Stevie albums...
 

This started with an argument between me and Friend: Wild Heart vs. OSOTM. I prefer Wild Heart but she disagreed. I was just intrested to what other's think. My personal Fave is Bella Donna. I love it. I also Love Wild Heart. OSOTM is great. Very, VERY good. But not quite on the same level cos it has the awful "Two Kinds of Love", "Alice" and "I Still Miss Someone" on it. I can't stand Rock a Little...any of it (except I Can't Wait and HAEWAFY) Street Angel is sort of average. I love Blue Denim and Listen to the Rain but it sorta gets boring after a bit. Trouble is just....it's as good as Bella Donna. Very different but i still love it. Ok, so lets get voting.

It's Trouble In Shangri-la all the way for me. I didn't think she'd ever release an album (in its entirety) that would top Bella Donna ever again, but she sure did.

As far as the best "side" of an album, that would be side 2 of Rock A Little...nothing she's done has topped THAT (on vinyl, that is). For me, it would tough to top:

Talk To Me
The Nightmare
If I Were You
No Spoken Word
Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You

Except if she'd put "I Can't Wait" to open side two and moved "Talk To Me" down a spot and removed "The Nightmare" altogether. (thanks to CD programming capability)

I Can't Wait
Talk To Me
If I Were You
No Spoken Word
Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You

bella donna it is.

It was a toss-up for me - but I finally went with Bella Donna because it's still the album I listen to most - therefore it must be my favorite :laugh:

I also love Trouble in Shangri-La and The Wild Heart - but the favorite remains Bella Donna.

Trouble in ShangriLa

Second place is Wild Heart...

Depending on the day, it switches between RAL and TISL. RAL has a few medicore songs but none that I flat out don't like. TISL has more songs that I love than RAL but also has ones I cannot listen to at all. THW would be after those 2.

I'm going to think about this for a bit before I vote. For me, my "favorite" Stevie album is always a tie between 'The Wild Heart' and 'Rock A Little.' Though 'Shangri-La' nips at their heels.

My fave album will never be 'Bella Donna'... it's too safe and mellow for my ears, and doesn't display near enough of the Stevie-eccentricities that I find so compelling.

I hate this question.

I do too, cause I like all the albums for different reasons. They are all so different!

But based on amount played - I'd have to go with Rock-a-Little. Next up would probably have to be Trouble In Shangri-la.

Bella Donna I hadn't listened to in a few years - the whole cd from the start to the finish and not too long ago when I did, it struck me how mellow it actually is. It's good, but mellow.

This changes all the time for me, but currently it's OSOTM. I'm over the big hits for the time being, and this cd is really fitting in with my mood lately.

tisl is her best work.

Trouble In Shangri-LA ROCKS!

Um...yeah...:shocked: :laugh: If you like a 4 note range more than, say, a 10 note one...Also if you like that range to be in, say, the tuba area rather than the trumpet area.
:) :wavey:

Welcome to the board. :angel:

First RAL was my favorite, and I didn't like WH, now WH is my favorite. BD is greatness, of course - it has some favorites, but for me right now, WH is that wonderful moment in time, that bridge, between much reduced range (RAL) and a fairly pure voice (BD). In other words, it is vocally strange and erratic, but it still contains some good range. Also, it is coke fueled enough to be more bizarre than BD, but not so coke fueled that it suffered from RALitis. (don't get me wrong, I love RAL).

I did not get into Fleetwood Mac until 1982 and I know Bella Donna was still unleashing hits into 1982 but I really did not get into Bella Donna so I can never call it a favorite. Wild Heart was my first solo purchase and it was incredible, though radio ran Stand Back into the ground. RAL was special for me as it was the first time I bought her album and then got to see her in concert. I love OSOTM with all its visions and fairytale like world. Street Angel had half a disc's worth of good songs and the other half was flat. But as I sit here I must say TISL is my favorite with RAL & Wild Heart close behind.

Bella Donna is the only one I'd put on a list of my favorite albums in general. I never really liked The Wild Heart much; RAL is better, but I can't say it's as good as Bella Donna, because her lyrics had stopped making sense around the time of...well...The Wild Heart. TOSOTM is too draggy, she sounds tired. Street Angel has a couple of shining moments (the title song and the Dylan cover, namely), but is largely RAL's ugly stepchild. TISL is almost on the level of Bella Donna, but there are some clunkers there that drag it down a notch.