Favourite Stevie Single

[whitewingdove]

Just curious on everybody's thoughts here. Above I've put some of Stevie's biggest hits, just like to observe how many people would choose certain songs over others...

[Dex]

I'm intrigued by your poll choices here, whitewingdove! You've left out a lot of the "major" singles. I kind of like that, because those are never really my favourites.

I don't think Trouble in Shangri-La was ever actually a single, was it? I could be wrong. But as it's up there I'll give it my vote. It was the first song I'd ever heard by her (while knowing who she was) and it just moved me enormously.

[mylittledemon]

Originally Posted by Dex

I don't think Trouble in Shangri-La was ever actually a single, was it?

Sure was! There was even a maxi CD single release with 3 or 4 diff versions of the song.

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

Sure was! There was even a maxi CD single release with 3 or 4 diff versions of the song.(TISL)

I didn't even know this and I'm a mega fan!

[PoetofRhiannon]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

Sure was! There was even a maxi CD single release with 3 or 4 diff versions of the song.

Are you sure you're not talking about "Planets of the Universe"?....

[SaidSomething]

I grew up with 3 older siblings...Cath and Dave were twins and only like 9 years older so, I remember Landlide and Rhiannon, Rumors...I fell in love with Stevie as a young teen, maybe 13 when on a plane to California I heard After The Glitter Fades...on one of their airline channels...I couldn't stop thinking about it. Then, on the school bus the driver was an older lady that was hip and played BCN for us, and I remember smoking cigarettes and at least twice a day (I went to a private school that was over an hour away for freshman and sophmore year) Just Like The One We Love, Just Like The One Wing Bird, Just Like The One We'd Done {EDGE OF 17} blasted us on the back near the speakers...it grew on me and I connected the two...by the time Mirage came out, I got Bella Donna and Mirage for Christmas...MTV was new and Gypsy kept playing every 3 songs.

My true favorites are of course, After The Glitter Fades (Solo) and Gypsy (FMac) and ATGF was a single...

Edge Of 17...brings back such bad ass fun times as a kid...when we were all trying our best to be bad ass at 13...

Hope you read to here...
Jim

[whitewingdove]

Originally Posted by SaidSomething

I grew up with 3 older siblings...Cath and Dave were twins and only like 9 years older so, I remember Landlide and Rhiannon, Rumors...I fell in love with Stevie as a young teen, maybe 13 when on a plane to California I heard After The Glitter Fades...on one of their airline channels...I couldn't stop thinking about it. Then, on the school bus the driver was an older lady that was hip and played BCN for us, and I remember smoking cigarettes and at least twice a day (I went to a private school that was over an hour away for freshman and sophmore year) Just Like The One We Love, Just Like The One Wing Bird, Just Like The One We'd Done {EDGE OF 17} blasted us on the back near the speakers...it grew on me and I connected the two...by the time Mirage came out, I got Bella Donna and Mirage for Christmas...MTV was new and Gypsy kept playing every 3 songs.

My true favorites are of course, After The Glitter Fades (Solo) and Gypsy (FMac) and ATGF was a single...

Edge Of 17...brings back such bad ass fun times as a kid...when we were all trying our best to be bad ass at 13...

Hope you read to here...
Jim

Wow! Thanks so much for sharing! Sounds like the good ole days, am I right? Wish I were around then :/ I'm only 14 now and I really wish I could have beena round during the hippie movement, or the 80's. It's really hard to rock n' roll when you're 14 and living in this generation, ya know? Idk if I'm considered "badass" but I'm definitely different than other teenagers, that's for damn sure!
I just have to say, ever since you mentioned BCN i have been wondering what it stands for, it's totally slipped from my head. Could you please refresh my memory? (I'll probably end up Googling it anyway, to be honest) It's good to hear that long time fans like you are still hanging on, koodos to you! Thanks again!

[whitewingdove]

Originally Posted by Dex

I'm intrigued by your poll choices here, whitewingdove! You've left out a lot of the "major" singles. I kind of like that, because those are never really my favourites.

I don't think Trouble in Shangri-La was ever actually a single, was it? I could be wrong. But as it's up there I'll give it my vote. It was the first song I'd ever heard by her (while knowing who she was) and it just moved me enormously.

"major" singles? What do you consider a "major single" I believe I listed all of her most succesful ones... What do you have in mind?

[WildHearted]

Originally Posted by whitewingdove

"major" singles? What do you consider a "major single" I believe I listed all of her most succesful ones... What do you have in mind?

Leather and Lace, Talk to Me, etc.

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by whitewingdove

I just have to say, ever since you mentioned BCN i have been wondering what it stands for, it's totally slipped from my head. Could you please refresh my memory?

It is part of the call letters to a Boston radio station.

WBCN FM Boston

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by SaidSomething

Rumors...
Hope you read to here...

I read it all but the mis spelling of the album title greatly disturbs me.

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

Sure was! There was even a maxi CD single release with 3 or 4 diff versions of the song.

This is not true. PLEASE prove me wrong though. Also moonlight was not a single. Although it should have been remixed and released as one. BIG mistake. That it wasn't.

[mylittledemon]

Originally Posted by PoetofRhiannon

Are you sure you're not talking about "Planets of the Universe"?....

GASP! Thank you for correcting me. I had a look thru my singles and you are right. I guess I had a brain fart earlier.

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

GASP! Thank you for correcting me. I had a look thru my singles and you are right. I guess I had a brain fart earlier.

It was just wishful thinking and believe me I don't blame you one bit.

[SaidSomething]

Originally Posted by whitewingdove

Wow! Thanks so much for sharing! Sounds like the good ole days, am I right? Wish I were around then :/ I'm only 14 now and I really wish I could have beena round during the hippie movement, or the 80's. It's really hard to rock n' roll when you're 14 and living in this generation, ya know? Idk if I'm considered "badass" but I'm definitely different than other teenagers, that's for damn sure!
I just have to say, ever since you mentioned BCN i have been wondering what it stands for, it's totally slipped from my head. Could you please refresh my memory? (I'll probably end up Googling it anyway, to be honest) It's good to hear that long time fans like you are still hanging on, koodos to you! Thanks again!

Thank you for such a nice reply...

WBCN was a USA famous Boston, MA Rock station. They played all the best Rock music without a doubt...They played Joplin, Boston, Clapton, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, J Giels, Hendrix...etc...and they played the music from artists from The Classic Rock Era 60s and 70s bands new music. I mean, you didn't hear Talk To Me but, you heard Stop Draggin My Heart Around, Edge Of 17...and not Seven Wonders but, Tusk, Go Your Own Way, Sisters Of The Moon...

They were also a station that had the Rock stars in the studio for a couple of hours for interviews and music...they played not just the hits but mid album songs unknown to the public unless they had the album...which is why the bands and the Music Industry...and listeners loved them...a lot of people would buy an artists record because they liked an unknown track...even if they didn't like the artists current single from the record. I interned there for a month when I was 17 or 18. I would hang in the studio and answer the "caller number 9 wins 2 tickets to see Belinda Carslisle (yeah, right*even though I liked her*) My older siblings were from my Dads first marriage (he's on his 4th) so they are my 1/2 siblings as we have the same Dad...so, I grew up with them and its like they were justs sisters and brothers not just 1/2s. My first Rock album was, Meatloaf, Bat Outa Hell...even though it was out for years...I grew up with my grandmother mostly and she had the radio on an Am station that played Weekly Top 40....and bands like The Bee Gees and Debbie Boone. Aside from Stevie and Rock and Roll...my beginnings to loving and becoming aware of music was with my Mum in the car driving late at night to or from my grandmothers house, Nana Mac (my soulmate...Thank you to Mike Bise for all the Sanctuary songs as I listened to it on my CD on repeat as I drove behind the ambulance with Dr Tom, my bf...after she passed in my arms and it held me together from that day to this moment) I have what my doctor called an Eidetic memory...I remember being little...before seatbelts and car seats...I would have my head on my Mums lap...with the heat softly blowing on us...as I lay across the huge front seat...the smell of her soft perfume, Nanas soap, slight cigarette smoke...listening to Mums Country Station...Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, Conway Twitty, Dolly...etc...I used to listen to all her country records...my Dads Elvis My brother and sisters Rock....we had a huge coffin like living room stereo thing...unless you're from the late 60s early 70s, no one would know what I am talking about...it was just a staple furniture piece at that time...when I moved to LA...at like, 20 years old...I played all my albums on that thing...Tango finally had the speakers blown completley out...
so...that's where and how and why I love her to this day...she was playing as long as I remember...and its her Country Songs that got me hooked...After The Glitter Fades, Highway Man, That's All Right...Leather and Lace...etc...

You are never too young or old to Rock and be bad ass...bad ass is not being an assho*** so much...its being your own person, having your own vibe, individuality, style etc...and being proud of that...and confidence...having confidence even if you are scared to hell...but, you stay cool...and keep your foundation...even if someone is trying to topple it or you down...For me, I have all this music, lyrics, Rock Stars...Stevie to summon and all things written in in this too long post...to keep me strong and still standing.
Jim