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Originally Posted by mitzo

Stevie lost me with Bella Donna, frankly, I had been seriously into her until then, but the album was so deadly to my ears, I just drifted away fast.

I even missed her on Mirage, I was overseas at the time and had little access to western pop music. In 1987, back in N America, I saw FM had a new album and I heard Seven Wonders on the radio. I bought the cassette and in the car kept flipping it to get Seven Wonders and WISYA back and forth for hours on a long road trip. They grabbed my attention immediately. That got me back into her and FM. WTTRS helped too, the weird incoherence of it drew me in too. So I bought the stuff I had missed between 1981 and 1987.

Bella Donna isn't a bad album but I think it least represents Stevie's sound. (Other than Edge)
Wild Heart and Street Angel I think best represent her sound.
Bella Donna to me sounds like what Iovine was probably making with Bruce or Tom in those days.
After Bella Donna, I think she made all the Mike Campbell collabs sound like her own rather than Petty songs.