[Dreamboat] Rethinking LQ & Mz (& D&B, Too)

[hccringo at adelphia.net]

Hiya, Rich!

Thanks for your thanks; I'm glad I could walk you
through my mind when I thought of the resequencing
selection.  Makes it a fun mental game.  :-)

To be fair, there's places where I do agree with you,
but then I veer off to satisfy the Monger in me...

"Say Hello" does have a problem similar to "Just The 
Wine."  You only have room enough for one chorus, then 
you're back to verse, then you sunset with that chorus. 


My Side 1 is LQ Side 1 (18:07) + "Magazine" (6:22) = 
24:29.  LQ Side 2 = 20:53.  "Treat Me Well," "Say 
Hello" & "Cry To Me" are short songs bookended by the 
title cut & "Go On Cry" (both over 5 mins), allowing 
Side 2 to move at a brisk pace.  "Say Hello" acts as
a neat uptempo jumper after "Treat Me Well"'s melan-
choly mood.  It's short, rockin' filler which fills near-
comparable space on Side 2.  If I didn't have it,
I'd feel something from Side 1 would have to go,
which ain't happening.  :-)


As for combining "Cry To Me" & "Go On Cry" - I
think they still stand better as individual cuts.

Combining SSong & Archer makes much more sense: 
no words, & the vibe you feel from one carries right
to the next.  Roger Fisher's guitar had to build 
a musicial bridge from Nancy's acoustic exit in 
CTM to Howard's keyboard entrance in GOC.  

You watch, tho' - later on, I'll probably find two
songs do the exact same thing as CTM & GOC, then 
justify why I think they're an extended song. :-)
All in the mind's ear, you might say.


OK, on to D&B...

I wrestled with this one longer than LQ & Mz;
I knew Side 2 would prove a stubborn problem.

I absolutely LOVE Side 2 of D&B.  Individually, 
the Dog songs rock & "Straight On" is fantastic, 
but Side 2 is truly suite, er, sweet.  I had a 
difficult time trying to include other songs 
between Dog/Touch/One/Wind [their moods 
flow so perfectly in that order], and in the end 
decided not to do so.  AND NOTHING can come 
after "Mistral Wind." 

So what to put before the title cut to balance
out Side 2 with 5 songs comparable to Side 1?

CTM doesn't work because its sparse acoustic
backing wouldn't flow as naturally with the
lush strings and/or keyboards flowing through
Dog/Touch/One/Wind.

"Hijinx" was a possibility; it wasn't as heavy
a rocker like "High Time" or "Straight On," plus
I thought it might give Side 2 a bit of levity
in its otherwise serious moods.  I really wanted
to put "Hijinx" on before the title cut.  But
"Hijinx" is not an album opener.  It's not a way 
into, or out of, a Side.  And "Hijinx" would not 
have given the listener any hint of the moods 
to follow.  So that's out.

Aw, hell, since I got rid of all the live songs off
MAGAZINE anyway, maybe I shoulda just dumped
"Cook With Fire" & let "Hijinx" go as well. [It
coulda put LQ's Side 2 at a comparable time with
my Side 1, but this AW/NW/Sue Ennis track does
not fit with the AW/NW/Roger Fisher compositions. 
He's got just the solo in Hijinx; he's not in the 
fore as he is in all LQ songs except TMW & CTM.]

With CWF & Hijinx both on the killer B-Side list, 
maybe I could have left D&B looking like this:

SIDE 1:

Heartless
High Time
Devil Delight
Straight On

SIDE 2:

Dog & Butterfly
Lighter Touch
Nada One
Mistral Wind


You wrote:
>Now, mind you, I am not trying to CHANGE your list 
>or your opinion... I'm just giving my take on it.

I know, though I did enjoy the feedback.  Gave me an
idea or two help me rethink my sequencing.  Thanks!


LATAH AGAIN!

HCC

P. S.: Off-topic but still Heart-related:
While looking at movie trailers, I popped 
over to singingfool.com and they actually
had the video for "Battle Of Evermore."
No Heart clips, but they have that one.
Kinda nice to see it again, since the first
time I tried viewing it via Yahoo Launch,
the picture didn't come out very well.
Just thought I'd mention it.  Gotta Go!