Missed Opportunity

[Jondalar]

Originally Posted by NoFear♥OnlyLove

I don't know if Stevie's DCAHNM would have done better with Tom's or not...for me, it just sounds more like a Tom song. I quite like RAL as a whole and I like These Dreams in its own right. The thing that I wonder, though, is given what was a downward trend in Stevie's albums from a commercial standpoint, would she really have been able to make a success of These Dreams, particularly on the RAL album? It was successful as a Heart song, but it isn't very likely that Stevie's version would have had the same sound. Would whatever arrangement Stevie wanted to do it in have been equally or even more successful than Heart's? If the answer is yes it would have been, then it was definitely a missed opportunity. If the answer is no, then it probably wasn't a missed opportunity at all. I'm just not sure that an RAL era version of These Dreams from Stevie would have been as successful. I freely admit, though, that I probably feel this way because the song is so strongly associated with Heart in my mind...I just can't imagine anyone else, including Stevie, recording it. That's also why I said that I'd love to know for sure what she would have done with it...a sort of 'what would have been' kind of thing.

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I agree...I've much appreciation for the RAL era.

Heart became successful again, because they quit writing their own material. It was like the best of their writing was gone. They were part of corporate rock. At least they were honest. It kept their career alive and put them into the stratosphere eventhough I like their 70s stuff more. I think These Dreams was a REAL song, and real songs were so rare on rock a little. Nancy fell in love with the song. She had to sing. I'm sure the arrangement stayed pretty much the same as it was presented to Stevie.You can actually hear Stevie have a drug filled breakdown on that album.

People were writing Stevie songs for Rock a Little because the songs she was presenting to Jimmy weren't up to snuff and everybody knew it. He was trying to put together a good record but she was drugged up and full of herfelf, there was not much he could do. What gets me is she had good demos already written and never used them. What the hell was she saving them for. She surely never pulled them out for TOSOTM or Street Angel.