Rock a Little vs. The Otherside Of the Mirror
 

In the same light as the Bella Donna vs. The Wild Heart thread, what's everyones opinion on these two. These seem to divide the fans a fair bit, with quite strong differences of opinions on both, so this should be interesting.

For me, it's "Rock a Little". Whilst it does have some pretty bad songs on (The Nightmare and Some Become Strangers), it also has some AMAZING songs (No Spoken Word, If I Were You, Talk To Me) and some really fun songs (Imperial Hotel, Sister Honey).

OTOSM has a lot of just ok songs (Rooms on Fire has never been a particular favourite of mine, although I do like it) mixed in with some HORRENDOUS tripe (whoever told her "Two Kinds Of Love" was good enough to include on the album wants shooting!), and I'm not keen on her rather underwhelming vocals on a lot of the tracks. It's also pretty poorly produced in comparison the the first 3 albums and everything that came after it.

Should have had a neither option. They both are horrid. Each has 1 good song....That's it.

Mick

I Can't Wait, Sister Honey, Talk To Me, No Spoken Word, If I Were You, HAEWAFY, Rooms On Fire, Long Way To Go, Ooh My Love, Juliet, Doing The Best I Can....

I've always regarded Rock a Little as a minor masterpiece, second only to Bella Donna. Like BD, I genuinely love every song on it. Yes, it's a very different album for her, but equally great, IMO.

TOSOTM has a lot of mediocre songs ("Ghosts" and "Two Kinds of Love," namely) and the production is a bit muddy (a good remastering could clean it up nicely, I bet), although the concept is brilliant and it's probably the darkest album she ever recorded.

AH.....Opinions, lol:laugh: Both are bland blights on her career, IMHO, respectfully;)

Mick

Rock a Little, in all it's insanity, actually works, in my opinion. There is such a raw energy that is captured, even if the songs and vocals aren't perfect. It's an honest documentation of where Stevie was at in her life at that point. OSOTM is cohesive, it has a distinct theme, but I just don't care for the mood the producers were trying to create...

Rock a Little. I enjoy about half of it. Whereas I only enjoy about 2 songs on OSOTM.

which 2 songs, out of interest?

Rooms on Fire and Long Way To Go.

I might have enjoyed Oooh My Love if she didn't say "walls" 3000 times.

:laugh: LOL at the walls comment.

I really love "Juliet" and "Doing The Best I Can"

Rock A Little for sure. She's a total hot mess on that album, but it doesn't feel... sludgy, the way TOSOTM does.

I LOVE Rock a Little. Is this even a question? I love all of this hot mess album :nod:

TOSTM= cringe after cringe for me

Both albums did give us amazing music videos though :laugh:

Don't like either of these albums, but TOSOM is the better of the two.

RAL is crazy and I love it.

Aside from ROF, I love Fire Burning and the much maligned I Still Miss Someone too and I have no problem with Kenny G.

Over the years, I'm become more down on I Can't Wait and Talk to Me than I was at the time. Still, I love Some Become Strangers and No Spoken Word.


It's kind of a toss up.

Michele