'Rock A Little' Survivor - Round 1

[LiquidBlue5000]

.."how will we feel in 20 years from now?"

.. a long overdue survivor... and since it's just about 20 years after "Rock A Little" was released, it'll be interesting to see how these songs rank in 2005.. :nod:

Probably the most polarizing Stevie Nicks CD ever..

and here it is:




I Can't Wait
Rock A Little (Go Ahead Lily)
Sister Honey
I Sing For The Things
Imperial Hotel
Some Become Strangers
Talk To Me
The Nightmare
If I Were You
No Spoken Word
Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You




The cutoff time for Round 1 will be on Thursday at 9PM..

let the voting begin now... :wavey:

[Neal]

:blob2: :blob2: :blob2:

Here's to not letting the naysayers keep you down! :woohoo:

[ontheEdgeof17]

What can I say? I'm a sucker for these awful Survivors. :wavey:

[strandinthewind]

:blob2: :blob2: :blob2:

Here's to not letting the naysayers keep you down! :woohoo:

One of my fav.'s by her EVER!!!!!!

[LiquidBlue5000]

What can I say? I'm a sucker for these awful Survivors. :wavey:

see? i knew it! :xoxo:


.. my vote? "No Spoken Word"... love it Live, but not so much on RAL

[GypsySorcerer]

The name says it all.

[Neal]

.. my vote? "No Spoken Word"... love it Live, but not so much on RAL

:eek:

If 'NSW' doesn't make the Top Three (at least) I may have to boycott this Survivor.... :sorry:

[dissention]

One of my fav.'s by her EVER!!!!!!

Then why are you voting it off, my friend?

[Dreammms]

i like it better than i used to but still not a fav.

[strandinthewind]

Then why are you voting it off, my friend?

Because I am an idiot :laugh: :laugh: :wavey:

But, a card laid is a card played.

[amber]

Then why are you voting it off, my friend?
Ah, Jinx. He's probably confusing it with Tower's game, where you vote off your fave.

[dissention]

Because I am an idiot :laugh: :laugh: :wavey:

I hate when people state the obvious. :p

I don't know what to vote off since I really can't stand this album. I'll go with I Sing For the Things, even though it is a wasted vote.

[Neal]

I don't know what to vote off since I really can't stand this album. I'll go with I Sing For the Things, even though it is a wasted vote.

Then don't waste it and vote for 'Imperial Hotel'. :wavey:

[dissention]

Then don't waste it and vote for 'Imperial Hotel'. :wavey:

Never. Imperial Hotel is a masterpiece next to that awful "song." :wavey:

[amber]

Never. Imperial Hotel is a masterpiece next to that awful "song." :wavey:
*coughthenightmarecough*

[AliceLover]

......................

[mikeschmike]

Please and thank you.

[StevieNicksEO17]

The Nightmare? If I Were You? Imperial Hotel? How can you be voting these off? I can't believe it. :distress:

[CreepingDeath]

Chris Nicks has a writing credit on this song. Need I say more?

[catinthedark]

Yay!! I love Rock a Little!! This is going to be a hard Survivor for me - I love the whole album. :blob2:

The Nightmare gets my first vote; now it will start to get hard.


(Ducks to avoid any tomatoes flying in my general direction)

[mikeschmike]

The Nightmare? If I Were You? Imperial Hotel? How can you be voting these off? I can't believe it. :distress:


I'm equally shocked that you voted RAL off first. I like that song.

[Moony]

...it pains me to do this, but someone was begging...

[amber]

Yay!! I love Rock a Little!! This is going to be a hard Survivor for me - I love the whole album. :blob2:

The Nightmare gets my first vote; now it will start to get hard.


(Ducks to avoid any tomatoes flying in my general direction)
:confused: This album kicks ass, honey. I will not throw tomato. Unless you are talking about tomato for voting for the Nightmare first. Er...I don't like that one much. :)

[Neal]

...it pains me to do this, but someone was begging...

Really? Who? That's just pathetic... :rolleyes: :xoxo:

[amber]

Really? Who? That's just pathetic... :rolleyes: :xoxo:
whoever it was, Moony, you won't get any tail out of it, so you might as well:
A) Vote for whatever I vote for, or:
B) Vote for whatever you want.

:D :D :D :D

[Neal]

whoever it was, Moony, you won't get any tail out of it, so you might as well:
A) Vote for whatever I vote for, or:
B) Vote for whatever you want.

:D :D :D :D

Uh, who says he won't?! :p

[amber]

Uh, who says he won't?! :p
Yeah, right. :rolleyes: All talk, Kneel. If he was gonna, he would've by now, and if he has, he better tell me about it. :cool: :laugh:

[sodascouts]

The name says it all.

LOL! I would have to agree. One of her worst EVER.

Evidence of how badly nepotism can backfire.

[danax6]

Hands down. ;)

[Neal]

Yeah, right. :rolleyes: All talk, Kneel. If he was gonna, he would've by now, and if he has, he better tell me about it. :cool: :laugh:

:eek: :eek: :eek:

The last thing I am is a tease, sweetie! Well ok, maybe not the last thing... :o

P.S. Do you have any idea how far out in the sticks Mr. Moony lives? ;)

[amber]

:eek: :eek: :eek:

The last thing I am is a tease, sweetie! Well ok, maybe not the last thing... :o

P.S. Do you have any idea how far out in the sticks Mr. Moony lives? ;)
Yep - It's about an hour drive from where I live. It's not that far, really. :shrug: er...how long did it take you to drive there? :D

[Rickypt]

This was one of my favorites when the album came out, but it hasn't held up for me. I find it to be unlistenable.

[GateandGarden]

..........

[Neal]

Yep - It's about an hour drive from where I live. It's not that far, really. :shrug: er...how long did it take you to drive there? :D

According to mapquest it's and hour and a half from San Jose.

And correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that I-5 runs both ways...? :confused: :cool:

[amber]

According to mapquest it's and hour and a half from San Jose.

And correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that I-5 runs both ways...? :confused: :cool:

AH HA! You are a tease, and he isn't getting any tail.

er...yeah, it runs both ways...

[Neal]

AH HA! You are a tease, and he isn't getting any tail.

er...yeah, it runs both ways...

Oh fer chrissake! This is RAL Survivor, not some filthy chat room! Can you please stay on topic??? :mad:





;) :wavey:

[amber]

Oh fer chrissake! This is RAL Survivor, not some filthy chat room! Can you please stay on topic??? :mad:





;) :wavey:

Obviously Not!!! D**. But actually, I'm still pissed he voted for Imperial Hotel, so, technically, I am talking about survivor. :cool:

[SapphireSister]

I used to despise the song and now I actually like it but since I hated it for so long it must be my first choice.

FYI people The Nightmare is a top 10 Stevie song for me so this is a very painful round of survivor. There really needs to be a smiley on here for tears (and not just a sad face because that won't do me justice).

[sparky]

Nightmare On Rock A Little Street

[SapphireSister]

Oh fer chrissake! This is RAL Survivor, not some filthy chat room!

That's okay chat away most of us just ignore your chat posts anyway
:wavey: . Ha ha j/k you know I love you sista honey.

[WildInTheWind]

Imperial Hotel....

[amber]

That's okay chat away most of us just ignore your chat posts anyway
:wavey: . Ha ha j/k you know I love you sista honey.
I hope so, because they're usually interesting. Best to skip anything interesting and move on to boring ol' facts... :D
hahahahaha, I voted for the nightmare, nanny nanny. :wavey:

[Richard B]

This is a wasted vote on this round. It has not endured for me at all. Never did, never will. Weak.

[Neal]

That's okay chat away most of us just ignore your chat posts anyway
:wavey: . Ha ha j/k you know I love you sista honey.

Joke away. As a fellow 'ROF' lover (and 'IH' non-lover), you'll always be forgiven... ;)

[Serrart]

Finally a Survivor where it would be easier to eliminate songs for me... :D

Romy

[SapphireSister]

This is a wasted vote on this round. It has not endured for me at all. Never did, never will. Weak.

For that vote you are officially banished from The Ledge. No more posting for you Mister!! :lol:

[Richard B]

For that vote you are officially banished from The Ledge. No more posting for you Mister!! :lol:
Have mercy, baby, on a poor boy like me.

[Nightbird17]

.....a Nightmare of a song :shrug:

[SapphireSister]

Have mercy, baby, on a poor boy like me.

NOT GUILTY, HAVE MERCAY!! :laugh:

[Nicksluvver]

The Nightmare

[realcowgirl]

I love this album. But, the Nightmare has been skipped over . . . .

[Wild_Heart03]

My fave Stevie album, but not my most favorite song.

[PenguinHead]

I don't understand the hatred of "Imperial Hotel." That song was among the few on that album that managed to evade the cheesy and dated 1980's production. And it was one of the few songs on the album that indeed did rock a little. And it has a very Tom Petty and Heartbreakers feel to it.

"The Nightmare" is the obvious choice. Yet, perversely, can it be so bad that it is actually is good? By this I mean, in the cannon of Stevie's work, it certainly stands out as her most experimental off-the-wall bit of gibberish. No one else but Stevie could have churned this one out. It holds the same morbid curiosity as a car crash! For this reason alone, I won't vote it off just yet.(By the way, the comment about Chris Nicks' credit was very astute and funny!)

I'd vote off "If I Were You." A pleasant song, but generally the music and lyrics are so generic. Plus, Stevie didn't write the majority of it. The bridge, which she did write was it's only saving grace.

Well I believe that love is a living thing
Born into our destinies from a single moment of inspiration
As it grows it changes our lives forever

[KarmaContestant]

Sweet, a Rock A Little Survivor game. :thumbsup: I'll cast my vote for...oy, this is hard...I guess, The Nightmare There a reason to vote for every song on the album, and another equally compelling reason to not vote for said song.

[amber]

Sweet, a Rock A Little Survivor game. :thumbsup: I'll cast my vote for...oy, this is hard...I guess, The Nightmare There a reason to vote for every song on the album, and another equally compelling reason to not vote for said song.

That's why RAL is so special. It's erratic, debauched, self indulgent, yet brilliant. It's the end of an era. It's self parody, but at the same time the self without the parody. And the self with the parody. I think that after RAL, she always took the road of more self parody, lyrics wise.
I think RAL is VERY sincere. OSOTM touches that, but it is more self conscious (lyrically), IMO.
There is a "free flow" that RAL captures that is inimitable.
Especially with the likes of "Rock a Little". When I first heard the album, I didn't like this song. I thought - "too slow, too boring, not dynamic."

But now, it has an unequaled moodiness, and a strange rhythm
...and I give credit to the spare bass part for that, mostly. It's pretty subtle. But I also have to give credit to Stevie's sense of rhythm.
And even though the lyrics are pretty lame -
Musically, vocally, and Stevilly (lame lyrics), it stands up. From the perspective of someone who doesn't judge Stevie's lyrics especially stringently, of course, but who still knows when Stevie is pretty lame.
I love it. I LOVE it.
Seriously, peops, I challenge you to find a song as strange, evocotive, personal, and beautiful as RAL.
*hates, but loves: "Rock and Roll ballerina, where else will she go??" So bad, yet so true. :)

[PenguinHead]

That's why RAL is so special. It's erratic, debauched, self indulgent, yet brilliant. It's the end of an era. It's self parody, but at the same time the self without the parody. And the self with the parody. I think that after RAL, she always took the road of more self parody, lyrics wise.
I think RAL is VERY sincere. OSOTM touches that, but it is more self conscious (lyrically), IMO.
There is a "free flow" that RAL captures that is inimitable.
Especially with the likes of "Rock a Little". When I first heard the album, I didn't like this song. I thought - "too slow, too boring, not dynamic."

But now, it has an unequaled moodiness, and a strange rhythm
...and I give credit to the spare bass part for that, mostly. It's pretty subtle. But I also have to give credit to Stevie's sense of rhythm.
And even though the lyrics are pretty lame -
Musically, vocally, and Stevilly (lame lyrics), it stands up. From the perspective of someone who doesn't judge Stevie's lyrics especially stringently, of course, but who still knows when Stevie is pretty lame.
I love it. I LOVE it.
Seriously, peops, I challenge you to find a song as strange, evocotive, personal, and beautiful as RAL.
*hates, but loves: "Rock and Roll ballerina, where else will she go??" So bad, yet so true. :)


Great statement! Much enjoyed and agreed with. Just like me (rock a little)you demonstrate -- that in genuine devotion -- you can be both highly critical of an artist yet still remain a big fan. It's not so black and white, not the "you're either with us or against us" mentality.

Some well-meaning fans seem over-protective and easily offended by critical discourse. I, on the other hand believe that if there's anyone that has the credibility to criticize, it is the obsessed fan!

[amber]

Great statement! Much enjoyed and agreed with. Just like me (rock a little)you demonstrate -- that in genuine devotion -- you can be both highly critical of an artist yet still remain a big fan. It's not so black and white, not the "you're either with us or against us" mentality.

Some well-meaning fans seem over-protective and easily offended by critical discourse. I, on the other hand believe that if there's anyone that has the credibility to criticize, it is the obsessed fan!

Wow! :wavey:
(say it was just like me)

Nice. didn't think anyone would know what i was talking about (funny, little dancer) :p

yeah...I can be overprotective of miss thang, but I see tons of her flaws. And am, of course, an obsessed fan as well.
Honestly, to me, it's hard to talk about Thang without being critical.
Which never means I think she is any less brilliant than she is. And I think she's very brilliant. Very. She is the voice. She is my....but she can be so monumentally crappy, as well. Monumentally... :laugh:
Honestly, IMO, most of her songs contain brilliance and mediocrity in the same song... (with some exceptions). So...
That's neat! That quality is so pronounced in her, and so unusual. You could find anything within most of her songs. You get crappy with fantastic all at once. You may love the music, and hate the lyrics. You might like the production, but hate the vocal. You might love the vocal and the production, but know the lyrics are lame. You never know...it's always a suprise, with Stevie! (personally, I usually love the vocal, it is Stevie, after all. I believe she has a MASSIVE vocal gift, not to be seen again, or even close to be seen. )

okay, sorry... :p

P.S. - Was your birthday on the 20th? If I'm right, happy birthday!!! :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[TheBlueLamp]

Hardest. Survivor. Ever!

[eclipse]

Sorry, :sorry: just sounds too dated for me.. Never liked the drum machines and she sounds like she is trying to be "hip" Anyway when it was released I think it didn't love it then either. So 20 years later...Still not lovin it!!
SO- LOVE lots of these songs so this will be hard but ....

See ya sista :wavey: :wavey:

[face of glass]

Yeah, it rocks, but so does Dimmu Borgir. ;)

[GypsyBoy87]

its just the worst imo...

[skcin]

Glass table

[wolfontherun]

Gotta go with the Nightmare. Though in its defense it is kinda interesting how they used the 80s drum machine sound which is such a glaring juxtaposition to the dark lyrics.

This song is begging for a Lyndsay production. Something like on GDW would have worked better here.

[ontheEdgeof17]

This song is begging for a Lyndsay production.


Watch that spelling. :p

[GypsyBoy87]

my guess is that it gets down to TTM and NSW ( well maybe more of a hope..haha) thoughts??

[strandinthewind]

Glass table

hey - its the same glass table :wavey:

[Neal]

my guess is that it gets down to TTM and NSW ( well maybe more of a hope..haha) thoughts??

I hope you're right! I want those and ICW to make the Top Three... :nod:

[ontheEdgeof17]

I hope you're right! I want those and ICW to make the Top Three... :nod:

For what it's worth:

I Sing For The Things
Some Become Strangers
Sister Honey

......are my top 3.

[Neal]

For what it's worth:

I Sing For The Things
Some Become Strangers
Sister Honey

......are my top 3.

Also good choices!

(Except for 'Sister Honey'. ;) )

[golden braid]

This song is so boring. At least a sort of like The Nightmare remix version.

[Dark Angel]

I'd rather vote for Sister Honey, but I'm trying to save The Nightmare. :laugh:

[NoSpeedLimit8]

I sing for the things

[LiquidBlue5000]

Here are the final results for Round 1:



The Nightmare: 18 votes
Imperial Hotel: 9 votes
I Sing For The Things: 3 votes
Rock A Little: 3 votes
If I Were You: 2 votes
No Spoken Word: 1 vote
I Can't Wait: 1 vote
Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You: 1 vote
Sister Honey: 1 vote

"The Nightmare", we want you to stand up, but we don't want you to win - this survivor...you have been voted off.. bu bye! :wavey:

.. on to Round 2 :nod:

[1934mission]

:wavey: :wavey:

[The Tower]

I'm proud of everyone who forced that piece of crapola "The Nightmare" out first!

Now it's good-bye "Sister Honey".

[strandinthewind]

I'm proud of everyone who forced that piece of crapola "The Nightmare" out first!

Now it's good-bye "Sister Honey".

Well I think you would like her - sister :wavey:

Come on - you have never danced wildly to this funky little screamer :laugh:

[snfltwdmac]

:shrug: :shrug: :shrug:
what a mess!