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Originally Posted by welcomechris
Um no I don't think this will be as successful they didn't make it onto other albums because well we don't know but
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Um...really? Because these songs didn't make it on to other albums, THAT will make this project less successful than her other efforts?
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Originally Posted by PenguinHead
The notion that these songs are substandard because they never made it on an album is misguided. Artists often have a backlog of unreleased songs. They remain unreleased for various reasons unrelated to their quality.
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^^^THANK YOU!!! Don't get me wrong, Stevie has her share of stinkers where you know EXACTLY why they didn't make it on an album, but other "classic Stevie" songs that never made it on records ("If You Were My Love", "Julia", "Blue Water", etc.) were due to many factors, as PenguinHead said, unrelated to quality of the work. The length of time per side of vinyl back in the day being the MAIN reason, most likely. The length of her songs in general, being another. "Julia" is basically almost 6 minutes. I would have loved it if it were on "Bella Donna" instead of "Think About It" and "After The Glitter Fades". But I think either she or Jimmy (or both) wanted to fit as many songs as they could on the record, so maybe their thought process was to put two short songs on and save the very long "Julia" for something else.
Let's also not forget that two of the three singles chosen for TISL were "vault songs", as well as the lead single for IYD. I think that, in and of itself, kind of shoots down your theory that this album will be unsuccessful simply because they're all older songs that haven't made it onto a previous release.
If this album is unsuccessful, it will be due to lack of public interest, lack of promotion, lack of radio singles, lack of videos, or poor production quality in the songs, but I can't believe it will be unsuccessful due to the songs themselves. You've heard these wonderful demos, right?
-Dave (he gots feelin's)