The "Street Angel" Survivor Challenge - Round One
 

Here are the winners so far:

Bella Donna - How Still My Love
Wild Heart - Stand Back
Rock A Little - No Spoken Word
Other Side of the Mirror - Room on Fire



Onto Street Angel...


PLEASE READ: There are 13 tracks on the CD and since we are only allowed up to ten choices in the polls feature I have left off "Blue Denim", "Greta" and "Maybe Love" as they tend to be fan favorites and both will be added in round two and three.

Now pick two tracks to get voted off...

Unconditional Love & Just Like A Woman, each for the same reason.

Just Like A Woman & Jane (with Unconditional Love not too far behind;)) If these 3 turkeys were left off SA and in their place just add "Inspiration" & "Thousand Days" - Street Angel would be a much more respectable outing :shrug:

I actually have this album so I can participate! Yay!!!! :blob1:

Rose Garden and Just Like a Woman

I would like to have voted for "Greta" and "Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind" from the start. :shrug:

Guess it will be "Listen to the Rain" and "Street Angel".

- Jake

Docklands is TERRIFYING. It's made worse by the fact that she chose to record it, as she didn't even write the thing. Barf. Truly bottom of the proverbial barrel.

Mariel says... GTFO!!!

Oh, and I think that some parts of Jane are singable, and if she didn't include the word Chimpanzee, it might not be as hated by the world.

There is so much to chose from :shocked: :sorry:!

I chose Jane and Rose Garden for this round, 2 of my least favorites ever. No explaination needed.

This is the hardest ever, I've come to think of this album as absolute perfection. I haven't listened to anything but Street Angel and Rock a Little for the past year now, but Street Angel just makes my life complete. With that being said, I voted for Rose Garden and Destiny because I like them the least.

Og, I wondered where the mindless vile hatred of Street Angel went to... :rolleyes:

Dressed up as a "poll".... :rolleyes:

Kick It is the only song that I love on this CD. So pleeeeeeeeeeze don't vote it off!

Kevin

not intended to be a vile spewing hateful thing....just a part of the "Survivor" challenges

Sorry I had to leave three tracks off cause the poll feature only allows 10 choices

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HATE that "Just Like a Woman" is on its way out!!! i really love it and Syevie was sooooo honored for Dylan to play on it. Also, it sort of epitomizes Stevie! "with her fog, her amphetamines and her pills". just don't get the hate for this song on this board.

Everyone should know this is a top notch album for me...


....but I went with Unconditional Love and Jane.


SAVE DOCKLANDS!

Therere some great songs on this album but the worst are Jane and Unconditional Love - both are just far too mawkish and really quite horrible. For me anyway.

I get that, I just wish others had been left off instead. It’s harder to vote when one’s first choices aren’t there.:shrug:

I’m not voting it off anytime soon. I think it’s a really good vocal, & I like the harmonies on it as well.

I think you’re correct, the explicit chimp reference drives most people nuts. Not me, though, I think it works okay in the context of the song topic. I’m FAR more bothered by the trite/sappy angel crap in the chorus.


- Jake

Let it be Rose Garden, please, oh please, the most abhorrent thing Stevie has ever released.

I've always liked Street Angel but could do without Docklands, Jane and Rose Garden. After hearing the stellar Mirror, Mirror and If You Were My Love this week, this could have surpassed the Wild Heart on the album quality list. Why would Docklands replace those gorgeous songs is beyond me.

I actually really like Docklands. :laugh: I haven't heard it for a while, but, I remember that Stevie's voice was great on it.

I voted for Jane and Just Like A Woman, although, this is because I totally didn't see Unconditional Love on there. The worst song Stevie's ever done.

I'm voting off the 2 covers that are not Maybe Love - Docklands and Just Like A Woman.

You gotta give Jane some love - it is about Jane Goodall, for god's sake, and she researched the chimpanzees and worked to save them from extinction. Beats most of the dreck on SA like Listen to the Rain, Blue Denim, Street Angel, Rose Garden....

For me "Jane" is sorta in that middle gray area between loving it and hating it.

I love "Docklands" always have, I'd go a far a saying I think it would've made a decent single. It's catchy and Stevie sings the sh*t out of it! I think most fans objected to the hearing their Stevie singing about going down to the laundromat (thats too much reality for some in a Stevie Nicks song:laugh:). And the fact that Stevie didn't write it will almost always stacks the cards against a song. I thought Stevie covering "Docklands was a bold and quirky choice and it suited Stevie's voice marvelously too.:cool:

I think most fans objected to the hearing their Stevie singing about going down to the laundromat (thats too much reality for some in a Stevie Nicks song:laugh:).

I remember on the SA tour she replaced "laundromat" with "river" like she knew that people just weren't connecting with her singing that. .

But I too like this song a lot, especially the bridge "i beg of you", the third verse and the coda at the end "give me your hand/ i beg of you". And I always thought that she connected with the lyrics - "sometimes i feel like I'm in a foreign land and there's a mirror I'm looking through lost in the place where i was born without a hand to hold onto" - I think that seems like a lyric Stevie could write.

I never really objected to "laundromat" ....but whenever I sing along I DO tend to sing "liquor store" .... lol

I've never understood why people hate Just Like a Woman so much, unless it's another one of those "Stevie didn't write it, so it's garbage" deals. It's one of the better songs on the album, IMO. I voted for Jane and Unconditional Love. If Maybe Love had been included, I'd have voted for that instead of Jane; it's certainly not a favorite of this fan.

Let me save us all some time here. :lol: These are the only worthwhile songs on Street Angel:

- Blue Denim
- Street Angel
- Love Is Like a River
- Destiny

Greta, Docklands, & Just Like a Woman aren't bad. Everything else could go on a "worst songs Stevie's ever recorded" compilation.