Docklands

diamondsnake · #1 06-19-2005, 04:33 PM

It disturbs me that one of my favorite songs is the hatred of most Stevie Nicks fans. I seriously love this song. Her voice is great on it and it is just such an unusual tune. Am I the only self respecting Stevie fan that is in love with this track?

Sincerely,

ontheEdgeof17 · #2 06-19-2005, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by diamondsnake

. Am I the only self respecting Stevie fan that is in love with this track?

Do you even have to ask that when I am around?

OF COURSE I LOVE IT

BirdInFlight · #3 06-19-2005, 04:57 PM

The best thing about Docklands? It's not Jane.

But seriously folks, I really like Docklands, too. Especially the "IIIIIIII beg of you!" part.

Good stuff. Indeed.

KarmaContestant · #4 06-19-2005, 05:07 PM

I don't hate Docklands. But I don't like it either...it's sort of a long story...

When Street Angel was released (after three previously announced released dates, and three subsequent delays) I cruised downtown and bought the CD that day. First of all, considering it was her first solo LP since TOSOTM - her first in five years - I was pretty excited about getting a new Stevie album. When I picked it up and looked at it, I thought to myself "Hmmm...it's pink." The warning bells started going off in my head right away, but I love Stevie, so there was no way I was going to pass on the album. I took it home, closed the curtains, turned off the phone, grabbed my cigarettes, popped the disc in the stereo, and sat down with a drink to get the maximum listening experience. I had the lyric book with me, so I could read along with the words to each song.

Frankly, the whole album was terribly disappointing to me. I was just not impressed that, after FIVE YEARS, this was the best album she could come up with? The biggest disappointment of all...was Docklands. It's not so much the lyrics, or the music, or Stevie's vocal (which is really well done). It's not a bad song at all, really. It conveys some great imagery, and is interesting lyrically. The problem I had then, and still have to this day, is that it does not fit in with Stevie's own personal style. It doesn't sound like a Stevie Nicks song, musically; it doesn't read like a Stevie Nicks song, lyrically; and it doesn't fit in with anything else that is on the album...except maybe the song Street Angel. Just my opinion.

Anyway, I just couldn't come to an understanding over the fact that she chose to cover this song. Why not use one of the dozens of songs she has never released instead? And, if she was really intent on doing a cover-song, why not pick something a little more in her own style, like Just Like A Woman? That song is so Stevie, it could have been written for her and about her. But Docklands...?...I just didn't get it. And I still don't. On another album, by another artist, I'm sure I'd think it was great. But, I adamantly believe that Docklands has no right to be on a Stevie Nicks release. It is just too far removed from her style. She could have saved it for a soundtrack, put it on a b-side instead of Thousand Days, or just kept it for her own listening pleasure.

The only other thing I have to say is this: Don't let what another fan doesn't like disturb you. Over the past year that I have lurked on this board, I have seen every single Stevie song I love mocked and degraded in one form or another. I just laugh it off. Obviously, they have no taste in music anyway.

strandinthewind · #5 06-19-2005, 05:13 PM

I think La Nicks writing about everyday activities in such a literal way, e.g. laundromat, is just so far from her ethereal, love goddess image that no one, including me, can relate to such a song, no matter how her song may sound in parts of it.

BirdInFlight · #6 06-19-2005, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I think La Nicks writing about everyday activities in such a literal way, e.g. laundromat, is just so far from her ethereal, love goddess image that no one, including me, can relate to such a song, no matter how her song may sound in parts of it.

Stevie didn't write Docklands.

strandinthewind · #7 06-19-2005, 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by BirdInFlight

Stevie didn't write Docklands.

Oops - my bad - I knew that - I meant to say "I think La Nicks singing . . . ."

AliceLover · #8 06-19-2005, 06:28 PM

I think that the lyrics are horrible but I dont think its a horrible song as a whole. I truely had never heard this song before I downloaded a Street Angel bootleg last year and I liked it. I guess its one of those songs I just like but I won't listen to a lot?

Make any sense...

krrrby · #9 06-19-2005, 06:28 PM

I think the best song off that album is Love is like a River hands down
the part where she does the AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH if she would have kept that and made new better songs, I think that album would have been great.

GateandGarden · #10 06-19-2005, 06:30 PM

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I guess its one of those songs I just like but I won't listen to a lot?

Make any sense...

That makes sense. That's pretty much how I feel. Like her vocals, like the music, like some of the lyrics, but just don't want to listen to it all that much.

Regina · #11 06-19-2005, 07:59 PM

But, of course, I'm a bit warped.
I know it doesn't fit Stevie's lifestyle at all...but I think she is such a romantic that I can picture her hearing this song for the first time, and picturing herself in this wispy slip of a pathetic dress, taking her entire family's wash out to some river somewhere (ignoring the laundromat mention) and beating them against the rocks to get them clean--then hanging them up on some tree branches...all the while hoping for some young, rich stud to take her away from all this.
Um...or is that just me???

jwd · #12 06-19-2005, 08:00 PM

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Originally Posted by diamondsnake

It disturbs me that one of my favorite songs is the hatred of most Stevie Nicks fans. I seriously love this song. Her voice is great on it and it is just such an unusual tune. Am I the only self respecting Stevie fan that is in love with this track?

Probably...

But dude, if it makes you happy, that's all that really matters now isn't it?

Glittermoondust · #13 06-19-2005, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by diamondsnake

It disturbs me that one of my favorite songs is the hatred of most Stevie Nicks fans. I seriously love this song. Her voice is great on it and it is just such an unusual tune. Am I the only self respecting Stevie fan that is in love with this track?

Sincerely,

I like it too....the lyrics don't really bug me like they seem to bug others

Don't feel bad--The Second Time always gets slaughtered too and I love that song......

diamondsnake · #14 06-19-2005, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by krrrby

I think the best song off that album is Love is like a River hands down
the part where she does the AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH if she would have kept that and made new better songs, I think that album would have been great.

I love that song! "I think you're uptight lady, out of sight!" I love that ending part...

diamondsnake · #15 06-19-2005, 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by jwd

Probably...

But dude, if it makes you happy, that's all that really matters now isn't it?

That is true. The song really does make me happy. There are some songs that are instant mood lifters (Say You Will being one of my favorite Happy Songs)! Maybe Stevie singing about all these sort of depressing things sort of makes me see that I don't have it that bad?