"Long Way To Go" Appreciation Thread

[amber]

Originally Posted by The Tower

Holy macaroni.... TOSOTM has been in my car CD player for the last three weeks and I'm too lazy to change it. Good thing, though. The perfect salve for nazzty LA traffic hatred is a good ol' dose of "Long Way To Go".

She is pissed on this song. Her vocal is fantastic- killer. Absolutely killer. My favorite things about this song:

1) Stevie plays tambourine and is rocking the joint.

2) The second verse- "High in my life"

3) ALL of the second verse (!!!)

and the best part of all

4) The vocal comeback after the guitar solo (!!!!!!!!!) Stevie as background vocalist to Stevie as lead vocal is such a great concept. Her background vocal on this line is so freeeeeking high and she rips that mo-fo.

"Can I be of any help TO YOU?!?!?!?!?
Help me, help her, help him, too BAY-BEH!!!!"

Yes, friends- "Long Way To Go" is the perfect rage-ohol for this rage-oholic...

Why the hell she never did this one live is beyond me.

I feel the same, but maybe even more. And I have been dying for her to do it live every since I thought of it, and I'm still dying for her to do it live. Dying. She could kick the **** out of this song.
I love it. It's been on a lot lately, along with the "vocal only" recording of it. I love screaming "AWELLICOULDOIT! OHICANMAKEITONEMORETIME!"

[rbs3676]

Originally Posted by sparky

And I love love love the long remix of it. The guitar work is outta this world. Michael Landau if my memory serves me correctly.

I'm with you, Sparky. The remix is FABULOUS. The extra attention they gave to her vocals and the backing vocals make this song soar.
A stand-out on the under-rated TOSOTM...a true gem of a release!

rbs

[SapphireSister]

I like it a lot but I'm not as huge of a fan as some of you are. I do however think the extended version/remix is amazing. I could dance to this for hours! Love the synth intro. Please download if you haven't heard it. It made me look at this song in a whole new light and appriciate it a lot more. This is the only version I'll listen to now that I've discovered it. I find myself saying "Have fun tell the world!" a lot these days .

http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1S...F2NE3QH6MIUNPI

[Dreammms]

Originally Posted by SapphireSister

I like it a lot but I'm not as huge of a fan as some of you are. I do however think the extended version/remix is amazing. I could dance to this for hours! Love the synth intro. Please download if you haven't heard it. It made me look at this song in a whole new light and appriciate it a lot more. This is the only version I'll listen to now that I've discovered it. I find myself saying "Have fun tell the world!" a lot these days .

http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1S...F2NE3QH6MIUNPI

Sharona, I am in love with this remix too. Long Way is such a rockin' song. Kick ass vocals.

[starshine]

Hi...I just wanted to say how much I so love the song 'long way to go'....stevie is great on that song...I really love the 'mirror' lp (cd)...long way to go is probably my favorite song on that lp (I still remember when lps were the thing...)....Just want to say a 'big' Hello to everyone thats reading this....I've not ever done this before so its all new to me (after I also figured out what to do--finally!!) so hopefully , I'll post something myself sometime....other stevie lps I love are belladonna and wildheart those are my other favorites....ral could've been better...I do really love mirror but thats probably because 89 was the time I started collecting stevie/fmac....I do also collect eagles/henley....I know others don't like don but well I do so thats just the way I feel and everyone can like who they like.....no toes stepping....Hope to be able to chat with all of you sometime...

Sue
..." its a long, long way to go...to say goodbye...I thought I already did that...have fun tell the world..." I so wish she would've sang this song live it would've been awesome!!!.....we can only dream can't we......

[gldstwmn]

I love Long Way To Go. "Well I can do it, well I can make it one more time..." How many times I have said that line to myself.

[AliceLover]

I LOVE Long Way to Go. Total rocker.

I don't think she ever did this one live because it *is* very hard to sing.

I really wish she would perform this live...it would be one of the coolest things ever