Street Angel and In Your Dreams - A Comparison

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Originally Posted by markolas

Funny you should say that...I've decided that Friday when I go back to work (where I'll be doing data entry for 10 hours), I'm going to listen to all of Stevie's solo albums starting with BD. Now, really, I don't have huge problems (except for a couple of songs on TWH that can easily be swapped out) with any of them until I get to Street Angel. I've played with the running order a couple of times, but haven't been really satisfied - I'm giving it another try now, as a matter of fact.

One major issue with SA is that there are 3 songs on the album that are absolute torture for me to sit through. And there aren't really many songs I can swap them out with - there's Thousand Days, which I love, then the Japan bonus tracks (Inspiration & God's Garden) which I've never been wild about, but that I can tolerate better than UC & MLWCYM. And I like (but don't love) If You Were My Love from the master mixes.

So I'm gonna see how this one pans out:

1. Blue Denim
2. Greta
3. Street Angel
4. Docklands
5. Listen to the Rain
6. Destiny
7. If You Were My Love
8. Thousand Days
9. Love Is Like a River
10. Rose Garden
11. Just Like a Woman
12. Kick It
13. Inspiration

Other configurations are welcomed - you can PM me if you want, so as not to derail the thread any further.

I do the exact same thing. I remove songs that I just don't like at all and try to find replacements for them.

Technically, we should really be listening to all 7 albums just as they are and then judge from there. You can't really say "Oh Street Angel isn't a bad album after all!" if you've replaced about half of it with other songs.