What the hell do you mean, the chick "rings like a bell through the night"? What the fuck does that even mean?
The bad news is I've had a song stuck in my head for days now, and I can't seen to get it loose. The good news is the song is Fleetwood Mac's "Rhiannon". Best news is this live version from '76:
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(And I love the song, yes, make no mistake.)
The legend is not really about a witch at all; Rhiannon is more of a good goddess. But in the '70s, Stevie would talk about Rhiannon as a good witch. She wrote the song, so she gets to decide what the character is, but after realising she'd written a song that was so close to an existing legend, she stopped using the word "witch" to describe Rhiannon. This was also about the time people started saying that Stevie herself was a witch.
Ringing like a bell...like a songbird that takes away your pain. This is one of a set of Stevie songs about Rhiannon and the birds (scroll down).
Now, if you want to get that HIDEOUS song out of your mind, go to your previous post, crank up the Social Distortion song to the point that your ears almost bleed (the way God intended it to be heard), and listen to that a couple times. Ahhhhh.
Sorry.
:)
Bright antennae bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free
So there. (evil grin)
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Dammit! Too late. Now it's burned into my brain and looping infinitely. You're a cruel, cruel man.
On a side note: thanks for enabling Blogger's tablet/phone display mode, Eric. SOTSOGM looks great on both my HTC Merge and my new Flyer.
Still not used to typing on the Flyer
I kid, I kid. A serious response, actually, is that I prefer Nicks' raw vocal power, but the Mac Version 2.0 was blessed to have three talented and distinctive lead vocalists whose voices overlapped in ways that made for excellent harmonies. It's worth mentioning because there aren't too many rock bands that packed that kind of vocal firepower: The Beatles and CSNY, among a few others, sure (and, predictably, I'm a fan of Roger Waters' raw, nasal delivery counterbalanced by Gilmour/Wright's harmony leads on some of Pink Floyd's best cuts), but most rock acts have been stuck with one lead vocalist. (Folk acts, of course, and a lot of country acts, have been more likely to deliver the polyphonic vocals.)
Anyway, points being (a) it's a cool and distinctive thing about Fleetwood Mac that one can pick a favorite vocalist (and songwriter) and (b) wonderful (and distinctive) that those particular voices could blend and contrast the way they did.