Song Survivor: "Rock a Little" - Round One!

Originally posted by Travis
isn't there a song missing from the list? has anyone ever ...?

you're right....but are you hinting that this would be the one you'd pick???

i don't care if it is but prepare for some bashing from others!!!

Personally, i didn't like it at first...but "that was then...this now"!!!

i HAVE to pick "sister honey"...i'm sorry, but this song is NOT stevie to me...it's too funky and upbeat...i mean, it's ok and i can listen to it but i think out of all of them i would pick it.

Originally posted by Sorcerer386
If I had my way (which it looks like I won't), I'd get rid of the title track Rock a Little first, just because, for once, Stevie's voice totally aggrevates me on it. Plus the music just isn't ear-pleasing to me at all. There just isn't much of a flow to the song...sounds like a garbled mess, and I don't think I've ever been able to fully get through this song the whole way. I just can't....

i agree with you on her voice...if it were done a few years earlier it may have sounded better. There's a better version out there that has an alternate vocal. I bought an "I Can't Wait" 12 inch extended remix and it has an alternate vocal/mix of "Rock a Little" on it as well...I liked the song much more after i heard it.

[Sorcerer386]

Joe, I think he only put Has Anyone... last because it's the last song on the album. He just picked the first ten. I actually knew someone was going to mention that, and I thought of it too, but then I remembered it was the last song. For some reason, I always want to think it came before No Spoken Word, no idea why. Now with Other Side of the Mirror, I assume Doing the Best That I Can and I Still Miss Someone will be left off until there is room to put them on. I might be wrong, heh. Really only Nightbird_Brett can answer that.

[Sorceress]

Originally posted by Sorcerer386
...Then next would go The Nightmare...I know it was the 80's, but this one's just got TOO much synthesizer to it.

I'm so surprised I'm the only one who picked The Nightmare to go first! There are several songs on the album that are really too 80s for my taste now, but in addition to having too much synth, melodically the Nightmare it is AWFUL. It's nearly monotone at some points. Ugh. I think this is one of her worst songs ever. Even though some of the lyrics are ok, the lack of melody totally overshadows the good. Stevie, please no more collaborations with your dear brother!

Originally posted by Sorceress


I'm so surprised I'm the only one who picked The Nightmare to go first! There are several songs on the album that are really too 80s for my taste now, but in addition to having too much synth, melodically the Nightmare it is AWFUL. It's nearly monotone at some points. Ugh. I think this is one of her worst songs ever. Even though some of the lyrics are ok, the lack of melody totally overshadows the good. Stevie, please no more collaborations with your dear brother!

haha! i really didn't like this song in the beginning when it came out but i've grown to like it enough to listen to it occasionally...one of the cool things i've always thought about it is that it references some of her older FM songs:

"...well i stood with you against the storm and i, i tried it once again/well i said 'i'd like to leave you with something warm'/how many times 'drowning in the sea' baby drowning....so about the moon and her sisters...how dare he take them prisoner..."

Let me see, that covers "Storms", "Sisters of the Moon" and "Sara"...i can't remember if there's anymore song references.

And...i don't think she co-wrote anything with her brother after this. i guess that speaks for itself!

[Sorceress]

Originally posted by joe


...one of the cool things i've always thought about it is that it references some of her older FM songs...

Wow, you know I've never been able to even listen closely enough to get those references. I make it through the first verse, with it's fairly pretty
"Thrown down through the arms of sleep
She fell through the ivory morning
Deep into the waters
Of the one she called love" and have to hit the skip button! Now that I know they're there, the references do make the song more interesting (and maybe more tolerable---um, nah... lol)