All the Street Angel bashing

[seekerj]

I've noticed a lot of bashing of the Street Angel album in various threads. There is a lot of general negativity about the album, but nothing specific. There's a lot of "it just sucks", and then there's comments about the time of Stevie's life that it was released and what she was going through at the time (Klonopin); the focus seems to be on Stevie's personal life at the time and not the songs. There's not a lot of comments about the actual songs themsleves, or what specifically is wrong with these songs.

I personally like most of the songs, and, IMHO, I think if you remove all the ones that Stevie didn't write (which are very, very trite), it's a good album. I even think Stevie and Thom Panunzio made huge improvements with the production, compared to what Glynn Johns did.

So I'm interested in finding out what everybody thinks. What specifically does everyone not like about the songs ?