What Stevie song has the biggest gap between quality of music and quality of lyrics? - Page 2

darklinensuit · #16 01-08-2004, 06:01 PM

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Originally posted by dissention
Kick It- Needs much better lyrics, they're laughable.

Thousand Days- Needs much better music, it's uninteresting and sounds like cheesy corporate rock from 1989.

Both of these songs are just-misses with me. They coud be really good with better arrangements.

- Jake

chiliD · #17 01-08-2004, 06:04 PM

I've always liked "Thousand Days" just fine, as is. One of Stevie's "lost gems", I've always thought.

Same with "Touched By An Angel"...I thought it was criminal to leave it off of TISL (especially when "Too Far From Texas" DID make it).

I consider "Touched By An Angel" to be on the same level as "Landslide".

darklinensuit · #18 01-08-2004, 06:05 PM

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Originally posted by Cristian
I think the lyrics to "Whole Lotta Trouble" are probably good, but I completely dislike the arrangement. "The Nightmare" should also have better music and it would have better results.

Song of the moment - I Sing For The Things

WLT reminds me of U2's Angel of Harlem. Trendy sound at the time.
It's one of the few songs that is better on TimeSpace than on the original album, IMO. I don't like it at all without the echo.

The Nightmare has grown on me --- at this point my only complaint is that the last thirty seconds of repetition should be cut out.

- Jake

darklinensuit · #19 01-08-2004, 06:06 PM

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Originally posted by Livia
I love Insider! But, Tom Petty wrote it, not Stevie.

Oh yeah. Good point.

- Jake

darklinensuit · #20 01-08-2004, 06:07 PM

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Originally posted by Pisces Queen
I love the lyrics for "Touched by an Angel" but I wish it had better music. I always ask myself what Lindsey could do with a particular solo song of Stevies ie: "It's Only Love" or "Rose Garden"

IMO all of these have excellent music.
Different strokes.

- Jake

dissention · #21 01-08-2004, 06:31 PM

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Originally posted by Livia
Kick It gets a "skip it" whenever I listen to Street Angel..

That whole album gets a "skip it" from me. It's unbearable.

dissention · #22 01-08-2004, 06:32 PM

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Originally posted by chiliD
I've always liked "Thousand Days" just fine, as is. One of Stevie's "lost gems", I've always thought.

Same with "Touched By An Angel"...I thought it was criminal to leave it off of TISL (especially when "Too Far From Texas" DID make it). I consider "Touched By An Angel" to be on the same level as "Landslide".

Touched By An Angel is superb; great stuff.

I can't stand TD, though. It's Stevie at her most incoherent.

chiliD · #23 01-08-2004, 06:35 PM

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Originally posted by dissention
That whole album gets a "skip it" from me. It's unbearable.

Pretty close to how I feel about TOSOTM.

I really like "Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind" (one of my all-time favorites of Stevie's solo career) & the title cut of Street Angel, though.

darklinensuit · #24 01-08-2004, 06:40 PM

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Originally posted by chiliD
Pretty close to how I feel about TOSOTM.

I really like "Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind" (one of my all-time favorites of Stevie's solo career) & the title cut of Street Angel, though.

I see where you're coming from. To me SA doesn't sound as unhappy as TOSOTM, even when Jane is up against her wall.

Maybe Love is one of my least favorites on the album, though. I love most of Stevie's Sandy S. songs, but this one doesn't do it for me. Of course, my favorites are Destiny and Rose Garden, and they probably make you want to puke.

- Jake

darklinensuit · #25 01-08-2004, 06:41 PM

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Originally posted by dissention
Touched By An Angel is superb; great stuff.

I can't stand TD, though. It's Stevie at her most incoherent.

You've just got something against the initials. Thousand Days, Thrown Down.....

- Jake

strandinthewind · #26 01-08-2004, 06:43 PM

chiliD - I agree "Touched by an Angel" is one of my faves. ever.

I know many think it is about a FM reunion of sorts. I do not. I believe Stevie when she says it is her AIDS tribute. I think she is talking about going into the room (perhaps hospital room) of a former friend (every one was friendly for the first time in years), and she sees this person suffering and in great anguish and she calls on or prays to that Angel she believes in (the "Passageway Angel" ) to come and get her friend so her friend's "life will once more be a celebration . . . ."

I could cry as I am typing it is so heartwrenching to me.

That Stevie sure can be vivid in imagery when she takes a notion to

darklinensuit · #27 01-08-2004, 06:48 PM

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Originally posted by strandinthewind
chiliD - I agree "Touched by an Angel" is one of my faves. ever.

I know many think it is about a FM reunion of sorts. I do not. I believe Stevie when she says it is her AIDS tribute. I think she is talking about going into the room (perhaps hospital room) of a former friend (every one was friendly for the first time in years), and she sees this person suffering and in great anguish and she calls on or prays to that Angel she believes in (the "Passageway Angel" ) to come and get her friend so her friend's "life will once more be a celebration . . . ."

I could cry as I am typing it is so heartwrenching to me.

That Stevie sure can be vivid in imagery when she takes a notion to

And like I said, the music is perfect. That music box. It's like when you're feeling down you open your box of Stevie-ness for healing.

- Jake

strandinthewind · #28 01-08-2004, 06:57 PM

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Originally posted by darklinensuit
And like I said, the music is perfect. That music box. It's like when you're feeling down you open your box of Stevie-ness for healing.

- Jake

#29 01-08-2004, 07:13 PM

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Originally posted by chiliD
Same with "Touched By An Angel"...I thought it was criminal to leave it off of TISL (especially when "Too Far From Texas" DID make it). I consider "Touched By An Angel" to be on the same level as "Landslide".

I think "Touched..." is a great song...it should definately have been on TISL or even The Dance. It's a beautiful song.

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Pretty close to how I feel about TOSOTM.

Sappy to say it but i loved OSOTM and i still do...i don't listen to it all the time....i hadn't listened to it for a long time till the summer of 2002...then i couldn't stop playing it....i really liked it when it first came out too...i think it's the only other Stevie record aside of Bella Donna that i can really listen to all the way through (although i tend to skip over "Fire Burning" and "I Still Miss Somone" - no disrespect to Mr.Cash) and i'm not a big synth fan...Maybe it had to do with the time the record came out or something...i just feel that there's more emotion on that record than RAL or SA.

To each his own!

strandinthewind · #30 01-08-2004, 07:19 PM

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Originally posted by joe
I think "Touched..." is a great song...it should definately have been on TISL or even The Dance. It's a beautiful song.

I mean she chose to remove that greatness and instead warbled "he said you write your songs yourself," which was a great sentiment that just to me laid there and died amongst the guitar loops. Can you say skiparoo over that tripe