Never Going Back Again, except to listen to Such Great Heights!
My favorite songs from this collection.
Never Going Back Again
I LOVE this song. The unique guitars and vocals of Lindsey Buckingham at their acoustic best. The song sounds so simple - almost like it always existed. Easily one of my favorite Fleetwood Mac songs.
The first time I remember hearing this song was on Johnson Street. I think Dan actually played it for me on CD in the larger of the two lower bedrooms. I remember liking it right away. In fact, since that first listen I've been searching for it on Fleetwood Mac albums - looking for 'Never Going Back Again' but always thinking it was called 'Chains' and always ending up a bit disappointed - but alas! I have the song! Thank you! I was elated when the song started up - I totally did not recognize it from the title! Duh!
Such Great Heights
WOW! What a treat. To receive a song that I've never heard of before, an artist whom I've never heard of before. And to simply fall in love with it.
I think when this happens - -this is when the club is working at its very best.
This song is my B.S. of the collection. Never Going Back Again was the BS initially, but Such Great Heights has really really grown on me in a big way. I LOVE this song. The gentle picking of the guitar, the words, the dripping, intimate vocal, the growing arrangement (the addition of harmonies and subtle intensity), and the ending. This song really knocks me out!
Excellent song!
posted by Mighty Tom at 6:53 PM
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Well, these two songs are definitely the most well received, across the board. I thought people would like NGBA just fine, but I am a little surprised by the magnitude of the lovin'.
I've been very glad to see the extent to which people also love SGH.
ATTENTION ALL: If you all like SGH, and would like to explore that style of music, by all means check out the two or so albums Iron & Wine has made, but you may also want to look into a guy named Devendra Banhart. From the little I've heard, he sounds like a mix between Donovan & Cat Stevens & Iron & Wine, only a little more free form. Could be very unlike most of what you have ever heard-excepting, of course, Such Great Heights.
Anyone else have any "B.S." for the collection?
Interesting to listen to the original version of Such Great Heights by The Postal Service. Not sure it would receive praise to such great heights.
I kinda dig The Postal Service version. I don't think, however, that it would have blown me away like Iron and Wine.
My point.
Still a good song, but the arrangement seems less appropriate.
Other songs in this category.
A version of Mad World, originally by Tears for Fears is better when done by a guy named Gary Jules. Look for this on a future Mix.
Also (and to suck up to Dan a bit) - his version of One Dyin' and a Buryin' seems better than the Roger Miller original. The original is just a bit to jaunty to me for the subject matter.
Thanks for the compliment. I actually don't like any of my versions better than the originals from DG, though I do think I "covered" them like I like it to be done. A different interpretation & adding something new & fresh.
Mix, when did you hear the original ODAABurying? I thought you knew very very little about Miller.
I went a lookin' and a listenin' after I heard your version.
My main knowledge of Roger Miller comes from at least one appearance on The Muppet Show where he sang, 'You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd'.
I also recall other songs being on the radio in the 70's.
Although his version was a cover, Johnny Cash's version of Ring of Fire is considered the 'original' by most, but the arrangement of that version, with the crazy Mexican horn section, seems wildly inappropriate for the subject matter.
Not sure I've heard a better version however, but it seems ripe for the pickin'.
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