Rank Stevie's Studio Ablums!

[Dodfather]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

Bella Donna
Rock A Little
Other Side Of The Mirror
Street Angel
Trouble In Shangri La










Wild Heart (it's so bad it has to sit in a corner away from the others! )

No No No! Dani and I will convert you to the wonders of The Wild Heart!

I'd got for

Bella Donna
The Wild Heart
Rock A Little
Trouble In Shangri-La (It was tough to put this and Rock A Little in an order!)
The Other Side Of The Mirror
Street Angel (and I do really like a lot of moments on this album, especially Kick It and Listen To The Rain, but I still think it's her weakest effort. Tracks like Unconditional Love, Destiny and Jane are just bad).

[Travis]

Originally Posted by markolas

My slightly altered version of The Wild Heart would push it up to the #2 or #3 spot, making it, along with Bella Donna & Rock a Little, an absolutely perfect album:

1. Wild Heart
2. If Anyone Falls
3. Gate & Garden
4. Enchanted
5. Nightbird
6. Violet & Blue
7. Stand Back
8. Garbo
9. Sable on Blond
10. Beauty & the Beast

No "Nothing Ever Changes"??? That is a highlight on the album and her vocals soar on that song. I think album flows well exactly how it is, the only thing I would do (and have done for my WH playlist) is simply insert "Garbo" between "Nightbird" and "Stand Back". Back in the day, the running order was fine for the album and cassette because you had a "breather" moment while you flipped the album or cassette, but if you're listening to it straight thru; something slower needs to be after Nightbird and before Stand Back. They are similar with their drum machine sound intro but also, Stand Back is slower beat per minute wise and it does not sound good after the faster paced Nightbird (NB is 125 BPM while SB is only 115 BPM). This is the same reason why I would not put Violet and Blue (120 BPM) after NB, something much slower needs to be in-between.

[J.Miller]

The Wild Heart- The first music I purchased from anyone and that says it all.
Bella Donna- Stevie could have been in the Eagles in a pinch.
Rock A Little- At first I was like 'huh', ok now I get it.
Trouble In Shangri La- A good return. I think it could have been a little more 'muscular'.
Street Angel- There are some stinkers here ,but I like the grittiness of this record
The Other Side Of The Mirror- It drags in a few places,but it is good therapy when I'm sad.


The Wild Heart,Bella Donna,Rock A Little and The Other Side Of The Mirror are hung proudly in vinyl in the man cave on a four sided support beam.

[Travis]

Rock a Little (Stevie’s most fun and electrifying album)

The Wild Heart / The Other Side of the Mirror (tie) (both are magical to me)

Bella Donna (great, but I don’t think the running order is the best – I would change it)

Street Angel

Trouble in Shangri-La

I never thought I’d actually pick SA over TISL but I actually think SA has more stand out songs than TISL does. TISL is a very “dry sounding” album for me. Nothing on it really stands out with the exception of the extended album version of “Planets of the Universe” but, it’s not on the album. I find both TISL (the song) and Fall from Grace too “wordy” and “lengthy” for lack of better words, but SA has songs I love like “Blue Denim” and “Maybe Love …”

[markolas]

Originally Posted by Travis

No "Nothing Ever Changes"???

I've just never liked it. That and I Will Run to You remind me of something that should've been on the soundtrack of one of the Rocky movies. Blech.

Stand Back following Nightbird is another thing that always bugged me about this album, but a slower song after Nightbird would be too much of a drag for me.

[belladonnadream]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

Bella Donna
Rock A Little
Other Side Of The Mirror
Street Angel
Trouble In Shangri La










Wild Heart (it's so bad it has to sit in a corner away from the others! )

You're kidding right?

[belladonnadream]

Wild Heart
Bella Donna
Trouble in Shangri La
Rock a Little
OSOTM
Street Angel

[Christopher]

Bella Donna
Trouble In Shangri~La
Rock A Little
The Wild Heart

Other Side Of The Mirror
Street Angel

This is pretty much my ranking. The last 2 are almost inter-changable depending on my mood, but OSOTM has an edge over SA due to the deeply powerful & personal lyrics. While in theory, I wanted to enjoy the straight forward stylings of SA, and at the time Stevie said she wanted to go back to the basics, back to her roots, from which you could infer she was trying to find her way back to Bella Donna. But SA is a far cry from BD For not only does it lack the Stevie mysticism and passion, but the musical arrangements are unimaginative and come up dry dry dry, which is why it falls to the bottom for me. It does contain songs I absolutely love (Greta, Blue Denim, LILAR, MLWCYM & RG), but it's also the album with the most songs that I skip, esp. Just Like A Woman, Jane & Unconditional Love. The remaining songs are ok.

My Top 4 Stevie albums are pretty firmly ensconced. All are pretty solid in their own unique ways. I expect IYD to be on the same level.

[Thrown_Down]

Well, it's hard because some are great from start to finish, whilst others are very mixed. I would have to say:

1) The Wild Heart (I only dislike Gate and Garden.)
2) Rock A Little (Imperial Hotel is awful, but I like the ragged vocals and the super 80s feel to a lot of it.)




3) Trouble In Shangri-La (I love tracks 1-5 but I despise Too Far From Texas, That Made Me Stronger and It's Only Love.)
4) The Other Side Of The Mirror (I Still Miss Someone is awful, whilst Fire Burning, Cry Wolf and Ghosts are a bit average to me.)
5) Bella Donna (Some classic stuff, but some I can't abide such as: The Highwayman, After The Glitter Fades, Kind Of Woman. Then there is Think About it, which I am not too keen on.)











6) Street Angel (I only like the title track and Blue Denim. Greta is okay. The rest is hurls-ville.)

[fumidesigns]

Originally Posted by TrueFaith77

How would you rank these from best to worst:

Bella Donna (1981)
The Wild Heart (1983)
Rock a Little (1985)
On the Other Side of the Mirror (1989)
Street Angel (1994)
Trouble in Shangri-La (2001)


The above is chronological. I'll have to think on this myself.

take Street Angel with you. God bless Stevie but i just didn't like this album at all.

i have a looooooooooooong story on y i even have this album!!!! smh @ SOME STEVIE FANS!

[tbaker3]

Originally Posted by Musicman408

I feel like a week after IYD is released we should do this again.

Street Angel
TISL
OSOTM
RAL
WH
BD

I know, crazy! But as a younger fan, the lesser known stuff has always been my fave!

WOW! Bella Donna last, huh? I was not expecting to see that at all.

Different Strokes, Different Folks.

[tbaker3]

This is the hardest list ever. Mostly because I hate having to choose favorites, especially when it comes to anything Stevie related. But, here it goes.

The Wild Heart
Bella Donna
The Other Side of the Mirror
Trouble in Shangri-La
Rock a Little
Street Angel

I HATE to put Street Angel last, because I do love it. But I had to go by percentage of songs on each album that adore. So thats how it shook out.

[starshine]

Here's my list:

Wild Heart
Bella Donna
The Other Side Of The Mirror
Trouble In Shangri-La
Rock A Little
Street Angel

**Not sure where IYD will be thats something I'll have to listen to for sometime before that decision is made** Plus: I'd say WH/BD can be switched around at times. Predictable list maybe but I have to rank Mirror higher than RAL cause RAL is just to inconsistent and too many Producers and I think song choices etc could've been much better than what was chosen but well than again I guess we could say that about every cd/lp theres always a song we would've picked over this one or version.

[AliceLover]

Boo to all the OSOTM hate

1. Bella Donna
2. OSOTM
3. Wild Heart
4. Rock a Little
5. TISL
6. SA

[Garbo]

1. Belladonna
2. Rock A Little
3. Wild Heart
4. TOSOTM
5. Street Angel
6. TISL