I just bought Bella Donna, and... - Page 2

Phoenix · #16 10-07-2005, 11:15 PM

[QUOTE=catinthedark] And years of Stevie shows have made me sick of Outside the Rain,

Oh! how I whish that I had YOUR problem there! BOO HOO HOO
(somewhere in the world, the smallest violin is playing...)

Hawkeye · #17 10-07-2005, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by SortaSavageLike

Well, I'm not really dissapointed, but I am feeling a bit confused

. I've probably heard SDMHA, Eo17, and Leather and Lace a hundred times before, and really liked The Highwayman, Bella Donna, and ATGF the first time, but I'm sort of undecided about the other four songs. It usually takes me a few good listens before I can appreciate most music. Heck, I had to listen to to Tusk in its entirety eight times before I really "got it". I just hope this album grows on me soon.

Guess its back to Mystery to Me for a little while. Oh, and BD could really use a good remastering job. Didn't this CD come out in 1984?

Man Kind Of Woman, How Still My Love and Outside the Rain were favorites of mine the instant I heard them.

catinthedark · #18 10-07-2005, 11:26 PM

[QUOTE=Phoenix]

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Originally Posted by catinthedark

And years of Stevie shows have made me sick of Outside the Rain,

Oh! how I whish that I had YOUR problem there! BOO HOO HOO
(somewhere in the world, the smallest violin is playing...)

Touche.

Oh, man, did I deserve that!!

Phoenix · #19 10-07-2005, 11:27 PM

[QUOTE=Hawkeye]Man Kind Of Woman

Ahhh yes, Another stevie classic!

DavidMn · #20 10-07-2005, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Ghost_Tracker

Check out "Kind of Woman" - if you think about what she's
really saying, it's amazingly well-done. Especially at the
end where she's contrasting how being with the wrong
guy might feel like heaven - but it's not the REAL heaven
("it's to be . . . heaven . . . as CLOSE - - - as it FEELS -
to HEAVEN. I know - I know.....")

"Outside's the Rain" is also a really fun, upbeat song, and was
considered one of her best up to that point. And it's kinda complex,
and has a lot to do with how she was apparently feeling at that time.

By the way Bella Donna has not just a double but a triple meaning -
it's Italian for "Beautiful Woman," but it also is an addictive drug -
and also, it's a deadly poison.
( "Until she herself . . . became the deadliest poison -
as she grew older." )

Kind Of Woman is absolutely my favorite Stevie solo song, period.

Phoenix · #21 10-07-2005, 11:29 PM

[QUOTE=catinthedark]

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Originally Posted by Phoenix

Touche.

Oh, man, did I deserve that!!

Again, All out of love. I Think that I am finnally getting the hang of being a leggie, That was one of my first sarcastic quipps!

catinthedark · #22 10-07-2005, 11:31 PM

[QUOTE=Phoenix]

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Originally Posted by catinthedark

Again, All out of love. I Think that I am finnally getting the hang of being a leggie, That was one of my first sarcastic quipps!

Look at you! Head of the class already! Well done!

Nightbird17 · #23 10-08-2005, 12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Nixxxed

And oh, how I wish I had a new Stevie album to discover...

that would be great....a new album to experience......BD is a terrific one to discover

Jyqm · #24 10-08-2005, 07:09 AM

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Originally Posted by GateandGarden

It was first released, in '81, am I right?

Yes, the LP came out in 1981. But I think SortaSavageLike was specifically talking about the CD issue, and the relatively poor sound that goes along with it.

Raeven Skye · #25 10-08-2005, 11:40 AM

These days, I could do withough SDMHA (except on special occasions) and Leather and Lace (b/c it gets a lot of airplay here), but I LOVE Outside the Rain, How Still, and all the others. I used to fall asleep listening to this record when it came out, and Highwayman has always been a fav. Maybe you just have to be in the right mood. I think if you're in a "Stand Back" mood, you're not going to like "Bella Donna" at that time.

Ghost_Tracker · #26 10-08-2005, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by GateandGarden

It was first released, in '81, am I right?

Anyway, it took me a few listens to get into it. It took me many more listens to Tusk. I can't even count how many. Tusk took a long time to grow on me, but it was worth it.

I recently read an Interview where Stevie talks about how good
she feels Tusk is and how she listened to it with the earphones
with the volume pretty low and she was like "Oh. wwwwwWWWWOOW!"

It's with "Molly" Meldrum in Australia, from 1986:

". . . think that Tusk is one of those records that some day people will sit down and listen to and understand what it really was because I didn't even understand what it was and I think I'm only now, as I listen to it in my own private time, starting to realise that there was a lot more in Tusk that even I didn't see."

It's considered to be "Postmodern," by the way -
I'm not sure why.

SortaSavageLike · #27 10-08-2005, 02:20 PM

I've been listening to BD some more today. Okay, I don't know why I didn't mention Kind of Woman earlier, because it is one of my favorites on the album.

But Outside the Rain just isn't rubbing me right for some reason.

I don't understand the dislike for The Highwayman. I know many get turned off by Don Henley but I can barely hear him on this track. But don't blame me, I liked Beautiful Child!

I suppose what I should do is wait for a quiet 45 minutes, huddle up in a dark corner and listen to it straight through with no distractions. This obviously isn't a "distracting noises while you play on the internet" type album.