besteveralbums.com - Stevie's best album

[TheWILDheart]

Based on besteveralbums.com, here is Stevie's best album list:

1. Bella Donna
2. The Wild Heart
3. Trouble In Shangri-La
4. The Otherside Of The Mirror
5. In Your Dreams
6. Rock A Little
7. Timespace
8. Street Angel
9. Soundstage Sessions

http://www.besteveralbums.com/thecha...64#appearances

What do we think? Do you agree? How do your albums rank?

Frankly, how anybody can put "Mirror" above IYD and RAL is madness in my opinion.

Here is mine:

1. Bella Donna
2. Trouble In Shangri-La
3. The Wild Heart
4. In Your Dreams
5. Rock A Little
6. Street Angel


7. The Otherside Of the Mirror

(I've taken out Soundstage and Timespace as they don't really count as studio albums)

[WildHearted]

Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

Based on besteveralbums.com, here is Stevie's best album list:

1. Bella Donna
2. The Wild Heart
3. Trouble In Shangri-La
4. The Otherside Of The Mirror
5. In Your Dreams
6. Rock A Little
7. Timespace
8. Street Angel
9. Soundstage Sessions

http://www.besteveralbums.com/thecha...64#appearances

What do we think? Do you agree? How do your albums rank?

1. Bella Donna
2. The Wild Heart
3. Rock a Little
4. In Your Dreams
5. Trouble in Shangri-la
6. Street Angel
7. The Other Side of the Mirror

In truth. 3/4/5 are all pretty much tied. As are 6/7. I like the albums in each group respectively the same.

[louielouie2000]

It depends on when you ask, but my current ranking:

1) In Your Dreams
2) Bella Donna
3) Rock A Little
4) Street Angel
5) Trouble In Shangri La
6) Other Side Of The Mirror
7) Wild Heart

*Compilations/live recordings don't count as albums in my book

[Dex]

Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

Frankly, how anybody can put "Mirror" above IYD and RAL is madness in my opinion.

I love Mirror. It's a sound you're either going to like or dislike, but it works for me, and I connect with a lot of the songwriting on it. Except for the two covers, which I leave off my iPod and basically forget about. RAL and SA are at the bottom for me because they somehow just don't "feel" like Stevie to me. I don't connect with them the way I'm used to doing with her work. Maybe it's because there're just too many songs by outside writers. I like most of those songs, I love RAL as a pop album, and I love her vocals on most of it (SA not so much), but it's not the same to me.

I'd probably go:

Bella Donna
The Wild Heart
In Your Dreams
Trouble in Shangri La
The Other Side of the Mirror
Rock a Little
Street Angel

[olive]

I'm hoping she hasn't made it yet .

[RavenOfRhiannon]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

It depends on when you ask, but my current ranking:

1) In Your Dreams
2) Bella Donna
3) Rock A Little
4) Street Angel
5) Trouble In Shangri La
6) Other Side Of The Mirror
7) Wild Heart

*Compilations/live recordings don't count as albums in my book

Well, that is an...interesting...list to say the least.

1. Bella Donna
2. In Your Dreams
3. Wild Heart
4. Trouble in Shangri-La
5. Rock A Little
6. The Other Side of the Mirror
15. Street Angel

[James89]

Apart from 'Blue Denim' and possibly 'Maybe Love will change your mind', 'Street Angel' was an awful album and pretty much ruined Stevie's solo status (only peaking at #45 on the Billboard 200). In my opinion, I think her first three albums are in order of greatness followed by 'Trouble in Shangri-la', 'In your dreams', 'The other side of the mirror' and then 'Street Angel'. (I only rank her studio albums)

[Dex]

Originally Posted by James89

Apart from 'Blue Denim' and possibly 'Maybe Love will change your mind', 'Street Angel' was an awful album and pretty much ruined Stevie's solo status (only peaking at #45 on the Billboard 200). In my opinion, I think her first three albums are in order of greatness followed by 'Trouble in Shangri-la', 'In your dreams', 'The other side of the mirror' and then 'Street Angel'. (I only rank her studio albums)

Did Stevie really have "solo status" up until the release of Street Angel? I was under the impression mainstream culture had dubbed her a has-been long before that point. I don't think she fit the mainstream musical landscape of that era at all, and I honestly doubt Street Angel would've sold very well no matter what the quality of its contents had been. It just wasn't her time, period.

[olive]

Originally Posted by Dex

Did Stevie really have "solo status" up until the release of Street Angel? I was under the impression mainstream culture had dubbed her a has-been long before that point. I don't think she fit the mainstream musical landscape of that era at all, and I honestly doubt Street Angel would've sold very well no matter what the quality of its contents had been. It just wasn't her time, period.

I agree , she had a cult following and was never taken serious , then she got in to the Rock and Roll hall of lame and hired Liz Rosenberg and all of a sudden she an Icon she an Influence , and respectable which she deserved all a long

[BombaySapphire3]

Having experienced all of Stevie's solo career as a huge fan and in real time I would say that in the early 1980s Stevie was in the mainstream and a force.She was a cult type artist who had managed widespread popularity much as Jim Morrison had before her or Kate Bush in the UK.By Rock a Little the musical climate had already changed..Madonna had arrived.Her peers the Wilson sisters did have a huge hit at this time but only by completely selling out.Rock a Little was somewhat successful but she was already being viewed as a 70s relic of sorts.

[louielouie2000]

Originally Posted by James89

Apart from 'Blue Denim' and possibly 'Maybe Love will change your mind', 'Street Angel' was an awful album and pretty much ruined Stevie's solo status (only peaking at #45 on the Billboard 200). In my opinion, I think her first three albums are in order of greatness followed by 'Trouble in Shangri-la', 'In your dreams', 'The other side of the mirror' and then 'Street Angel'. (I only rank her studio albums)

See? I totally disagree. Everyone heralded TISL as Stevie's return to form, but I do not concur. Street Angel was the album where she cast off the overwrought mysticism & heavy production her previous albums were known for. Street Angel is, for the most part- a straightfoward, back to the basics, honest, rock album.

There are several awesome rockers, such as:

Blue Denim, Docklands, Listen To The Rain, Love Is Like A River, and Kick It.

I love the quirkiness of Greta, the dark & gritty introspection of Street Angel, and the school-girl wistfulness of Rose Garden. Yes, there are turds... but every Stevie solo album has them.

To me, the album where Stevie actually lost her way was Wild Heart. She set herself up for 2 decades of not being taken seriously with that one. In making Wild Heart, she eschewed the rock sound that had made her famous, and instead drowned herself in a pool of narcicistic, over-indulgent, disengenous, sappy, adult contemporary pop garbage.

[SpyNote]

Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

Based on besteveralbums.com, here is Stevie's best album list:

1. Bella Donna
2. The Wild Heart
3. Trouble In Shangri-La
4. The Otherside Of The Mirror
5. In Your Dreams
6. Rock A Little
7. Timespace
8. Street Angel
9. Soundstage Sessions

http://www.besteveralbums.com/thecha...64#appearances

What do we think? Do you agree? How do your albums rank?

Frankly, how anybody can put "Mirror" above IYD and RAL is madness in my opinion.

Here is mine:

1. Bella Donna
2. Trouble In Shangri-La
3. The Wild Heart
4. In Your Dreams
5. Rock A Little
6. Street Angel


7. The Otherside Of the Mirror

(I've taken out Soundstage and Timespace as they don't really count as studio albums)

I'm good with the ranking, though I wouldn't add the compilations to this list either.

I'd base mine on the number of songs I like from beginning to end on each album.

1. Bella Donna (10)
2. The Wild Heart (9)
3. Rock A Little (7)
3. Trouble in Shangri-La (7)
5. In Your Dreams (6)
6. The Other Side of the Mirror (5)
7. Street Angel (4)

[SpyNote]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

In making Wild Heart, she eschewed the rock sound that had made her famous, and instead drowned herself in a pool of narcicistic, over-indulgent, disengenous, sappy, adult contemporary pop garbage.

Well, that's her solo sound and what most fans (who keep tabs on chart information) want from her. These are the songs that chart.

[KarmaContestant]

The ranking on that website is bogus. The Other Side of the Mirror better than In Your Dreams? better than Street Angel? I guess there are all types.

Mine would probably look like this:

1. Bella Donna
2. The Wild Heart / Rock a Little / In Your Dreams
3. Street Angel / Trouble in Shangri-la
4.
5.
6.
7. The Other Side of the Mirror

The thing is, the degrees of separation between, say, The Wild Heart and In Your Dreams or Street Angel and Trouble In Shangri La is almost unmeasurable. They are different albums, but of equal caliber. The only thing that isn't open for debate with me is that Bella Donna is my favorite, and TOSOTM is my least favorite.

[KarmaContestant]

Originally Posted by James89

Apart from 'Blue Denim' and possibly 'Maybe Love will change your mind', 'Street Angel' was an awful album and pretty much ruined Stevie's solo status

But that's opinion, just like all the other opinions here. I happen to really enjoy Street Angel, and the songs you mentioned are what I consider the worst of the album (with Unconditional Love).

Mitzo thinks Bella Donna is among Stevie's worst - an opinion I can't fathom, but we all like what we like.

It just rankles me to see anyone say Street Angel is "awful" or "the worst" because those are personal truths and people present them as universal truths. Which they are not.