I know I will be crucified but......

[LittleSpacey]

The Other Side of the Mirror is the only Stevie cd I listen to without skipping any tracks. I just realized this tonite. Go ahead, rip me a new one. <3

[LilyRose]

LOL! No judgsies.

Although I absolutely cannot stand the music on this album, I do find myself occasionally reading the lyrics as poetry.

[LittleSpacey]

I'm sure part of it is the fact that I was a rep for WEA (Warner Elektra Atlantic) when the record came out and I gave away a buttload of promos and did a hell of a lot of displays in record stores around town in support of the record. Good times. :)

[windbecame]

:lol: i can sorta relate... for me it's Street Angel!!! :lol:

[LittleSpacey]

Since joining this forum, my appreciation for SA has increased. I just tweaked the playlist and I find it so much more enjoyable.

[Morgana]

What's your fav song from OSOTM?

Since confession does the heart good, I'll confess that even though I have been a long long time Stevie fan, I never bought this album. :o:o Guess I am going to have to expand my horizons! :nod:

For me it's always been Bella Donna!

[LittleSpacey]

Yes Belladonna is BEAUTIFUL!!! Let's see, I love Long Way To Go and Alice. On the cd, prob Alice is my favorite. It's so dreamy and meandering.......but i adore Doing the Best I Can also. :) Just give it a try! My sister adores the cd too. Just accept it for what it is, not what it isn't.

[Morgana]

Wow.....I like those songs too! Hmmmm.....I think I'll zip on over to Amazon to order that CD! :)

[LilyRose]

.......but i adore Doing the Best I Can also.

This is my favorite song from the album. I would love to see her rework this song, modernize it a little, and sing it live. I think she could perform the hell out of this song.

[LittleSpacey]

This is my favorite song from the album. I would love to see her rework this song, modernize it a little, and sing it live. I think she could perform the hell out of this song.

I agree 100%. Anyone who likes the moody, atmospheric Stevie songs should like this. Completely underrated. And sad.

[ontheEdgeof17]

I love TOSOTM. However, I don't even own I Still Miss Someone anymore. That, and The Nightmare are literally the two tracks I cannot stand of hers.


I think Fire Burning is very underrated. Lyrically, it's fantastic and it has a good beat to sway to. The whole album is very 'synth-magical'. It can put you in a good mood or put you to sleep. That's why I like this album...I can use to to wake up to, or use it to fall asleep.

[tilthefirefades]

I really like this album too, especially Two Kinds of Love and Alice.

[LittleSpacey]

I love TOSOTM. However, I don't even own I Still Miss Someone anymore. That, and The Nightmare are literally the two tracks I cannot stand of hers.


I think Fire Burning is very underrated. Lyrically, it's fantastic and it has a good beat to sway to. The whole album is very 'synth-magical'. It can put you in a good mood or put you to sleep. That's why I like this album...I can use to to wake up to, or use it to fall asleep.

I agree, Curtis. The whole cd is magical. I also love Juliet!

[michelej1]

No shame in that game.

Yes, Rooms on Fire and Fire Burning are great, but I'll go even further: I love I Still Miss Someone too.

Michele

[LittleSpacey]

No shame in that game.

Yes, Rooms on Fire and Fire Burning are great, but I'll go even further: I love I Still Miss Someone too.

Michele

Michele, I do too! Im telling you, there is not a track I skip on this cd.

[mylittledemon]

The Other Side of the Mirror is the only Stevie cd I listen to without skipping any tracks. I just realized this tonite. Go ahead, rip me a new one. <3

I won't crucify you but I will say that's... unusual :lol: ;)

[Dodfather]

I won't crucify you but I will say that's... unusual :lol: ;)

I'm with Brandon - sorry! Luckily the worst, worst, worst song on it is the final track so I can just either stop the album or put it back to track 1 before listening to her horribly misjudged, ridiculously synthy version of I Still Miss Someone. I think that would have to be the worst song she's ever recorded. It's especially annoying cause Stevie can sing country but that arrngement...ughhh!

I really like most of the restof the album though and have no skipping issues with any other track. I liked seeing somelove for Fire Burning earlier in this thread too!

[darklinensuit]

her horribly misjudged, ridiculously synthy version of I Still Miss Someone. I think that would have to be the worst song she's ever recorded.

If, by "I Miss Someone", you meant to type "Alice", I agree completely.:D

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

I do like some of the songs on TOSOTM, but overall I find the album to be a downer. I can see how others find it magical - Stevie herself called it her magic album - but for me the lack of feeling in some of the vocals has a pretty dreary effect. The synth and slow pace only add to this.
I do like some songs that most everybody hates, including "Fire Burning", "Cry Wolf", and "Ghosts" (except for that terrible bridge). LWTG, and "Juliet" are just okay, and I think Stevie tries really hard on IMS. (LWTG has a lot of potential live.) My favorites are DTBTIC, ROF, and OML (which deserves a better title).
And BTW, while I like the song ROF, I remain the only Ledgie who absolutely hates the video. Hates.

- Jake

[mitzo]

Whole Lotta Trouble, Doing the Best That I Can, and I Still Miss Someone. The rest is pretty forgettable, and I have never been able to develop any appreciation whatsoever for Rooms on Fire...

[vivfox]

I'm sure part of it is the fact that I was a rep for WEA (Warner Elektra Atlantic) when the record came out and I gave away a buttload of promos and did a hell of a lot of displays in record stores around town in support of the record. Good times. :)


This has been the only album in Stevie's career that I didn't know was being produced since I became a fan(Rumours era). Last I had known in 1988 was that FM was touring outside of America and the next thing you know it is May of 1989 and my friend Nancy asks me if I heard the new song by Stevie Nicks. I insisted there was no new song and she insisted there was. We diehards always know we are right because I figured she must have heard an obscure album track and figured it was something new. Anyhoo, she kept insisting so that promted me to call the local radio station and ask. The DJ confirmed what Nancy said. It was around 8PM when I made this call and the DJ said he was gonna play the song next at 10PM.
I'll never forget it. It was a full moon on a clear night in May of 1989 and as I looked out the window at the moon I heard for the very first time, Rooms On Fire.
To this day this song remains my favorite track on the record. I love every song on this album except TKOL which I can listen to now but for at least 20 years was skipable.

[Dodfather]

If, by "I Miss Someone", you meant to type "Alice", I agree completely.:D

- Jake

Whaaatt?! No way! :distress: Not cool!

[tabruns]

I love this album too. I thought it was an improvement over Wild Heart and Rock A Little (tho those are both good albums as well).

[vivfox]

I love this album too. I thought it was an improvement over Wild Heart and Rock A Little (tho those are both good albums as well).

My favorite from all the solo records.

[LittleSpacey]

I do like some of the songs on TOSOTM, but overall I find the album to be a downer. I can see how others find it magical - Stevie herself called it her magic album - but for me the lack of feeling in some of the vocals has a pretty dreary effect. The synth and slow pace only add to this.
I do like some songs that most everybody hates, including "Fire Burning", "Cry Wolf", and "Ghosts" (except for that terrible bridge). LWTG, and "Juliet" are just okay, and I think Stevie tries really hard on IMS. (LWTG has a lot of potential live.) My favorites are DTBTIC, ROF, and OML (which deserves a better title).
And BTW, while I like the song ROF, I remain the only Ledgie who absolutely hates the video. Hates.

- Jake

I don't like The Rooms on Fire vid too AND if I do skip a song, it's that one. I liked it when it was released....now, I guess I'm kinda tired of it. But still, I rarely skip it.

[LittleSpacey]

Um, Vivfox, who is the fox in the shorts on your posts?? lol

[markolas]

I like I Still Miss Someone. :)

The only song on TOSOTM I really can't stand is Two Kinds of Love.

[LittleSpacey]

I like I Still Miss Someone. :)

The only song on TOSOTM I really can't stand is Two Kinds of Love.

Markolas, who in the world do you think that you are foolin'? jk Couldn't help it.

[Thrown_Down]

I actually agree that as a complete album, it's the one I enjoy listening to the most. I just think it flows well, and is perhaps the only one of Stevie's album that creates and sustains a 'mood' throughout.

[darklinensuit]

I don't like The Rooms on Fire vid too

Let me know when you hate it & we'll talk.:cool:

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

Whaaatt?! No way! :distress: Not cool!

Let's see - "ridiculously synthy" - "worst song she's ever recorded" - yup, that's "Alice".:nod::thumbsup:

- Jake

[LittleSpacey]

Wow!! Alice is one of my fave songs she ever wrote!! To each his own, right?

[LittleSpacey]

But I get it. It's like when people tell me they like the song Tusk, and I'm like, "seriously?"

[darklinensuit]

Wow!! Alice is one of my fave songs she ever wrote!! To each his own, right?

True, and I readily acknowledge that this song is hugely popular here on The Ledge (along with everything else I dislike). But I know I'm not alone either; I have never seen such a mass exodus to the restrooms as in 1989 when the opening chords of this song started playing at Alpine Valley. People fled, it was like Attack of the Blob.

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

But I get it. It's like when people tell me they like the song Tusk, and I'm like, "seriously?"

Easily in my Top 10 from Lindsey. "Seriously."

- Jake

[LittleSpacey]

Another example of To each his own. :) I do love LB, though. Genius.

[LittleSpacey]

Jake, where in TX are you? Im in SA.

[wheart]

I play this album rarely...I absolutely have to be in the mood for it and all those keyboards! :D But when I do play it I listen to it in its entirety. I like to listen to it in my car, for some reason...

[chiliD]

In my basement, I'm still working on my laser-equipped drone, that when operating at prime functionality will seek out the source of any audio device playing a song from TOSOTM and destroy it; whether it be CD, cassette, LP, mp3, m4a, wav, FLAC whatever.

Just remember that the next time you're listening to it...it might do you well to keep looking up &/or behind you.



:eek::shocked:


Don't think I'm kidding. If you're hearing those horns on "Whole Lotta Trouble" and there's some sort of odd out of pitch buzz, you'd better yank out the ear-buds, drop the iPod and run, run, run!

[vivfox]

I love every song on this album except TKOL which I can listen to now but for at least 20 years was skipable.


ChiliD just reminded me, Whole Lotta Trouble was a song I enjoyed for many years and now I skip it everytime.
Back in 1991 when I was lip syncing dressed as Stevie onstage in a gay club I was performing this song. The Queen who was running this show was jealous of me and yanked the needle off the record when she got sick of hearing Stevie sing over and over at the end of the song, "whole lotta trouble for you."Anytime I hear this song I think of that night.

[mitzo]

I like I Still Miss Someone. :)

The only song on TOSOTM I really can't stand is Two Kinds of Love.

I can't understand the virulent hatred for this neat little reggae-inspired version of a country song. I rank it as one of the three TOSOTM songs I enjoy.

[mikephxaz]

Two Kinds of Love on OSOTM hurts my ears like Docklands does on SA

[jay]

As this was the very first Stevie solo album I ever bought, back in 1989, it's always been my favourite. I don't get the hate for I still miss someone, I love the original but I think her version is just amazing.

[Dodfather]

I'm not too keen on Two Kinds Of Love. It's ok (apart from Kenny G - everything involving him sucks) but it could have been so much better. I really like Bruce Hornsby and so I think the two of them could have done a much better collaboration. In fact, I was listening to Look Out Any Window the other day and thought Stevie would sound great singing backup on it.

[Morgana]

This has been the only album in Stevie's career that I didn't know was being produced since I became a fan(Rumours era). Last I had known in 1988 was that FM was touring outside of America and the next thing you know it is May of 1989 and my friend Nancy asks me if I heard the new song by Stevie Nicks. I insisted there was no new song and she insisted there was. We diehards always know we are right because I figured she must have heard an obscure album track and figured it was something new. Anyhoo, she kept insisting so that promted me to call the local radio station and ask. The DJ confirmed what Nancy said. It was around 8PM when I made this call and the DJ said he was gonna play the song next at 10PM.
I'll never forget it. It was a full moon on a clear night in May of 1989 and as I looked out the window at the moon I heard for the very first time, Rooms On Fire.
To this day this song remains my favorite track on the record. I love every song on this album except TKOL which I can listen to now but for at least 20 years was skipable.

Wow.....how cool was that? So magickal with the full moon too!

I too thought back in 1989 she was pretty much done....nothing really surfaced about her after RAL and the news of her cocaine rehab. Next thing I knew was that FM reunited to play at Clinton's inauguration. Then came the Dance! And did I ever Dance...for joy!

[darklinensuit]

Jake, where in TX are you? Im in SA.

Dallas area

- Jake

[darklinensuit]

This has been the only album in Stevie's career that I didn't know was being produced since I became a fan(Rumours era).

This surprises me. At least where I lived at the time in the Philly area, there was a lot of advance talk on the radio about it. I remember once catching the tail end of a conversation wheres the DJs were saying that they were so happy that the new album was going to include this song that she had been doing for years in her live set. I thought maybe it would be "I Need to Know" - to this day I don't know what song they were talking about.
Also, "Rolling Stone" used to talk about Stevie pretty regularly in those days, and at one point it said that she had completed three songs with Kenny G, including "Dial the Number" & "Don't Treat Me Like a Stranger", for the new album.

- Jake

[Morgana]

Back in '89 I remember hearing, "Two Kinds of Love" on a soft rock station back home (Buffalo, NY) and really didn't think much at the time, but thinking back now, none of the songs from TOSOTM made it to the local rock station, 97 Rock.

[starshine]

When Mirror was released I had just started to collect Stevie (& FMac) (really '88) so I was excited to have a 'new' LP to hear after hearing all the previous at that point. Yes, it was different but for me Mirror is special it always will be ....I recall seeing ROF on MTV than and all the UK interviews. Getting all the 12" singles with picture covers and the 45/ps etc. It really made it awesome to be a Stevie fan & to be collecting back than. Personally, RAL, is the disappointment to me more so than Mirror just because of 'all' the songs she recorded for it and for the mess that it was with all the producers etc. Yeah, SA isn't my favorite either but I tell ya that tour was a ROCKING tour and Stevie's voice was awesome!! I didn't get to see her for Mirror solo (missed it) but did for the Mask tour--thats another story. So every LP has its ups & downs. We all love what we love and theres nothing wrong in that is there!! Its all good!!:D:shrug:

[pattyfan]

Just out of curiosity, what songs from Bella Donna do you skip?

Kevin

[LittleSpacey]

From Belladonna I skip Still of the Night (its just very sleepy for me) and sometimes Kind Of Woman. Even in concert, this is when I go get a drink. Sometimes I listen to them, but usually I skip them.

[windbecame]

i usually skip "Think About It" ... i know a lot of people love it...but i just never have? poetically it's okay..there's just something about the music i don't like... love the rough/demo take on expanded Rumours tho:sorry:

[LittleSpacey]

I LOVE to sing along to Think About It, but I sometimes skip it too. A lot of these I skip now I think I may have overplayed in the past and burned out on. I remember listening to the entire Belladonna record non-stop. I'm sure its natural.

[bluefox4000]

OSOTM......well......ummmmmm....mom always said if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all:lol:

Mick

[LittleSpacey]

Sounds like your mom was a smart lady ;)