"Touched By An Angel", "My Heart" and "Thrown Down"

[mikebise]

The TISL "Thrown Down" is soooo much better than the one on Say You Will. Bad decision, Stevie. Mick & LB even sound more enlivened on the TISL "Thrown Down", not that slow, rote ditty they concocted later while Stevie was on tour. The TISL version just rocks!!!!

And, yes, that new verse on the SYW version is a little wacky, even for Stevie.

I would add all three songs, plus "If You Ever Did Believe", for a 17-track CD. If forced to cut, YES, the Crow-written "It's Only Love" is out the door. Gwyneth Paltrow can have it.

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by petep9000

I think the TISL version of 'Thrown Down' might be one of my favorite Stevie songs EVER.

I agree! (Although, I still prefer to think of it as a "Fleetwood Mac" take, though)

It must be an "us March 22nd'ers stick together" thing!

Here's "My TISL" (for now...will probably expand shortly):

Trouble In Shangri-La
That Made Me Stronger (don't get the hate for this one, one of my faves on the album)
Love Changes
Touched By An Angel
Planets Of The Universe
Sorcerer
Thrown Down
Every Day
Candlebright
It's Only Love
I Miss You
Bombay Sapphires
Fall From Grace
Love Is

[DavidMn]

[QUOTE=chiliD;937770] "us March 22nd'ers stick together" thing!

Thanks for sending out the bat signal my friend! That is a good day indeed!

[Josh2003]

Do we know who produced "My Heart"?

It doesn't sound as flashy as the John Shanks songs, but it also doesn't sound as stripped-down as the Sheryl Crow tracks.

[mikebise]

The 16-track Trouble In Shangri-la, which "Thrown Down" and "My Heart" come from ("Touched By An Angel" is on there, too), does not have production credits on it. I guess it's like the advance copy of In Your Dreams that FM77 has heard, with extra tracks and all.

I've only known two people that have that CD, one in Germany and the other in Dallas. The German woman who made copies of "Thrown Down", "My Heart" and the alternate "Bombay Sapphires" for me never told me that also on the CD are different mixes of "Every Day" and "I Miss You". Otherwise, I would have hounded her for them!

Anyone have those two alternate mixes?

***Many people got copies of the CD at Stevie's Arizona Benefit in September 2000.

[David]

Originally Posted by markolas

Why are y'all removing It's Only Love?

I don't know, but if they had kicked that off the album, it would have saved me 16 bucks or whatever I paid for it.

[Jondalar]

Why didn't she put If you ever did believe on that album? Or the twisted demo? I'm glad Touched by an Angel bounced, it was too small sounding.

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

Here is what I wish that album ended up like, granted it still would not of been great, but it would of been a lot better, and almost totally rock. These songs are not in order of the way would be sequenced.

TISL
Candlebright
Sorceror
Planets of the Universe (piano version)
Everyday
If you Ever Did Believe
Say You Will
Fall from Grace
Illume
Thrown Down (the TISL version, the SYW lyrics were too wacky)
Smile at You
Destiny Rules (a little better vocal please)
My Heart (a better vocal please)
I Miss You
Twisted (the demo version)

I love that you said a better vocal please. Very cute! But, you forgot to include Love Is (demo version please).

[SapphireSister]

Honestly, I'm not crazy about any of these 3 songs.

[David]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

Why didn't she put If you ever did believe on that album? Or the twisted demo?

The former had already been released on the movie soundtrack, & the latter had already been released on Enchanted.

[mikebise]

"Invincible" was on the soundtrack to The Legend Of Billie Jean in Summer 1985, and then on Pat's Seven The Hard Way later in the Fall.

"If You Ever Did Believe", as Stevie said, was really the starting of the recording of Trouble In Shangri-la.

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by David

The former had already been released on the movie soundtrack, & the latter had already been released on Enchanted.

And they still didn't let you into MENSA! xoxo

[Jondalar]

Originally Posted by SapphireSister

I love that you said a better vocal please. Very cute! But, you forgot to include Love Is (demo version please).

I just think Love Is is soo bland. It had good production, but I feel that there is nothing special about it.

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

I just think Love Is is soo bland. It had good production, but I feel that there is nothing special about it.

Even the demo piano version?

[mylittledemon]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

I just think Love Is is soo bland. It had good production, but I feel that there is nothing special about it.

Not if you've been in that situation yourself. That song makes total sense to me, and is one of my favorite on the record.