The Other Side of the Mirror - Page 3

Dreammms · #31 10-20-2004, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by amber

*gasp* but why not? though, i don't like Alice much, so...although i like the lyrics a lot, just not the music. Anyways. but it's weird cause i liked cry wolf first...

I just never got into the whole Cry Wolf thing. I think it's cheesy. I like it better when Stevie writes her own lyrics.
I do agree with you about Kick It though from Street Angel. That song is awesome!

The Tower · #32 10-20-2004, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by amber

*gasp* but why not? though, i don't like Alice much, so...although i like the lyrics a lot, just not the music. Anyways. but it's weird cause i liked cry wolf first...

"Cry Wolf" is awful. Terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE lyrics and boring, boring music.

Stevie should really be choosy when she decides to cover other material. For example-

Excellent choice: "Reconsider Me"

Crappy choice: "Cry Wolf"

Excellent choice: "Free Fallin'"

Crappy choice: "Love's A Hard Game to Play"

A good rule of thumb should be- if it's been on a Laura Branigan album, don't cover it.

Dreammms · #33 10-20-2004, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by The Tower

"Cry Wolf" is awful. Terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE lyrics and boring, boring music.

Stevie should really be choosy when she decides to cover other material. For example-

Excellent choice: "Reconsider Me"

Crappy choice: "Cry Wolf"

Excellent choice: "Free Fallin'"

Crappy choice: "Love's A Hard Game to Play"

A good rule of thumb should be- if it's been on a Laura Branigan album, don't cover it.

lol great post
i totally agree

ontheEdgeof17 · #34 10-20-2004, 12:03 PM

Isn't there a rumor that Stevie actually wrote Cry Wolf but gave credit to someone else? I could be talking out of my right nostril, but I swore I heard something along those lines.

-Curt

DeadliestPoison · #35 10-20-2004, 12:34 PM

Stevie could have at least changed SOMETHING about Cry Wolf. I was expecting Laura's version to be... different. The vocal was less emotive, but everything else was practically the same. Way to go, Steves.

Still love the song, though.

#36 10-20-2004, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

Isn't there a rumor that Stevie actually wrote Cry Wolf but gave credit to someone else? I could be talking out of my right nostril, but I swore I heard something along those lines.

-Curt

actually, it sounded like more out of your left nostril...didn't you have that deviated septum fixed yet?

sorry, really sorry, that was bad.

anyway, i've never heard nothin bout noone.

deribish · #37 10-20-2004, 01:19 PM

A few things:
1.
I love TOSOTM... when I first got it, the day it came out in 89, I was in heaven. I t was everything I always wanted a new Stevie album to be. Amazing vocals, well thought out songs choices, lyrics and track order. To me, the album wasn't so much synthy (RAL holds that trohpy) as it was electronically-ethereal. There were sounds that were just so odd and unique and fit in so well with each song...like the zithery bell-tree before that amazing brige in Ghosts, the ghostly back-up vocals on Alice, and great multi Stevie-backups on Fire Burning, and the circus organ on Still Miss Someone. Yet at the same time many songs it still had her good guitar rock edge to it (Fire Burning, Juliet, WLOT.) i also though her vocal haromies were some of her best ever.. like the doubled Stevie on the Ghost bridge, and the chorus of the dozen Stevies and Mr. Hornsby on TKOL. Great stuff. Cry Wolf is the only bad spot for me... and not in turns of production or vocal performance, just the song itself is so average, insipid, and obvouis. The chord progressions are straght from "how to write a pop-song 101"
Overall it is one of my favs.

2. Stevie was indeed nominated for a Grammy the following year. "Best Female Rock Performance" for WLT. She lost....maybe to the Black Velvet song...i forget.

-Derek

amber · #38 10-20-2004, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by joe

somethning about "cry wolf" annoyed me way back then. i like it now though...just cringe at the end when she goes "WAAAAAANCE too often"

ah. yes. I love that part, of course. To me that's the most vocally dynamic on the album, has the most range, the most yelling

But i see your point.

amber · #39 10-20-2004, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by The Tower

"Cry Wolf" is awful. Terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE lyrics and boring, boring music.

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Ah, Towie, unfortunately you're wrong. too bad. And I don't think it's boring, it was the least boring to me at first. I think it's a dramatic vocal, and i appreciate that. And Laura Branigan isn't that bad, for christs sake.

The Tower · #40 10-20-2004, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

ah. yes. I love that part, of course. To me that's the most vocally dynamic on the album, has the most range, the most yelling

But i see your point.

I think the vocal from "Long Way To Go" is way better than this.

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Originally Posted by amber

Ah, Towie, unfortunately you're wrong. too bad.

Nope.

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Originally Posted by amber

And Laura Branigan isn't that bad, for christs sake.

Laura Branigan sucks. (Yes, I realize that she's dead, and saying that she sucks is in bad taste, however, crap is crap.)

amber · #41 10-20-2004, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by The Tower

I think the vocal from "Long Way To Go" is way better than this.

Nope.

Laura Branigan sucks. (Yes, I realize that she's dead, and saying that she sucks is in bad taste, however, crap is crap.)

Long Way to Go is a good vocal. I see you're suffering from Dissention Disease today, which makes me have to argue - just cause you think it's crap, does not make it so.

dissention · #42 10-20-2004, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

Long Way to Go is a good vocal. I see you're suffering from Dissention Disease today, which makes me have to argue - just cause you think it's crap, does not make it so.

Ah, but just because you think it's good, it does not make it so.

amber · #43 10-20-2004, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

Ah, but just because you think it's good, it does not make it so.

Yeah, I know. but i didn't tell him it was good. I said "Laura Branigan isn't that bad, dude!

" or something like that. I didn't definitively declare that "crap is crap, and Laura Branigan is crap" and i didn't say "good is good, and Laura Branigan is good"
It's called "leaving room for the chance of another possibility"
it's not for everyone, though, so...

dissention · #44 10-20-2004, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

Yeah, I know. but i didn't tell him it was good. I said "Laura Branigan isn't that bad, dude!

" or something like that. I didn't definitively declare that "crap is crap, and Laura Branigan is crap" and i didn't say "good is good, and Laura Branigan is good"
It's called "leaving room for the chance of another possibility"
it's not for everyone, though, so...

This is what I say to that:

sparky · #45 10-20-2004, 03:40 PM

I have an enormous, Gaius like post percolating in my tortured gourd after listening to the cd three times the last few days. But, I must address the "Cry Wolf" rumor. Nothing to it. Jude Johnstone, a well regarded songwriter, definitely wrote the song. She has had a lot of success with her songs in country (a few stellar compositions have been recorded by Trisha Yearwood, my favorite female singer, period). I wonder what the demo of the song was like. I don't think Stevie's version was reflective of Jude's. In the book about Trisha's career, "Get Hot Or Go Home", Jude is quoted about the recording of the song, and expressed dismay at how it or the eventual product was less than she expected it to be. If memory serves me correctly, and I can check the book, I think it was the first time a major artist recorded one of her songs. I think the vocal is really well done, except for the WAAAAAANCE too often line, of course. It isn't a great song, but it is well put together, and has a nice cohesive feel to it.