Stevie's Stinkers...

~*BellaDonna*~ · #1 05-18-2016, 01:20 AM

Probably not a great title. Oh well.

I'm a dedicated fan and like her songs very much, just not every single one she has made.

This might be (I think) a fun topic to discuss.

These are some of her tunes I can do without:

1. Talk To Me
2. Desert Angel
3. Sometimes It's a Bitch
4. Whole Lotta Trouble
5. I Can't Wait
6. Love's A Hard Game To Play
7. I Will Run To You

There are a few more but I can't remember which ones right now.

Macfan4life · #2 05-18-2016, 04:27 AM

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Originally Posted by ~*BellaDonna*~

Probably not a great title. Oh well.

I'm a dedicated fan and like her songs very much, just not every single one she has made.

This might be (I think) a fun topic to discuss.

These are some of her tunes I can do without:

1. Talk To Me
2. Desert Angel
3. Sometimes It's a Bitch
4. Whole Lotta Trouble
5. I Can't Wait
6. Love's A Hard Game To Play
7. I Will Run To You

There are a few more but I can't remember which ones right now.

Wow
Besides Talk to Me (which is not really a Stevie song), your list would be in my favorite section

Here is mine:

Everyday
Affairs of the heart
Welcome to the room Sara
That made me stronger
Second Time Around

~*BellaDonna*~ · #3 05-18-2016, 06:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Wow
Besides Talk to Me (which is not really a Stevie song), your list would be in my favorite section

Here is mine:

Everyday
Affairs of the heart
Welcome to the room Sara
That made me stronger
Second Time Around

I like Welcome to the Room Sara. But the rest of your list, yeah, those songs pretty much stink.

redbird · #4 05-18-2016, 09:32 AM

"If Anyone Falls"
"I Can't Wait"
"Sister Honey"
"Some Become Strangers"
"Talk To Me"
"The Nightmare"
"Welcome to the Room ... Sara"
"Long Way To Go" is borderline
"Two Kinds of Love"
"Ooh My Love"
"Whole Lotta Trouble"
"Alice"
"Unconditional Love"
"Jane"
"One More Big Time Rock and Roll Star"
"Every Day"
"That Made Me Stronger"
"Love Is"
"Say You Will"
"New Orleans"
"Cheaper Than Free"

There's some others I don't care for (the "Wild Heart"/"Sweet Girl"/"Secret Love" level) or some that I kind of enjoy but think have real weaknesses ("Nothing Ever Changes"/"Street Angel"/"Silver Girl" and so on), but maybe I wouldn't call those stinky.

I know that's a lot.

mitzo · #5 05-18-2016, 09:33 AM

I rank as stinkers her aimless trying-to-be-a-rocker stuff with honky-tonk overtones influenced by Tom Petty. I Need to Know, Blue Lamp, Enchanted, Gold and Braid, One More Bigtime R&R Star, Violet and Blue. I also categorize as stinkers badly produced corpse-through-the-underbrush stuff like Rose Garden, Highwayman, and FWIW.

~*BellaDonna*~ · #6 05-18-2016, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by redbird

"If Anyone Falls"
"I Can't Wait"
"Sister Honey"
"Some Become Strangers"
"Talk To Me"
"The Nightmare"
"Welcome to the Room ... Sara"
"Long Way To Go" is borderline
"Two Kinds of Love"
"Ooh My Love"
"Whole Lotta Trouble"
"Alice"
"Unconditional Love"
"Jane"
"One More Big Time Rock and Roll Star"
"Every Day"
"That Made Me Stronger"
"Love Is"
"Say You Will"
"New Orleans"
"Cheaper Than Free"

There's some others I don't care for (the "Wild Heart"/"Sweet Girl"/"Secret Love" level) or some that I kind of enjoy but think have real weaknesses ("Nothing Ever Changes"/"Street Angel"/"Silver Girl" and so on), but maybe I wouldn't call those stinky.

I know that's a lot.

If Anyone Falls is why I bought TWH. Your list almost makes me cry, because most of them are favorites of mine. But I gotta say that you're brave to pubicly shame The Wild Heart - that took guts!

Macfanforever · #7 05-18-2016, 10:33 AM

OK kill me guys.

I usually dont fuss about bad Stevie tunes but I have to add" You Can't Fix This" with Dave G.

The lyrics are great but I could do without the rock guitar in it.So a 50/50 vote goes out on this tune.

I never was a heavy guitar rock fan and I can tolerate Lindsey's and Waddy's playing with the bands.

redbird · #8 05-18-2016, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by ~*BellaDonna*~

If Anyone Falls is why I bought TWH. Your list almost makes me cry, because most of them are favorites of mine. But I gotta say that you're brave to pubicly shame The Wild Heart - that took guts!

I like half of The Wild Heart but the other half is too 80's for me. Probably because I grew up in the 90's. But I do like the title track in that famous youtube demo style. And I didn't quite put it on my stinky list so there's that

sorcerer999 · #9 05-18-2016, 11:08 AM

"I Will Run To You"
"When I See You Again"
"Fire Burning"
All of her contributions on "Behind The Mask"
90% of "Street Angel"
"Somebody Stand By Me"
"That Made Me Stronger"
"Love Changes"
"Silver Girl"
"Say You Will"
"New Orleans"
"Cheaper Than Free"
"Without You" - Extended Play
"I Don't Care"
"The Dealer" - 24KG

~*BellaDonna*~ · #10 05-18-2016, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by redbird

I like half of The Wild Heart but the other half is too 80's for me. Probably because I grew up in the 90's. But I do like the title track in that famous youtube demo style. And I didn't quite put it on my stinky list so there's that

Of her output from the '80s, the only album I do not care for is TOSOTM. Never liked anything on it.

redbird · #11 05-18-2016, 12:06 PM

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Originally Posted by ~*BellaDonna*~

Of her output from the '80s, the only album I do not care for is TOSOTM. Never liked anything on it.

It is pretty boring, it sounds like she's trying to blend in with everything else on the radio, maybe more than any other album. But I genuinely like "Doing the Best That I Can," it gives me some chills.

ahafan02 · #12 05-18-2016, 03:49 PM

For Me (Don't Shoot Me):

The Highwayman (terrible song on an otherwise spotless album)
Blue Lamp
Violet and Blue
Gate and Garden
I Will Run To You
Nothing Ever Changes
Sable on Blond
Two Kinds of Love
Cry Wolf
I Still Miss Someone
Love's a Hard Game to Play (truly, truly awful)
Just Like a Woman
Someone Stand By Me
Kick It
That Made Me Stronger
Everybody Loves You
Cheaper Then Free
The Dealer (should have stayed in the vault)
Carousal

So many favs of mine's in your guys list...Talk To Me/I Can't Wait brilliant songs!! Long Way To Go and Ooh My Love? My favs from TOSOTM.

sorcerer999 · #13 05-18-2016, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by ahafan02

For Me (Don't Shoot Me):

Blue Lamp
Violet and Blue
Gate and Garden
Nothing Ever Changes
Sable on Blond
Everybody Loves You

Some of my favorites!!! Where's my revolver?!!!

~*BellaDonna*~ · #14 05-19-2016, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by ahafan02

For Me (Don't Shoot Me):

The Highwayman (terrible song on an otherwise spotless album)
Blue Lamp
Violet and Blue
Gate and Garden
I Will Run To You
Nothing Ever Changes
Sable on Blond
Two Kinds of Love
Cry Wolf
I Still Miss Someone
Love's a Hard Game to Play (truly, truly awful)
Just Like a Woman
Someone Stand By Me
Kick It
That Made Me Stronger
Everybody Loves You
Cheaper Then Free
The Dealer (should have stayed in the vault)
Carousal

So many favs of mine's in your guys list...Talk To Me/I Can't Wait brilliant songs!! Long Way To Go and Ooh My Love? My favs from TOSOTM.

The Highway man is "terrible"!?
I will have shoot you now. Where in the world is my pistol?

AnthonyMI · #15 05-19-2016, 08:18 PM

Somebody Stand By Me has really grown on me of late. On pitch, On Key. Vibratto. Range. Belting. Emotion missing up till then in all her previous 90s recordings. It is a great vocal for her. Her voice between that song and up till TISL was so good. Twisted was just so so but her quitting smoking in 96 really made a huge difference that would be heard on the Dance and TISL. Her starting up again after TISL plus "The Change of Life" started a deterioration right around SYL. Anyhow, Somebody Stand By Me almost sounded like her early 80s voice that was almost 90% back for The Enchanted Tour. Some of those Enchanted Tour bootlegs I sometimes confuse with the White Wing Dove tour!