Secret Love vs. Cheaper Than Free

[TrueFaith77]

If you HAD to choose... which is better?

[Spoinny]

If you HAD to choose... which is better?

secret love, hands down!

[bluefox4000]

Not a contest.....Secret Love

Mick

[GoldDustBoy]

Both songs suck, but Secret Love is slightly better.

[sorcerer999]

I also chose Secret Love. However, I love the sentiment on CTF way better...it's just those darn lyrics that I can't get past.

Interesting that we've now heard the "bookends" of the album, if you will. Do I think Secret Love was a good choice to open the record? Not really, but I still like it. So if the record starts out above average and ends less than average...(you fill in the blanks)

[Heartboy]

'Secret Love'

Love it!:)

[BigStevieFan66]

Secret Love!! The song seems like such a classic Stevie song to me, although I love CTF for the harmonies and simplicity.

[PenguinHead]

These polls are getting really tedious:sorry: It really doesn't matter. Music is a personal, highly subjective thing.

[mezzoforte]

These polls are getting really tedious:sorry: It really doesn't matter. Music is a personal, highly subjective thing.

Don't answer them?:shrug:

I like reading other opinions. Isn't that why we're all here?

[ontheEdgeof17]

Toughie.

I love them both, but for now, it's Secret Love. I love the Beatles/Lennon-esque vibe of Cheaper Than Free, though...it's becoming a quick favorite.

[Musicman408]

Secret Love- though the songs in the teaser make me even more excited!!!

[mezzoforte]

I know I'm in the minority, but Secret Love has never done much for me. I can see that it's more classic Stevie but it's so...beige.
I'm going with CTF. Not a fan of the lyrics, but I think it has more texture--harmonies, stronger instrumentation. Granted, I'm not sure I would have felt the same without the video.

[Heartboy]

These polls are getting really tedious:sorry: It really doesn't matter. Music is a personal, highly subjective thing.

Questions like this aren't bad, you should make your case in the 'Is Stevie Dating Dave' thread. Those kinds of topics are tedious. It's nobody's beezwax who Stevie bangs behind closed doors.:D

[tilthefirefades]

I'm not sure why, but I'm obsessed with Secret Love. Could be the "oooooweeeee" or the fact that it's Eo17 compared to CTF to me, but I can't get enough of it.

[DestinyRules]

"Secret Love."

"Cheaper Than Free" does not belong on this record. It's already on The Blackbird Diaries for Heaven's sake!

[louielouie2000]

"Secret Love."

"Cheaper Than Free" does not belong on this record. It's already on The Blackbird Diaries for Heaven's sake!

Yeah, I'm not liking this trend. It's kinda like when Sheryl Crow wrote "It's Only Love" for Stevie, and then turned around and recorded a BETTER version herself on her next album.

[BombaySapphire3]

Yeah, I'm not liking this trend. It's kinda like when Sheryl Crow wrote "It's Only Love" for Stevie, and then turned around and recorded a BETTER version herself on her next album.

Again a complete matter of opinion..Stevie's visceral stripped down and knowing version which also happened to feature her best vocal on TISL in comparison with
Sheryl's overproduced midtempo take on C'mon C'mon which is much more forgettable IMO .

[daniellaaarisen]

Yeah, I'm not liking this trend. It's kinda like when Sheryl Crow wrote "It's Only Love" for Stevie, and then turned around and recorded a BETTER version herself on her next album.

Oh, I love Stevie's version of "It's Only Love" very much. :shrug: I think "Cheaper Than Free" is a totally different situation simply because it doesn't SEEM like the song is going to mesh with the rest of the album very well. I feel like she wanted to through in a duet with Dave and was like, "ooh, here we go! A song we've already recorded that I like for its simplicity and slight corniness!"

No one kill me please.



Again a complete matter of opinion..Stevie's visceral stripped down and knowing version which also happened to feature her best vocal on TISL in comparison with
Sheryl's overproduced midtempo take on C'mon C'mon which is much more forgettable IMO .

Preach.

[Artemis]

Although I enjoy both songs very much, and Secret Love has a ridiculous amount of plays on my iTunes, I'm going with Cheaper Than Free, there's something about it that I can't help but love. It's just so relaxed and lovely. :laugh:

[Jondalar]

Cheaper Than Free sticks in my head. Secret Love, not so much.

[StandbackStevie]

I love both songs really hard choice I did go with Secret Love

[atlnightbird]

Secret Love...by a landslide..."no pun intended";)

[Jondalar]

Yeah, I'm not liking this trend. It's kinda like when Sheryl Crow wrote "It's Only Love" for Stevie, and then turned around and recorded a BETTER version herself on her next album.

I totally agree with Louie on this one. I loved Sheryl Crows version of this song. She only rerecorded it because Gymneth Paltrow talked her into it and man did she make it better.

[Christopher]

Again a complete matter of opinion..Stevie's visceral stripped down and knowing version which also happened to feature her best vocal on TISL in comparison with
Sheryl's overproduced midtempo take on C'mon C'mon which is much more forgettable IMO .
Agreed! All a matter of taste, but Stevie's version has much more depth. Stevie's mature voice alone, as well as interpreting those lyrics Sheryl wrote with Stevie in mind, make the song stand out on TISL. Sheryl's version w/Gwyneth singing harmony, is nice and palatable, but nothing special, and comes nowhere close to packing the wallop that Stevie's voice and the stripped down arrangement give the song.

On Topic. It's really hard to decide based on these 2 songs being virtually opposite in style and I love both. But Secret Love has the upper hand. I still have yet to tire of it. Believe it or not, it's still growing on me, even after having the demo all these years. CTF is catchy as all get out tho and the music is superb