Favorite Stevie album
 

Ok so, Stevie has a few different solo albums, some better than others, but i just want to know you guy's favorite Stevie albums. Mine is probably Bella Donna, then Wild Heart or Rock a Little. Trouble in Shang-gri-la is good too.

Probably Bella Donna.

It would go something like this, if I had to rank them:

1. Bella Donna (I love every song absolutely)
2. Wild Heart (I love all but like 1 song *ahem* Gate and Garden.... no)
3. In Your Dreams, Rock a Little, and Trouble in Shangri-La all tied (I love a majority of the songs)
4. Street Angel (I only like about 1/3 of the album)
5. Other Side of The Mirror (I only like about 1/4 of the album)

It changes all the time. A few times per year. Right now it is Wild Heart.

I agree, but as a rule its pretty much TISL, IYD, BD and WH in a four way tie.
The only songs I don't care for off of each are:
TISL-Everyday, That Made Me Stronger
IYD-IYD
BD-perfect
WH-perfect

Wild Heart, In Your Dreams, Trouble in Shangri-La, not in that order.

OSOTM would probably make it 4th, over Bella Donna, for me.

Michele

My best friend Bailie and I discuss this a lot and have pretty much decided that our favorites (based on how many of the songs we like per album) would be in order
1. Bella Donna & Wild Heart (Is there anything bad on either of them? Like really, they're perfect)
2. Trouble In Shangri-La (I love almost the entire thing, sans TMMS)
3. In Your Dreams (Love most of the songs, some are ok, and Cheaper Than Free is just plain awful)
4. Rock a Little (It's got some great songs, but a lot of them are just too dated and overly 80s for it to be considered a timeless album like Rumours or Bella Donna is, imo)
5. Street Angel (I like more than half of the songs)
6. Other Side of The Mirror (I don't love this album, but I do like some of it. Lyrically, it can be appreciated. But i'm not a fan of the production and a lot of the musical arrangements just bore me and are reminiscent of bad elevator music tracks piled on top of each other. I blame it on Rupert.)

For me, Bella Donna is perfect! I never get tired of listening to it. IYD is a close second though :) Of course, there are a lot of great songs on her other records, but those two are my most played. The only song I'm not a fan of on IYD is Cheaper Than Free.

1. Bella Donna (bc it's the definition of perfection)
2. The Wild Heart (like every song except Beauty and the Beast)
3. Rock a Little ( it's so over the top, but I just love it because it's out of control).
4. OSOTM
5. In Your Dreams
6. Street Angel (I like Street Angel, Blue Denim, Docklands, and Rose Garden)
7. TISL

1. Rock a Little (she really lets loose on this and it has tons of clever production stuff, full of loud in your face quirkiness)
2. Wild Heart (mostly because of B&TB, Nightbird, Stand Back, and Sable on Blonde)
3. TOSOTM (dark and dramatic, as it should be - I only dislike Rooms on Fire and Ghosts on this)
4. TISL (really uneven, marred by Sheryl's godawful production and with some really crap songs but Stevie was back and not doing too bad a job of it)
5. In Your Dreams (very conventional songwriting, mostly because they are Dave Stewart's songs, and, well, no WOW moment at all, quite a dull listen, for the most part)
6. BellaDonna (I was so disappointed to hear the beautiful singer songwriter of FM reduced to a crappy garage-band backup and "who cares?" singing and production. Took me years to recover and I still don't get most of it - the songs, the singing, the misery of the production and instrumentation, no mysticism or magic at all, cringe cringe cringe)
7. Street Angel (a sprawling mess, forgettable mostly non-Stevie-written material, bad production, and several of her all-time worst moments - Street Angel, Blue Denim, Rose Garden, Love is Like a River - whew, let's just try to forget)

Wow what a difficult decision. There are certainly some albums I like over the other, but given any small change to any of them, I could reconsider my list immediately. In no particular order my top 3:

TOSOTM: dark, dreary, fabulous Nicks in her finery. The track I could live w/o: TKOL
TISL: love it all except TMMS, 'nuff said
IYD: perfection, albeit New Orleans and Soldiers Angel, there I said it. Not a popular choice among fans....I Love YMBTO and IYD title track.

Next: BD: love all the tracks, but not crazy about her duets
SA: this is a sore pick, but I actually love it. The beauty and realistic Nicks(in her moment of distress). She showed us her world, which was just a continuation of TOSOTM. Dark, I love it.
TWH: Pretty good sophomore effort....I like it...esp. Enchanted, BATB, SB, NEC

least fave: RAL...this is the most dated IMO and doesn't stand up well to the others. Interestingly enough this was the album that made me a SN (and FM) fan. I fell in love with the mysterious, cryptically versed woman on tracks such as: TTM, ICW, IIWY, NSW, and ISFTT. The rest could really have been shelved.

LMAo...we have almost the same list in reverse....just goes to show the diversity in the FM/SN community. I tend to think we All have good taste in music but at differing degrees.

My fave Stevie Album.

I love them all.

Bella Donna is on the top.

Current Ranking:
 

1) The Wild Heart
2) Bella Donna - Trouble in Shangri-La - In Your Dreams (all tied)
3) Rock A Little
4) Street Angel - The Other Side Of The Mirror (Both pretty terrible albums, let's be honest)