[strandinthewind]

Mirage is my favoite record for many reasons. I think Steive is at her all time best vocally on this record. Granted her song "That's Alright" was written in the ealy 70's according to the vocal on the demo I have, but Gypsy is just majestic and so representative to me of her life in FM and as a solo artist at that time. Also, I think there is a little of Robin's sickness and death in that song in the part about the child and if Stevie was a child would she be enough so perhaps Robin would not have terminated her life earlier than she perhaps could have lived by choosing to have the baby despite her lukemia - her gift to he world, a continuation of herself, etc. I also love the piercing vocal on Straight Back as well as the writing as it demonstrates how she writes a song, her spiritual nature, etc.

Hold Me is probably at any given moment one of my favorite songs by FM and is a testament to LB in the way he produced that gem. Same for Love in Store. But, unlike SN and, perhaps more so, LB, I in general really like everything CM ever did.

I also like LB's songs (yes, even Oh Diane, esp. the harmonies on it after LB's vocal of Diane), esp. Eyes of the World.

Finally, that was he tadolescent to adult period of my life and, concurrently, the very beginning of the produced "story board" video. What a treat to behold Stevie then; I probably have never had quite that feeling in my life as I did when I first saw her in red and supine on that killer chaise lounge. Pretty much the same for her in Gypsy.

I know some see it as a comeback t the mainstream ater Tusk, but I just loved it and still do.