Unconditional Love Appreciation Thread

RockALittle250 · #1 04-08-2006, 08:21 PM

It seems that all of a sudden I have just started loving this song! Stevie's vocals are fantasic and the background singers only add to the beauty of the song! And the instrumentation...superb! Unconditional Love has my unconditional attention.

foxyluva · #2 04-08-2006, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by RockALittle250

It seems that all of a sudden I have just started loving this song! Stevie's vocals are fantasic and the background singers only add to the beauty of the song! And the instrumentation...superb! Unconditional Love has my unconditional attention.

Me too!!! One of the better songs off SA. It was supposed to be the first single was it not?

EDIT: My fav part is during the Chorus where Stevie sings "Un-con-di-tion-al"

JazmenFlowers · #3 04-08-2006, 08:23 PM

yep. it's a good one. her vocals are really good, I agree. sexy and soft. kind of Stevie's whole dichotomy (did I spell that right?)

my favorite part:

hey, hey, hey...my precious one

David · #4 04-08-2006, 08:34 PM

I appreciate this little ditty. It adds a little Hansel & Gretel to Street Angel, a little Maeterlinckian surrealism to Stevie's natural supernaturalism.

Glittermoondust · #5 04-08-2006, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

yep. it's a good one. her vocals are really good, I agree. sexy and soft. kind of Stevie's whole dichotomy (did I spell that right?)

my favorite part:

hey, hey, hey...my precious one

I love this song also but unfortunately I would have to say that the "hey hey hey.. my precious one" actually ruins that song for me--sorry

Angel69 · #6 04-09-2006, 08:30 AM

I did'nt know it was supposed to be the first single off SA. maybe Love is a great song but I think as a lead off single no. Same for Peackeeper. Had FM chosen say Thrown Down or Miranda as the first single I feel they album would have gotten the attention it deserved.

Christopher · #7 04-09-2006, 09:48 AM

When Street Angel was slated to be released in the fall of 1993, the lead single was to be "Unconditional Love", as advertised by the record label in all their press releases at the time.
Then of course most know the story of what came after.....Stevie shelved the project to go to rehab, came out and thought the record sounded too "dirge" and wasn't happy with the record (no doubt tainted because of her acrimonious relationship w/Glyn Johns-the original producer & her klonopin fog)
So she headed back to the studio to tweak the knobs w/ Tom Panuzio and W. Wachtel to add a chunkier more meaty sound to the mix...She changed the running order, omitted and added songs (Docklands & Greta were 2 songs for example, that were not included in the 1993 version as advertised by the press release to record distributors that fall.) and released Street Angel June 1994 with little fanfare....It was the quietest Stevie Nicks release ever!
I still have the press release from 93' I should dig it out and post the original running order of songs. I dont think "Maybe Love" was going to be included in the Glyn Johns original release.

RockALittle250 · #8 04-09-2006, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Christopher

When Street Angel was slated to be released in the fall of 1993, the lead single was to be "Unconditional Love", as advertised by the record label in all their press releases at the time.
Then of course most know the story of what came after.....Stevie shelved the project to go to rehab, came out and thought the record sounded too "dirge" and wasn't happy with the record (no doubt tainted because of her acrimonious relationship w/Glyn Johns-the original producer & her klonopin fog)
So she headed back to the studio to tweak the knobs w/ Tom Panuzio and W. Wachtel to add a chunkier more meaty sound to the mix...She changed the running order, omitted and added songs (Docklands & Greta were 2 songs for example, that were not included in the 1993 version as advertised by the press release to record distributors that fall.) and released Street Angel June 1994 with little fanfare....It was the quietest Stevie Nicks release ever!
I still have the press release from 93' I should dig it out and post the original running order of songs. I dont think "Maybe Love" was going to be included in the Glyn Johns original release.

That would be great Chris, thanks!

SapphireSister · #9 04-09-2006, 04:45 PM

The UL master version is so much better than what eneded up on the album and the only one I will listen to now. I have to say though, while I adore the music on the verses to this song I'm not crazy about the chorus "Unconditional love, I'll be there when you fall..." or the bridge "hey hey hey...". Check this version out, the verses are stellar and this version kicks ass off the album version. Wish they had left it like this, it's one of my favs.

http://s27.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2...H18N0B9AIZ2UG2

Better isn't it?

amber · #10 04-09-2006, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by SapphireSister

The UL master version is so much better than what eneded up on the album and the only one I will listen to now. I have to say though, while I adore the music on the verses to this song I'm not crazy about the chorus "Unconditional love, I'll be there when you fall..." or the bridge "hey hey hey...". Check this version out, the verses are stellar and this version kicks ass off the album version. Wish they had left it like this, it's one of my favs.

http://s27.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2...H18N0B9AIZ2UG2

Better isn't it?

Er...Maybe Unconditional Love Will Change Your Mind couldn't have gotten worse....

this is a bit better, I guess....it seems even draggier, though. Am I imagining that? Ewww! Wait! that "heyheyheymyprecioiusone" is awful!

Okay. I guess I can't appreciate this song either way.

David · #11 04-09-2006, 05:46 PM

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Ewww! Wait! that "heyheyheymyprecioiusone" is awful!

Okay. I guess I can't appreciate this song either way.

Amber, imagine you are singing the song to your little 7-year-old niece who has just lost a tooth & then some schoolmates punched her lights out on the playground at recess. So she comes to you--her beloved Aunt Amber--for a pep talk. But on the way to your house, she trips over a loose brick in your driveway, & lets loose with a string of expletives that would make Danny Aiello's character in "Casino" proud.

So you walk outside & calmly pick her up & shush her gently, take her inside, give her some milk & cookies & gently push the hair back from her young face, & you begin to sing to her ... softly, gently, the song "Unconditional Love."

If you imagine it that way, you will like it!

amber · #12 04-09-2006, 06:02 PM

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Amber, imagine you are singing the song to your little 7-year-old niece who has just lost a tooth & then some schoolmates punched her lights out on the playground at recess. So she comes to you--her beloved Aunt Amber--for a pep talk. But on the way to your house, she trips over a loose brick in your driveway, & lets loose with a string of expletives that would make Danny Aiello's character in "Casino" proud.

So you walk outside & calmly pick her up & shush her gently, take her inside, give her some milk & cookies & gently push the hair back from her young face, & you begin to sing to her ... softly, gently, the song "Unconditional Love."

If you imagine it that way, you will like it!

I don't, and can't, have a neice.

Yes, as a soothing lullaby MULWCYM could be very nice...

Hey, David - a block of ice from outer space just landed a block from my house! Weird, yeah? The scientist meteor guy said that happens a few times a year (ice falls), but doesn't know the natural process responsible for it. It's about a meter, and made a 3 foot hole in the grass and broke a ceramic irrigation pipe at the bottom of the hole. Some people were trying to say it was from a plane, but it was decided not.
threadjack over.

David · #13 04-09-2006, 06:08 PM

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Hey, David - a block of ice from outer space just landed a block from my house! Weird, yeah? The scientist meteor guy said that happens a few times a year (ice falls), but doesn't know the natural process responsible for it. It's about a meter, and made a 3 foot hole in the grass and broke a ceramic irrigation pipe at the bottom of the hole. Some people were trying to say it was from a plane, but it was decided not.

Ho**** you're kidding! WHAT. ON. EARTH.????!!!!

It has to be from the troposphere. How can it be from outer space--you mean like the mesosphere or the ionosphere? Earth's atmosphere would have burned it up. That is some freaky ****. Take cover!!!

amber · #14 04-09-2006, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by David

Ho**** you're kidding! WHAT. ON. EARTH.????!!!!

It has to be from the troposphere. How can it be from outer space--you mean like the mesosphere or the ionosphere? Earth's atmosphere would have burned it up. That is some freaky ****. Take cover!!!

hahaha, no, I think you're right. I'll post the article on your earthquake thread. They said they don't know what causes it.

Phoenix · #15 04-09-2006, 10:53 PM

I ADORE THIS SONG. Both versions. My favorite is "why would I be a fool and break these ties, when all the dreams that I believe are in your eyes......" Beautiful, I could cry, I think we all know someone that that line belongs to. I ALWAYS put this song on my "compalations for people who hate stevie because they think stevie only writes about witches and evil things compalations " helps to Melt the cold hearts . helps those people to "see the light" Seriously, try it on someone, works like a charm