Least Favorite Stevie song from Mirage
 

Gypsy, Straight Back, That's Alright - pick your least favorite...:cool:

Poll closes in 4 days.

Straight Back, just because Gypsy and That's Alright are two of my all-time favorites from SN.

That's Alright. I'm no fan of country & the Mac colliding. :distress:

I absolutely love all three of these songs so I cannot vote in this poll.

^^^Agreed. Stevie's songs saved this album for me. I loved all of her songs and disliked a lot of Christine and Lindsey's songs.

Yes, it's like the Holy Trinity to me. Can't touch this.

Gypsy is one of my all time favs.

Plumped for Straight Back even though I like both the other two.

Prediction: Gypsy will be the only song on Mirage that does not get a single vote. As it should be.

Straight Back got my vote. There are some cool lyrics in there, but I just really like the other two more.

For those who dislike That's Alright - I totally understand. But I love the demo, and that love carries over to the album version. Anyone remember the contest from a few years ago? Brian (LB5) ran it. Mikki did an AMAZING version of TA that I actually have on my iPod because I loved it so much. Would make Stevie proud...

That's Alright is one of my very favorite Stevie songs. My best of Stevie disc includes Gypsy as well.

So Straight Back, hands down.

Yup, I did it, I voted "Gypsy". :) All three songs are great lyrically (and far better than anything else on Mirage), but for me "Gypsy" loses based on the vocal & (over)production. There's nothing wrong with Stevie's voice on it, but I don't think the production lets her voice shine as much as it should. Her voice takes a back seat to the guitar for several notes, for example. The other two songs keep a more pronounced emphasis on Stevie's voice, which was stellar in 1982. (One of the Stevie/Heartbreakers "Gypsy" outtakes also manages this task, which is to be expected since it was recorded for her solo work, where naturally the focus would be on Stevie alone.) I like "Gypsy", I just think that it's a bit overrated (especially live, not that live has anything to do with this poll). Much of the magic I associate with hearing the song comes more from remembering the great video when I listen.


- Jake

Like Viv, I can't vote on this poll. All three songs are incredibly potent, and I love them all. On Mirage, Stevie remains as consistent as she'd been on the previous three albums.

Too bad she fell from grace, in a rather spectacular fashion, on Tango. :laugh:

Because I didn't vote, I can't see the poll. If I HAD TO PICK one song, but I won't do it. I just can't do it. But if I had to pick one it would be Gypsy. I base this on if I was gonna listen to Stevie's songs on Mirage, in which order would I play them. The answer is SB, TA & Gypsy, in that order.

Never got all the hoopla over Straight Back. It's certainly not bad, just the least interesting - probably the most forgettable of all SN's Mac songs. I do like that CM is so prominent on it. It's the closest thing we ever got to a Stevie/Christine duet. :(

Anyone who thinks Gypsy is "over-produced" has tin ears.

Easy....Straight Back. Almost always skip it. I'm in the camp that loves Stevie with a country-tinged song, so That's Alright ranks very high for me. Which is probably why I also highly-rate After The Glitter Fades and For What Its Worth.

I actually think that the younger Stevie was meant for rockin, but the older Stevie is meant for crooning. And I mean that in the very best sense. As we get older, our views and observations on life take a more wistful turn. As I say, you can't be on the "Edge of 17" your entire life.

Well, all three of these are in my top of the top when it comes to Stevie's songs. I voted with the majority. :rolleyes: