1989 Atlantic interview

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Originally Posted by Macfan4life

OSOTM is totally rambling Stevie telling deeply personal stories of staying up all night, falling in love, doing cocaine, escaping from rehab, and telling off ex boyfriends. It does not get more Stevie than that.

Perfect. That should be the review.

I think Rooms on Fire is among the best songs she's ever done. The rest of the album has not aged nearly as well, though I find it to be on a par with Rock a Little with the song content. I always liked The Nightmare, Some Become Strangers, I Can't Wait in their 80s glory -- though two of those are co-writes and one has non-Stevie writers, so take from that what you will about her state at the time.

I think her solo work really peaked with the first two albums, and then we are talking about a handful of very good songs over half a dozen albums or so. And I still would have preferred to get the original demos released over what they did to them on 24K Gold. But that's for another thread