What's your LEAST favorite Stevie album, and why?

[addiejean]

If it wasnt for Rooms on Fire, it would be OSOTM. However, since Rooms was included, the worst Stevie album is Street Angel. IMO.

I know some people love this album, but i've tried and tried and can't get into it.

[daniellaaarisen]

This is a toss up between Street Angel and The Other Side of the Mirror for me but TOSOTM is my least favorite, I think. There's only one song I genuinely love on that album ("Long Way To Go") although I LOVE the "Doing the Best That I Can" piano demo. I either tolerate or loathe the rest of the album. For Street Angel, I at least tolerate 95% of it and there's a handful of songs I like. It doesn't stand out to me, but I don't have any real hate for it, either.

[GypsySorcerer]

STREET ANGEL.

"Listen to the Rain" has got to be one of her worst songs, ever....
You're a frontliner/you put it all on the line
Oh, you're consistent/hey, and that's good!

No, There's no beauty and beast here!


"Love is Like a River" isn't much better.
Everything around me is electric now
But I haven't burned a candle in a real long time

Crikey.

And "Docklands" is just terrible. And "Jane"....Children of the world...the forgotten chimpanzee.

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

STREET ANGEL.

"Listen to the Rain" has got to be one of her worst songs, ever....
You're a frontliner/you put it all on the line
Oh, you're consistent/hey, and that's good!

No, There's no beauty and beast here!


"Love is Like a River" isn't much better.
Everything around me is electric now
But I haven't burned a candle in a real long time

Crikey.

And "Docklands" is just terrible. And "Jane"....Children of the world...the forgotten chimpanzee.

Please get your hands on the demos for these three songs!!! They blow the released versions right out of the water!

[jrpjr]

Originally Posted by AgeOldDesire

This is so easy. TISL. Only a couple of songs on there are anywhere near the caliber she is capable of doing. The editing is poor. The production is third rate. Talk about cheesy. Some of her worst lyrics ever are on this record. Her voice is very monotone and boring. I just hope she doesn't end her solo career on this dud. Masterpiece my ass.

I agree 100%...this album lacks everything stevie nicks is about...it has absolutely NO magic...and production??? waaaayyyyy over produced...although i love cheryl crow..stevie should not have used her at all on this record...it sound like a "new artist" that if it actually was...no one would have bought this album..her vocals suck big time on this...there wasnt even a top 20 hit on it...and they call this her comeback? i use this CD as a coaster for my beer while i listen to wild heart....street angel has this beaten by a long shot..street angel only got a bad wrap because stevie was at her lowest point in her life personally and that was obvious so they nailed her by nailing her work...wat they should do for her "final album" (as i agree w/age old..hoping she doent end her career w/this piece of crap) is go thru alllll her un released recordings...put them on a CD ...she'll hit multi platnium again..guarenteed!! but hey...i am not in the business so that aint gonna happen

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by jrpjr

I agree 100%...this album lacks everything stevie nicks is about...it has absolutely NO magic.her vocals suck big time on this...there wasnt even a top 20 hit on it...and they call this her comeback? i use this CD as a coaster for my beer while i listen to wild heart.

[petep9000]

OSOTM.

Too much synth. Too sparkly and tinkly, like a sugar-crusted princess's castle on a pink cloud, with lilac colored winged unicorns floating around it.

[justcrazylove]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

It really is a coin flip between SA and TOSOTM for very different reasons. For TOSOTM, Mama veered way off into cheeseland, e.g., Kenny G., Bruce Hornsby, etc. And she relied way too much on the distractingly untalented hack Mike Campbell. But at least the album glistened in a mystical way- it managed to transport the listener to another place. And it was an album that took lots of heart and imagination to create. But I thought for every one gem like "Ghosts" there were two lumps of coal like "Fire Burning."

By contrast, SA was much less cheesy (although "Docklands" has quite an eau de fromage about it). But it just lacked any kind of creativity whatsoever- the kind of drama and fantasy that made even songs like "Desert Angel" bearable. I do love Stevie's vocals on this album though (some of her best ever), but the songs are just so utterly derivative and bland. There is a string of songs, namely "Kick It," "Love Is Like a River," and "Listen to the Rain," that are so hopelessly mundane and uninspired that it makes me sad to listen to them; it makes me sad to realize just how much of her creative spark had been snuffed out by the tranquilizers. This wasn't the Stevie I had known and loved; it was a bad Bob Seger impersonation.

In the end, I think this dubious honor has to go to Street Angel.

hahah credibility out the window! no idea!

[daniellaaarisen]

Originally Posted by petep9000

OSOTM.

Too much synth. Too sparkly and tinkly, like a sugar-crusted princess's castle on a pink cloud, with lilac colored winged unicorns floating around it.

Bingo.

[goldustsongbird]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

STREET ANGEL.

"Listen to the Rain" has got to be one of her worst songs, ever....
You're a frontliner/you put it all on the line
Oh, you're consistent/hey, and that's good!

Oh god no. Sometimes this song gets stuck in my head for no reason at all. This time, I have a reason. Thanks a lot.

[GypsySorcerer]

Originally Posted by petep9000

OSOTM.

Too much synth. Too sparkly and tinkly, like a sugar-crusted princess's castle on a pink cloud, with lilac colored winged unicorns floating around it.

She borders on self-parody on that album, for sure. But I still think it's better than Street Angel.

She started going downhill with Rock A Little, IMO.

[vivfox]

Personally I love TOSOTM with the exception of Two Kinds of Love. Stevie said at a private concert in 1996 that her father said it was the worst album she ever made.

[markolas]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Stevie said at a private concert in 1996 that her father said it was the worst album she ever made.

Oh that's hilarious.

Street Angel is easily my least favorite - it's a big mess, like I said on the other thread. TOSOTM is my next least favorite. The overall feel of it is very cheesy and most of the songs aren't very good, IMO. Rooms on Fire and Ooh My Love are great - the rest is...meh.

I'm a bit surprised at all the TISL hate. Aside from Too Far from Texas and That Made Me Stronger, I think it's great.

[belladonnadream]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

So we're always talking about our favorites and the bests... but what's the worst of the worst for you? What album do you play the least, or not at all? Why does that particular one give you the creeps?

For me, it's without a doubt The Wild Heart. It's just so cheesy, dated, uber girlie, and over the top melodramatic. From her screaming about enchanted children on the title track, to the epically sappy Beauty and the Beast, the whole thing is a study in nails on chalkboard for me . Nightbird has the be the very definition of Stevie at her gawd awful worst to me. Nothing Ever Changes is superbad as well, and has to rank up there among the top of Stevie's most self indulging, nailing herself to her own cross songs .

However, it isn't all bad. I do really like I Will Run To You. I'm always a sucker for a good Stevie-Tom Petty duo. And even tho Sable On Blond has a cheesy-porno-ebony-on-ivory kinda vibe to it, I do like it for some reason .

???????????????????? Without a doubt? Well I guess you have the right to your own opinion but I think I'm turning in my grave and I haven't even died yet! Well that's because of course Wild Heart is sacred
IMO. Some of my favorite Stevie solo songs ever are on this record......SOB, Nightbird ( I absolutely love the synth on this...so Stevie to me),Wild Heart, GnG ,IAF.....
For me it would be a toss up between OSOTM and SA.....though Alice is one of my favorite solo songs ever , so its the only song (and DTBTIC )that save this record for me. I do like Kick it from SA but this album would have to get the vote for me cause it just has that lackluster to it....even the photos and album design were less than memorable and just seem thrown together....I have grown to like Docklands a little more as time has gone on but when I first got this album I seriously thought Stevie was in for it after hearing that song...I wanted to cry out of pity. I thought she'd never pull herself back out of the hole after this record....though I enjoyed the tour for this album ( she was very personable and I loved the hair )!I was very proud of Stevie with the whole Dance reunion, Enchanted , and TISL efforts....I felt that we had a little piece of the old Stevie back just much evolved

[starshine]

Well for me its also Street Angel too. Its just not her best really. Plus the LPCover is so boring and un Stevie like....(unlike the outtakes that we saw up on ebay at one time)....Now I love WH/BD....RAL was the turn down point too me. Now if it had been the pre-RAL LP/Mirror, Mirror...with Jimmy Iovine on full production mode it might have been much better than the chopped up mess it became...not that I don't like some of it but too me some of the unreleased songs were better than the released songs or outtakes too. I do like OSOTM much better than SA.....like others have said the production made it more cohisive LP even if there might be a couple I don't like (like 2 Kinds of Love)....but it was when I started collecting Stevie so that does make it special for me. Now I will say that I loved the Street Angel tour cause of the set list/and Stevie's voice was wonderful (better than TISL tour!!)....plus it was my first time seeing Stevie solo (with out Mac) so even if the LP wasn't my favorite the tour will always be funny huh....TISL is ok as well but I do like many of the demos/ext/outtakes/unreleased songs from the TISL period than what was actually released to us the public.......Stevie could give us much even if she never wanted to release anything 'new' ever again....just give us those UNreleased songs/demos/outtakes/extended versions with rare DVD's/rare pics...with little booklets included from those periods.....she does have options but she isn't opening herself to those options. Very closed minded. Which is sad cause as fans we lose.....but she does as well $$ wise even if she only offered up so many at a time....as true fans we'd purchase them....same for posters/shirts/limited edition/or signed items......same for Mac too.....but well....its a bummer but it is what it is....right......