The albums that dare not speak their names

markolas · #1 12-13-2011, 08:10 PM

We all know how Stevie feels about Street Angel, but in the last several years, she seems to have also disowned Rock a Little and The Other Side of the Mirror. When was the last time she performed songs from either of these albums? The 1990s? It's been mentioned here that Curtis (ontheedgeof17) asked Waddy Wachtel about "Rooms on Fire" at one of her concerts, and he said something like "Oh, Stevie doesn't like that part of her life, so she doesn't do those songs anymore."

Has Stevie mentioned any of this in any interviews? Has anyone else talked to any of her people backstage about it? I'm just curious if anything else has ever been said. It seems so strange for her to write off half of her solo albums this way. Didn't she describe The Other Side of the Mirror as her "magic album" at one point? What changed?

I wish somebody would ask Stevie to elaborate on this.

APerfectLie · #2 12-13-2011, 08:23 PM

I wish somebody would ask her about this too! She did perform Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You back in 2008 and she was doing Whole Lotta Trouble for soundcheck during 2007, but other than that she has seemed to wash her hands of these albums. It is quite depressing. She needs to accept these albums as part of her history and make the most of them by embracing the great songs they did contain rather than writing off that whole period altogether.

mikephxaz · #3 12-13-2011, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by markolas

We all know how Stevie feels about Street Angel, but in the last several years, she seems to have also disowned Rock a Little and The Other Side of the Mirror. When was the last time she performed songs from either of these albums? The 1990s? It's been mentioned here that Curtis (ontheedgeof17) asked Waddy Wachtel about "Rooms on Fire" at one of her concerts, and he said something like "Oh, Stevie doesn't like that part of her life, so she doesn't do those songs anymore."

Has Stevie mentioned any of this in any interviews? Has anyone else talked to any of her people backstage about it? I'm just curious if anything else has ever been said. It seems so strange for her to write off half of her solo albums this way. Didn't she describe The Other Side of the Mirror as her "magic album" at one point? What changed?

I wish somebody would ask Stevie to elaborate on this.

It would seem Street Angel & OSOM never find their way in my cd player or ipod either...Rock a Little is still one of my favorites, but Stevie did go crazy for a long time and it wouldn't surprise me if she doesn't feel that that material is as strong and reminds her of troubled times.....

iamnotafraid · #4 12-13-2011, 09:18 PM

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I wish somebody would ask Stevie to elaborate on this.

Or just ask Barry.

tabruns · #5 12-13-2011, 09:21 PM

I think you're not really reading Waddy's response. He said she doesn't like that part of her *life*, not that she doesn't like those albums or songs. She doesn't perform music from that period just because it reminds her about a part of her life that she doesn't want to remember right now.

That's not at all the same thing as saying flat out that she doesn't like an album, like she did with Street Angel.

Artemis · #6 12-13-2011, 09:36 PM

I'm curious, does Lindsey ignore half his solo albums in his solo concerts? I admit that he doesn't particularly fascinate me as a solo artist, so I have no idea what his set list is like. I've never known of anyone like Stevie for ignoring such a large portion of her work. When was the last time she sang a song recorded after 1982 with Fleetwood Mac? It's just odd that she's got 7 albums, yet 3 of them get completely and utterly ignored. It's just so bizarre.

markolas · #7 12-13-2011, 10:07 PM

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It's just odd that she's got 7 albums, yet 3 of them get completely and utterly ignored. It's just so bizarre.

Well, to be fair, Street Angel does suck.

I dunno, I guess I can see certain songs bumming her out once in a while, but to ignore such a large portion of her work for over a decade? It seems that Has Anyone Ever Written is the only song from RAL or TOSOTM that's been part of her set since the late '90s (she performed Rooms on Fire on her Millennium tour in 1999).

michelej1 · #8 12-13-2011, 11:34 PM

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I'm curious, does Lindsey ignore half his solo albums in his solo concerts?

No. He did ignore one album briefly and people kept mentioning the omission to him, so he put something in from OOTC.

I don't like to have Mirage unrepresented in an FM show.

Michele

markolas · #9 12-13-2011, 11:43 PM

I was going to mention LB and Out of the Cradle. I went to see him in Austin in 2006 and was shocked that he didn't perform any songs from it, although it was a damn good show.

markolas · #10 12-13-2011, 11:50 PM

I wonder if the real issue is that she doesn't feel she can pull those songs off, vocally, any longer. I do think there are probably a lot that she can't, but there are at least an equal number that she can, and that might even be easier for her to do than Edge of Seventeen, for example. Although I know she'd retire before she dropped that one from her set (which is as it should be, I suppose - it is her signature solo song, along with Stand Back).

Rooms on Fire (at the very least) she could still easily pull off, and I know a lot of her fans would love for her to put it back in her set.

johnnystorms · #11 12-14-2011, 12:32 AM

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Well, to be fair, Street Angel does suck.

I dunno, I guess I can see certain songs bumming her out once in a while, but to ignore such a large portion of her work for over a decade? It seems that Has Anyone Ever Written is the only song from RAL or TOSOTM that's been part of her set since the late '90s (she performed Rooms on Fire on her Millennium tour in 1999).

Kick It! that would be an incredible live song!

APerfectLie · #12 12-14-2011, 12:36 AM

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Kick It! that would be an incredible live song!

So would Love Is Like A River!

cactusjack · #13 12-14-2011, 02:19 AM

I'd even settle for Talk To Me for starters (preferably the 'la la la' version

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PolishStevieFan · #14 12-14-2011, 09:37 AM

In my opinion, "Rock a Little", "The Other Side of The Mirror" and "Street Angel" are some of her best albums, no matter what Stevie thinks about them now. "The Other Side Of The Mirror" was my first Stevie album ever and I will never say anything against it. It's just perfect, save for the closing track, which is really downright bad. I can understand that she wasn't at her mentally best during that period of time, but on the other hand she shouldn't dismiss these fans who can appreaciate this music, which in fact is even more personal than on "Bella Donna" or "Wild Heart". Past (even at its worst) is still an unremovable part of our lives and we should accept it...

TheSorcerer · #15 12-14-2011, 02:27 PM

I'd love her to bring back "No Spoken Word"- that song is amazing. I also echo the comments about "Kick It" which would be a nice surprise.

Thing is, even if she couldn't pull of certain tracks vocally, she could maybe rearrange them in a way to present them a little differently so that she could perform them. Take "Sisters of the Moon" for example. The audience would be ecstatic if she came out and did a piano version like the gorgeous demo recording. Same with "Doing the Best I Can". I'm sure she would have no trouble pulling off tracks like "Rooms on Fire", "Ooh My Love", "Rock a Little" and "If I Were You" and "Mirror, Mirror" which would be an absolute delight to hear live. I've always been a little intrigued as to why "Seven Wonders" has been ignored for a good 20 years. Maybe it's because she didn't write it.

While they're from earlier albums, I'd love "Sable on Blond" to be brought out and "Bella Donna" to make a return.

She obviously has her reasons for not performing, it's just a shame that the same old songs get performed live when others are practically dead and buried and whole eras are ignored.

Fleetwood Mac also frustrate me in regards to ignoring songs. What about Crystal, I Don't Want to Know, Angel, That's Alright, Seven Wonders, Blue Letter, Caroline, etc. Mix it up a little, maybe even add some Buckingham Nicks into the set lists.