 03-13-2011, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by tabruns

"Seven Wonders" (Stevie's only good song on that album, unfortunately), "Stop Dragging My Heart Around" and "Talk To Me" are my favorite non-penned Stevie songs.

Going off on a tangent here.....how is it that Stevie could have really good songs in her vault like "Annabel Lee", "Planets of the Universe", "Smile At You", and "Sorcerer" and yet songs like "Welcome to the Room...Sara" and "When I See You Again" end up on Tango In The Night and all the songs of hers on Behind the Mask (which to me are all pretty pedestrian efforts). I understand that "Secret Love" basically was 'lost' and never offered to Mac but they never took any of the other ones. Any speculation why?

I think that, with each project, they wanted "new" songs, or songs that would fit that album's sound, otherwise I reckon she would have fought for Silver Springs to be on Tusk.

Also, Stevie might have withheld her best demos for her solo career.

daniellaaarisen · #54 03-13-2011, 10:56 PM

"Midnight Wind" and "It's Only Love"

Jondalar · #55 03-13-2011, 11:05 PM

Midnight Wind has the most perfect, haunting, Stevie vocal on all time. She made that song work. It's her best vocal ever I think.

BombaySapphire3 · #56 03-13-2011, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Jondalar

Midnight Wind has the most perfect, haunting, Stevie vocal on all time. She made that song work. It's her best vocal ever I think.

I bought the record when it was released but I have to say that when she echos John Stewart's "Miranda" in her drawn out wail after the first verse it still gives me the chills.

michelej1 · #57 03-13-2011, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Jondalar

Midnight Wind has the most perfect, haunting, Stevie vocal on all time. She made that song work. It's her best vocal ever I think.

And though it's a much different type of song, without her back up vocal, I don't think Gold would have been a hit either.

Michele

Jondalar · #58 03-13-2011, 11:33 PM

I have two versions of the song. A slower version I downloaded from itunes. It was like a concert they did and her vocal is still just as powerful. She made that song. I almost wish that should remake that song and sing Stewarts part just to get some type of credit. This haunting vocal is one of the reasons why I became a Stevie fan.

johnb84 · #59 03-14-2011, 12:04 AM

I really love Some Become Strangers too!

windbecame · #60 03-14-2011, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by PenguinHead

I always had the perspective that Stevie didn't determinately mean to change the words on Seven Wonders. I recall an interview where she said she didn't have the proper lyrics with her, so she remembered what she could (and we all know what a sharp memory Stevie has!) and ad-libbed the rest. She wanted to re-record the vocals with Sandy's lyrics, but Lindsey said that the vocal was so good he didn't care about the lyrics.

It was one of my favorite songs on the album when it came out. Since then, I'm on the fence with it. Lyrically it's not very cohesive, with a somewhat clunky premise that never reaches its potential, or the the vibe of the music. I suspect Sandy's lyrics, would have made it a stronger song. I can understand how Sandy would have been upset over the butchered version of the song as it came to be.

i agree with what you say totally. my post was to question all the people who say she only added the word emmiline and didn't write the lyrics? ad-libbed or not they are Stevies words and so wouldn't this song then basically fall under co-written and not be a choice on this thread?? so many people somehow missed the thread where stevie indeed wrote more than "emmiline" in this song... sorry it just bugs me...lol