Your Favorite Song Stevie Did NOT Write
 

What is your top song (released on a Stevie solo album, no live or FM songs) Stevie did not write? Mine is by far Some Become Strangers. I have loved that song from the first time I ever heard it and listen to it repeatedly to this day, sometimes 2-3 times in a row. I recently discovered a demo/alternate version to so that's exciting. It's such a rockin', feel good song and I adore the RAL vocals (BABY, YO!), harmonies by the girls, and over-all pop feel. This song should have been released as a single although I guess it wouldn't have made sense since she didn't write Talk To Me either and that was a single. Now keep in mind I would choose to have a Stevie-penned song any day over one she didn't write and have a hard time understanding why there are any of those on her albums but if I had to pick one it would be Strangers, as she referrers to it.

*An honrable mention goes out to Seven Wonders but technically she wrote one word and it's a FM song so it doesn't qualify.

It's a tie for me between Talk To Me, and... Every Day.

Talk To Me is just so fun and I think her voice is great on this song. Plus, it's my Go-To Stevie song when I'm drunk (along with wailing Rhiaaaaannooooon)

Every Day... I know it gets a huge bashing here, but, I LOVE it. It's just so romantic, the video is totally stunning, and I think Stevie gives a great vocal on the song! Plus, the chorus is totally infectious.

Midnight Wind probably. She did not sing lead vocal on this but her harmony vocal is just about as important as the main vocal. She makes the song work. My other choice would be talk to me.

YES! :blob2::blob2::blob2: My favourite Stevie vocal performance ever. As for Stevie songs she didn't write... I guess Cry Wolf.

Some Become Strangers is one of my all time favorites also. I also included it on a goodbye Cd to my ex-wife after being married for 22 years. It seemed appropriate because I certainly did not know her anymore. Stevie helped me get through that time. Enough about gloom, I can't wait to see her in Atlanta and more exciting things to come from her this year! We are all gonna be blessed with her new music, I know I will be.

I love love love Cry Wolf! It was the second song that came to mind after Strangers. Have you heard Laura Branigan's version? It's actually pretty good but of course doesn't compare to Stevie's. Laura actually recorded it before Stevie according to this. It's so sad though, Laura died of a brain aneurysm in 2004. So tragic...

I love Stevie's interpretation of "It's Only Love." One of my favorite songs on TISL. In fact, I was amazed at the vocal she pulled off. :nod:

Everyday
 

I love the song I dont know why so many dont like it and the video
is PERFECTION -she looks so good i think its her best video.
I always say to myself I wish she wrote it :angel:

Some Become Strangers or Talk to Me.

I love the live version of "Insider" from Tom Petty's "Packin' Up the Plantation."

I agree with Midnight Wind and Talk to Me in that order.:thumbsup:

Some Become Strangers.

I also like one that is considered a dud cover: I Still Miss Someone.

Michele

Seems like you've been posting more often in this forum as of late and I like it! :wavey:

Some Become Strangers!

Encompassing Stevie's entire career, I'd choose Seven Wonders.

Choosing from solo works only, I'd have to go with I Will Run To You.

If duets are excluded, then my choice is Some Become Strangers.

Some Become Strangers has always been a favorite. But It's Only Love is spectacular, too. Hmm.

More love for Some Become Strangers :xoxo: Groovy song and tantalizing vocal and lyrics. It's sad that this song or If I Were You were not the 2nd or 3rd singles from RAL. Major missed opportunity.

Honorable mention: Talk To Me, Cry Wolf & It's Only Love.

Talk To Me is by far my favorite, but I also really like Some Become Strangers.

That may be my favorite, too. Or maybe Imperial Hotel.

Stevie co-wrote Imperial Hotel with Mike Campbell. Stevie wrote the melody and lyrics on top of his music track.

Sorry, disqualified! She co-wrote it. :p

gotta go with some become strangers! although i do reallly like seven wonders.

Damn, I should have chosen I Will Run To You. I adore that song. It's my favorite duet she's done with Petty after Insider.

For me it has to be Seven Wonders. I don't count that as a Stevie penned track because she literally only wrote one word!

It most definitely is not a Stevie penned track. That was ridiculous and her extra lyrics sorta hurt the song.

That version is a lot better than Stevie's, but it doesn't seem there is definitive version of this song. No one really nailed it and it deserved to be a hit.

I'd have to say my favorite songs that Stevie did not write would have to be "Reconsider Me" and "Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind" not the released take though but the alternative mix.

Definitely Talk to Me.

Because Stevie didn't write it I don't hang onto every word wondering what Stevie meant and who exactly she wants to talk to her... It's just a fun upbeat tune that gets me moving. It comes in handy sometimes to...How many times have you said "You can talk to me" to someone?

Maybe I'm thinking about it to much but there's no sense in dancing round the subject so I must set my secrets free and tell yall I get disappointed when I hear a beautiful, heartfelt song, with lyrics that just break my heart and then come to find out the lyrics were wrote by someone else...it's the slower songs that get me- Examples being Bette Midler's The Rose or Wind Beneath my Wings. I guess sometimes you must just enjoy the beauty of the singers voice and also the beauty in knowing that the person who penned the song was able to use someone else as a vessel to have their words heard.

I Will Run To You.

...then Every Day

.......then Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind

Everybody's favorite songs.:p
P.S. I couldn't resist.

Too Far From Texas.

It's actually the ONLY one that I like (that she didn't write) out of all the albums.

Now I guess I better get "too far from the ledge" because I know how much everyone hates that song!

When I first heard TISL, that's the only song that I did like. Of course, as my appreciation for the rest of the album grew, then I didn't think TTFT held a candle(bright) to the rest, but I remember liking it a great deal back then.

Michele

My Stevie Nicks is very different than everyone else's. :laugh:

Without hesitation or doubt:

Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind (either version, love 'em both)

other than that....to quote someone kinda famous:

"you write your songs yourself!"

Inspiration, or God's Garden, and Smiling Islands, her vocal is soooo effective at the end, and I do like, Magnet & Steel & Whenever I call u friend...But When Inspiration came out as the flip side of that single, I played that on repeat all day!!!!!!!!

I love INSPIRATION. And I also love EVERYDAY.

Because I post every 5 years... I'm gonna cheat. My faves are:
Whenever I Call You Friend
Midnight Wind
Smiling Islands
Seven Wonders
Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind
Sometimes It's A Bitch
Some Become Strangers
Talk To Me
Just Like A Woman

Least Faves:
Love's A Hard Game To Play
Every Day

Ha ha you're totally aloud and thanks for sharing your picks. Come back more often, we won't bite!

Stop Dragging my Heart Around..I guess because it's her highest charting solo song people feel it will diminish their "hardcore" fan cred but still can't believe not even one person cited it.If you remove all the baggage and let the song stand alone it is still her best song that she did not write IMHO.