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Beautiful Child 34 65.38%
Storms 18 34.62%
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Old 03-04-2010, 06:14 PM
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Beautiful Child or Storms
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Old 03-04-2010, 06:17 PM
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Beautiful Child. That's only cause i'm a sucker for that song.

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Old 03-04-2010, 06:51 PM
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My vote went to Storms, because it was one of the several songs during the Unleashed tour that made me cry when I heard it live.
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Old 03-04-2010, 08:40 PM
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Beautiful Child, I've become totally and utterly enthralled in it lately, it's such a magical (as cliché as that sounds) song. Hearing it live was just amazing.
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Old 03-04-2010, 08:59 PM
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She got pretty shouty (technical musical terms ahoy!) during Storms, but the few times she toned it down, it sounded so much better than I had expected. My vote goes for Beautiful Child.
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Storms, Like Beautiful child was sort of reworked to NOT be the ALBUM version. It fit her current voice, and i liked it. AND i ADORE Beautiful child live. Even more than the recorded version. BUT one of my ALL TIME favorite lines of Stevies ever is "Save us..Not all the prayers in the world..could save us.." wich on the record just fades off and is barley heard, and i loved hearing it repeated at the end with her singing the last one with Lindsey. I thought it was great.
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Old 03-04-2010, 09:10 PM
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Wow, very tricky. But I chose Beautiful Child.
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I think Beautiful Child was better. Her singing on Beautiful Child was very consistent. Some performances of Storms sounded good but some were all over the place vocally.
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Old 03-04-2010, 09:29 PM
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I love "Storms." It is one of my favorite Mac songs, but I voted for "Beautiful Child," because to me it turned out better live.
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Old 03-04-2010, 10:24 PM
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Very tough question. I loved both songs from Tusk. I was so incredibly excited to hear them both live because I never thought it would happen. I loved both live - both incredible. I'd have to give the slight edge to Beautiful Child though.
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Old 03-04-2010, 10:32 PM
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Like others said, this is a toughie. I love both songs for very different reasons, and I think lyrically they're probably the best songs she ever wrote. In the end, Beautiful Child translated to stage better, especially given her current voice. It worked better as a torchy song, which she also tried to do with Storms... and it just didn't fit. Like others have said, she had a hard time singing Storms softly, the way it was meant to be sung, and she kinda struggled with it throughout the tour. Not that I'm not exceedingly glad she pulled this one outta her hat and gave it a go, mind you. But Beautiful Child just worked on stage, from the get go, and through a year and a half of touring.
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Old 03-04-2010, 10:50 PM
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BC definitely. It was a highlight of the live in Boston DVD set, for me anyway.
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BUT one of my ALL TIME favorite lines of Stevies ever is "Save us..Not all the prayers in the world..could save us.." wich on the record just fades off and is barley heard, and i loved hearing it repeated at the end with her singing the last one with Lindsey. I thought it was great.
Yes, that was special. I love the line "we were frail."

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My vote went to Storms, because it was one of the several songs during the Unleashed tour that made me cry when I heard it live.
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I voted for Beautiful Child because of the consistency of the vocal- though I LOVED both!!!
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