Sara Evans: "Stronger" vs. "Slow Me Down"

[bboat11]

VS.

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01. "Slow Me Down"
02. "A Little Bit Stronger"
03. "Put My Heart Down"
04. "Anywhere"
05. "You Never Know"
06. "If I Run"
07. "Sweet Spot"
08. "What That Drink Cost Me"
09. "Better Off"
10. "Gotta Have You"
11. "Revival"

Slow Me Down

[Spacey_Kacey]

"Better Off", "Revival", and begrudgingly "Slow Me Down". Those are the only new tracks I could pull myself to vote for. Like "Not Over You" cover, but definitely not in that matchup.

[ChicaCherry콜라]

Everything Sara does is amazing, but Slow Me Down was just a little stronger of an album for me. I adore it to pieces. Still, Stronger had great songs. This is tough. They're almost equal, but I still think Slow Me Down has a slight edge.

1. Slow Me Down
2. If I Run
3. Gotta Have You
4. Ticket To Ride
5. A Little Bit Stronger
6. Desperately
7. Revival
8. Life Without Losing
9. Wildfire
10. Can't Stop Loving You

My choices are literally 50% Stronger and 50% Slow Me Down  ???

Those aren't really in a specific order..That was the intention and then I decided listing them in order of favorites just wasn't happening, because I love them pretty equally.

[toomuchboy]

I can't remember every track right off, but:

1. "Slow Me Down"
2. "A Little Bit Stronger"
3. "My Heart Can't Tell You No"
4. "Can't Stop Loving You"
Overall Album: Slow Me Down

I love the first three tracks on both albums, so hard choices.

[.indulgecountry]

01. Desperately v. Slow Me Down
02. A Little Bit Stronger v. Not Over You
03. My Heart Can't Tell You No v. Put My Heart Down
04. Anywhere v. Can't Stop Loving You
05. Alone v. You Never Know
06. Ticket to Ride v. If I Run
07. Life Without Losing v. Sweet Spot
08. What That Drink Cost Me v. Good Love Is Hard to Find
09. Wildfire v. Better Off
10. Born to Fly (Bluegrass Version) v. Gotta Have You
11. Cabana Boy v. Revival
Album: Stronger v. Slow Me Down (6-5)

This was really hard. One of the most difficult versions of this poll I've ever had to answer. Matchups 2, 5, 7, 9, 10, and 11 were all very easy. #8 though was especialy brutal; those two songs are literally my favorite two on their respective records. Slow Me Down wins by a close count of 6-5, but both albums are phenomenal and right about on par with each other imo. Real Fine Place remains my favorite Sara Evans record, but these two sets are definitely in the silver/bronze positions for me.

[Kanenrá:ke]

01. Desperately v. Slow Me Down
02. A Little Bit Stronger v. Not Over You
03. My Heart Can't Tell You No v. Put My Heart Down
04. Anywhere v. Can't Stop Loving You
05. Alone v. You Never Know
06. Ticket to Ride v. If I Run
07. Life Without Losing v. Sweet Spot
08. What That Drink Cost Me v. Good Love Is Hard to Find
09. Wildfire v. Better Off
10. Born to Fly (Bluegrass Version) v. Gotta Have You
11. Cabana Boy v. Revival

Sara's one of my favorite album artist but this was an unfair match up as I thought that 'Stronger' is easily her weakest album to me. There's only 4 songs on it that keep me coming back to listen with the rest being kind of throwaway. Meanwhile one of them loses it's match up because it's against my favorite track from 'Slow Me Down' (#3 match). Match up #10 only went to "Born To Fly" because I don't like "Gotta Have You" at all; if that song wasn't on SMD I'd say it's a perfect album.

I know it's not asked but since .indulgecountry mentioned his favorite 3 albums from Sara I felt compelled to do so as well.

Gold: Restless
Silver: Three Chords And The Truth
Bronze: Slow Me Down

[tsr]

01. Desperately v. Slow Me Down
02. A Little Bit Stronger v. Not Over You
03. My Heart Can't Tell You No v. Put My Heart Down
04. Anywhere v. Can't Stop Loving You
05. Alone v. You Never Know
06. Ticket to Ride v. If I Run
07. Life Without Losing v. Sweet Spot
08. What That Drink Cost Me v. Good Love Is Hard to Find
09. Wildfire v. Better Off
10. Born to Fly (Bluegrass Version) v. Gotta Have You
11. Cabana Boy v. Revival
Album: Stronger v. Slow Me Down - I feel like the best songs from Stronger are enough to give it the edge even though it didn't win as many matchups.

[bboat11]

I just realized I never posted my answers to my own poll...

1) Desperately vs. Slow Me Down
2) A Little Bit Stronger vs. Not Over You
3) My Heart Can't Tell You No vs. Put My Heart Down
4) Anywhere vs. Can't Stop Loving You
5) Alone vs. You Never Know
6) Ticket To Ride vs. If I Run
7) Life Without Losing vs. Sweet Spot
8) What That Drink Cost Me vs. Good Love Is Hard To Find
9) Wildfire vs. Better Off
10) Born To Fly (Bluegrass Version) vs. Gotta Have You
11) Cabana Boy vs. Revival

Album) Stronger (2) vs. Slow Me Down (9)

To me this is not really a fair match-up because "Stronger" is probably my least favorite of her albums. Still, some of them were very close!! Numbers 3, 4, and 5 were especially difficult. All in all though, I feel that "Slow Me Down" is a much stronger album. It flows so well, and I enjoy every single song!

My biggest complaint is that she needs to start making longer albums again... Back in the good old days, all her albums had 13 songs. The regular version of "Stronger" only had 9 new songs and a bluegrass remake... Considering that she is taking longer than ever to make albums these days, it would sure be nice if we could get 13-15 songs out of it rather than 11!