As a child, I heard Rhiannon, Dreams, Sara, Edge Of Seventeen and Gypsy all the time. It wasn't until RAL that I put it all together and became the chiffonhead I am today. Once I started buying her albums, these are the songs I loved from the start:
Kind Of Woman
How Still My Love
The Highwayman
Wild Heart
Enchanted
Nightbird
I Can't Wait (the one that hooked me)
Talk To Me
Imperial Hotel
The Nightmare
When The Other Side Of The Mirror came out, I loved the album entirely. Over the years though, my adoration for most of the songs has faded...I still love Rooms On Fire and Ooh My Love...Alice is still great, but I could do without the rest.
Street Angel....almost all of these took time to grow on me. Kick It is the only song here I loved from the start.
TISL...The title track swept me away the first time I heard it. I love the visual of running through the grass and over the stones...classic Stevie. I loved Fall From Grace from the first listen, and Love Changes as well.
Others on the list:
Sleeping Angel
Gold & Braid
Twisted
Violet & Blue
Blue Lamp
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I'm not the man you think I am. My love has never lived indoors - I had to drag it home by four, hired hounds at both my wrists, damp and bruised by strangers' kisses on my lips. But you're the one that I still miss. Neko Case
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