Rank the albums & list your favorite line from each

[The Tower]

Here's my ranked Stevie solo albums and my favorite (right at the moment, of course) line from each album....

#1) Bella Donna

"So with slow, graceful flow of age
I went forth with an age old desire
To please.... on the edge of seventeen...."

#2) The Other Side of the Mirror

"Let the crisis become a bridge and cross that bridge tomorrow
Well, and let the time that goes between baby, well let it let go of the sorrow..."

#3) Trouble in Shangri-La

"Maybe I am calmer now- maybe things are fine
Maybe I made the whole thing up- maybe it isn't a lie
Maybe the reason I say these things is to keep myself alive
Oooh, maybe I fought this long and this hard just to make sure you survive!"

#4) The Wild Heart

"There is a gate... and it can be guarded
Well, it is not heaven.... and it has a garden
So to the red rose grows the passion..."

#5) Street Angel

"So, I'm going away for a little while to remember how to feel
And if I find the answer I promise you- I'll come back and get you!"

[sisterofthemoon]

#1) The Other Side of the Mirror

"I was silent, I was locked away, but I cover my tears- silent all day..."

#2) Bella Donna

"Even when you feel like your life is fading
I know you'll go on forever- you're that good"

#3) The Wild Heart

"Was it a thorn in your side?
Soemthing that you hide?
Something you don't trust
Becasue it hurts too much?"

#4) Trouble in Shangri-La

"Now I know I was wrong to live for a dream
If I had my life to live over
I would never dream"


#5) Street Angel

"So, I'm going away for a little while to remember how to feel
And if I find the answer I promise you- I'll come back and get you"

[Sorcerer386]

#1 Trouble in Shangri-La

You can consume all the beauty in the room baby, I know you can and I've seen you do it.

#2 Other Side of the Mirror

Within these walls, well he watched from the corridor, watched for the corner of his eye seemingly waiting for the time when her castle walls would all fall down, Yes, it was a strain on her, watching her castles fall down.

#3 Bella Donna

Every time you think about leaving, think about what you know, well think about it, think about it before you go.

#4 Wild Heart

And when I call, will you walk gently through my shadow / through the dark of the net of the lace, pulls back the net and it's hard to see her face.

#5 Street Angel

Everything all around me is electric now, but I haven't burned a candle in a real long time, and only when the heart says it's over does it die, well love is like a river running straight back to the sea (STRAIGHT BACK!)

#6 Rock a Little (you guys forgot this one)

Come back solemn stranger, it's your last chance, cause she's almost gone, and she'll go FAST like a jet plane and FAST like a star stream, and she'll hit you with her fury, whisper in the words one more time.

[Johnny Stew]

I'm not going to look at anyone's answers until I post mine... because that seems to make it harder to answer instinctually.


Ok...

#1. The Wild Heart
This album epitomizes everything I love about Stevie's music: ponderable lyrics that manage to hit you where you live... a voice that is broken and vulnerable in one instance, then strong and exultant the next... pulsating synth lines... galloping drum-beats...
forget 'Bella Donna,' THIS is Stevie's 'Rumours.'

Oh! My favorite line?....
"We come from different worlds, but we are the same.... I never doubted your beauty, I've changed...."

#2. Rock A Little
The first Stevie album I ever owned, and the album that kicked me into the high gears of Stevie/Mac fandom. I think the grooves of this record must have been coated with an addictive chemical!

fave line:
"Well, I believe that love is a living thing... born into our destinies, from a single moment of inspiration...."

#3. Trouble In Shangri-La
fave line:
"No doubt, no pain, come ever again... let there be light in this lifetime...."

#4. The Other Side Of The Mirror
fave line:
"I just played the part, I didn't win or lose... maybe next time I'll think about how I'm feeling...."

#5. Street Angel
fave line:
"So I'm going away for a little while, to remember how to feel... and if I find the answer, I promise you... I'll come back and get you...."

#6. Bella Donna
fave line:
"Love is a word that some entertain... and if you find it, you have won the game...."



Johnny Stew

[celestenadia]

1) Bella Donna
Don't you know that the stars are a part of us?
2) Wild Heart
Blame it on the angels
3) Rock A Little
Well I believe that love is a living thing
Born into our destinies from a single moment of inspiration
4) Other Side Of The Mirror
Let the crisis become a bridge and cross that bridge tomorrow
5) Street Angel
So I'm going away for a little while to remember how to feel
6) Trouble In Shangri La
I have so many questions about love about pain
about strained relationships

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

This is a great post! I will respond to this later after a few more cups of coffee ;)

Pip

[blinker12]

1. The Wild Heart
From "Nightbird": I wear boots all summer long
Hee hee!

2. Bella Donna
From "Think About It": Step into the velvet of the morning
"Think About It" is such a wonderful, life-affirming song. A bright spot on what's really a very dark album.

3. Trouble in Shangri-La
From "That Made Me Stronger": Once more I tell the shadows of my soul to stay back / Everything has changed now
I think this album has the best lyrics of Stevie's career. They're straightforward but thoughtful.

4. The Other Side of the Mirror
From "Juliet": Get some ribbons and some bows / And get back out on the road
I LOVE that line!
Runner-up, from "Whole Lotta Trouble": You're not my friend, you're not my love / And this is something that we really don't discuss

5. Street Angel
From "Blue Denim": I'm going away for a little while to remember how to feel / And if I find the answer, I promise you, I'll come back and get you
That was a no-brainer. What a terrific line.

6. Rock a Little
From "Has Anyone": In all your darkest hours / Have you ever heard me sing
This is the album I listen to least, though it has its moments.

[ERigby818]

1. TISL
"Here I am dramatic. Here I am not waiting. Here I am not listening to the call of the wild."

2. Bella Donna
"Look at my eyes. Touch my face. Baby there's no one who can ever replace that heartache."

3. Wild Heart
"I run around like a spirit in flight."

4.Rock A Little
" Baby you fill the night with the wind and the rain and the water."

5. TOSOTM
"So here it is in little pieces."

6. Street Angel
"And suddenly, the day comes."

-Sonia

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

#1.Bella Donna
Your fortune is your life's love - from Think About It

#2. Trouble In Shangri La
You can consume all the beauty in the room, baby - from Trouble in Shangri La

#3. The Other Side Of The Mirror
You get some ribbons and some bows and get back out on the road again - from Juliet

#4. The Wild Heart
Timeless is the creature who is wise, And timeless is the prisoner in disguise - from Beauty and the Beast

#5. Rockalittle
Thrown down through the arms of sleep, She fell through the ivory morning - from The Nightmare

#6. Street Angel
My destiny says that I'm destined for it all - from Destiny


Pip

[BellaDonnaGypsy]

#1 - Bella Donna
"And we fight for the northern star..." (Bella Donna)

#2 - The Wild Heart
"Fire on fire, rain on my face..." (Wild Heart)

#3 - Trouble In Shangri-La
"And it brings up the wind and it rises around you in pillars of color..." (Trouble In Shangri-La)

#4 - The Other Side Of The Mirror
"You cannot tell a gypsy that she's no longer a member..." (Alice)

#5 - Rock A Little
"Then you knew her, funny little dancer..." (Rock A Little)

#6 - Street Angel
"She's got a movie star view..." (Greta)

Laura.

[Greta]

1) Bella Donna:
~And the lady's feelin' just like the moon that she loves....don't you know that the stars are a part of us~
AND
~Love is a word that some entertain, if you find it, you have won the game...~

2)Wild Heart:
~There is a reason why even the angels don't give up at all~

3)Rock A Little:
~You say i have everything.....but i'm living on dreams and chains~

4) TISL:
~When love changes in the flash of an eye, it leaves people burning by the side of the road.....you stand there you have nothing to hold~

5) OSOTM:
~It's just the ghost of what you want to be~
AND
~Like Alice thru the looking glass...she used to know who she was~

6)Street Angel:
~She doesn't have an hour, she doesn't have five minutes~
AND
~Well some cry....well i really don't dance down stormy weather.....it cuts like a knife~
(actually, i really like all of Greta,lol)

***oh, BTW, the other day, i was at a restraunt and the waitress was named Greta,lol

[ShangriLaTroubl]

1.)BELLA DONNA
"You have another waiting at home
And yes she matters to you
Kind of woman that'll haunt you
Kind of woman that'll haunt you
She matters to you"

2.) TISL
"You will never love again the way you love me!"
---this line has SO MUCH attitude in it.

3.) TOSOTM
"Can I be of any help to you?
She says, "Help him, help her, help him too, baby"
Well I can do it...
Well I can make it one more time"

4.) Wild Heart
"something in my heart died last night, just one more chip off an already broken heart."
---i love this line, my fav!

5.) Timespace
"sometimes it's a bitch, sometimes it's a breeze.."
-even though she didnt write it, this line is so cool to me, cuz its so true about life.

6.) Enchanted
"one more, big time rock n' roll star, JUST WHAT I NEED"
---VERY Saracastic line

7.) Rock A Little
"so if not for me, than do it for yourself, if not for me than you do it for the world." <-----this is one of my all time fav. stevie songs.....

8.) Street Angel
"such a little a girl, such a hard life, she look a challenge, straight between the eyes, disappointment would become her middle name."

[Cristian]

#1 Bella Donna
"I know that you'll go on forever, you're that good"

#2 Trouble In Shangri-La
"You will never love again the way you loved me"

#3 Rock A Little
"Just like the sea, I rock a little"

#4 The Wild Heart
"And when I call, will you walk gently through my shadow?

#5 The Other Side Of The Mirror
"There is magic all around you"

Thanks. ;)



Song of the moment - The Smile I Live For

[Hawkeye]

so many of you forgot Enchanted (Disk 3)

1 Bella Donna

Love is a word that some entertain, if you find it you have won the game

2. Enchanted (Disk 3)

I bring the water down to you but you're too hot to touch you're too hot to touch

3. TISL

I'm Tired I'm Thirsty I'm Wild eyed In my misery

4. Wild Heart

I run around like a spirit in flight.

5. Street Angel

so i ended it all for the both of us.

6. RAL

That's how songs are wrote Rumours are started Go ahead lily

7. OSOTM

I thought we already did that have fun TELL THE DAMN WORLD.

[wondergirl9847]

1. Bella Donna

"And the days go by like a strand in the wind, in the web that is my own, I begin again" - I use to have this as my screensaver at work! I use various FM/LB/SN lyrics to scroll across my screen.

2. TISL

"In the cool, silent moments of the nighttime" - I love this line, it's so right, because I'm a night owl, I love the silence and coolness of nighttime.

3. OSOTM

"Have fun, tell the world" - That's just a great line!!

4. Rock A Little
" Well, I believe that love is a living thing, born into our destinies
from a single moment of inspiration and as it grows it changes our lives forever" - Such a pretty verse!!

5. Wild Heart
"No one looked as I walked by, just an invitation would have been just fine" - Story of my life. :(

I don't own Street Angel, but I LOVE Blue Denim, especially "Blue-gray eyes they change with the color, change with the sun that run with the sight, change with the wind but they're always bright, bright eyes, blue denim..." - Sigh...those gorgeous eyes of Lindsey's....

6. Third Disk of Enchanted
"The beautiful and the sensitive and the oh so very young, we are adapted to your silence, I can live here without you, at least I'm learning, but I cannot live without your songs" - That's exactly how I feel about myself..I'm beautiful, sensitive and young, and I cannot live without their songs! LOL

[Sorcerer386]

Well, I forgot Enchanted (duh!). Anyway, third disc of Enchanted would tie with Street Angel I think. Favorite line:

And if the sun warms up the rain, and the rain puts out the sun, why does the greatest love become the greatest pain, thousand days...

Plus a very close second of:

You think you hear demons, I think you are the demons

Even though in the demo she technically says "We" are the demons, I like the "You" are the demons better.

[jwd]

So many great lyrics to choose from.

1. Trouble In Shangri-La

"Well once more I tell the shadows of my soul to stay back, everything has changed now, and I don't want to go back, and nothing you can say can change my mind"
From That Made Me Stronger

2. The Wild Heart

"Crying in the morning, trying to be strong, waiting for the spring to turn into the fall, love don't mean what it says at all, and destiny says that I'm destined to fall"
From Enchanted

3. Bella Donna

"You are in love with, and I'm ready to sail, it's just a feeling"
From Bella Donna

4. Rock A Little

"Well I either say too much, or I don't say enough, well I play too hard, still I'm not tough enough
From No Spoken Word

5. The Other Side Of The Mirror

"So long ago I was an innocent, it had nothing to do with age, one day they were lovers, one day they were friends, there was nothing else to say"
From Ghosts

6. Enchanted - Disc 3

"You fall to your knees, you embrace the storm, you no longer care, if it's cold or if it's warm, you live for the danger, like your passion and your anger"
From Twisted

7. Street Angel

"And I will never forget the last time I saw you, like a photograph so rare, like a painting, no I will never forget, the last time I saw you, never to be, not you, not me"
From Blue Denim


Joe

[Sorceress]

I haven't posted in ages, but this thread is so much fun I had try it myself. It's hard--there are so many wonderful lyrics to choose from! I cheated a little and listed a couple...

#1 Belladonna
You can fly swinging from your trapeze
Scaring all the people
But you'll never scare me~Belladonna

Look in my eyes
Touch my face
Baby, there's no one
That can take my place~Outside the Rain

#2 Trouble in Shangri La
I'm flying far above you
Still I love you
You make things right~Candlebright

She awakens things that he said he thought were dead~Love Is

#3 The Wild Heart
Fire on fire...rain on my face
Fever goes higher...what can you do?
Wild in the darkest places in your mind
That's where I needed you
Where I needed you most~Wild Heart

I am gone but I'm never gone from you~Nothing Ever Changes

#4 Enchanted Disk 3
You live for the danger
Like your passion and your anger
You don't let go~Twisted

You love somebody
Save their soul
Tie them to your Heaven
Erase their Hell~Long Distance Winner

With the touch of your hand
Well, it starts again~Violet and Blue

Don't listen to her, listen through her~Blue Lamp

#5 Rock a Little
Well, have you ever been in love?
Have you touched the soul of someone?
Did the fear inside you make you turn and run?~I Sing for the Things

#6 Other Side of the Mirror
She dreamed of her wanton luxury~Rooms on Fire

Well, don't you know, as you walk on by
That great temptations never really die~Two Kinds of Love

#7 Street Angel
It's a strange kind of love affair
A symphony of sorts
Strange kind of love affair
A declaration of war~Kick It

[ejof17]

#1 Bella Donna

"But what I seem to touch these days has turned to gold, what I seem to want, well you know I find a way."

#2 Wild Heart

"Was it one fallen leaf like the feather that it was, was it freedom by choice, baby was it love? Was it a thorn in your side, something that you hide, something you don't touch because it hurts too much?"

#3 Trouble In Shangri-La

"You can consume all the beaty in the room, baby, before the dawn of separation!"

#4 Street Angel

"I saw him the other day, I say him again yesterday, I wonder if i'll ever see him again, he reminded me of blue denim."

#5 Rock A Little

"She wonders how many more hours her heart will feel broken...In secret she says she needs to see him, but no words are spoken"

#6 The Other Side of the Mirror

"You can try but you can't get me into the fire, cause i'm all out of sympathy and baby, I can't walk this wire"

#7 Time Space

"Where a dove is a shooting star, and it black as night...no stars"

[The Tower]

So I started the thread and forgot a few albums.... oh, well....

Enchanted CD disc three (woulda beaten out Street Angel and Rock A Little):

"Because I never did not love you- I never did run from you"
"In a dream I said to you that I would always love you...."

Rock A Little (woulda beaten out Street Angel)

"And the rain comes down- there's no pain and there's no doubt..."
"And it was easy to say, 'I believed in you everyday...'"
"If not for me, then do it for the world..."

Timespace (greatest hits stuff really doesn't count except for...)

"Well, I live below a great, red mountain..."
"In the shade of a great, huge beast......"

[ERigby818]

...has given me a whole new appreciation for the songs!:D:blob1:
-Sonia

[EnchantedStorms]

~~Bella Donna~~

~~"And the woman may be so awestruck, and the woman may truly care...but the woman is so tired. So, the woman disappears...Come in out of the darkness..."~~Bella Donna

~~"For me, it's the only life that I have ever known, and love is only one fine star away...Even though the living is sometimes laced with lies, it's alright. The feeling remains even after the glitter fades."~~After The Glitter Fades

~~"And she, out in the distance, sees him against the sky, a pale and violent rider, a dream begun in wine.~~The Highwayman


~~TISL~~(tied w/BD)

~~"I'm tired. I'm thirsty. I'm wild-eyed, in my misery." ~~Sorcerer

~~"And now alone in my room as it all begins again...Was I so wrong? Why am I always so intense? In this same place I sit, the same place as before...well I came all the way here just to watch you walk out that door."~~Fall From Grace

~~"So she stood there in the hallway, frozen. In the dark. And her heart broke down, she cried. She fell to the floor."~~Love Is


~~Wild Heart~~

~~"Wild in the darkest places of your mind, that's where I needed you...where I needed you most."~~Wild Heart

~~"When I remember someone, I remember their dreams."~~Enchanted

~~"And when I call you, will you walk gently through my shadow?"~~Nightbird


~~Enchanted disc 3~~

~~"You think you hear demons...I think *you* are the demon."~~Twisted

~~"Not unlike the blue-white fire, you burn brightly inspite of yourself. I bring the water down to you, but you're too hot to touch."~~Long Distance Winner

~~"Still through the sunlight days I wait, track a ghost through the fog, sun is burning me, and you come running out in the wind with me. The ocean is your blanket."~~Sweet Girl

~~"Well, someday when we're older, and my hair is silver-gray, unbraid with all of the love that you have, like a soft, silver chain."~~Sleeping Angel


~~Rock A Little~~

~~"Thrown down through the arms of sleep, she fell through the ivory morning, deep into the waters of the one she called love."~~Nightmare

~~"Sometimes it rages, even when it's calm. Just like the sea...say it was just like me."~~Rock A Little

~~"You say I have everything...Well, I've been living on dreams and chains."~~I Sing For The Things


~~OSOTM~~

~~"Somewhere out in the back of your mind, comes your real life, and the life that you know."~~Rooms On Fire

~~"Who in the world do you think that you are fooling? Well, I've already done everything that you are doing."~~Two Kinds Of Love

~~"Yes, it was a strain on her, watching her castles fall down. Oh, but there was a time when, he called her 'Angel'. Where in the world did you come from?"~~Ooh, My Love


~~Street Angel~~

~~"So, I'm going away for a little while, to remember how to feel. And if I find the answer, I promise you...I'll come back and get you."~~Blue Denim

~~Angela~~:wavey:

[Greta]

This is a GREAT thread!!! i forgot Enchanted Disk 3. it would come.....before Street Angel.

Enchanted Disk 3:
~Love somebody, save their soul. Tie them to your heaven, erase their hell~

~Sometimes i feel i am always on call, sometimes even i am allowed to fall~

[The Tower]

Originally posted by EnchantedStorms


~~"You say I have everything...Well, I've been living on dreams and chains."~~I Sing For The Things


YES, YES, YES!!!!!! I completely forgot about "I Sing For the Things"!!!!

"Did the fear inside you- make you turn and run, make you turn and run, make you turn and run away from me...?"

A great, great song with a heart-wrenching vocal....

[Nightbird_Brett]

This is really neat! First, I want to say that I 100% agree with Johnny Stew about "Wild Heart"! Here are my ranks:

1.)The Wild Heart

"Oh who is the beauty...who the beast
Would you die of grieving when I leave
Two children too blind to see
I would fall in your shadow...I believe"

2.)Trouble In Shangri-La

"Paris to Rome, London to Paris
Always goodbye, I nearly couldn't bear it
Her heart settles down
She's back on that staircase
On the way up to her place"

3.)Bella Donna

"Well then suddenly...
there was no one...left standing
In the hall...yeah, yeah...
In a flood of tears
That no one really ever heard fall at all"

4.)Street Angel

"So she watched as they put them all into cages
Well they might as well have caged her very own baby
They might as well have put us both into prison
Through a window...all our sorrows...
would become our only visions...
Nothing more"

5.)Enchanted (Disc Three)

"You fall to your knees
You embrace the storm
You no longer care
If it's cold or if it's warm
You live for the danger
Like your passion and your anger"

6.)Rock A Little

Two:
"Oh, let the walls burn down, set your secrets free
You can break their bounds, cause you're safe with me
You can lose your doubt, cause you'll find no danger
not here"

"I'll take off my cape for you
I'll take down my hair for you
Anything you want me to do...my love
Well, I'll sit home and wait for you
Oh, darling there's nothing that I'd rather do
Anything you want me to do...my love"

7.)The Other Side of the Mirror

" It's just the ghost of what you really want
And it's the ghost of the past that you live in
And it's the ghost of the future you are frightened of
So you look to your guardian angel"