In Your Dreams Song Lengths
 

I was looking at the mp3 versions of the songs from IYD on Amazon and you can see all of the song lengths, which was interesting.

1. Secret Love 3:15
2. For What It's Worth 4:32
3. In Your Dreams 3:58
4. Wide Sargasso Sea 5:36
5. New Orleans 5:34
6. Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream) 5:26
7. Annabel Lee 5:58
8. Soldier's Angel 5:16
9. Everybody Loves You 5:16
10. Ghosts Are Gone 6:06
11. You May Be The One 5:26
12. Italian Summer 4:38
13. Cheaper Than Free (feat. Dave Stewart) 3:38

These are some long songs! 8 of them are over 5 minutes :eek:

We were actually just talking about this in another thread. The amount of long songs and total album running length both excites and terrifies me. When Stevie's long songs are good, they're utterly epic (think of Tusk). But when they're bad, they come across as overly self indulgent (Wild Heart, in my opinion). Like was another topic of recent conversation, the success of Stevie's songs hinges on who she's working with. It's still kinda unforeseen at this point if working with Dave was good for her music or not.

cool! i love longer songs! (i never even bothered to check the song lengths, so thank you for posting. it just got me even a little more excited about the cd!)

I'm frightened:eek: I hate the fact that she can't make shorter albums. Long albums don't work for her....i'm sorry. Hold me:eek::eek:

Mick

the ones that are shorter have been listed as peoples favorites :)

I'm surprised "Ghosts are Gone" is so long. We know that track is a rocker. I'm sure IYD is the next single because its just under 4 minutes.

Does it bug anyone else that it isn't called THE Ghosts are Gone, but just Ghosts are Gone? Maybe I am just strange, but it just sounds incomplete.

What's wrong with overly self indulgent? :shrug:
;)

But I'm seriously excited for this. After listening to Cheaper than Free I felt as thought it was much too short, compared to other Stevie songs.
I'm a big fan of the >5 minute songs :)

Yes it does, and I assumed I was the only one that would notice so I never brought it up. Some titles work well with "the" as the kicker first word (think "The Chain" as opposed to "Chain" and even this forum, "The Ledge" as opposed to simply, "Ledge"). As a songwriter I'm aware of the rhythm and meter of a phrase. "Ghosts are Gone" translates to, "TUM-tum-tum". I much prefer, "ta-TUM-ta-TUM". Thank you for bringing my attention to this again now, and for introducing me to my new favorite word which you used in a prior post, "frackin". I'll get plenty of mileage of that this lifetime!

Not one song on TISL is over 5 minutes... :shocked:


...and that is one LOOOOONG ablum.



ETA: Also, no Stevie song is over 5 minutes on SYW. In fact, only the "epic" "Come" is over 5 (clocking in at 6:00). That means Stevie "Comes" EIGHT times on this ablum.

I thought Cheaper than Free was about 3:38 too long. :rolleyes:

it just fealt that way becuase the album wasn't good

:lol: you are cracking me up today.

I am glad I'm not alone in this! And you are welcome :)

I'm glad to see WSS turned out to be long, since it was my fave of the teaser clips. I'm trying to keep my mind occupied and not think about this album too much, because the time is KILLING me!!! :laugh: