If Stevie's albums were released with bonus tracks

[PenguinHead]

It would be great if her albums were each released with a bonus disc of demos, alt.mixes, live perfermances and unreleased songs. More realistically, they could be released on a single disc with bonus tracks -- released stray stuff that didn't make it on albums. How would that look? Here's how I see it. Any ideas, thoughts, additions...?

BELLA DONNA
Blue Lamp
Gold and Braid (live)
Needles and Pins (live)
Edge of Seventeen (live)

WILD HEART
Garbo
Violet and Blue
Sleeping Angel

ROCK A LITTLE
The Nightmare (alt.ver)
I Can't Wait (ext. remix)
One More Big Time Rock and Roll Star
Reconsider Me
Battle Of The Dragon

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR
Real Tears
Rooms On Fire (ext. remix)
Long Way To Go (ext. remix)
Whole Lotta Trouble (ext. remix)

STREET ANGEL
Blue Denim (single mix)
Destiny (org. mix)
Street Angel (org. mix)
Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind (single mix)
Inspiration
God's Garden
Destiny (live radio promo)
At Last (live)

TROUBLE IN SHANGRILA
If You Ever Did Believe
Touched By An Angel
Stand By Me
Twisted
Sorcerer (Sheryl Crow mix)
Planets Of The Universe (unedited ver.)
Planets Of The Universe (Tracy Young Club mix)
*You're Not The One (Sheryl Crow w/Stevie)
*My Heart

[nightbird28]

Originally Posted by PenguinHead

TROUBLE IN SHANGRILA
If You Ever Did Believe
Touched By An Angel
Stand By Me
Twisted
Sorcerer (Sheryl Crow mix)
Planets Of The Universe (unedited ver.)
Planets Of The Universe (Tracy Young Club mix)
*You're Not The One (Sheryl Crow w/Stevie)
*My Heart

I think Stand by me should be left off, it wouldn't fit well with the other songs as well as twisted which I think would have been a nicer touch onto street angel. I would however point out the demo versions of not make believe and thrown down would be nicer touches here.

[vermicious knid]

Is "Sleeping Angel" really Wild Heart era? I have always grouped my "Sleeping Angel" demo with my Bella Donna demos.

[gldstwmn]

Well, FM and Stevie had a habit of putting unreleased stuff on the B side of 45's and on imports. They even did the bonus disc thing with SYW.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by vermicious knid

Is "Sleeping Angel" really Wild Heart era? I have always grouped my "Sleeping Angel" demo with my Bella Donna demos.

Honestly, I personally think it is older than that, say '78 - '79 ish or maybe even earlier.

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by vermicious knid

Is "Sleeping Angel" really Wild Heart era? I have always grouped my "Sleeping Angel" demo with my Bella Donna demos.

Sleeping Angel was released (and presumably recorded) in the latter part of1982 between Bella Donna and Wild Heart, so it could go either way. Perhaps if we knew who the session musicians were, we could better pinpoint it.

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by PenguinHead

Sleeping Angel was released (and presumably recorded) in the latter part of1982 between Bella Donna and Wild Heart, so it could go either way. Perhaps if we knew who the session musicians were, we could better pinpoint it.

I think there is every reason to believe that this was recorded during the Bella Donna sessions. Yes, it came out in spring/summer 1982, but it has that distinctive "Stevie and the Heartbreakers on E Street" sound that was unique to that era. The tack piano, the organ, the boomy drum sound, etc. I suspect that it was recorded but shelved because it didn't quite fit in alongside the other BD tracks. Must be that mandolin solo! Plus it was probably one-too-many ballads for a lady who wanted to market herself to the rock n roll set.

If released on BD, I suspect it would have been one of the monster singles from that album. At the time I remember it being played on the radio constantly and for a while it was played every morning during the Howard Stern show when he was on DC 101 in Washington. Yikes! I.am.an.old.geezer.