Like or Dislike: Street Angel

[KarmaContestant]

I never liked this song until recently. For many years, I found it dull. When we did Street Angel Survivor here on The Ledge, so many people gave it such great comments...I was inspired to take another listen to it, and found much to my surprise that I liked it alot more than I thought I did. So, I guess I am a proud street angel now.

[LiquidBlue5000]

Originally Posted by skcin

Brian, that's just crazy talk!

ok, well maybe i took it too far... but i still don't like it

[dissention]

Originally Posted by LiquidBlue5000

the most depressingly boring Stevie Nicks song ever... even God's Garden is more uplifting

She sounds like a man with some serious low-hangers on "God's Garden."

"Street Angel" gets points automatically because it has Crosby on it, but also because it's probably the only truly passionate song on the album to my ears. The way she sings that chorus is devastating; almost monotonal and as if she doesn't have it in her to sing higher, it expresses the bleakness of the lyrics in a way that I didn't think she was capable of back then. It's so dark and genuinely disturbing, I can taste the grit in my mouth.

[LiquidBlue5000]

Originally Posted by dissention

She sounds like a man with some serious low-hangers on "God's Garden."

"Street Angel" gets points automatically because it has Crosby on it, but also because it's probably the only truly passionate song on the album to my ears. The way she sings that chorus is devastating; almost monotonal and as if she doesn't have it in her to sing higher, it expresses the bleakness of the lyrics in a way that I didn't think she was capable of back then. It's so dark and genuinely disturbing, I can taste the grit in my mouth.

maybe i just don't get it, i dunno... i don't usually agree with the masses with their opinion on Stevie's music anyway.. but to me, it's just depressing.. i find God's Garden" to be much more relatable and emotional..

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by dissention

"Street Angel" gets points automatically because it has Crosby on it, but also because it's probably the only truly passionate song on the album to my ears. The way she sings that chorus is devastating; almost monotonal and as if she doesn't have it in her to sing higher, it expresses the bleakness of the lyrics in a way that I didn't think she was capable of back then. It's so dark and genuinely disturbing, I can taste the grit in my mouth.

Perfectly stated! I could not agree more. Street Angel is the only gem off this album, IMO. It is the only song off the album I can say I absolutely love. All of the other songs are mediocre. It has so much passion at at time when most of her passion was hidden behind the dark clouds of klonopin. The music is haunting and chilling and I love that it tells a story. Really classic Stevie. Here is the story behind the song (one of my favorites and I think it's worth sharing):

"Street Angel was written in a hotel in LA, the Peninsula Hotel. I had to leave my house that I lived in because it was attacked by bees. It was a five story house, kinda like a New York house that went straight up, and I lived there, Liza lived there, and four or five other people lived there and we had to go 'cause the bees were so intense that they had to be moved, not killed, but moved. And I went to the hotel and there were two movies on TV about homelessness and a lot about it on CNN and I was really very, very, very touched at how sad the situation was, and I didn't have any solutions. This is not a political song. I was kinda looking out at Hollywood, all the sparkling lights, and people walking down the streets, and how wild it would be if I was out there and I didn't have a place to go, or sleep. This would be the most frightening thing for me, I mean... just as long as if you had enough money to pay your rent, you can almost accept anything, but as soon as someone threats to take your home away, that would scare me. So I just wrote a song about a girl who was brought up on the streets and this very much kinda street gypsy... she didn't have much, just her friends and family; she was a Street Angel. There then was this guy, this really, really rich guy fell in love with her, and tried to convince her to go with him and not be poor anymore, to marry him and leave her world, and in the end she really couldn't do that, she really couldn't change and be a rich man's lady, and so she, in order to make him let her go and go on with his life, she let it be known to him that she killed herself; she committed suicide. She fell down the steps... he didn't hear her voice anymore. She went away, she couldnt live that kinda life."

[golden braid]

I'm a Street Angel fan and proud of it. The lyrics are sad but I really like the harmonies with David Crosby. Definitely one of my favorites on the album.

[Dreammms]

I got the album Street Angel when it came out. I was so excited...a brand new album by Stevie Nicks. At that point I was obsessed with Wild Heart..okay I still am...and I when I listened to the song Street Angel I was NOT impressed at all. I always loved the title songs on her albums. This one was just BLAH. But now yearsssssss later I actually love and appreciate the song.

So I ended it all for the both of us...

[Neal]

I gave it an 'Ugh'.