Ranking SEEDS WE SOW tracks

[TrueFaith77]

The rankings for In Your Dreams was so fun. I figure it's time to track people's initial reactions to SWS. You can always update as time goes by...

I'm going to work on my rankings...

I - KNOCKING at THE DOOR of THE PANTHEON
End of Time

II - SUBLIME
Seeds We Sow (Electric)
When She Comes Down

III - GREAT
Stars Are Crazy
That's The Way Love Goes

IV - VERY PRETTY
Rock Away Blind
Gone Too Far
In Our Own Time

V - FUN
Sleeping Around the Corner - I don't get the story of the song, but it's very catchy and a lot of fun. Also one of the better (fullest) produced tracks on the album.
Illumination - The live version was so grooovy. It was the grooviest song I'd ever heard from Lindsey. Now, it's very bare-bones.

VI - DISAPPOINTMENTS - I have ISSUES
One Take - It sounds great (kinda like Great Day) but I can't get over that last line. Stevie's political songs (Illume, Soldier's Angel) are more sophisticated than Lindsey's. I feel like he's a politician--always worried about the "middle class." I guess his audience is the same as Obama's constituency. But the Middle Class are doing just fine. Without the middle class to buy their crap (and for the working class to strive to emulate), there'd be no upper class (the destination of the song's villain). I'm going to send Linds a copy of Barthes' Mythologies. In FACT, I'm going to bring it to the NYC concert!
Seeds We Sow - It's pretty and folksy, but the sublime electric version just proves, stands as concrete fact that (as One Take suggests), Linds fights his best instincts to appeal to the bourgeois. It's like the difference between Ordinary People and Dressed to Kill. Another reason for him to read Barthes.
She Smiled Sweetly - As with the above, maybe if I didn't know about the earlier mix, I'd accept it for the quaint pretty thing it is. But compared to the glrorious GOS version, again, I'm worried that Linds succumbs to the worst tendencies of his taste. If he had switched out this version with the GOS-sessions version, closed the album with SWS Electric, I'd be proclaiming this his best ever solo album.