Desert Angel appreciation thread - Page 2

LiquidBlue5000 · #16 07-09-2005, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

Now, you all go listen to Street Angel and maybe you will have the same response.

ok, just did... but no, i still find it boring and depressing

... but i'll try listening to it again in another year or so

StreetAngel86 · #17 07-09-2005, 07:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

I was waiting to find the perfect thread for this, and here it is....

I like Desert Angel now.

I pulled it out a few days ago (the song, not a body part) and it finally clicked in my head. I don't hate it with a passion now. I think it's kinda pretty.

Now, you all go listen to Street Angel and maybe you will have the same response.

Curtis your scaring me!
were we separated at birth? lol
first DA now Street Angel..........someone after my own heart

GardenStateGirlie · #18 07-09-2005, 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by darklinensuit

I like DA, but it has always seemed to be two songs to me, the first and second parts. Friends who have heard it like the first part more; I prefer the second.

- Jake

Agreed. I think it starts off rather sluggish but I do like the second half -- I think it's a more impassioned vocal.

gldstwmn · #19 07-09-2005, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Mokona

Oh my gosh - where have I been? Hiding under a rock? I just started listening to this song (sometimes I tend to ignore all of my other Stevie songs in iTunes and just go right to my favorites), and I am IN LOVE with Desert Angel!

When did she write this? It's so powerful it sends chills down your spine.

Just when you think her music can't get any better...

Mike Campbell wrote the music. A lot of folks here don't like Desert Angel but I do. I think the piano on it is quite beautiful and obviously not Stevie ( :sorry). I can't think of who is playing piano on it, though.

gldstwmn · #20 07-09-2005, 11:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

I was waiting to find the perfect thread for this, and here it is....

I like Desert Angel now.

I pulled it out a few days ago (the song, not a body part) and it finally clicked in my head. I don't hate it with a passion now. I think it's kinda pretty.

Now, you all go listen to Street Angel and maybe you will have the same response.

Let's not get carried away.

paperflowers · #21 07-10-2005, 01:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

I was waiting to find the perfect thread for this, and here it is....

I like Desert Angel now.

I pulled it out a few days ago (the song, not a body part) and it finally clicked in my head. I don't hate it with a passion now. I think it's kinda pretty.

Now, you all go listen to Street Angel and maybe you will have the same response.

I'm telling DAVIDMN

He will love it.

skcin · #22 07-11-2005, 09:27 AM

Love it all the way up until the "Operation Desert Shield!" shrieks at the end.

ka10 · #23 07-11-2005, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

Now, you all go listen to Street Angel and maybe you will have the same response.

I love both Desert Angel AND Street Angel. Heck, I even love Sleeping Angel, and just Angel for that matter! Oh Lord, what's happening to me? Next thing you know I'll be etching rainbows and unicorns on my notebooks!!

~Kat

SapphireSister · #24 07-11-2005, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by gldstwmn

Mike Campbell wrote the music. A lot of folks here don't like Desert Angel but I do. I think the piano on it is quite beautiful and obviously not Stevie ( :sorry). I can't think of who is playing piano on it, though.

I have always LOVED Desert Angel sooo much and I just found out a couple days ago she didn't write the music which makes me really sad

When I really love a Stevie song I always prefer she writes the music but oh well. Does this make a difference to other people if she hasn't written the music and/or lyrics if you love a song?

Ghost_Tracker · #25 07-11-2005, 12:26 PM

This wonderful, sincere song appears on "Timespace," in 1991.

It's also the b-side to "Sometimes it's a Bitch" (August 1991).

Not to take credit away from Stevie but it was co-written by somebody

named Mike Campbell, who I believe has also worked with Carly Simon.

I love the feeling she conveys, though, and the support and yeah, love,

that she gives in the song -

"I was born in the desert. . .
So I KNOW how it FEELS there...
Well look up! ...it's a shooting star!
(But it's as black as night...no stars...)

And then the wall came down
Well we thought it was a great,...beginning
People were free to cross the line.
But then some Thing happened...in the desert
Something broke the stars...into pieces...

Well this has always been my sanctuary
I send that to you...too
There on the other side of the world
In the desert...
And we are the guardians
No black clouds...just the faces of you.

Operation Desert Shield?
Operation Desert Storm?
. . . Operation Desert ANGEL."

The Tower · #26 07-11-2005, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by gldstwmn

Mike Campbell wrote the music. A lot of folks here don't like Desert Angel but I do. I think the piano on it is quite beautiful and obviously not Stevie ( :sorry). I can't think of who is playing piano on it, though.

Benmont Tench, ma dear.

AliceLover · #27 07-11-2005, 12:50 PM

Ive always liked this song a lot. I haven't heard it in a while because my Timespace cd is broken and I need a new one badly.

David · #28 07-11-2005, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghost_Tracker

Not to take credit away from Stevie but it was co-written by somebody named Mike Campbell, who I believe has also worked with Carly Simon.

Uh ... well ... perhaps ...

He also worked with Tom Petty for about 28 years.

Mike wrote the music, Stevie wrote the words. Together, they achieved connubial bliss.

DavidMn · #29 07-11-2005, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Mokona

Oh my gosh - where have I been? Hiding under a rock? I just started listening to this song (sometimes I tend to ignore all of my other Stevie songs in iTunes and just go right to my favorites), and I am IN LOVE with Desert Angel!

When did she write this? It's so powerful it sends chills down your spine.

Just when you think her music can't get any better...

I couldnt agreee with you more. You wouldnt believe how much SH## I get for loveing that song. But Its al good, everyone is entitled to their opinion

DavidMn · #30 07-11-2005, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

I was waiting to find the perfect thread for this, and here it is....

I like Desert Angel now.

I pulled it out a few days ago (the song, not a body part) and it finally clicked in my head. I don't hate it with a passion now. I think it's kinda pretty.

Now, you all go listen to Street Angel and maybe you will have the same response.

Curtis, I'm impressed.