Like or Dislike: How Still My Love

[skcin]

This song had to grow on me. It's probably in my Top 20. There's something about that way it's all mellow & sexy, then builds to something more forceful, then comes back down again. The vocal is subdued at the mellow parts & raging at the intense parts. The lyrics are hot.

"Standing...in the doorway
Watching out to sea
Calling out to me
You go...your way
Go on...go on
But you don't forget me
Ooo no...you don't forget me
Oooo no...my lonely one
You're doing all you can for me
They say you're not the man for me
Don't I make it easy
In the still of the night
It's...me...talking to you"

Live is always better than the album version, IMO, whether it be older tours or recently in Vegas (hello Wednesday 5-11!) More powerful, sexier.

[skcin]

Wow - you guys are talkative today.

[johnny4406]

This is one of my favorite songs! Top 3!!!!!
It's just so.. perfect

It really should have been on " Enchanted"

[GypsySorcerer]

The first time I truly warmed to it was Vegas. I loved it there. So I went back and gave the album version another shot. I enjoy it now - maybe not my Top 20, but inching closer.

[EveryHour]

An all-time fave from Day One.

[catinthedark]

Don't love this one, I'm afraid.

Paula, is it me, or does it look like the Stevie in the screen in your sig is not the Stevie on stage? I keep looking at it and thinking, her head's not angled the same way.

I think I need a life

[Dreammms]

I love HSMYL. Probably in my top 20 songs by Stevie. I like the masters of this one better I think.

[golden braid]

I like this song too and I always have but I didn't start really liking it until recently. Seeing Stevie perform it in Vegas revived my interest in the song.

[skcin]

Originally Posted by catinthedark

Don't love this one, I'm afraid.

Paula, is it me, or does it look like the Stevie in the screen in your sig is not the Stevie on stage? I keep looking at it and thinking, her head's not angled the same way.

I think I need a life

Now that I stare at it (I don't have a life either) I think you're right. It was live in Vegas, maybe there's a short delay of a second or two?

*runs to look at the other shots*

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I absolutely LOVE "How Still My Love", it is one of my very favourites, definatly TOP FIVE of all time. I can understand why Stevie loves to sing it live, as it is so powerful. I chose to do it for my sound check in Cincinnati last weekend,and I just will include it any time I can!
(if you would like to hear the soundcheck, you can check it out here:
"How Still My Love").

I can't believe anyone wouldn't love this, but I am prejudiced...LOL..

Blessings, Barbara

[SapphireSister]

HSML is such a special song to me so I finally get a chance to ramble about it...Bella Donna has never been one of my favorite albums and to be honest when I first bought it a couple years ago (I've only been a die-hard Stevie fan for just over 2 years) I wasn't too fond of HSML. I think I may have even skipped it! I can't tell you when it was but not too long ago that I heard a live boot with HSML and it hit me like a ton of bricks! I fell in love with whatever live version I happened to be listening to and the rest is history. It's definitely a top 10 song for me. It's sooooo incredibly sexy and I love when Stevie referrs to it as her "favorite song". It's also cute that she calls it "In the Still of the Night" (I wonder why she didn't call it that on the album?). This part of the song OMG I could die everytime I hear it-
"Standing...in the doorway
Watching out to sea
Calling out to me
You go...your way
Go on...go on
But you don't forget me
Ooo no...you don't forget me"

I have said those words in my head to a former lover lol. You know how you get chills when you hear certain songs? Well I just got chills simply from reading the lyrics! Now that's powerful .
I had no idea she was going to do this in Vegas (5/14), wasn't on The Ledge then and didn't want to know the setlist. Well when this song came on that was the time they let us rush the stage and I made it up directly in front of Stevie for this song! You can imagine what a moment that was for me to be standing in front of her singing my favorite live song and it was a total surprise. That was the most memorbale moment of me ever seeing Stevie live. And who couldn't love how she sexed it up which is classic cause that's exactly how I dance to this song when I hear it. I'm terribly dissapointed it got dropped from the set list *tears* but I am so excited to see that it's getting 5 stars in the poll from so many people!

[GardenStateGirlie]

After Vegas, i'm obsessed with it. Amazing song -- amazing vocals

[darklinensuit]

It's not my Top Ten, but I gave it five stars. I always prefered it to OTR, which is the one that had to grow on me. (In the minority once again there.)

- Jake

[TheBlueLamp]

Definitely a five-star song for me. It's already been mentioned a couple of times but the lines:

Standing...in the doorway
Watching out to sea
Calling out to me
You go...your way
Go on...go on
But you don't forget me
Ooo no...you don't forget me
Oooo no...my lonely one

paint some of the most vivid images of any of Stevies lyrics for me. They always make me think of the TISL cover too.

I love HSML. It's probably my second favourite song on BD

[LikeAWillow]

I love HSML, but I only gave it four stars just because it's a song that seems to slip from my mind unless someone brings it up. Once it's mentioned, then I say to myself "oh, I love that song!", but if someone were to just randomly ask me what my top ten stevie songs were, I wouldn't think to include this one.