Favorite new song from TD.

[Villavic]

I thought this poll would have been posted in the past, but didn't find it. Your favorite new song from The Dance.

[Street_Dreamer]

Bleed To Love Her is head and shoulders better than all the other songs. It's not close.

[UnwindedDreams]

Sweet Girl. I love the organ throughout it, Stevie's higher and raspier vocals, and the best is the three voices together. It's just too short a song.

[BLY]

I think overall these four songs were a great choice to include on The Dance. All four songs used all three voices with some great harmonies.I chose BTLH as my favorite but it wasn’t an easy pick.

[Villavic]

Bleed To and Sweet Girl are my favorites. Actually it's a tie, but I chose SG because of its lyrics, I like it very much.

[FuzzyPlum]

They are all decent songs….even My Little Demon.
But Bleed to Love Her could be considered up there in the higher echelons of Mac songs. It’s truly amongst their best
….IMO

[Mr Scarrott]

Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

But Bleed to Love Her could be considered up there in the higher echelons of Mac songs. It’s truly amongst their best
….IMO

I agree with this. A lovely tender moment from Lindsey: it would have worked well on Mirage. It's a real shame that this is the only song that only featured Lindsey, Stevie, Chris, John and Mick that was released as a studio recording post-Tango (I think Steal your heart away may have had John Pierce on bass), I wonder if studio versions of the other three exist (although I only really like Sweet Girl out of them)

[David]

“Bleed” and “Temporary One” are Mac classics. They’re canon. The other two songs are great examples of their songwriters’ best qualities, but not classics.

[SteveMacD]

I never got the dislike for “Temporary One”. It’s basically a slicker, poppier “Believe Me”.

That said, I voted “Sweet Girl” because, of the four, “Sometimes even I am allowed to fall” was just a devastating lyric.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by SteveMacD

I never got the dislike for “Temporary One”. It’s basically a slicker, poppier “Believe Me”.

That said, I voted “Sweet Girl” because, of the four, “Sometimes even I am allowed to fall” was just a devastating lyric.

It's just too.... fluffy. All icing, no cake.

It's better than Ricky, though. I'll give it that.

[Macfan4life]

All are fine but nothing stellar. In 1997 My Little Demon was my favorite.
Bleed To Love Her is the most polished and the best song.

Stevie's demo and Enchanted Sweet Girl is leaps better than the Mac's. You can tell Lindsey spent no time in enhancing the demo or producing the song. She brought it and he just played it on his guitar. When Enchanted was released the following year I was in shock how much better the song was.

Temporary One is good but you also can tell it was thrown together rather quickly. It reminds me of Skies The Limit. While a decent song you just get the feel of them sitting around and coming up with the music in about an hour. Lindsey's songs are much more developed than the girl's.

[BLY]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

All are fine but nothing stellar. In 1997 My Little Demon was my favorite.
Bleed To Love Her is the most polished and the best

Temporary One is good but you also can tell it was thrown together rather quickly. It reminds me of Skies The Limit. While a decent song you just get the feel of them sitting around and coming up with the music in about an hour. Lindsey's songs are much more developed than the girl's.

Well Lindsey had his songs in the bag and didn’t need much work. BTLH basically needed to add Stevie’s harmonies. The song was recorded with the other four prior to The Dance. I’m sure Stevie gave him a direction for Sweet Girl and Temporary One is a typical Lindsey crafting pop song from a Christine demo/contribution.

[WalkAThinLine.]

"Bleed to Love Her" was my selection, and I'm glad that we received a studio version on Say You Will, which I might like even more than the recording found on The Dance. "Temporary One" is a middle-of-the-road McVie song that is very peppy and pleasant. I wish we got even more material from her during that era. "Sweet Girl" is almost always a skip for me and "My Little Demon" is a very quirky song with a stilted preamble from Lindsey where he urges the listeners to the "learn from your mistakes and fight for the positive choice." The subdued and tentative applause after the speech often puts a smirk on my face.

[Villavic]

Originally Posted by WalkAThinLine.

The subdued and tentative applause after the speech often puts a smirk on my face.

That applause didn't catch my attention. But those looks on Christine and Stevie's faces as he gave that speech...

[jbrownsjr]

The melody and lyrics really fit Stevie's vibe here. I voted Sweet Girl.