What's your favourite track on Street Angel?

[starshine]

Lets see I like: Blue Denim for sure/Street Angel/Love Is Like a River/Greta --but I still like the RAL version better. For Listen to The Rain--again like the '91/TS version esp the lyrics were structured better. I just don't like the 'new' arrangement for SA on this song. For me it lost something in the translation from '91-the '94 version. So not loving this song much--which I was bummed because the way it originally was it was awesome. It really should've been released for TS--it fit perfectly for that record to me. Destiny will always remind me of the WH version so I don't think this fits for SA either much but I don't mind the song but it does kinda drag a little bit. Not too much love for Unconditional Love or Maybe Love. There ok but not written by Stevie would've preferred a written Stevie song. These could've been B-Sides or something maybe an EP cd would've been nice. Kick It is pretty cool I guess. Not much love for Jane or the chimps at all. I think that should've went on the cd nor the Bob Dylan song JLAW. The 2 Japan/or b-sides: Inspiration and God's Garden --well of the 2 I probably like Inspiration more I think God's Garden kinda drags on too much. Plus Stevie's vocals just kinda 'sit' there don't stand out. She sounds tired or sleepy or something?? Not sure what it is. I do love having MM as a b-side but I do wish the version would've had the extra lyrics at the end instead of just the music ending the song. Plus as much as I love it that it is a Unreleased RAL version maybe she should've recorded a SA version. It does seem like an odd inclusion really. Why it this version or another MM version (since there are many) wasn't included on Enchanted I'll not ever understand that same for the Extended version of RAL (UK 12"). I could probably keep going really with this. Docklands is an OK song but I think Darklands as a title would've been more interesting. I only say this is cause I think someone labeled it wrong on one of my 'cassette' demo tapes back in the day and called it Darklands instead of Docklands. I think that sounds more Stevie like really. Overall, I can deal with listening to some of SA but it always seems the songs that go on a cd or don't go on it are the ones I like better than what made the cut so to speak. Same with the outtake photos some I've seen from this era are much better than what was chosen really. There's probably more that we haven't seen too I'm sure from every solo lp. Now the SA tour was great. I'll always LOVE this tour since it was my first time to see Stevie Solo so it'll always hold that special place inside my heart. Same for Mirror when I first started to collect Stevie/Mac stuff.

[wheart]

I dusted off Street Angel yesterday morning and played it again today in my car. Never get tired of hearing it though I have to be in the mood. I have several fav tracks but if I had to pick one, I'd have to say Rose Garden. Runners up are Blue Denim and Destiny.

[mikebise]

I'm not crazy about the original version of "Jane". The piano is too much of a rip~off of "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You?" for me. Also, that guitar? Sounds like a Muzak guitar from the Seventies.

Yeah, when I first got that version I thought, "Cool! It's better because it's unreleased!" Nowadays, I'm back to the 1994 version that made it on to the album. It flows better with the other songs, which is weird, since it's a totally different set of producers and musicians, mostly.

It used to kill me that Stevie didn't write "Inspiration" because I loved her performance of it so damned much. But I got over it. Every time I listen to "Inspiration", I remember Memorial Day Weekend 1994 in the end of May, buying the CD and cassette singles of "Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind" and listening to those two songs over and over that 4~day weekend!

[holidayroad]

Blue Denim

[KarmaContestant]

My favorite tracks from Street Angel are Love Is Like A River, Rose Garden, Greta and Street Angel. Docklands is great, too.

I never did like Listen To The Rain very much, but it's really grown on me the last month. I've been listening to the Street Angel album a lot while I pack my house to move.

[johnnystorms]

Originally Posted by TrueFaith77

Blue Denim -- "I'm going a way for a little while to remember how to feel! And if I find the answer, I promise you I'll come back and get you!!" -- I think that summarizes post-Tango Mac meaning, ritualized in The Dance and applied to post-9/11 culture with Say You Will. Plus it's a solid rock song with nice guitar work. And it's about Lindsey. And it's romantic.

Greta -- The groove is like a slipstream--the enveloping sound pulls you in, which makes its very personal, very idiosyncratic tale of loneliness and isolation (this is where Stevie is AT) into something expansive and universal, just as Stevie turns to the phantom ideal of Greta for guidance (a very Stevie approach to pop iconography). It's about maintaining one's humanity. It's a humanity idealized by Greta. It is also a sequel to "Garbo," in which Stevie dreams of joining the constellation of female stars--and now "Greta" is about the state of her dreams having achieved that goal.

wish i could say "ditto" but 10 character min. doesn't allow it. i looooooooooove Greta. as i've said before, working "rhinestone collections all the time" into a song is not for the mere mortal!!
add to your list "Kick it" and we're on the same page!

[GoldDustOrphan]

Originally Posted by TrueFaith77 View Post
Blue Denim -- "I'm going a way for a little while to remember how to feel! And if I find the answer, I promise you I'll come back and get you!!" -- I think that summarizes post-Tango Mac meaning, ritualized in The Dance and applied to post-9/11 culture with Say You Will. Plus it's a solid rock song with nice guitar work. And it's about Lindsey. And it's romantic.

What he said...

I remember Memorial Day Weekend 1994 in the end of May, buying the CD and cassette singles of "Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind" and listening to those two songs over and over that 4~day weekend!

him too...

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by mikebise

Every time I listen to "Inspiration", I remember Memorial Day Weekend 1994 in the end of May, buying the CD and cassette singles of "Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind" and listening to those two songs over and over that 4~day weekend!

At the time I used to commute to work in the South Side of Chicago, but I lived on the Far North side, so it took awhile. I have vivid memories of walking home from the el & bus every night, in the dark, with my walkman blaring those two songs through the headset, and then having to rewind the cassette & play them again, totally oblivious to my surroundings. It's a wonder that I never got mugged/jumped. Somebody up there was watching out for the young & the stupid.

- Jake

[ahafan02]

My fav track has always been Greta

[olive]

god's garden , I got mine in Japan

[markolas]

Originally Posted by vivfox

Love is Like A River and its companion song I Call You Missing.

You've heard the SA version of I Call You Missing??

[markolas]

Except for Blue Denim, I prefer the master mix versions of all the songs on SA. Probably the best song is the title track. I enjoy Greta and Love Is Like a River quite a bit. Listen to the Rain is fun, but the lyrics are cringeworthy ("You're consistent - hey, and that's good!").

I think her cover of Just Like a Woman is great, and Docklands really doesn't deserve all the hate it gets here. Unconditional Love and Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind (yes, the full title was printed on the CD I had) both make me want to retch; seriously, Stevie, you need to get to an Al-Anon meeting. Inspiration is annoying and God's Garden is a real wrist-slasher of a song.

Even though they didn't make the album, I adore If You Were My Love and Thousand Days.

[KarmaContestant]

Originally Posted by markolas

Except for Blue Denim, I prefer the master mix versions of all the songs on SA. Probably the best song is the title track. I enjoy Greta and Love Is Like a River quite a bit. Listen to the Rain is fun, but the lyrics are cringeworthy ("You're consistent - hey, and that's good!").

I think her cover of Just Like a Woman is great, and Docklands really doesn't deserve all the hate it gets here. Unconditional Love and Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind (yes, the full title was printed on the CD I had) both make me want to retch; seriously, Stevie, you need to get to an Al-Anon meeting. Inspiration is annoying and God's Garden is a real wrist-slasher of a song.

Even though they didn't make the album, I adore If You Were My Love and Thousand Days.

We've disagreed over this album in some ways, but you've pretty much summed up how I feel about Street Angel. The title track is one of her greatest songs, in my opinion - and I wish she'd take it on the road. The guitar is so pretty and I believe the song would be a classic today if it were recorded in the 70's along with Rhiannon, Storms, etc..

MLWCYM doesn't make me want to throw up, but it's just 'ok' for me. Unconditional Love... although I compared it to If Anyone Falls or Gate & Garden previously, I wasn't talking about the quality of the songs, but rather the gooey subject matter. It's sickeningly sweet, like many of Stevie's songs. The demos of Unconditional Love are far better than the finished song...but the album would have been better served without this track in the first place.

Listen To the Rain does have cheesy lyrics! But it's just so much fun, so I can forgive that one.

Docklands is a favorite of mine, always.

I don't really hear much different between the master mixes and the released album, other than minor things which don't have much impact for me, with the exception of Love Is Like A River - I definitely prefer the released version of this song.

And for the record, I don't buy the whole "I don't like that part of my life" story when it comes to why these songs are not performed live. Many of them (Destiny, Rose Garden, Listen To The Rain, Greta, Love Is Like A River, Thousand Days and possibly others), were written before Rock A Little, before rehab, before Klonopin, before Linsdey ditched Fleetwood Mac, before the breakup with Joe, before she got fat - in sum, before the times in her life that she doesn't want to deal with and remember.

All in all, I am annoyed at Stevie for locking these songs away. Some of them are honestly good songs and could be easily redeemed from the 'bad memories' by reworking them to be what she wanted them to be and performing them live.

[ragrsrocalot]

Love is Like A River

[UCYOURGYPC]

Rose Garden, Love is like a River...and from these sessions, Inspiration!!!!