Stevie's most criminal songs - Page 3

mikephxaz · #31 08-29-2011, 10:15 PM

There is no question for me that Street Angel contains so many bad songs that everything else pales in comparison. If I were forced to list my worst OTHER than Street Angels tracks I would say. What a matter baby, Silver girl, Two kinds of love, Desert angel, and No Heart....did I mention every crappy song on Street Angel??!?

ahafan02 · #32 08-29-2011, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by porkpie

OK - let em start by saying I don't want to slag Stevie but considering how awesome IYD is it got me thinking about what she was thinking at times when the quality control slipped (in my opinion) and wondered if others feel the same.

For me, the worst songs are Silver Girl and Sweet Girl. I think lyrically and musically they're both dull and I hate it when she writes a barely disguised version of herself in the third person as a character. At the time of the Dance, I foundnit really hard to believe that was the strongest song she could have come up with considering that Lyndsey and Christine's songs were all pretty strong. The ther nght I rewatched Destiny Rules and Mick was talking aobut what a strong set of songs Stevie brought to the project, but again I'm surprised Silver Girl made the cut.

What are everyone else's thoughts on these songs?

I don't mind Sweet Girl but Silver Girl along with Illume are two of her worst FM songs...and Say You Will (the song) is pretty dull as well

WildHearted · #33 08-29-2011, 11:04 PM

Just wanted to mention that when I first read the title of this thread, I thought this was going to be about songs that are self-incriminating or are talking about illegal/taboo stuff or something haha.

Hawkeye · #34 08-29-2011, 11:21 PM

After hearing the Street Angel version of Mirror Mirror it is absolutely a crime that half of Street Angel got released and Mirror Mirror didn't. It really defines criminal songs. Most specifically Unconditional Love, Listen to the Rain and a danm ****ty cover song made it over the brilliance of Mirror Mirror. I feel like anyone with ears involved with Street Angel had to catch these injustices.

tabruns · #35 08-29-2011, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Hawkeye

After hearing the Street Angel version of Mirror Mirror it is absolutely a crime that half of Street Angel got released and Mirror Mirror didn't. It really defines criminal songs. Most specifically Unconditional Love, Listen to the Rain and a danm ****ty cover song made it over the brilliance of Mirror Mirror. I feel like anyone with ears involved with Street Angel had to catch these injustices.

I'm just so happy that she bounced back after Street Angel. Trouble In Shangri-La was such a huge improvement, and then In Your Dreams being probably the best solo album she ever made. Really amazing.

Hawkeye · #36 08-29-2011, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by tabruns

I'm just so happy that she bounced back after Street Angel. Trouble In Shangri-La was such a huge improvement, and then In Your Dreams being probably the best solo album she ever made. Really amazing.

Well overall i don't hate Street Angel. Although yea IYD is about 50 times better. The bigger issue for me is she recorded a perfectly great song during the Street Angel sessions, it was there for inclusion and they chose to include sh*t. Some of which not written by her.

darklinensuit · #37 08-30-2011, 12:50 AM

I'd like a restraining order on:

Alice - by far the worst song she ever released, IMO. I cannot think of anything I like about it. I don't think I can say that about any other song by her.

I Sing for the Things - I'll never understand how "She Still Loves Him" was passed over for this drek.

Love Changes - Is there a piano demo of this one out there? Typically her demos are so stripped-down, but it's hard to imagine this one being simpler and less imaginative than it is on the album.

Love Is - Yeah, I know, she sings the hell out of it live in 2011. But on the album it's painful. Talk about a song that goes nowhere fast. And the tear across the cheek to the corner of her mouth is more cringe-inducing than any line about a chimp. Might be my least favorite line in any Stevie song - other than half the lines in "Alice", of course.

Affairs of the Heart - musically & lyrically the blandest of a very bland era

Yes, this means that I think "Sweet Girl" and "Silver Girl" are better than all five of these songs. Sue me.

- Jake

darklinensuit · #38 08-30-2011, 12:54 AM

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Originally Posted by louielouie2000

I can think of FAR worse lyrics Stevie has written:

Something in my heart died last night
Just one more chip off an already broken heart
I think the heart broke long ago

Blech... what repetitive cliche'd dreck.

I love that song & don't find it repetitive, but I think the vocal is what really lets her sell it and most of that album. "Gate and Garden" would be completely unbearable had she recorded it in the Klonopin era, for example.

- Jake

Dodfather · #39 08-30-2011, 02:50 AM

For her solo work: I can't stand Unconditional Love, Jane and Destiny - the usual suspects really. I'm not keen on Beauty and the Beast either. It's ok but I have to be in a very certain mood for it, otherwise it's just too mawkish for me. I also can't stand That Made Me Stronger - it's so dull and repetitive and I think it's by far the worst track on Trouble In Shangri-La.

But, as I've said before the worst song in her solo catalogue is...drumroll please... I Still Miss Someone. I just can't bear it. She can sing country really well so it should've worked but not with such a horrible synthy arrangement and a dreadful vocal that takes all of the emotion out of such a moving song. To quote Sideshow Mel - "Terrrrible!"

With FM it's only really Silver Girl and Love Is Dangerous. The rest of her work with them, while there are some songs much better/worse than others, I can at least stand to listen to and don't skip.

Dodfather · #40 08-30-2011, 03:28 AM

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Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

There's a plane...
It's headed to London
24 hours more and he'll be on it
And I can't show my love
and I can't stop it....
Ohh, I can't stop it

ALL from memory.

...I could probably type out the whole song.

There's a house there
Somebody's waiting...

Artemis · #41 08-30-2011, 03:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Hawkeye

Well overall i don't hate Street Angel. Although yea IYD is about 50 times better. The bigger issue for me is she recorded a perfectly great song during the Street Angel sessions, it was there for inclusion and they chose to include sh*t. Some of which not written by her.

She's done that for every album, I think. Look at TWH. Lots of people DESPISE I Will Run To You (not me, though) and she left off the absolutely amazing All The Beautiful Worlds for a song not written by her. And don't even get started on RAL... that's just a (fabulous) mess

I think Street Angel gets a lot of unfair slack, but also a lot of fair criticism for some really bad lyrics. Like Jane. Really, during the Klonopin era, TITN-SA, I find it easier to say which songs aren't garbage.

Jondalar · #42 08-30-2011, 04:20 AM

Uggg, I forgot about I Still Someone Blues Eyes. What an embarrassment. Horrrrrrriiiiiibbbbbbllllllllle! God-awful.

mitzo · #43 08-30-2011, 06:12 AM

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Uggg, I forgot about I Still Someone Blues Eyes. What an embarrassment. Horrrrrrriiiiiibbbbbbllllllllle! God-awful.

It is an interesting kind of experiment, a reggae-influenced version of a country song, with pretty decent vocals. A good singalong track, to me.

markolas · #44 08-30-2011, 07:44 AM

I like Sweet Girl a lot, and I think Silver Girl is a decent song, tho not one of my favorites. I'm not that familiar with Stevie's BTM songs...I need to go listen to them some more. I don't remember being knocked out by any of them.

I enjoy her cover of I Still Miss Someone quite a bit (that and Silver Girl seem to get the most bashing of any of her songs around here).

sushud82 · #45 08-30-2011, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

Her worst, IMO:

-When I See You Again
-Welcome to the Room...Sara
-The Nightmare (Bleccchh!!)
-Imperial Hotel
-Desert Angel
-That Made Me Stronger (the chorus is ridiculous, and the opening chords are just fug)
-Jane
-One More Big Time Rock and Roll Star
-Not Make Believe

And the most craptastic of them all: Listen to the Rain

This would be my list almost exactly. I sort of like When I See You Again just for Lindsey's part in it, bless my little shipperly heart. The song itself though is just so...meh.

And I would add Silver Girl. Snooze.