Some Street Angel love

[StreetAngel86]

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Originally Posted by louielouie2000

Yes, there are turds... but every single Stevie solo album has them. Street Angel has Jane, In Your Dreams has Cheaper Than Free, Rock A Little has Sister Honey, The Other Side Of The Mirror has I Still Miss Someone, Trouble In Shangri-La has Love Changes, etc.

TOTALLY agree with all of this ... except Sister Honey
really???
i dont know, i like it, but i have to be in the mood.
i prefer imperial hotel

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Originally Posted by PenguinHead

I have the that black and white poster! It is so much better than the cover. I also have a color poster, with a different pose.

i have them too
in a mailing tube.
waiting to be framed one day
i love the B&W one for the cover
but this shot is my fave

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by mitzo

The trash to me include:

Love Is Like a River - a hot mess of random lyrics and meandering shouted tunelessness
Street Angel - how to make Stevie sound like a comatose walrus stuck in an empty oil drum
Rose Garden - I cannot understand the love for this feeble song badly sung and ever so badly produced. A horrifically boring cringer.
Just Like a Woman - don't try to imitate Dylan. Just don't.

LILAR is my favourite song off the whole damn record. It's just so awesome.

I also love "Street Angel" (even if it does sound a little bit like a Phil Collins song)and "Rose Garden".

[GarboSpeaks!]

A vinyl reissue of this album is a Stevie holy-grail item for me, and I have pestered Rhino and Warner about it numerous times. I envision white vinyl, 180 gram double LP, with pink custom labels that have the STREET ANGEL lettering, and a gatefold sleeve, of course.

Ah Karma, it's been far too long since I've professed my adoration for you. lol

Sublime thought and I'm now jumping your holy grail train!!

I love SA. Always have. I was well into my love of SN and attending concerts more, and for me the SA outing was a very special time. I am sad that SM was in such a rut then, but the fact that she still came out trying to give us that Nicks that we love so much. The album has a LOT of heart.

My least fav song on album is Unconditional Love-but ONLY because it was used as the lead single. I think this was a terrible idea for competition on radio waves circa 1994. FAR too soft for a woman that always had a voice amongst any genre. Lots of bad moves & choices for SA, but for me very special and still a favorite today.

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by StreetAngel86

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TOTALLY agree with all of this ... except Sister Honey
really???
i dont know, i like it, but i have to be in the mood.
i prefer imperial hotel

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i have them too
in a mailing tube.
waiting to be framed one day
i love the B&W one for the cover
but this shot is my fave

That is a stunning photo, and so much more appropriate as an image for an album titled Street Angel, instead of the pink outfit/pink washout Chris Nicks chose. I still hold so much resentment for the complete graphic hack job he did for that album. As if it wasn't enough to have some lack-luster produced songs, the graphics further enhanced those flaws.

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by GarboSpeaks!

My least fav song on album is Unconditional Love-but ONLY because it was used as the lead single.

It wasn't actually used as the lead single in the end, though, was it? The original Glynn Johns mix was stated to be the lead single from the original 1992 release, but by the time the album landed, the lead isngle was "Maybe Love".

[bombaysaffires]

Un. Cun. Dishonal. Love.

Just something about how she sings those words grates for me. Kinda like "watsamatta baby"

[PenguinHead]

I can't even fathom the logic of even considering Unconditional Love as the potential lead single. What the f*ck were they thinking? I wonder if Stevie had any say in the matter. It's a deep album track at best.

It's the only solo album that has four songs that were not penned by Stevie. Maybe Love was one of the best of them.

Notice that,except for a surprise appearance of Rose Garden on the Enchanted tour, she has performed anything from the album. Even on her Street Angel tour, only four songs from the album were performed - Blue Denim, Maybe Love, Destiny and Docklands (which was dropped from the set early on).

I wish she would have performed Kick It, Love is Like a River, Listen to the Rain and Street Angel. Perhaps live renditions could have recast and redeemed them. Blue Denim was just an okay song, but it sounded better live.

I don't think we will ever again see a Street Angel track wander into her set list.

[BlueLight]

Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

Un. Cun. Dishonal. Love.

Just something about how she sings those words grates for me. Kinda like "watsamatta baby"

Right? Just awful. The raw mixes of that song, without backing vocals, are about the worst recordings I've heard from her.

[GarboSpeaks!]

My bad-SN fan error # 2138 lol. I meant to say Maybe Love and had Unconditional Love on the brain from reading thru posts. Thank you and yes, Maybe Love as lead single-that's my story & I'm sticking to it! lol

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by StreetAngel86

aaaaah my favorite topic
I utterly love Docklands ... yes I know she didn't write it and people have a problem with the laundromat line, but I think you need to understand why these songs appealed to her in the first place and why she identified with it enough to even bother recording it let alone include it on the album.

I love Docklands also but I would be interested in hearing your explanation of your words that I highlighted if you feel like doing so.

[vivfox]

I love Unconditional Love. My turd picks are Jane and Just Like A Woman.

[bombaysaffires]

Originally Posted by vivfox

I love Unconditional Love. My turd picks are Jane and Just Like A Woman.

Jane is absolutely a turd. One of the turdiest of all the turds at that.

[Machu]

Does anybody have the any of the Street Angel photo shoot with her curly hair and black dress on in HQ? I've searched over the years but had no luck. I always wanted to make an alternate album cover for iTunes.

I love Kick It and Blue Denim. I also really like Listen to the rain and Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind but a lot of the rest is pretty average as they are. I think most of the songs on the album could have been great if they were produced better but what really drags the album down the most is Stevie's vocals--though she sounded great during that tour. I know she's said she regrets not redoing the vocals when she went back and had the songs re-mixed. And for the record, I like most of the original mixes better than the mixes that ended up on the album.

[Bandon]

One of the most underrated Stevie recordings. ..UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. .I'll be there when you fall...the one condition of love...there are none at all....

[StreetAngel86]

Originally Posted by PenguinHead

That is a stunning photo, and so much more appropriate as an image for an album titled Street Angel, instead of the pink outfit/pink washout Chris Nicks chose. I still hold so much resentment for the complete graphic hack job he did for that album. As if it wasn't enough to have some lack-luster produced songs, the graphics further enhanced those flaws.

Chris Nicks needs to be on photoshop's Most Wanted/Do Not Sell to list

Originally Posted by vivfox

I love Docklands also but I would be interested in hearing your explanation of your words that I highlighted if you feel like doing so.

don't have one. sorry.
i just think there's a very dark, ominous theme about (most of) the songs she wrote/recorded between TOSOTM and SA
even if XYZ songs aren't her most glorious work to date, I think they're all important.