Here are my surprises:
"Wide Sargasso Sea" is much better than the snippet on the sizzle reel. I know lots of people liked the sizzle reel snippet but I thought it was the weakest song on there.
"New Orleans" is an *excellent* song that hasn't gotten much press yet, I was stunned by how good this was.
"Annabel Lee" also vastly surpasses its snippet on the sizzle reel.
"Secret Love" and "Cheaper Than Free" make great book-ends to this album. I think the album sequence actually enhances both of these songs somehow (I don't think they're weak songs at all, just not as jaw-droppingly great as other songs on the album).
"Moonlight" and "Italian Summer" aren't surprising to me because I expected them to be great and they absolutely are.
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