What Stevie Album Is In Your CD Player The Most
 

It doesn't mean that it is your favourite Stevie album - but what Stevie album is in your player the most?

Mine would be "Other Side of the Mirror" - Im always listening to it - even though it is nowhere near my favourite.

umm. None? :shrug:

I do have this bizarre urge to listen to Timespace right now, though.

Very strange. First I find ChillD listening to "Rumours" & "Tusk" and now this :eek: :laugh:

"Well, I've run through rainbows and castles of candy..."

Gawd, I hate this song. :laugh:

"And I've Cried a River of Tears from the Pain"

It may not be one of Stevie's best - but it is still an okay song!

It's a friggin' Jon Bon Jovi song, making it just that much worse.

It's all good though, "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" is on now.

Probably Wild Heart...yeah, that'd be the one. I take it in the car, to work, and it is also my favorite.

If I'm not listening to FM I am usually listening to "Bella Donna."

Ooops.

I'm really into Wild Heart on my record player right now. I listen to it most mornings in my shower/get ready phase. And it's prime on my ishuffle. I just got it last year, too, and I didn't like it much at first, so it's really fresh and fun for me to get into it.

Once again, iTunes knows all, though I haven't been listening to Stevie albums as albums of late. The Stevie songs that I've played the most since September:

5 plays - If Anyone Falls
4 plays - Violet And Blue, Sleeping Angel, Stand Back, Planets Of The Universe
3 plays - Silent Night, After The Glitter Fades, Edge Of Seventeen (live), Gold And Braid (live), I Can't Wait, Rock A Little (Go Ahead Lily), I Sing For The Things, Wild Heart, Enchanted, Fall From Grace

I could have lived a thousand years and not pegged you for an "If Anyone Falls" superfan.
But you may not be - I have to study each one individually at different times, which may or may not mean that I love it. And I like that Angel was on your other list, I would not have guessed that either. Angel is a huge favorite of mine, for the bassline, and just the general kicky happiness. Also, the vocal is much more innovative or difficult than it first appears to be.
In general that song is more complex than it appears, IMO.

A nice ledgie just sent me Violet and Blue (In addition to Gold and Whenever I Call You Friend, both of which I have been seriously jonesing for - I sold Enchanted like, five years ago) - and V and B is interesting because its band, it's synth/guitar hook (the beginning stuff), is actually more compelling than the vocal - When it starts I think "oh, this song is rad!" then as the vocal and the rest of the music comes out, it settles into "pretty good". I can't speak about the lyrics at this time, as I don't really know them. I've heard others are very fond.
I always like Gold and Braid, and Rock a Little is a sublime curio, to me. At first I didn't like it, then I fell under the spell of its subtle and unusual charms. It's quite strange, really. The instrumentals in it are very moody, and of course the vocal is - I've come to respect it in addition to liking it. I almost respect it more than liking it. No, probably equal. But you see my point.

I don't know that I'm a "superfan," but I do like the song quite a bit, and it is one of my favorites on The Wild Heart. ("I have never known... what to say... how to say... I've seen many things today... I've never seen... anything... like you!" Now that's a Stevie lyric, and the delivery is perfect. And those guitar licks in the middle of the verses... actually, maybe I am a superfan.)

But it's just a coincidence that it's at the top of my list. I haven't listened to any Stevie albums as albums in a long time. "If Anyone Falls" just happens to be the song that has come up most when I've listened to Stevie on shuffle.

Actually, I expect to get yelled at for having listened to so little Stevie in the past nine months that my most played song has only been played a whopping five times.

Naw. Hey, that's cool! I'm just getting into my WH groove, I used to not like it, including IAF (but from Timespace is where I didn't like it from), so that's why I said something is because I have a new appreciation for all things WH.
But I get it about the shuffle. I didn't really expect you to have FM/Stevie at the top of your listening list.

I like that rhythm of the vocal as well (the one you described above) and the band parts there are perfect. Especially after/during "Anything! Like You!" - the band punctuation there is just great.
And even when I didn't like the song, I liked "Shadows! *pow!* Shadows! *pow!* Shadows against the wah-all!"
You know, I'm coming to realize that an important part of Stevie's talent is her sense of rhythm. How weird. I mean, I always heard it, but I didn't always notice it as a special thing. But it is a special thing. Stevie is like a jazz singer of rock. Which isn't an invite for you to compare her to actual jazz singers, it's just an invite for you to think about her unusual rhythms within the rock construct. Sublime. Just like Linds is an unusual musician instrumentally within the pop construct.
Even Linds said her sense of rhythm is extra.

TISL is always in my cd player. Generally I don't listen to the albums anymore....I OWN THEM ALL A COUPLE OF TIMES OVER but my favorite versions are generally not what appeared on the albums...(maybe Buckingham Nicks being an exception because its very nature is much like a demo or outtake :shrug: ). I think partly because demo's and outtakes require active listening from me and I can’t just have them playing in the back ground while I chit chat with my friends; they distract me, I want to really listen for whatever reason or endlessly explain them to death to who ever is around. TISL is kind of like a touch stone for me too because I was soooo freakin' happy she finally released new music and well for me I was just sooo glad it didn’t suck .My favorite albums (or more approprietly era's) shift depending on my mood and what 'Stevie drama' I'm groovin on at the moment. I prefer bootleg versions to every song that appears on that album but I think it is a very solid effort and a very honest reflection of that period of her life. Down deep I’m still relieved and kind-a weirdly proud of her for being able to deliver a solo album after everything and that she did it sober. I can (and do) nit-pick on some things like Crowes production and Stevie voice or lyric choices, but over all it remains a very listenable album to me. I can also have that album playing and still function outside the music if you get my drift……

I actually have listened to quite a lot of Fleetwood Mac in the past year. Quite a bit more than many other artists. But I've got so much material from them, I just haven't listened to a lot of things multiple times. I've got 961 Fleetwood Mac + solo songs, and I've listened to 675 of them at least once since September.