Fan Reviews! - Page 3

saradorna · #31 09-30-2014, 12:05 PM

1. Starshine - Well everybody has said it! Its a great opener. The organ solo its great! Stevie's voice is great and so are Lori and Sharon.

2. The Dealer - Its good, solid song. I said it before it feels like it needs more of the organ that the demo has. Stevie's voice its okay

3. Mabel Normand - I love it and never expected that to happen! I've heard the demo and never like it. So this is pretty

. This songs its about a chaotic life and she sings it just like that and her voice is great.

4. Blue Water - Okay gave it a second listened and really like it. Love the ending but still I miss Lori and Sharon.

5. Cathouse Blues -

Love everything about it. Voices, horns fun!!!

6. 24 Karat Gold - I think this is my favorite for now! It's just well done! Stevie's voice amazing but I think I'm gonna be surprise about a little later on another song.

7. Hard Advice - How do I put this, see I love the song but the lyrics in some places of the song don't flow. I don't know about songwriting and don't know if I'm saying it right but its like to many words

Love the ending.

8. Lady - I love this one too and love her vocals.

9. I Don't Care - This a rocker! I feel that it needed more lyrics

She repeats the same lyrics A LOT in this one. I like it but should've been shorter. Live she can go crazy with it.

**Sometimes too many lyrics sometime not enough**

10. All the beautiful worlds -

This is pure perfection! She found her voice here like where hell was it?!! Loooove this one! Lori and Sharon are awesome too!

11. Belle Fleur - So awesome! Love everything about this one!

**Maybe she should do all her albums like this one and in Nashville. Awesome!**

12. If You Were My Love - I was nervous about this one but I love it. The harmonies between Stevie, Lori and Sharon are perfect.

13. Carousel - I like Vanessa and I've heard the live version with Stevie and it works perfectly in this album. Love this one too!

14. She Loves Him Still - Beautiful sad song! Love love love.

Wao this is a great album! Okay Stevie do more demos!! I'm ready! Go to Nashville a make 2 o 3 albums of the demos.

Artemis · #32 09-30-2014, 12:33 PM

Starshine: A very fun song, a great album opener.

If You Were My Love: I like what she's done to it, but I wish it had a little bit more attack, it works on many levels though. I love the vibe it creates.

Mabel Normand: Such a weird song. It's like Stevie trying to be RAL Stevie without the coke. And it's fabulous. Fantastic vocal. Sad Mabel Normand.

Twisted: IF I hadn't heard the Stevie/Lindsey duet, I'd be much more enamoured with this song. That being said, it's a pretty fantastic version. Lovely soft vocal. While I miss the I know / You know / watching you go is like dying, part. I LOVE the "in this game that you play with God" lyric. So glad it's back.

24 Karat Gold: Mystical. Epic. She's showing such a command of her mature voice in this song. Breathtaking.

Belle Fleur: I wasn't familiar with the demo, so I came to this song fresh. It's a really great song, I felt like it could have ended a minute sooner than it did... but what else is new with Stevie's work?

All The Beautiful Worlds: It doesn't quite eclipse the original demo, but it's not overshadowed by it either. Such a fantastic vocal, I just wish she'd really let loose on that last "come" like she does in the demo. THEN it would have eclipsed the original.

Lady: I still think this song is absolutely gorgeous. That review that described her voice as "a perfectly ruined rasp" sums it all up for me. Like I said after I'd first heard Soldier's Angel, Dave doesn't try to make her voice pretty here, and it works so much more.

I Don't Care: Found myself really enjoying this song. Made for a fantastic driving song.

Watch Chain: WHY is this a bonus track!? It's brilliant. I love that they still kept some Stevie harmonizing with Stevie near the end. Sharon and Lori are great on this album, but no one sounds better with Stevie than Stevie.

Hard Advice: It's basically That Made Me Stronger, with better lyrics (in comparison to the former). Still a little hokey, but I loved the music and her vocal, and found myself really enjoying this song. I'd love the original demo to emerge somewhere on this.

Carousel: It's pretty. And that's all I can really say about it. You can tell it's not a Stevie song, it's the only song on the album I'd say is really a throw-away song. It's not horrible, and I love the voice in thunder lyric, very Stevie-esque, but it just didn't grab me.

Blue Water: I've never heard the demo, but my gosh, what a beautiful song. I love Stevie's forays into country. I found the male vocal jarring when it came on, I was like "woah. Where did THAT come from?" but it hasn't really got to me like it has some fans

I'd have died if they could have got Lindsey to sing on this song. It would be perfect on a Fleetwood Mac album.

Cathouse Blues: I love the new instrumental. It's a very fun little song, and I'm glad she didn't flesh it out. I'd still say I prefer the original, mainly cause her youthful vocal is just sublime, but this remake is not horrible by any means. I could see a jazz singer having a lot of fun covering it.

The Dealer: Still really like this song, I think it's going to share Secret Love's fate - a perfectly fine song chosen as lead single... but because it isn't the strongest on the album, it gets unfairly criticized.

She Loves Him Still: Again, never heard the original demo, but such a pretty song. I really enjoyed it. APART FROM that god-awful flute solo. I half-expected the Titanic to pop up, Celine Dion and all. Eliminate the flute and it would be sublime. Gorgeous vocal too.

jkmaletic · #33 09-30-2014, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Danielle

I *think* this should be a direct link to the player: http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/publ...dgetHeight=260

Thanks. It unfortunately won't work on a mobile phone though.

BlueLight · #34 09-30-2014, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by jkmaletic

Thanks. It unfortunately won't work on a mobile phone though.

Perhaps look into whether downloading the Amazon player app will let you stream on your phone?

Turn It On · #35 09-30-2014, 01:14 PM

I find it so difficult to listen to If you were my love and think about it objectively. I think it's probably quite a good song, but I really miss the whole band feel of the Mirage demo. There was something about the jauntiness of the uptempo sections that I feel is missing.

Jondalar · #36 09-30-2014, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Turn It On

I find it so difficult to listen to If you were my love and think about it objectively. I think it's probably quite a good song, but I really miss the whole band feel of the Mirage demo. There was something about the jauntiness of the uptempo sections that I feel is missing.

I think it is my favorite on the album. Very Alan Parsons with an emotional payoff.

bombaysaffires · #37 09-30-2014, 01:34 PM

been fighting with the amazon player, but finally working through it.

Blue Water….wow. Not great. Her raspy voice doesn't work on this, combined with the lack of reverb on her vocal. Like the last little bit, but…..just a no.

Cathouse Blues…. goes on about :30 seconds too long. But cute.

Waiting for the stream to die out on me again...

KarmaContestant · #38 09-30-2014, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Turn It On

I find it so difficult to listen to If you were my love and think about it objectively. I think it's probably quite a good song, but I really miss the whole band feel of the Mirage demo. There was something about the jauntiness of the uptempo sections that I feel is missing.

Agree totally. I absolutely hate this song as it appears on 24 Karat Gold. It's *so* monotonous and drones on and on.

Turn It On · #39 09-30-2014, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Jondalar

I think it is my favorite on the album. Very Alan Parsons with an emotional payoff.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's awful by any means. I just... miss Lindsey, I guess.

MoonSister75 · #40 09-30-2014, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by bombaysaffires

been fighting with the amazon player, but finally working through it.

Blue Water….wow. Not great. Her raspy voice doesn't work on this, combined with the lack of reverb on her vocal. Like the last little bit, but…..just a no.

I'm glad I read all the criticism of Blue Water on here, so I was well prepared. When it came on the streaming, I thought, actually it's not so bad. A little on the cheesy side

but not so bad.

I said I wasn't going to listen to this until I got my CD... no will power... I'm not listening to it all tonight.

Jondalar · #41 09-30-2014, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by MoonSister75

I'm glad I read all the criticism of Blue Water on here, so I was well prepared. When it came on the streaming, I thought, actually it's not so bad. A little on the cheesy side

but not so bad.

I said I wasn't going to listen to this until I got my CD... no will power... I'm not listening to it all tonight.

Really like Blue Water. Very Jimmy Buffet. The demo was nice. This is better.

sorcerer999 · #42 09-30-2014, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Jondalar

Really like Blue Water. Very Jimmy Buffet. The demo was nice. This is better.

Ooooh...See, I have to respectfully disagree with you there. The demo was MAGICAL. This "completed version" is but a pale shadow of that demo and a creative misstep, in my humble opinion.

I don't HATE this new version. It is what it is, unfortunately. In my eyes it just seems like they treated it like a "throwaway" track instead of exploring the creative possibilities and giving it the attention it deserved.

MoonSister75 · #43 09-30-2014, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Jondalar

Really like Blue Water. Very Jimmy Buffet. The demo was nice. This is better.

It's a beautiful song. I LOVE the demo and it's great to have this new version too. I went a bit tingly at the beginning of the song as I love it so much, I then just had to get my head around the new production.

MoonSister75 · #44 09-30-2014, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by sorcerer999

The demo was MAGICAL

Agree the demo is magical. I would think it's difficult to make a new version anything like it. So now we have 2 very different versions

Jondalar · #45 09-30-2014, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by sorcerer999

Ooooh...See, I have to respectfully disagree with you there. The demo was MAGICAL. This "completed version" is but a pale shadow of that demo and a creative misstep, in my humble opinion.

I don't HATE this new version. It is what it is, unfortunately. In my eyes it just seems like they treated it like a "throwaway" track instead of exploring the creative possibilities and giving it the attention it deserved.

I don't think it is a throwaway at all. I think it's really good. Sheryl Crow just came out with that song "Easy" which is Jimmy Buffett. And now I feel like this is Stevie's "Buffetted" song. I prefer this song over Easy. It's her version of Jimmy Buffet - instead of listening to the waves crashing, she is listening to the sound of her Gypsy. I really payed attention to that line in the new version.

When I think about Blue Water, turning into an Buffett song is a no brainer. I should of expected a producer to do that.