TS: Natalie Imbruglia, "Torn" vs Fleetwood Mac, "Hold Me"

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With its sighing background harmonies and delicate acoustic guitar playing, "Torn" sounds a lot like a Lindsey Buckingham production.

What say you? I'm, uh, torn on this one.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 10 April 2006 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Hold Me in a, uh, landslide

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 10 April 2006 18:48 (twenty years ago)

the mac would never write anything as obvious as "torn" (which isn't to say i don't swoon whenever that comes on).

― jodias of sunhillow (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 April 2006 18:54 (twenty years ago)

That's true. My comment above is supposed to mean "LB could have produced this", not "this could have been a FM song".

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 10 April 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Boy, I really love both songs ("Torn" was my favorite single of 1998), but I've never heard Buckingham-esque elements in "Torn."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 10 April 2006 20:05 (twenty years ago)

Does torn really have vocal harmonies? I never noticed, but surely nothing comparable.

― Kim (Kim), Monday, 10 April 2006 20:11 (twenty years ago)

During the chorus there's harmony on the lead vocal, plus a two or three part harmony doing the "oooh" and "aaaah" thing in the background.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 10 April 2006 22:08 (twenty years ago)

This is hard, because I'm not really a fan of Mirage or any of the songs on it. Likewise, Nat's got several songs better than "Torn."

It's like picking between brussels sprouts and spinach. I'll hold my nose and go with Fleetwood Mac, though, because... well, because it's Fleetwood Mac.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 10 April 2006 22:22 (twenty years ago)

Torn, I find Natalie Imbruglia strangely charming...

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 05:58 (twenty years ago)

"Torn". Though put it up against any of the songs off "Tango In The Night" and it ain't "Torn", that's for sure.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 06:26 (twenty years ago)

That guitar solo in "Torn" would be a lot more... illustrious... if it was a Lindsay Buckingham job.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 08:34 (twenty years ago)

LB is a god, NI a Tory shagger, ergo no-brainer.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 08:44 (twenty years ago)

LB is a god, yes, but "Hold Me" isn't his best moment. I don't really like Mirage that much compared to what came before or after it, but holding being a Tory against everyone is nearly as bad as hating on someone for not writing their own songs, Marcello.

NI does have awful taste in men, though.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 10:04 (twenty years ago)

"Torn" was a terrible record, as are all of her other ones, especially the ghastly Portishead-lite follow-up, whatever that was called.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 10:18 (twenty years ago)

LB is a god, yes, but "Hold Me" isn't his best moment.

And a nation gasps in outrage. It's not my all-time favorite Mac song, but "Hold Me" is pretty much LB's production zenith. Those guitar breaks! Those weird distorto-baritone vocal harmonies!

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Oh, production-wise, it's amazing. But as a song, nah, it's not amongst his best, is what I mean.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 12:40 (twenty years ago)

come
on
and

― jodias of sunhillow (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 13:30 (twenty years ago)

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