‘The Other Side of the Mirror’- likes and dislikes (what are yours?) - Page 3

jannieC · #31 12-01-2010, 05:04 PM

I was really unimpressed with this CD when it came out. But as usual, many of the songs have grown on me over time. I loved Doing the Best I Can from the start. Rooms on Fire, not so much then but moreso now (and I do love the video). Whole Lotta Trouble is fun now (Have mercy!) ; hated it then.

TerraRhiannon · #32 12-01-2010, 05:23 PM

The video for 'Rooms On Fire' is smokin' Hot. She is smokin' hot, Like OMG.

I can't decide what video I like better - Seven Wonders or Rooms On Fire.

Jondalar · #33 12-01-2010, 05:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by petep9000

What does RAL have to do with OSOTM? Two different worlds.

OSOTM was supposed to be a comeback from RAL. Instead, it was even worse.

Richard B · #34 12-01-2010, 06:07 PM

Likes
Rooms On Fire
Alice
Long Way To Go
Still Miss Someone (Blue Eyes)
Ooh My Love
Doing The Best That I Can (Escape From Berlin)
Fire Burning

Dislike
Cry Wolf
Rooms On Fire US Single photo---so scary.

For songs unmentioned, they are just OK.

I do love the back cover image!

iamnotafraid · #35 12-01-2010, 06:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TerraRhiannon

I can't decide what video I like better - Seven Wonders or Rooms On Fire.

^
They are both very good.
I Like Seven Wonders more
than Rooms On Fire, but
neither beat If Anyone Falls.

silvasprings · #36 12-01-2010, 06:34 PM

The Other Side Of The Mirror is Stevie's mood album, the one you can only listen to when your in that soft and adult contemporary mood, If you ever are

I really like:

Rooms On Fire
Long Way To Go
Ooh My Love
Ghosts
Whole Lotta Trouble
Alice
Doing The Best That I Can (Escape From Berlin)

Juliet and Fire Burning are ok

The rest could have been left on the shelf.

I want to know why Love Don't Fail Me Now and Dial The Number didn't end up on this album? They would have been much better than the two covers!!!

vivfox · #37 12-01-2010, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by petep9000

I didn't realize RAL was considered a failure and that she lost fans during that period.

She lost a lot of fans because of the RAL Tour, not the album. Bad reviews followed her all across America in 1986. I saw 5 RAL shows. One was excellent, the others were embarrasing.

Jondalar · #38 12-01-2010, 08:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by petep9000

I didn't realize RAL was considered a failure and that she lost fans during that period.

I suspect TOSOTM marks the real beginning of a departure period for some of her fans, though she probably picked more up again post 1997.

Ral was an overproduced failure. You tell she was disintegrating. All her albums, seem to have sold half of the previous ones, except for TISL. Hopefully, she is on the up curve.

starshine · #39 12-01-2010, 08:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jondalar

OSOTM was supposed to be a comeback from RAL. Instead, it was even worse.

Well to me RAL is worse than Mirror. I like Mirror more than I like RAL.....I guess part of me will always love Mirror because this is when I started collecting Stevie/Mac stuff......so for me it was a big LP.....I think I did already have BD/WH/RAL before I got Mirror. Sure its different than the other LP's but I was more disappointed with RAL than Mirror. I think RAL is a very disconnected LP because of all the different producers /with all the stops and starts of the LP....its disjointed at least with Mirror she had one producer and maybe all don't like Mr Rupert Hine....at least to me its more cohesive an LP/CD than was RAL.....could they (RAL/Mirror) both be better.....sure (same for SA/TISL etc.....I'm sure we could all change all the solo lp's.......anyway)......some maybe minor changes others major changes. I think if RAL was MM LP that it started out with Jimmy Iovine it would've been much much better and more cohesive......but it is what it is. Now what I do love of Mirror is: Long Way To Go/Room's On Fire/Ghosts/Doing The Best That I Can/Whole Lotta Trouble/Cry Wolf/Ooh My Love/Fire Burning/Alice........OK songs......Juliet/Two Kinds Of Love/ Miss Someone ....isn't too bad....not sure about the carnivel music they used.....other than that I can live with this cd. I love LWTG when I'm mad and just want to scream. I've cried so many times when listening to Doing The Best That I Can......they are close to my heart.....I guess we are drawn to songs that have meaning to us in each of our lives.....some speak to us more than others.......I do agree that the LP cover photo could've been a better picture though. I do like the back picture as well. I also don't like the ROF single sleeve photo.....I'm sure Stevie had tons of outtakes thats why its a shame something else couldn't have been picked?? Guess we could say that about all the solo LP covers. I like the outtakes to TISL and the RAL that what was used...same for SA I haven't seen enough for BD or WH but well I do love WH the 3 Stevie's is cool ....and some of those outtakes are nice too.....I love the Blue Lamp pics I'd love more of those pictures to be released......its just a crime we don' t see more of them.....IMO anyway....but I can say that about the songs as well.......Anyway, just some thoughts........I have many thoughts......

MissLadyLoki · #40 12-01-2010, 08:29 PM

On this album, once I get past Rooms on Fire and Long Way to Go, I wanna burn it. I absolutely hate that album.

jannieC · #41 12-01-2010, 11:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by petep9000

I didn't realize RAL was considered a failure and that she lost fans during that period.

I suspect TOSOTM marks the real beginning of a departure period for some of her fans, though she probably picked more up again post 1997.

I *loved* RAL, album and tour.

GoldDustOrphan · #42 12-02-2010, 12:26 AM

The Rock a Little album was not a failure. Vivfox is correct. Despite the fact that the RAL tour was very successful saleswise, her performances were uneven and at one point, she looked terrible.

OSOTM has one great pop song (Rooms on Fire) and a handful of decent tracks (Juliet, Ooh My Love, etc) and a couple of awful tracks (Cry Wolf, I Still Miss Someone). The production was molasses heavy and her choice of collaborators made me think she was still getting high. Rupert Hine, Kenny G & Bruce Hornsby? Awful.

I saw several of her OSTOM shows. Both of her shows in Mansfield, Mass. were fantastic, at least v0cally. Beauty & the Beast was magnificent.

The album cover was awful, as was the photo used for the Rooms single.

Cool Stevie fact: Rooms on Fire was the #2 on Billboard's 1989 Year-End chart of the top 50 Rock songs. Stevie was the only woman in the top 50.

daniellaaarisen · #43 12-02-2010, 12:42 AM

I've never listened to this album the whole way through. I can't stomach it.

LukeA · #44 12-02-2010, 12:45 AM

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Originally Posted by daniellaaarisen

I've never listened to this album the whole way through. I can't stomach it.

Ditto.

There are several songs on this record I wouldn't be able to hum even if my life depended on it. Then again, that puts me in the same boat as Stevie, so pretty good company, eh?

APerfectLie · #45 12-02-2010, 01:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Jondalar

Ral was an overproduced failure. You tell she was disintegrating. All her albums, seem to have sold half of the previous ones, except for TISL. Hopefully, she is on the up curve.

Bella Donna has sold over 4 million. Wild Heart and RAL have sold over 2 million each. TISL? 648,000. More sales than Street Angel, but not much when you consider The Other Side of The Mirror and Timespace both sold over a million copies each.