OSOTM

[Sorcerer386]

Well, the reason I say the album is so much more magical and mystical is because, first of all with all the different synthesizer sounds it just sounds like magic, and second of all because it's got a lot of fairy-tailish things in it. Ooh My Love with the castles, Ghosts, Cry Wolf, Alice, and Juliet, the last three being stories outside of the songs. With the realization (thanks to Johnny Stew) of Have No Heart, I really think that song would have been good on OSOTM, even though it obviously was written much later. But, it's just my opinion of how magical it is, and actually, that's what first attracted me to the album. It's just, to me, so different than anything else. As for Street Angel, the only problem I've ever seen with it is it's time of release. Music turned so terribly angst-like and grungy that by 1994, no one really wanted to hear about her type of songs. The majority of music fans seemed to just want to hear muffled guitar rock and artists singing about how terrible life is. I'm so sick of the "muffled guitar" sound that people like Creed, Puddle of Mudd, and Nickelback have. My mom gets confused because, and it's true imo, most of it sounds the same. Stevie might say OSOTM is more real, but I don't see how she can say it goes back to her roots, because it's definitely different than her style of the 70's and early 80's, musically anyway. And again, that's what I like about it...it's just so different to me. And imo, the songs are much more poetic and visual, and much more story-like. A lot of her songs are hard to get, but I get most of the songs on here with the exception of one in particular...Whole Lotta Trouble. I just wish I knew what that song was about.