Initial Feelings On IYD

[kak125]

Originally Posted by Deniedwings

Am I the only one who finds For What Its Worth to be dull? This song isnt doing much for me.

the first few times i heard for what its worth i didnt like it that much but now i love it. there is something so sad and heartbreaking to it that i almost cry everytime i hear it. there are some songs i love on first listen and then there are others that might take 10-20 listens for me to love them.

[StreetAngel86]

weeeeell after listening to this literally all day i am seriously blown away by this record. much much more fabulous than i thought (TISL being my fail benchmark)

i just have to say i am obsessed with Wide Sargasso Sea like a bee to honey and For What It's Worth may be the saddest sh!t i ever heard ... like Love Is but ... gaaaaaaawd it's depressing. i love it.

Indifferent New Orleans & Annabel Lee (which is sad coz i love the demo)

Like Everybody Loves You, Cheaper Than Free, Ghosts Are Gone

Love Secret Love, Italian Summer, You May Be the One

REALLY LOVE Wide Sargasso Sea, In Your Dreams, For What It's Worth, Soldier's Angel, Moonlight *cough* Lady From the Friggin Mountain *cough*

I hope In Your Dreams is the second single. Why it wasn't the FIRST single who knows aaaaaaaaaaaaargh

[Deniedwings]

Originally Posted by kak125

the first few times i heard for what its worth i didnt like it that much but now i love it. there is something so sad and heartbreaking to it that i almost cry everytime i hear it. there are some songs i love on first listen and then there are others that might take 10-20 listens for me to love them.

This is true. I thought New Orleans was kinda lame the first time around but now I'm diggin it. I can't get the chorus outta my head.

[RockAlot]

Went home last night thinking I'll just take a little listen, once I started listening I just couldnt stop!!! 1st couple songs I thought hmmmm, ho hum......

But then it just blew me away!! I L O V E~ I T!! Great Job Sister Honey!!

[kick.inside]

A few of the songs took more than one listen to get into for me.
I feel in love with Moonlight the first time I heard it and I think it's my favorite off the album (that and Secret Love, which I'm still obsessed with).
The only one I'm not totally into at this point is Soldier's Angel. I'm indifferent. I'm sure I'll warm up to it soon though. I always do.

[sorcerer999]

[QUOTE=StreetAngel86;973123] Moonlight *cough* Lady From the Friggin Mountain *cough*

[QUOTE]

That's too funny! I've actually been calling it "Lady From The Moonlight" these past two days!

Intresting that "Moonlight" seems to be the only really witchy, mystical Stevie tune on this record. With TISL, the first 4 songs were all pretty mystical as well as Bombay Sapphires...but there isn't much with this record. Perhaps a bit of the musicality of Secret Love, but that's about it. The rest are just a plethora of musical styles - Alt Country, Rock, Ballads, Blues, etc.

[SapphireSister]

I said this in another thread but I'm saying it again...is anybody in the least bit disappointed that Stevie only wrote the music to 4 tracks on this album? I must admit one reason I do not think this will ever be my favorite Stevie album is the simple fact that only 4 of the songs are truly hers. I'm thrilled that she is able to co-write great songs with Dave but I still distinguish songs by whether or not Stevie wrote the lyrics and music. I'm not saying I like those songs less but the ones only she wrote will always be a little more special to me.

[markolas]

Originally Posted by SapphireSister

I said this in another thread but I'm saying it again...is anybody in the least bit disappointed that Stevie only wrote the music to 4 tracks on this album? I must admit one reason I do not think this will ever be my favorite Stevie album is the simple fact that only 4 of the songs are truly hers. I'm thrilled that she is able to co-write great songs with Dave but I still distinguish songs by whether or not Stevie wrote the lyrics and music. I'm not saying I like those songs less but the ones only she wrote will always be a little more special to me.

I really don't pay any attention to that at all. And I honestly think it's silly the way that some people will completely write off songs solely because they weren't penned by Stevie. I honestly couldn't tell you which songs (on any album) were written by Stevie alone, or Stevie and someone else.

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by markolas

I really don't pay any attention to that at all. And I honestly think it's silly the way that some people will completely write off songs solely because they weren't penned by Stevie. I honestly couldn't tell you which songs (on any album) were written by Stevie alone, or Stevie and someone else.

Oh I most certainly do not "completely write songs off" because they weren't penned by Stevie. I just make that distinguishment.

[Annabell Lee]

I am a little disappointed about that also. Only because she is such an excellent writer. The songs she actually did write will hold special meanings for me as well. I have to say though, i really can't find fault w/ anything about this cd. I think Dave really worked magic with Stevie. He pulled so many great vocals and emotions out of her it's amazing ! Italian Summer is a great example. You can visualize EVERYTHING she's singing about. I can't get enough of this gem

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by SapphireSister

I said this in another thread but I'm saying it again...is anybody in the least bit disappointed that Stevie only wrote the music to 4 tracks on this album?

Not really, I'm more pleased that she wrote all the lyrics, rather than being disappointed she didn't write the music. Stevie is a lyricist, not a musician. If Stevie wrote the music for all her songs, they'd probably all be clunky and piano based. But, the fact she wrote all the lyrics is a huuuge deal for me. Mainly because the lyrics in this album are so good, and they really feel like Stevie's songs. I think if she had the musical know-how, her songs would sound exactly the same as they've turned out anyway.

[markolas]

Originally Posted by sorcerer999

Intresting that "Moonlight" seems to be the only really witchy, mystical Stevie tune on this record. With TISL, the first 4 songs were all pretty mystical as well as Bombay Sapphires...but there isn't much with this record. Perhaps a bit of the musicality of Secret Love, but that's about it. The rest are just a plethora of musical styles - Alt Country, Rock, Ballads, Blues, etc.

I think most of the album has a very gothic/dark romantic feel to it. Wide Sargasso Sea and Annabel Lee are two of the other most obvious songs in that vein.

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by Artemis

Not really, I'm more pleased that she wrote all the lyrics, rather than being disappointed she didn't write the music. Stevie is a lyricist, not a musician. If Stevie wrote the music for all her songs, they'd probably all be clunky and piano based. But, the fact she wrote all the lyrics is a huuuge deal for me. Mainly because the lyrics in this album are so good, and they really feel like Stevie's songs. I think if she had the musical know-how, her songs would sound exactly the same as they've turned out anyway.

Very good way to look at it, thanks!

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by SapphireSister

I said this in another thread but I'm saying it again...is anybody in the least bit disappointed that Stevie only wrote the music to 4 tracks on this album? I must admit one reason I do not think this will ever be my favorite Stevie album is the simple fact that only 4 of the songs are truly hers. I'm thrilled that she is able to co-write great songs with Dave but I still distinguish songs by whether or not Stevie wrote the lyrics and music. I'm not saying I like those songs less but the ones only she wrote will always be a little more special to me.

But you can't deny the fact that this is her only solo album in which she wrote or co-wrote every song. I would much rather hear her singing her own words than someone else's.

Upon first glance, I have noticed that Stevie's lyrics are a lot more verbose than on any other Stevie album. For example, take the first verse of "Italian Summer" - it has amazing visual imagery that literally paints the scene in your mind; she has never written anything so vivid. I think this has a lot to do with she and Dave's approach to songwriting. In their collaboration, Stevie could focus on the words while Dave had to take on the difficult task of trying to compose music that fit her poetry; in the past, I suspect it was the other way around, and Stevie had to edit her words to make them work with the music. This freedom from music composition really gives her latitude to take her prose as far as it can go.

[markolas]

I keep picturing the apartment in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone when I listen to Italian Summer.