Stevie Nicks solo - Classic or Dud?

stand back would be a great song without the synths
so she “stole” a bit from little red corvette
it’s a stretch to call prince a “collaborator” there
I think she’s a really underrated songwriter and singer and all this surgical picking apart what she “really” did is weird.
I like the record more than the song - I've never been especially bowled over by any covers or live performances to really think it was the other way around, and I definitely like it more than the remixed version on Timespace, so I can't agree there.

I think we already covered this in the previous posts, but 1) I didn't want to spend too much time discussing details, so "collaborator" shouldn't be taken that literally, "influence" probably would've been better and 2) Alfred already said he thought that influence was overstated, even if it's been stated by Nicks herself, and that's fine if we disagree

Anyway, I'm not sure I'd call her underrated as a songwriter given how massively popular her songs are - her songs with Fleetwood Mac are probably heard and covered more than the others by her bandmates, and they are great songs so they seem rated just fine.

I was going to suggest "influence" as a substitute because no question Prince influenced the writing of "Stand Back."

And lol I prefer the remixed "Stand Back" on Timespace -- punchier, longer, with the extended coda of Nicksbabble.

I don't like any of the CLA remixes on that compilation, I never kept it for that reason.

Sometimes it's a bitch!

LOL

I rarely like remixes like this, unless it was a record that was seriously compromised, remixing at best feels pointless, but it could be a lot worse.

wow 18 new answers and none of them are about “Show Them The Way”? It’s good. It didn’t blow me away or anything but it’s staying on my 2020 playlist.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U74L8TbHsoY

Never forget

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the live “stand back” on the chain box is hurried and thin but I kinda like it

Sorry Jeff -- that's what started my solo Stevie binge, I got distracted by Rooms on Fire.

The new song's okay. Too many JFK references instead of JFK references.

the live “stand back” on the chain box is hurried and thin but I kinda like it

It's not bad. I don't think that was a balanced collection - they really shortchanged the pre-Buckingham/Nicks era - but that track was a good pick to represent the post-Buckingham lineup, which wasn't exactly rich with gems.

Blue Lamp is all time

if you wiser you would get out

otm

You GO, girl

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Happy birthday, fellow sister of the moon

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blame it on my wild heart

^^^ best fucking album ever, as I discovered about a month ago

I remember reading Details Magazine when it was still around and they did a Q&A with Stevie and the writer had the audacity to ask her about a rather explicit rumor (rumour?) that was going around at the time. I will paraphrase:

Interviewer: There's a rumor going around that you did so much coke that your nostrils are wrecked and you have an assistant blow coke into your asshole. (Yes, they came right out and asked her about this).

Nicks: (no response)

Interviewer: It must suck having those kinds of rumors about you.

I remember at the time finding it unreal they even asked, and more surprised she didn't storm out of the inteview.

well the magazine was called details

lol I remember it

My Stevie @Barbie has been with me now for several months. When Mattel came to me asking if I would like to have a Barbie made in the “Rumours” cover style I was very overwhelmed. Of course I questioned “would she look like me? Would she have my spirit? Would she have my heart…”… pic.twitter.com/JQXjF7XSMK

— Stevie Nicks (@StevieNicks) October 2, 2023

I guess there have been a few of these random Music Series Barbies, including Bowie:

https://www.billboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/David-Bowie-Barbie-hero.jpg?w=942&h=623&crop=1

Mid 70s yellow teeth coked up Bowie would have made a great Joker

Happy birthday, girl

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Aw hell yeah

STEVIE NICKS ON SNL WHAT A FUCKING LEGEND pic.twitter.com/c8uGAnh0cM

— stevie nicks manager (@kajolswife) October 13, 2024

She was pretty awesome.

I was skeptical but she brought it.

Although as it went on I was more and more distracted by the backing vocal track, clearly her, as pre recorded harmonies. It was like a wall of Stevies.

awesome

Still kind of ick to see Waddy up there

she's never ditching waddy.

Waddy looks like a skeleton dressed up as Bob Weir for Halloween

Official upload of full performance (much better sound):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1PpthYqJks

It's a big improvement on the record they actually released simply because Nicks is openly pissed off and lets it rip - a much better job of nailing the spirit of the song.

I was kinda underwhelmed

Extraordinary interview:

Is there internet on your iPhone

It isn’t connected, it’s just a camera.

I’m envious of that.

I hate it. About 10 years ago, Katy Perry was talking to me about the internet armies of all the girl singers, and how cruel and rancid they were. I said, “Well, I wouldn’t know because I’m not on the internet.” She said, “So, who are your rivals?” I just looked at her. It was my steely look. I said, “Katy, I don’t have rivals. I have friends. All the other women singers that I know are friends. Nobody’s competing. Get off the internet and you won’t have rivals either.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/stevie-nicks-fleetwood-mac-kamala-harris-new-music-1235140437/

the best <3

I love reading interviews with her. She's a very interesting person. Every time, I come away wishing I liked her music.

the best <3

Feeling this track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R9bYZNd7qA

yeah good one, love that album.

“Rooms on fire” has been stuck in my head for weeks now, what a song

I was kinda underwhelmed

Agree. I saw her live early in the year and she was amazing, but the SNL stage (and the sound) is not very friendly to this kind of straight performance these days, I don't think. Also, as well intentioned as the new song is, it's pretty flat for me as a song. It's better than her awful pro-soldier song that she plays these days though.

“Rooms on fire” has been stuck in my head for weeks now, what a song

― brimstead,

and that song doesn't rhyme! It's the template for what Rupert Hine would do a few years later with Rush's "Ghost of a Chance."

She has said The Other Side of the Mirror is her peak; it happened between the coke rehab period and the Klonopin addiction.

I was blasting Rooms on Fire driving home from the Container Store this evening!

if I do say so myself

She has said The Other Side of the Mirror is her peak

this got me to finally check it out - I got obsessed with Rooms on Fire a few years ago but never got around to the LP. this is great.

The last two songs are wild.