Stevie Nicks solo - Classic or Dud?

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Hell yeah. Hell yeah to the LA session players. Hell yeah to Don Henley knowing that with Stevie to light his nights, somehow he'd get by. Hell yeah to Alfred Soto correctly observing that when you didn't plan to hear it just then, "Stand Back" is in fact the best song ever written. Along with "Edge Of Seventeen" or "If Anyone Falls." Hell yeah to doing fat rails at some record producer's party up the canyon in Studio City, or maybe it was a real estate guy, and finding yourself alone on a balcony at four in the morning, the has-beens long retired to the bedrooms with the wannabes, and maybe a few stragglers sprawled on living room shag, too wasted or too desperate to know that for them the party ended weeks ago, with the Valley twinkling everywhere below, and knowing that love is only one fine star away. Hell yeah.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 04:26 (5 years ago) Permalink

http://www.johannas-art.com/portraitsamples.htm

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 04:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

underrated nicks solo track: "long way to go"

also, "i can't wait" video had some serious mid-80's sizzle to it.

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 04:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

From www.johannas-art.com/portraits.htm: "April 2005: Please note that I currently do not accept portrait and/or other artwork commissions until further notice. Thank you!"

Brian, it's not really fair to tease us like that. Esp. since my first thought was OMG I MUST HAVE THIS.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 05:29 (5 years ago) Permalink

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 05:32 (5 years ago) Permalink

In addition to all of the above, classic for the "Edge of Seventeen" scene in School of Rock.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 07:19 (5 years ago) Permalink

Damn, Roger. That's poetry.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 12:13 (5 years ago) Permalink

Early-mid 80s, sure ("Stand Back"--does it fall into that category?)...late 80s and beyond? No way.

― Brett Hickman (Bhickman), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:06 (5 years ago) Permalink

"Rooms On Fire" is a fine late '80s nugget, better than two of her three Tango in the Night tracks.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:07 (5 years ago) Permalink

I want Roger's prose on a T-Shirt

― Baaderonixx le Belge (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 15:33 (5 years ago) Permalink

That would be a very big shirt.

'Far as poetry goes, all props to Alfred for the thread. We haven't actually mentioned "After The Glitter Fades" by name, but it stands for me among the best of all singer-songwriter SoCaliana*, from "Late For The Sky" through "A Long December."

*A genre defined by the hoovering of rails in an elegiac mode.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:17 (5 years ago) Permalink

Ick. Dud. Yuck. If I never heard "Edge of Seventeen" again, that'd be just fine with me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 16:29 (5 years ago) Permalink

For an obligatory "old famous person with celebrity guest stars" albums Trouble in Shangri-La is pretty great.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 17:06 (5 years ago) Permalink

My wife is going to see Stevie Nicks in concert tonight. I think they'll have fun...I would go if it were free.

Edge of Seventeen is a stone classic. But not as stone classic as "Stone in Love" by Journey which is a double-stone classic for use of the word "stone" in the title.*

*Also, I noticed the other day that the main riff from Stone in Love is totally ripped off by "Drown" by Son Volt, which was by far their best song. Huh.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 23:26 (5 years ago) Permalink

I hear the similarity, but not much more...

Suspect the collective might throw a lot of "Windfall" and "Tear Stained Eye" at that Son Volt POO, but "Stone In Love" was WITHOUT QUESTION Journey's finest hour. I love it without irony. Deserves its own thread.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 6 July 2005 23:36 (5 years ago) Permalink

Just like the one wing doe, sings a song sounds like she's singin
ooh ooh oooooh
baby baby

― On the bass, 57 7th, he wrote this (calstars), Thursday, 7 July 2005 01:45 (5 years ago) Permalink

stevie-classic. and good to see some don henley love here. and hell yeah manifesto-classic.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 7 July 2005 03:49 (5 years ago) Permalink

Classic (through 1985). Rock A Little is actually my favorite of her solo lps.

"Edge of Seventeen" was what Destiny's Child sampled for "Bootylicious," right?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 7 July 2005 04:57 (5 years ago) Permalink

yup. nothing wrong with bootylicious, but it's a tease as cruel as "hippychick"

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 7 July 2005 04:58 (5 years ago) Permalink

I thought so, but never went through the motions of confirming it.

Not sure which I like more: "Seventeen" or "Bootylicious."

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Thursday, 7 July 2005 04:59 (5 years ago) Permalink

i like stand back, and i sort of like edge of seventeen. her lyrics are usually pretty bad. i find something about her music theoretically extremely dislikable but practically not so bad, if that makes sense. though her songs from the fleetwood mac albums benefit from lots of l. buckingham production touches that her solo material is missing.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 7 July 2005 05:01 (5 years ago) Permalink

i used to like don henley, and i guess i'd still stick up for him in some kind of barroom argument, but i find him more ridiculous than listenable these days. his lyrics, too, are atrocious.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 7 July 2005 05:02 (5 years ago) Permalink

So my wife said the concert was good...did all hitz....she got to see Edge of Seventeen and Landslide live...she said Stevie still twirls about like a bewitched gypsy!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 7 July 2005 14:12 (5 years ago) Permalink

zaxxon25 in OTM shockah -- I'm crying here myself right about now.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 8 July 2005 03:34 (5 years ago) Permalink

So this thread sent me back to the vault. Is it just me, or does "Nightbird" = "Dreams" but not as, y'know, hooky, or good?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 8 July 2005 03:46 (5 years ago) Permalink

"Edge Of Seventeen" - great. My love renewed when Jack Black dusted it off in 'School Of Rock' for Joan Cusack. Stevie's a cokehead, a crazy twirling, incense-burning cokehead, but dang it, I love her. And I love "Stop Dragging My Heart Around". "Leather & Lace" isn't so hot though..

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 July 2005 04:51 (5 years ago) Permalink

"Nightbird" is a mix of "Dreams," "Stand Back," and "Edge of SEventeen" as only a coked-out cocaine conjurer can create. It's got that immortal line: "I wear boots all summer long."

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 8 July 2005 10:54 (5 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Hilarious!

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 02:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

7 months pass...

"Edge of Seventeen" is fucking immense.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 12 April 2008 22:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

Get ahold of yourself, man, for God's sake.

― Gorge, Sunday, 13 April 2008 07:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

Yeah, you know it, Bitch.

"Stand Back". I saw this video before I could even GET fucking MTV. You know it fucking rules. And look at her fucking hair. Is it not perfect hair??? How many hairdressers were responsible for that?

This one goes out to Alfred Soto - "I Can't Wait":

And by the way, Edge of Seventeen...

― Your Head Is Full of Diamonds & Lice (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 10 November 2008 04:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

Get ahold of yourself, man, for God's sake.

― jaxon, Monday, 10 November 2008 05:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

Hahaha. Why?

― Your Head Is Full of Diamonds & Lice (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 10 November 2008 06:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

She's the goddess. Get on the train now. She's the Queen, man. She's even going to outdo Nico as Queen of Goth if I'm not careful here.

Anyway I don't want to talk to people who haven't heard Kate Bush's The Dreaming album just yet. Just sayin'.

― Ozzy Goth Beatles (Bimble), Sunday, 1 February 2009 06:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Leather & Lace, live 1981

How Still My Love, live 1983

― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 1 March 2009 06:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

"This is a song about an old Welsh witch" LOL

― Sleep Tundra (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Sunday, 1 March 2009 06:40 (1 year ago) Permalink

haven't read any of this, but its obviously not even an issue, stevie has held her own.

― fauxmarc, Sunday, 1 March 2009 08:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

I know I have resurrected this thread about a zillion times, but I want to know if anyone knows this song "Gold & Braid" which didn't appear on either of her first two albums for some weird reason. I'm not even positive that she wrote it, but it's become a big fave of mine.

― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Friday, 17 April 2009 03:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

It's on the box set; before then it was only found on that live show VHS to which you linked.

― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 April 2009 03:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

Yeah! Thanks for responding. I knew it was on the Enchanted thing, that was it. Allmusic says it's indeed her song, but I suppose allmusic could be wrong.

― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Friday, 17 April 2009 03:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

I mean can someone please look at their CD or whatever and confirm that she has the writing credits on this one? Or someone else? Thanks.

― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Friday, 17 April 2009 03:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

Also, I'm determined to keep calm tonight about the music I love, but I just want to say that her song "Outside The Rain", I heard that on my iPod while running through this HUGE graveyard near my house a couple months ago with my friend, and I can't now divorce that feeling from the song itself. I felt like a child, and its a reminder that this gorgeous HUGE graveyard is near my house and I have only to walk a few blocks and I'm in that place again in my mind. There's something incredible about a child running through the greenery of nature, and she summed up that whole feeling for me.

― Earl of Gothington Manor (Bimble), Friday, 17 April 2009 03:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

9 months pass...

this was on the vintage WS thread but wanted more ppl to see it!

wow so awesome

― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 18 January 2010 20:43 (7 months ago) Permalink

man this clip is making my life better

― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 16:37 (7 months ago) Permalink

the crazy thing is that this is like 10X better than the album version....just such a nice little moment, lost to time...thank god for youtube....

getting irl goosebumps.

― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 16:42 (7 months ago) Permalink

wow, that really is gorgeous! Her face kinda makes it better too: a lotta joy in singing.

― Euler, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 16:48 (7 months ago) Permalink

yeah it's like she's singing like how you sing when you're a little kid, like un-self-conscious and just for the fun

― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 16:49 (7 months ago) Permalink

Never really been a huge Stevie Nicks fan, but damned if that isn't one of the most charming clips I've ever seen.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 16:52 (7 months ago) Permalink

don't blame it on me

― Joint Custody (ian), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 18:08 (7 months ago) Permalink

BLAME IT ON MY WIIIILD HEEEART

― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 18:19 (7 months ago) Permalink

a friend showed me that clip a couple of months ago. it was all we talked about for a couple of days basically

― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 19 January 2010 19:03 (7 months ago) Permalink

Really, really sweet. Love when the pause in the music (about 1:40) makes her eyes go wide, and she elicits a little chuckle from the makeup woman.

― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 19:24 (7 months ago) Permalink

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