I have some favorites, couldn't-live-without's on both cd's, so hard to say which is my favorite cd. Ihate to say this, but Sheryl Crow sorta ruined TISL for me. That's just my taste, that's all.
I too (as someone else here said) would have *loved* if Sorcerer had been with Fleetwood Mac, not solo Stevie. Well, not with Sheryl producing and being on it anyways. Maybe if Shanks had produced it, I might have liked it better. I was not so fond of it as it came out on TISL. The demo was so *wild* and *intense*. The TISL version seems dull and mellow compared (which to me is the Sheryl sound it has - to me, Sorcerer came out sounding very Sheryl-ish, more than Stevie-ish which I did not like at all). I love how Sherly worked with If You Ever Did Believe. But on TISL, I was not happy with her.
I am blown away that some people think Fall From Grace is boring. Wow. And Love Is. But to each their own, I suppose. Those are two of my favorite songs from TISL (although the piano demo of 'Love Is' is sooooo much better, it drives me crazy it is not on TISL and is "just" a demo). And I also love the song TISL, I Miss You, Planets, ..... But I also *love* Thrown Down. It's a fave. And Say You Will, Running Through the Garden, Destiny Rules (seems like classic Mac), Goodbye Baby (I love the touch Lindsey added to that - their collaboration made it sound more hopeful than so somber and sad like the demo, although that's incredible too).
I love both the cd's. They keep putting them out, I'll keep gobbling them up! I'd prefer they (or Stevie) go into the studio this spring, rather than tour again. I'd like a new album, please.
With Stevie's cd's, I do always love how they each seem to have such a theme, flow, total "something" to them. Like a book. Can't explain what I am trying to say, but you know what I mean? The pictures of her, the artwork, the songs, the sequence....
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