My order of preference for the songs on the deluxe version, from worst to best:
Watch Chain - junky song, junky production
The Dealer - mediocre song a crashing bore
Twisted - another crashing bore we already own two versions of
Carousel - let that girl keep it
Hard Advice - self absorbed lyrics set to a "who cares?" melody
I Don't Care - OK but just the obligatory derivative "Ghosts are Gone" rocker
Cathouse Blues - fun and different but one like this will be enough
Belle Fleur - great production lifts up a song more chanted than sung
Lady - lovely and raw except for the endless bellowed repetition
Starshine - toe tapping ear candy but thank god it doesn't drag on too long
She Loves Him Still - sad mournful and totally Stevie
All the Beautiful Worlds - gorgeous harmonies and production though I hate the "don't give that to her" lyric
24 Karat Gold - all the 30+ years of Stevie goodness jammed into one simple repetitive ditty!
Blue Water - always loved this and the album version is delicious - you can find a new harmony line with every listen!
Mabel Normand - addictive Stevie raging nonsense delivered with intensity against a wall of marvellous music
If You Were My Love - Beauty and the Beast and HAEWAFY and The Second Time and Love Is Stevie distilled to its essence
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