What's your favourite track on Street Angel?
 

Hey guys

Even though it has the most tracks that I skip, I've been in a real Street Angel mood lately and so thought I'd see what everyone's favourite track from the album is. Or top 3, whatever...

So do you go for Love Is Like A River? Blue Denim? Greta? Jane? (:lol:)...

For me it has to be Kick It. I've always really liked it and have been playing it so much over the past couple of days! Then perhaps Listen To The Rain and Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind.

Out of interest, my version of Street Angel has that song listed as Maybe Love, do other editions have the full title in the tracklisting?

Destiny. Sappy, yes. Secretly i'm a sucker for a sappy song. this one hits all the right spots.

Mick

I really love the title track. I like the moodiness of the track, which I don't think she has ever created/re-created on any other track.

"Greta" is my all~time favourite from Street Angel, as well as "Love Is Like A River" and "Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind".

I love all of Street Angel! I wish "If You Were My Love" had been left in as well.

Kick It:thumbsup:
and mine also has the song as 'Maybe Love'

Blue Denim -- "I'm going a way 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!!" -- I think that summarizes post-Tango Mac meaning, ritualized in The Dance and applied to post-9/11 culture with Say You Will. Plus it's a solid rock song with nice guitar work. And it's about Lindsey. And it's romantic.

Greta -- The groove is like a slipstream--the enveloping sound pulls you in, which makes its very personal, very idiosyncratic tale of loneliness and isolation (this is where Stevie is AT) into something expansive and universal, just as Stevie turns to the phantom ideal of Greta for guidance (a very Stevie approach to pop iconography). It's about maintaining one's humanity. It's a humanity idealized by Greta. It is also a sequel to "Garbo," in which Stevie dreams of joining the constellation of female stars--and now "Greta" is about the state of her dreams having achieved that goal.

I like 'Listen to the Rain'. The intro reminds me a bit of 'Pretty in Pink' by the Psychedelic Furs. 'Kick It' is great, too. I find this album has grown on me a lot. :nod:

Greta and Listen To The Rain are my favourites. Great vocals on both of them, and I love when she's harmonising with herself on Greta.

Kick It. I have no idea why this was never a single, or why she has never played it live. It's a great great song.

Kevin

"Love Is Like A River"

Don't ask me why, I just love it :lol:
Other notable mentions are Blue Denim, Rose Garden and Kick It :nod:

Love the whole album!! except God's Garden and LTTR! yes i know GG is only on the Japan version. but that 's the version i listen to...cuz i love Inspiration!! and yes... i even love Jane...tho i wish they would have used the other version on the album...but yeah... i've found that in the last 5 years or so this is the album i listen to the most???:eek::lol:

Destiny--one of the best & most believable songs Nicks has ever written--is my favorite on that album.

Love is Like A River and its companion song I Call You Missing.

It's toss-up between Blue Denim/Greta.

1. Greta (One of my all time favorites of hers)
2. Blue Denim (especially the remix)
3. Kick It

Docklands (master mix) is better than the album version.. I like the trip-hop sounding drums on this one.

1. Street Angel (one of my favorite tracks of all times. top 5)
2. Kick It
3. Greta.
4. Maybe Love
5. Blue Denim

I'd go with "Listen to the Rain"...great little sleeper rocker!

No doubt, no mulling over, definitely: "Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind".

I have several favorites:

Blue Denim
Greta
Street Angel
Love Is Like A River
Kick It

They rotate around being my top fav :). I love how absolutely gritty and rocking Love Is Like A River is. I really dig angry Stevie. Blue Denim is just perfection, IMO. The title track is so eerie and atmospheric and sad. Greta is quirky and fun. I think comparing love to an addiction which needs to be kicked in Kick It is just so incredibly apt... and it's a great little rocker too!

Love is Like a River
Kick It
Just Like a Woman
Jane
Blue Denim
Greta
Docklands

Ok, I didn't pick one but I really love them all so much...except Maybe Love.

Greta. I love that song.

Destiny and Greta (although this song reminds me of betty davis eyes too much)

Mabye Love Will Change Your Mind! Blue Denim as a close second:)

So I had to go back and look at the track listing, just to be sure I didn't over look anything... But I think my favorite is Jane. The least popular for sure. But beautiful none the less IMO. Really, except for the title track, I love them all.

I've noticed that I listened to this album the most about 2-3 years ago, I kind of listen to one album heavily for about 6 months, then rotate to the next one. I'm currently on rock a little. I may need to listen to osotm, sa, and tisl each for a week before iyd drops, just to come full circle.

I really love most songs from Street Angel: Love Is Like A River, Listen To The Rain & Street Angel... Blue Denim & Kick it are equally good to my ears

Wow, I thought I was the only person on the planet who liked Jane! To me it is heartfelt and touching. Others from SA I like are Kick It, Maybe Love, and perhaps, on a good day, Greta. Cannot stand Blue Denim or Rose Garden.

Yeah, Rose Garden is probably in the bottom two for me as well.

I have a feeling there are those out there who love Jane. But it's a guilty pleasure for them because of all the ridicule Jane gets for a single lyric, so they never come forward...

Come in out of the darkness, Jane lovers!

1. Maybe Love
2. Blue Denim
3. Unconditional Love

Those are the top 3. "Greta", "Listen to the Rain", "Kick It", "Love Is Like A River" are all decent. Not great, but decent.

"Street Angel", "Rose Garden" and "Destiny" are fair.

"Jane", "Just Like A Woman", and "Docklands" are bleah.

"Inspiration" should have been on the album.

My main complaint about Street Angel is that like Behind the Mask, Stevie's songs from this time period are just kind of mundane. They're lacking the spark and fire of her earlier Mac and solo output.

I love 'Blue Denim'!!:cool:

My 2 favorites are the title track and Love Is A River. Love is Like A River just rocks so hard as others have mentioned, and I can't explain Street Angel but it is equally as awseome as Love Is Like a River. The weird thing is its maybe one of her worst vocals ever, but when you think about this song only works with that almost uninterested sounding vocal. The song is almost hypnotic.

After those 2 are Blue Denim, Docklands and Kick It.

From favorite to least favorite:

Destiny
Kick It
Blue Denim
Love is Like a River
Docklands
Rose Garden
Jane
Listen to the Rain
Street Angel
Unconditional Love
Greta
Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind

For the record, I cannot stand the version of "Destiny" that made it onto the boxed set. And I did not love it in concert. But the harmonies on the album track are beautiful.
"Kick It" could use some of Stevie's trademark layered vocals late in the song - it just feels like that's missing.
"Love is Like a River" is really good, but would be great if it had a better bridge, IMO.
"Jane" is better with the piano, but the vocal is better on the album version.
And I do like the demo of "Greta" with the more pronounced drum track, even though I dislike the album version.

- Jake

Blue Denim without a doubt...followed very closely by Street Angel
also love Rose Garden

My least favorites (also my least favorites in Stevie's entire catalog, btw) are listen to the rain and Love Is Like A River

I like everything else on the cd just fine...

I love Listen To The Rian, one of the best tracks on there. Ialso think her version of Just Like A Woman is a guilty pleasure.

I really, really can't stand Jane. I have to stop it as soon as it starts if I've not skipped. It's not just becauise of the chimpanzee lyric, the rest of the lyrics are dreadful too. Not keen on Destiny either, too sappy for me.

Stevie's voice on "Just Like A Woman" is so beautiful! Not crazy about the Bob Dylan song, though. But Stevie makes it okay for me.

I think I'm the only one who LOVES "Docklands"!!!!! Stevie's voice is just so incredible on this one, especially the ending vamps! "Hold on.... Give me your hand!" Plus, those cool keyboards...

BTW, Betsy Cook's original does not have the same lyrics as Stevie on the bridge, as well as the final verse ~ are those uncredited "Additional lyrics by Stevie Nicks"? :thumbsup:

No, I love it too:xoxo: Despite it seeming to be an unusual song choice for Stevie - the mystic - It works on this record with such disparate themes and more simplistic direction. Docklands is a solid song, while Stevie does her magic, as only she can, on the vocals. When I bought this record on release day, it was one of my favorites and it sounded like a single to my ears at the time:shrug:. For the most part I like Street Angel and listen to the songs often, I just think it suffered from some unimaginative arrangements and production. With a few different song selections, and some more tweaking, the album could have been really good. And Stevie's vocals on SA have never a problem for me.

Here are my picks from Street Angel. Starting with my favorites, then falling:

Greta & Blue Denim (tied)
Love Is Like A River ( the RAL demo is more "electric")
Maybe Love Will Change You Mind
Kick It - the song is missing something & I liked the extra keyboard part in the alt outtake.
Thousand Days - Should have made the final record - kicking off UL :nod:
Rose Garden
Docklands
Destiny - I prefer the SA version over Enchanted's, but nothing tops the WH outtake
Inspiration - Another track that should have made the final cut, it makes the record stronger.
Street Angel - I did not come to fully appreciate this song, until hearing the "Enchanted version, I did not care for it many years....until 98'. David Crosby's harmonies should be a little more prominent in the mix.
Listen To The Rain It's unfortunate she didn't use the Jon Bon Jovi produced TS outtake. The production/arrangement & song structure is heads and tails stronger.
The record ends for me here. The remaining songs are complete fails:



Unconditional Love- this song could have been stronger with a different arrangement, perhaps keeping the acoustic arrangement of the beautiful outtake, and working out the cringey chorus. In keeping the song simple and acoustic, along with some structual changes, I think this song could have closed the album.
Jane - the piano demo is better, The final recording should have kept that feel. But it still should have not made the cut, and been a B-side, swap in "Inspiration" instead.
Just Like A Woman- DAMN Bob Dylan for showing up at the studio and playing harmonica, otherwise I don't think this song would have been included.
God's Garden Interesting song concept, but ultimately it goes nowhere. Total snooze. What the hell were they thinking. The song & Stevis's vocals need more pulse. This one is dead on arrival.
If You Were My Love-happy to hear a fully arranged version of this song, but glad this version never make the record. This song deserves a proper send off. This version failed.
I Call You Missing - I can only wonder about the possibilities.....:angel:

Interesting to note, Rolling Stone gave this album 3 stars- I believe. Buried in their August 94' installment, 2 months after SA release. It's interesting because, even though it was just a small, couple paragraph review. It was decent. (I need to dig this out, I cannot find it anywhere on the net), considering they slayed Wild Heart through OSOTM.:cool:

1. Street Angel
2. Kick It
3. Blue Denim
4. Greta
5. Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind

Christopher, do you have a good copy of that "Kick It"? I only have poor sound quality.

Nice to see the LOVE for "Docklands"! I love how in concert Stevie changed it to "Maybe your brother is there!"

Love is Like a River- I was driving and the Ipod was on shuffle and it came on and it really pumped me up.I have seen people hatin' on 'Unconditional Love' on other threads,I think it is a really good song.

I just checked, the copy of "Kick It" I have with the extra keyboard part is muffled sounding - I'd rate it @C quality. I'm always on the hunt for a better copy of that version, It's my favorite. If anyone has a clear and clean version. Please share it.:angel:

BLUE DENIM!! Love Mirror Mirror too but the b-side version isn't nearly as good as the demos. Was Real Tears meant for this album too? Sounds unbearably dated but still a nice song...