The "B-Side & Soundtrack" [Part One] Survivor Challenge - Round Two
 

Here are the results so far:

Round One: Sometimes It's A Bitch
Round Two: Love's A Hard Game To Play


Now onto the next round...vote for two more tracks to go..

What happened to:
Real Tears
Twisted
Mirror Mirror
Somebody Stand by Me
Touched by an Angel
Free Fallin

Did these already get voted off?

they were never there..instead the 2 dreadful Poison and Bon Jovi songs from Timespace which were neither b -sides nor soundtrack songs were and got voted off.

Can we add these onto the next poll?

And IYEDB & Crystal!

(:

I think all those other songs are going in 'Part 2' or something.

I voted for Inspiration and Thousand Days, on the basis that the rest of the songs are pretty fantastic. :laugh:

Thousand Days and Garbo. I used to hate Inspiration but it totally grew on me.

OMBTRARS (she took a risk on the vocal & it just does not work, & the lyrics are self-indulgent even for her) and Thousand Days (not awful, but a bit safe, and her voice at that point just was not what it used to be)

I'll never understand the contempt for "Garbo" - I put it in Stevie's Top 10 and think it's a far better fit for TWH album than "Beauty & the Beast". :eek::nod:
Lyrics, vocal, production - a masterpiece that far surpasses the demo.

- Jake

That hurts my everything sweetie :(.

And Garbo is too country and whiney IMO.

Whiney??? Maybe the demo. I don't hear that at all on the beautiful textured rasp of TWH track.

IMO "Beauty & the Beast" is just too much for this album and really helped push Stevie (in terms of image and marketability) from cool rocker-chick to soft-schlock diva/artiste. Most guys I know liked "Bella Donna", but found "The Wild Heart" to be more of a chick album, and I think B&tB is a huge reason for this. I'm certainly not suggesting that "Garbo" oozes machismo by any means, but it's shorter/less plodding for people who anticipated more of a traditional pop/rock album.
Especially in the context of TWH, B&tB stands out as over-the-top romantic excess with nothing of a hummable melody for a pop/rock album. :shrug:
This is not to say it's a bad song. It would be fine on a movie soundtrack or B-side to a single, or even better, it should have been kept to live sets, where its charm is more apparent.

- Jake

Trust me they are going to be part of the "Part Two" B-Side & Misc. Challenge...

Yes, I agree completely. On record it bores me to tears but live it kicks arse.

Noooo, don't vote off 'Thousand Days'. I love that overproduced rambling mess of a song, it's one of my favourites!

I completely agree with you, and I think it would have worked so well on TWH, perhaps in place of Gate and Garden. I love most of Stevie's country-tinged songs; The Highwayman, That's Alright, For What It's Worth, etc. Garbo is just a really pretty song, and the lyrics are haunting. I don't get how anyone could dislike it, but, different strokes for different folks :laugh:

Inspiration and Sleeping Angel


.....I love the avant garde sound of "Thousand Days"....and OMBTRRS has been one of my favs, as of late. Don't get me started on "Garbo"....top 5 song for me.

I've always thought 'The Wild Heart" would have been vastly improved with 'Garbo' & 'Violet and Blue' taking place of 'Gate and Garden' & 'I Will Run To You'

Yep I agree. I used to hate Inspiration and then it hit me and now I love it. One More Big Time Monotone Vocal and a Thousand Days to listen to it to go

The chorus saves Thousand Days for me.

Michele

OMBTRARS, Violet and Blue, and Blue Lamp to go.

The firing squad awaits you.:p:lol::woohoo:

These songs are low quality Stevie, to me ... too faux rock/Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers/pickup truck/NASCAR sounding. Where did Rhiannon and the Gold Dust Woman go? Run over by a rusted out Firebird with a hole in its muffler, racing down the dirt road from the trailer park. No mystery or allure at all, just random braying over a dreary backing of garage band guitars. Not my Stevie. At all.

To me B&TB is quintessentail Stevie in its mystery and beauty and quirky sadness. It saved a wipeout of an album to me, without it I'd have listened to only Stand Back and Nightbird a few times and then thrown Wild Heart in the trash. Pop Rock? Stevie? Give me the feminine mystique and the heartstring tugging slow burners like B&TB anytime.