Another top 20 songs list

[StevieandChris]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

If you cant post the link, can you cut and paste the article? She has an enormous catalog so picking her best 20 songs would be hard. Dividing solo/Mac would make it easier but still tough. Practically every song on Bella Donna would be on the list. But there are other gems on Wild Heart and even OSOTM

I cheat and have started dividing into 3 lists . Stevie-solo, Stevie-solo-but-written-by-someone-else (songs she co-wrote still go in Stevie-solo), and Stevie-Fleetwood Mac.

[bwboy]

Rooms on Fire
Planets of the Universe
Talk to Me
Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You
Secret Love
Stand Back
Moonlight
Sara
Beautiful Child
Storms
Landslide
I Don’t Want to Know
Thrown Down
Ooh My Love
Blue Lamp
Battle of the Dragon
Beauty and the Beast
Outside the Rain
Edge of Seventeen
Long Way to Go

[Macfan4life]

I'll take a stab at this. I just woke up so I will probably forget something but in no particular order:

Gold Dust Woman
Sara
Gypsy
Straight Back
Bella Donna
Kind of Woman
Think About it
Edge of 17
How Still My Love
The Highwayman
If Anyone Falls
Nothing Ever Changes
Sable on Blonde (re-issue version)
Rooms on Fire
Long Way To Go
Escape From Berlin
Listen To The Rain
Running Through The Garden (RAL version)
Thrown Down
Smile At You

I stuck to 20 but here are a few that almost made the list and on another day could have made the list:
Outside the Rain
Ooh My Love
I Can't Wait - full rock edit

My not so troll list. These are favorites too and I am not trolling
Jane
Desert Angel
Two Kinds of Love

[bwboy]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

I'll take a stab at this. I just woke up so I will probably forget something but in no particular order:


I stuck to 20 but here are a few that almost made the list

My not so troll list. These are favorites too and I am not trolling
Jane
Desert Angel
Two Kinds of Love

You made me think of another category- the most underrated songs. Think About It is one of my favorites, even though it didn’t make my personal top 20 list. But I do love it, and I think it’s totally underrated. I was so disappointed her live version wasn’t featured on the Bella Donna reissue; I just checked and it was also the only song from Bella Donna that wasn’t remastered for her Enchanted box set. It’s a relatively simple song, so maybe that’s why it doesn’t get a lot of attention. You know, much like I Don’t Want to Know, another deceptively simple song that I also feel is totally underrated.

[DownOnRodeo]

Some of my favorite Stevie solo songs that I don't think have been mentioned:

Trouble In Shangri-La
Touched By An Angel
Twisted (LB duet version)
Annabel Lee

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by bwboy

You made me think of another category- the most underrated songs. Think About It is one of my favorites, even though it didn’t make my personal top 20 list. But I do love it, and I think it’s totally underrated. I was so disappointed her live version wasn’t featured on the Bella Donna reissue; I just checked and it was also the only song from Bella Donna that wasn’t remastered for her Enchanted box set. It’s a relatively simple song, so maybe that’s why it doesn’t get a lot of attention. You know, much like I Don’t Want to Know, another deceptively simple song that I also feel is totally underrated.

There were other songs like How Still My Love that did not make Enchanted which I always thought was strange since Stevie loves that song.
Think About it was very good live especially with Roy on piano. Its such a positive song which is a rare writing for Stevie. I love the line "every time you feel like your life is fading, I know that you'll go on forever, you're that good."

BTW, its not underrated. Its a great song on it's own just like every other song on Bella Donna

[David]

Originally Posted by DownOnRodeo

Annabel Lee

Well, I love that one, too, damnit.

Also SARA.

[bwboy]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

There were other songs like How Still My Love that did not make Enchanted which I always thought was strange since Stevie loves that song.

BTW, its not underrated. Its a great song on it's own just like every other song on Bella Donna

LOL well, it’s my opinion, and I gave the reasons why I think it’s underrated. Guess I just didn’t convince you

[bwboy]

Originally Posted by Macfan4life

Why would she have put Docklands in her set to begin with if she did not care for it. It was not going to be released as a single so there was no reason to promote it other than it would be a good song to do live.
Street Angel is a far superior album than TISRL and In Your Dreams. IMHO those albums are so boring and hardly and music and flat singing. Street Angel has incredible music tracks (on many of the songs) and its the last album of good singing. Now go be a good bwboy and rediscover it.

Macfan4life, I took your advice and relistened to Street Angel, and I noticed a few things: first, I don’t hate Docklands or Jane as much as I thought I did. Especially Jane. Are they my new favorites? No. But they weren’t as bad as I remembered or expected. Street Angel itself, I couldn’t listen to the whole song, though. Sorry to fans who love it, I simply am not one of them. Thanks for the suggestion to give the album another try.

Second, my copy of Street Angel also has God’s Garden and Inspiration as the last two songs. I believe this must be the Japanese version of Street Angel. I noticed that nowhere on the CD or booklet does Glyn John’s name appear. It says “produced by, Thom Panuzio and Stevie Nicks.” The oddly placed comma makes me think his name was actually removed. Is his name on the American version as the producer? And does anyone know why his name isn’t on the Japanese version? Except for the additional two songs, it’s the same CD as the American version. I’m thinking he must have wanted his name removed, because Stevie has said she was not happy with how this album turned out, so I don’t think she would want to claim credit for an album she didn’t like that performed poorly.

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by bwboy

Macfan4life, I took your advice and relistened to Street Angel, and I noticed a few things: first, I don’t hate Docklands or Jane as much as I thought I did. Especially Jane. Are they my new favorites? No. But they weren’t as bad as I remembered or expected. Street Angel itself, I couldn’t listen to the whole song, though. Sorry to fans who love it, I simply am not one of them. Thanks for the suggestion to give the album another try.

Second, my copy of Street Angel also has God’s Garden and Inspiration as the last two songs. I believe this must be the Japanese version of Street Angel. I noticed that nowhere on the CD or booklet does Glyn John’s name appear. It says “produced by, Thom Panuzio and Stevie Nicks.” The oddly placed comma makes me think his name was actually removed. Is his name on the American version as the producer? And does anyone know why his name isn’t on the Japanese version? Except for the additional two songs, it’s the same CD as the American version. I’m thinking he must have wanted his name removed, because Stevie has said she was not happy with how this album turned out, so I don’t think she would want to claim credit for an album she didn’t like that performed poorly.

I don't think you can blame a producer for Stevie's work in the 1990s. A producer can only do so much. Street Angel is not a pop album which is why I like it. It was back to the roots of Bella Donna with guitars and a country feel taking the lead. Of course it's not a spectacular album but about 60% of it is really good IMHO. I hate when Stevie sings someone else's song. Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind is the only song that is the exception. Her vocal comes off very authentic as if she wrote it and means what she says. It's very from the heart and defies expectations.
Just because an album is not commercially successful is not a reason not to like it. IMHO Street Angel is very much like Behind The Mask. Over half the album is really good, going back to basics. A drum machine does not make an appearance on the album. Many of the songs are not pop radio friendly. The highlights are: Blue Denim, Greta, Listen to the rain, Love is like A river, Maybe Love, and Jane. I agree the title track is blah. Its tough to put Stevie's poems into song. Sometimes it works brilliantly but many times it falls flat. Most important its a very musical album. I love Greta and the drumming on it. Its a very Stevie song along with the rasp.
I moved into my first apartment in 1994 and if you went to the balcony and turned your head there was a lake view in the distance. I used to sing that song to myself "ooooooo, I've got a movie star view" even though I had a 450 sf apartment.