IYD - Rank the Songs
 

I know some posters will think this thread is premature, but many of us have listened to the songs many times by now. Obviously this is based on 1st (or 1st-day) impressions.

Here's my list, beginning with the best:

Moonlight
New Orleans
Italian Summer
Wide Sargasso Sea
For What It’s Worth
Secret Love
In Your Dreams
You May Be the One
Everybody Loves You
Ghosts Are Gone
Soldier’s Angel
Cheaper Than Free
Annabel Lee


- Jake

Moonlight
Italian Summer
For what it's worth
Soldier's Angel
Wide Sargasso Sea
Everybody Loves You
You may be the one
In your dreams
Ghosts are Gone
Secret Love
Annabel Lee
New Orleans
Cheaper than Free.

For now...
But really, they are all fantastic, to the point that i feel bad for ranking Annabel Lee 11th...

That's really hard to do with an album like this. Every song is really good and it depends on my moods. Nothing seems to obvious.

Except for Everybody Loves You ;).
Yes, but you're right, now i feel guilty for ranking them.

I can't really do this yet because I've not lived with the album for long enough. The only thing I do know is that it's incredibly consistent and I love it. That said, Cheaper Than Free is my least favourite and I don't see that changing at all.

For What It’s Worth, I agree that this is difficult to complete. Try it anyway; You May Be the One to get it right. And Stevie will put down her guitar & hand you a red rose. But if you don’t try, she may burn someone's house down.:cool:

- Jake

Surprised to see Annabel Lee so far down on the lists. I really love the emotive-ness (a word?) of the chorus... "And the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams" ... I love her voice on that part.

I'm not nuts about the melody, but really it's the vocal that puts this at the bottom for me. It's not terrible compared to what we've heard on some songs on her other recent albums. But the other songs on this album just don't sound as strained/flat to me.

- Jake

I really like it but it goes on a little too long, but that's just me. Her vocal is 10x better than on the demo

So far. Based on a few listens of each song via Rolling Stone;

1) Ghosts Are Gone.
2) Everybody Loves You
3) Moonlight
4) New Orleans
5)Annabell Lee
6) Soldier's Angel
7) In Your Dreams
8) For What It's Worth
9) Italian Summer
10) Wide Sargasso Sea
11) You May Be The One
12) Secret Love
13) Cheaper Than Free

This list was changing all the time whilst posting it. :laugh: There's very little between them, although Secret Love and CTF are definitely the two weakest songs; but they're still really excellent songs. All in all, a fantastic album from Stevie. I can see my favourites changing all the time from this one :thumbsup:

Firstly, I've on fully listened to the album twice and so this is most certainly subject to change ~

Secondly, it's really only based musically and on my initial connection to the songs as i haven't really had time to properly digest the lyrics; (When i do that's when this'll prob change)!


Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)
Italian Summer
Wide Sargasso Sea
For What It’s Worth
New Orleans
You May Be the One
Annabel Lee
Ghosts Are Gone
In Your Dreams
Secret Love
Everybody Loves You
Soldier’s Angel
Cheaper Than Free

Overall a superb album, on par with Bella Donna (my personal fav.).
Not a bad song on it;
(Note: While Cheaper than Free is last I still think it's a nice closer in the context of the album; Soldiers Angel is second last because whilst I like Lindsey's guitar, the pounding drums and their harmonies together, I find it a little self-indulgent at points).

I don't get into Twilight at all.. But that Moonlight song is something special. Her vocals are like never I've heard so beautiful!

At this moment Top 5

1. Moonlight
2. Ghosts Are Gone
3. Wide Sargasso Sea
4. In Your Dreams
5. Italian Summer

Ok, this is my list after 3 listens, but I can tell this is going to completely change once I've heard it a few more times.

Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)
For What It’s Worth
Italian Summer
You May Be the One
Wide Sargasso Sea
Ghosts Are Gone
Annabel Lee
In Your Dreams
Soldier’s Angel
Secret Love
Cheaper Than Free
Everybody Loves You
New Orleans

This will definitely change since it's so early, but I'll try just for the hell of it.

1. Annabel Lee
2. Moonlight
3. New Orleans
4. For What it's Worth
5. You May Be the One
6. In Your Dreams
7. Wide Sargasso Sea
8. Secret Love
9. Ghosts Are Gone
10. Soldier's Angel
11. Italian Summer
12. Cheaper Than Free
13. Everybody Loves You

I can't rank them just yet. I need them to sink in a little more. Maybe by the end of next week I'll be able to.


Jamie

From best to worst:

Wide Sargasso Sea
Italian Summer
Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream)
Everybody Loves You
In Your Dreams
Ghosts Are Gone
For What It's Worth
Soldier's Angel
You May Be The One
New Orleans
Cheaper Than Free
Secret Love
Annabel Lee

This is really, really hard but...

Tier One (these ones are all basically tied for first):

1. For What It's Worth
2. Moonlight
3. Italian Summer

Tier Two:

4. You May Be the One
5. New Orleans
6. In Your Dreams
7. Wild Sargasso Sea

Tier Three:

8. Secret Love
9. Annabel Lee
10. Cheaper than Free

Tier Four:

11. Soldier's Angel
12. Everybody Love's You
13. Ghosts are Gone

I love the wau u did that

I've listened enough times to know the ones I like the very best, and I doubt it will change much:

For What It's Worth
In Your Dreams
Moonlight
Secret Love
The Ghosts Are Gone
You May Be The One

The rest are good, but these are my favs. I'd say that the first 2 probably rank in my Top 10 of all Stevie songs.

Thanks! I seriously can't choose favorites among the different tiers, but I know which groups of songs are stronger for me.

I'm going to try this, but I keep flip flopping. Sometime Tier 2 or 3 can be 1. But for the most part, this is what I been listening to heavily.

Tier 1
Everybody Loves You
Moonlight
For What It's Worth
Soldier's Angel (the darkness and perspective of this song makes it unique from rest, so I been listening to this one a lot)

Teir 2
New Orleans
Wide Sargasso Sea
In Your Dreams
Italian Summer
You May Be The One

Tier 3
Cheaper Than Free
Ghosts Are Gone
Secret Love
Annabelle Lee

I cant rank any of these songs just yet cause there ALL f***ing really awesome... :sorry: lol..

Here's mine...
 

The ones toward the bottom are all so close I cant really distinguish...along with the top two...lol

Wide Sargasso Sea - this song is frickin awesome!!
For What Its Worth
You May be the One
In Your Dreams
Italian Summer
Soldiers Angel
Annabelle Lee
New Orleans
Moonlight
Everybody Loves You
Secret Love
Ghosts are Gone
Cheaper than Free

MY FAV SO FAR IS:

Wide Sargasso Sea!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG SHE ROCKS IT IN THIS ONE!!! I LOVE HER FOR THIS SONG!!!
Moonlight
In Your Dreams
For What It’s Worth
Ghosts Are Gone
Secret Love
Cheaper Than Free
Italian Summer
You May Be the One
Everybody Loves You
New Orleans
Annabel Lee
Soldier’s Angel

Moonlight & Annabel Lee are the ones I keep coming back to for repeated listenings.

PROPOSAL: If you took the top 5 below and combined them with 6 or 7 new Lindsey tracks (bootlegs) that we've heard, you'd have the best ablum of the year. Stevie coulda released a fine, compact, very Stevie solo ablum with the bottom 8 (or 9 with that bonus track).

After Three Listens: IYD Ranked (w/ initial responses)

Tier 1 - Contenders for the Pantheon
1. Moonlight (A Vampire's Tale) - I feel like this is the song that Stevie has been building toward in her solo career. Its tempo/style shifts along with its epic length and its haunted harmonies finally bust beyond all those boundaries her songwriting--structure and storytelling--always pushes but in a way that might put her Lady In The Mountain saga in its place in our popular lore along with Twilight. It is the Mac/Stevie magic in one song--fulfilling and commenting on the process by which a network of private symbols is put the use of popular lore.
2. Annabel Lee - God Bless Mick Fleetwood (that MUST be him on this song!). The most soaring, shimmering track on the album. The phrasing combined with Poe's?Stevie's poetry is overwhelming romantic. Also it flirts with a Sapphic subtext that seems to pop up throughout this album--making it an intriguing personal confession that reminds me of MJ's Dangerous album.

Tier 2 - We R Worthy
3. Everybody Loves You
4. You May Be the One
5. Soldier's Angel

Tier 3 - Hat's Off!
6. In Your Dreams
7. Italian Summer
8. Wide Sargasso Sea - fumidesigns' enthusiasm is infectious!
9. For What It's Worth
10. New Orleans

Tier 4 - Skippable :sorry:
11. Cheaper Than Free
12. Secret Love
13. Ghosts Are Gone

I love every song its hard to rank my it but I would give it 5 Stars out of 5 definetly one of her best if not her best work solo. In Your Dreams is sure Magic,Fire and Blood from the Queen of Rock n Roll and chiffon Goddess Stevie Nicks. :wavey::woohoo::thumbsup::D

New Orleans
Ghost Are Gone
Italian Summer
Wide Sargasso Sea
MoonLight
Cheaper Than Free
Secret Love
In Your Dreams
For What it's Worth
Everybody Loves You
Annabel Lee
You Maybe The One
Soldiers Angel


I love them all can't wait to hear these live in concert.

Italian Summer
Moonlight
For What it's Worth
In Your Dreams
Everybody Loves You
You May Be The One
Soldier's Angel
Annabel Lee
New Orleans
Wide Sargasso Sea
Ghosts Are Gone
Secret Love
Cheaper than Free

Seeing as I'm so excited for all of it its hard to rank at this stage but I'll give it a shot~



These are definite top of the list:

Moonlight~ Music and lyrics
New Orleans~ lyrics
Secret Love Music and Lyrics
For What its Worth~
Everybody Loves you~
Annabel Lee
In Your Dreams

These are subject to change;)
Ghosts are Gone
Italian Summer
You May Be the One
Wide Sargasso Sea
Soldier's Angel
Cheaper than Free

This sums up Annabel Lee perfectly..I'm not getting how it is rating so low with alot of fans.Stevie IMO has had some Sapphic subtext going on since way back.

i love annabel lee. its soo good and it gets stuck in my head! i think i like it so much because it reminds me of gypsy.

Thank you. Just an initial reaction. I want to delve deeper into its imagery, but its allure is undeniable. Also, Stevie's Sapphic subtext is a subject that I would love to know more about. I guess for some reason this song seemed to make other moments (Secret Love!) jump out at me.

I've listened to In Your Dreams (once), Soldier's Angel (once), Moonlight, Wide Sargasso Sea and Italian Summer (over and over and over). And of course, Cheaper Than Free and Secret Love

I'd put them in this order today:

Moonlight
Italian Summer
Secret Love
Wide Sargasso Sea
Cheaper Than Free
In Your Dreams (I really can't remember what it sounded like)
Soldier's Angel (Didn't like this. The sentiment is nice, but the word 'soldier' is repeated too often for my liking and the lyrics seemed, I don't know, clunky.)

1. Moonlight
2. New Orleans
3. Everybody Loves You
4. Italian Summer
5. Wide Sargasso Sea
6. Annabel Lee
7. In Your Dreams
8. For What It's Worth
9. Secret Love
10. Cheaper Than Free
11. Soldier's Angel
12. You May Be The One
13. Ghosts Are Gone

I haven't sorted favorites out yet, but this would be my LEAST favorite songs:

1. In Your Dreams
2. Annabel Lee
3. New Orleans
4. Cheaper than Free

ok...fav - least fav:

In Your Dreams
Annabel Lee
Wide Sargasso Sea
You May Be The One
Secret Love
New Orleans
Moonlight
Italian Summer
Soldier's Angel
For What It's Worth
Ghosts Are Gone (STILL can't quite make up my mind about this one)
Everybody Loves You
Cheaper Than Free


God, that was hard. I'm breaking into a sweat here....

Moonlight
In Your Dreams
Italian Summer
Secret Love
For What its Worth
New Orleans
Annabel Lee
Ghosts are Gone
Wide Sargasso Sea
You May Be the One
Everybody Loves You
Soldiers Angel
Cheaper Than Free

I don't get it either. This is the closest she's come to the "classic" Fleetwood Mac sound in years. The song, the fabulous chorus and the big built up ending. :nod:

This is VERY tentative, but so far...

Moonlight
Wide Sargasso Sea
You May Be the One
For What It’s Worth
Italian Summer
Soldier’s Angel
Ghosts Are Gone
New Orleans
Annabel Lee
Secret Love
In Your Dreams
Cheaper Than Free
Everybody Loves You

Dangit, I caved and listened to it on RS again, so I might as well rank 'em. From most fave to least:

Moonlight
Wide Sargasso Sea
Annabel Lee
For What it's Worth
Soldier's Angel
Italian Summer
You May Be the One
New Orleans
Secret Love
In Your Dreams
Ghosts Are Gone
Everybody Loves You
Cheaper Than Free

Can't wait to get my hands on the actual album.