‘The Other Side of the Mirror’- likes and dislikes (what are yours?) - Page 2

sorcerer999 · #16 11-30-2010, 07:38 PM

Is this album overproduced? Yes! Does it reek of that late 80's Adult Contemporary sound? Totally! Is it my favorite Stevie Record? Hell no! However, it IS a Stevie record, so of course I've listened to each track a million times. The breakdown for me is...

PERFECT - "Rooms On Fire", "Ooh My Love" & "Doing The Best I Can (Escape From Berlin)"

GREAT - "Long Way To Go" & "Juliet"

JUST OKAY - "Two Kinds Of Love" , "Fire Burning" & "Ghosts"

BLEHHH - Everything else...

I was soooo irritated that they chose "Whole Lotta Trouble" as a single. I thought OML or DTBIC would've been better choices in my opinion.

All in all, it's got some good Stevie songs, and I pull it out and listen to it occasionally...but I have to really be in the mood. It's not like BD, WH or TISL, which I could listen to all the time.

bluefox4000 · #17 11-30-2010, 08:03 PM

I cannot see 1 positive thing about this album.....just bad.

Mick

Meowi · #18 11-30-2010, 09:12 PM

Alice, Rooms and thats about it.
To be honest with you - I havent even listened to the whole thing

APerfectLie · #19 11-30-2010, 10:18 PM

Likes:
-Rooms on Fire
-Long Way To Go
-Ooh My Love
-Ghosts
-Whole Lotta Trouble
-Fire Burning
-Alice
-Juliet
-Doing The Best I Can
-I love the cover photo despite her clown makeup
-I also love the vibe of the album when I am in a fantasy kind of mood

Dislikes:
-Cry Wolf
-I Still Miss Someone
-Sometimes, I just cannot listen to this album if I am not in the mood.

DestinyRules · #20 12-01-2010, 12:06 AM

Likes:

"Long Way To Go" (my favorite song on that album BY FAR!!!!); "Doing The Best I Can (Escape From Berlin)"; "Rooms On Fire"; "Whole Lotta Trouble"

Dislikes:

"Two Kinds Of Love" (her voice and Bruce Hornsby's do NOT work well together); "I Still Miss Someone (Blue Eyes)"; "Ooh My Love"; "Alice"; "Ghosts".

Jondalar · #21 12-01-2010, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by bluefox4000

I cannot see 1 positive thing about this album.....just bad.

Mick

I think this album hurt her reputation more than any other album. I agree. Street Angel is bad and blah. But this album reached lower depths. It hurt her career.

AliceLover · #22 12-01-2010, 01:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Jondalar

I think this album hurt her reputation more than any other album. I agree. Street Angel is bad and blah. But this album reached lower depths. It hurt her career.

How did it hurt her career? She had a successful single and video in the US, plus her first #1 hit in Europe. This was the only album she toured in Europe for...theres a reason for that people. Lots of people b*tch that she doesn't tour Europe. It is because OSOTM was the only album that did anything in Europe.

mitzo · #23 12-01-2010, 03:00 AM

Great: Long Way to Go, Ooh My Love, Whole Lotta Trouble, Doing the Best that I Can, I Still Miss Someone (am I the only one who loves this reggae-inspired little treat?)

Good: Alice, Juliet

Junk: The rest, especially the actively disliked Rooms on Fire (a dull draggy pointless poorly arranged throwaway), Ghosts, Two Kinds of Love. Fire Burning and Cry Wolf are just forgettable songs and performances but not hatables.

Nikolaj · #24 12-01-2010, 03:36 AM

I like it all. Standouts for me are 'Doing The Best That I Can' - 'Long Way To Go'-
'Ghosts'- 'Juliet'- 'Ooh My Love' and wait for it...'Cry Wolf'- SN's version helped me through a bad time, and I knew the Laura Branigan version of 'Cry Wolf' but SN nailed it for me. I love her vocal on it.
'If you start to stumble, if you start to crack, if you're feeling humble, don't look back'-- Stevie sings those words like someone who was living them at the time, I love it.
I think the whole album is about recovery from bad love affairs and bad decisions, maybe some bad drugs, and it sure all felt very real in 1989- maybe the album is about surviving the '80s. It wasn't easy to. And ending it with 'I Still Miss Someone' was an inspired choice, imo. After everything, it came down to that.
Emotionally, the album makes a lot of sense, if you happen to have been messed up! I think the lyrics throughout the cd are still among the best of her solo career.

gypsy4life · #25 12-01-2010, 06:33 AM

Rooms On Fire was a huge part of my young life!!

PLUS....I might be in the minority here, but, I love the sassy feel of Whole Lotta Trouble!

Artemis · #26 12-01-2010, 06:42 AM

Love:
Rooms on Fire
Long Way To Go
Whole Lotta Trouble
Ghosts

Like:
Doing The Best I Can

Hate:
All the other songs.
Her hair on the album cover. I like the dress, and everything else. But. The hair makes me criiinge.

David · #27 12-01-2010, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by petep9000

Just about everything is a big 'dislike' for me, when it comes to OSOTM. Sorry. It was such a profound change, it really was a let down.

Well, let's see .... I like the songs on the album, I guess .... for the most part .... good stuff ....

But I do not like the sound of her singing, I don't like the sound of her harmonizing, & I do not like the orchestrations or the way the album was engineered.

Jondalar · #28 12-01-2010, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by AliceLover

How did it hurt her career? She had a successful single and video in the US, plus her first #1 hit in Europe. This was the only album she toured in Europe for...theres a reason for that people. Lots of people b*tch that she doesn't tour Europe. It is because OSOTM was the only album that did anything in Europe.

Rooms on Fire, for some reason, was a hit in Europe. The album did not do that great. It hurt her career becuase it recieved horrible reviews and sat on the used shelves for months. People bought it and then sold it back as quickly as possible. She sounded terrible, the synth production did not work and the songs were not strong at all. She truely became the Goat Voice on this album and it sounded as if she was spoiled rock star who wasn't really trying.

Nicks lost fans with Rock a Little. It was overproduced and there were only 5 really good songs on it. This album was supposed to be a comeback of sorts. Instead, it was a disaster. I don't think she should of released this album. That was really bad judgement. It showed just how bad Stevie could be, instead of showing what she could do.

holidayroad · #29 12-01-2010, 12:11 PM

I love Rooms On Fire.
I like Two Kinds Of Love, Whole Lotta Trouble, Long Way To Go,Ooh My Love and Ghosts.
Alice, Juliet, and Cry Wolf are okay.
The more I hear it, the more I don't like Fire Burning.
I can't stand I Still Miss Someone or Doing the Best That I Can (Escape From Berlin)

Matthew · #30 12-01-2010, 12:57 PM

I love almost everything about this album and this era.
It was so magic, nice pop-rock songs. It was recorded in Europe, she toured Europe the only time this tour. It was great setlist on this tour too. And her style in the late 80´s.... it´s known that I love that. The song Rooms on Fire is great, also the video. And the video for Whole Lotta Trouble and that video live version is amazing too. It was really something very different, and nice!