Stevie Nicks solo - Classic or Dud?

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

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

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

don't blame it on me

BLAME IT ON MY WIIIILD HEEEART

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

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.

new solo album may 3rd

http://i.imgur.com/LBSZ0.png

Her?

i don't believe so

I got the demos for the Wild Heart album... the dressing room video of Wild Heart sounds way better than any of the WH demos I downloaded. Does anyone have a decent mp3 of it?

aka, YSI?

wild heart video is captivating. i didn't realise she looked like that

"i really like it when you sing like *a* child"

She looks like Ann Veal from Arrested Development.

Rave review.

A lot more generous than the Slant review: http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/in-your-dreams/2487

Lots of rong in that review. First, David Stewart is certainly not "one of pop music's most progressive, fearless producers" -- one of the most regressive and reactionary, actually, which sometimes worked in his favor.

Secondly, since when is anyone upset over Nicks' choice of literary role models? This is a woman who wears leather and lace, boots in the summer time, and fucked Joe Walsh.

SFJ reviews the new album.

it's more a summary of stevie nicks in general

SFJ reviews the new album.

― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, May 9, 2011

cf. Headlines That Write Themselves

I actually heard the single on the radio. I liked it. I thought, "wow, this sounds like Stevie Nicks."

i am weirdly intrigued by this

The song based on Twilight is excellent. She has so much empathy for these girls.

Never knew this before:

Stevie Nicks wrote “Edge of Seventeen” after Tom Petty’s wife Jane started telling her how they met. “She was telling me about Tom [Petty], about when she met him, and she has an incredible Southern accent…and she said that she met him at the age of seventeen, but I thought she said “edge”, and she said “no…age” and I said “Jane, forget it, it’s got to be “edge”. The “Edge of Seventeen” is perfect. I’m going to write a song, ok? And I’m going to give you credit.” She didn’t believe me, you know? She couldn’t believe it when it came out on the album.”

One Week//One Band almost done with its weeklong celebration of Stevie Nicks. A lovely post answering the question "What are some of your fondest memories of being a teenage Fleetwood Mac fan?"

I think I miss the culture of it, mostly. Which was the culture of a certain time, too — we hung out on Usenet! The wars between the message boards! There was this guy who was like the Frank Kogan of Mac fandom, and he had all these stories about bootlegging concerts from the parking lot behind the stage when he was a kid in Southern California in the ’70s — and I think at one point before the wars he invited me to join the bad board, which was kind of a badge of honor, particularly as a Stevie Nicks fan, particularly as a female Stevie Nicks fan, since we were basically what the bad board was designed to destroy. There was a sexist aspect that I didn’t pick up on as a kid, or I picked up on it but I accepted it, where a bunch of adult males created a hierarchy of what was cool, what was smart, what was better, and at the top was them and the things they liked, and at the bottom was young women, and the things young women wanted to talk about. Stevie was the least cool thing you could like. (So of course I loved her like my life depended on it. I loved her like her life depended on it.)

But there was a culture beyond that, the things handed down from fan to fan. All the little legends — the things someone once said Lindsey once said to Stevie, the story about him slapping her, whether it was true. Whether we could trust Mick Fleetwood. The fight over “Silver Springs.” The fight over “Go Your Own Way.” The fight over “Tusk.” The fight over Tusk. Every concert ending with “Songbird.” Mick’s balls, and John’s tattoo, and who “Sara” and “Caroline” were about. And all the things we traded — the Rosebud documentary, the Tusk documentary, the Almanac demos, and there was a recording of Stevie saying this, and there was a video of Lindsey doing that, and after a while you knew it so well you felt like you were born with it, born knowing the stories and the symbols and the traditions and what was classic and what was rare and what was valuable.

For those curious, I believe Mick's balls we/are actually souvenir pull-strings from some old hotel toilets pilfered while on tour in the old days, back when the band also used to adorn the drum set with dildos and fill condoms with scary liquids then spray them at crowds. I'm not making this up.

You know how when you hear about some pampered rock star demanding something like reshooting an entire video because they didn't like they way they looked in it? The MTV Oral History book mentions how Stevie Nicks shelved the first version of "Stand Back" for that reason and reshot a more 80s version with the wind in her hair and dancers in the shadows.

Sounds like the old version would be better than any generic second take, right? I think Stevie may have known what she was talking about.

Here, how about she explain to you why this first one was a bad idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC5YWPTCNEQ

"Now we're in the Civil War..."

http://www.vulture.com/2013/06/stevie-nicks-on-life-at-65-with-fleetwood-mac.html

She's been terrific lately. Check this out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXg2kZV8-6s

“She’s very amazing about making these major decisions about her life that a lot of people would just stumble along, and suddenly you’re 35 with three screaming kids and going, ‘Hey, how did I end up here?’ ” says Dave Stewart. “It’s this free-spirit thing: Don’t let people push you into a box that you don’t like.” Carlton, 32, remembers Nicks telling her that when Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac, she only saw one path for herself, and it didn’t involve child­bearing. “She said, ‘I wanted to be respected by every single dude on that stage, and if I walked out and I’d made that choice, the dynamic would have been different.’ And she’s right,” Carlton says. “And now it’s a little bit different because of women like Stevie. And I think, God, I’m just so grateful to her. She’s a total badass.”

Carlton tells me that last year she asked Nicks to write out her “rules of engagement”—how to get what you want out of life and men. Nicks gave her a stack of hotel stationery with handwritten directives and the overall message that you shouldn’t compromise on having a wonderful, interesting life just because it can be a challenge for some men, but that you should also be aware that that lifestyle can be a burden. Carlton reads one aloud: “ ‘He must have a good job. He must be happy and satisfied with his own life. You are there to enhance his life, not take away from it, and he is there to enhance your life, not fuck it up.’ That’s my favorite one. Thank you, Stevie!”

Re that YouTube clip. Listen to the last four minutes in which she discusses the death of her mother. Damn.

I wonder if any child has the courage to ask those questions of their mother.

I love you Stevie Nicks

I bought Wild Heart and a best of yesterday, I only knew 'Stand Back' and daaaamn I really love pretty much every song on Wild Heart! If Anyone Falls is killing me.

Man her choruses are so fking great, I love her so much

"Nightbird"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQzY97UCXns&feature=kp

New leaked track, a rerecording of the oft-bootlegged "The Dealer":

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/stevie-nicks-delivers-emotional-new-track-dealer-20140805

New album of old material is quite not bad.

http://i.imgur.com/O3c84A8.gif

YES

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/stevie_nicks_will_fuck_you_up

In those shoes!

http://themuse.jezebel.com/stevie-nicks-recording-edge-of-seventeen-is-some-of-the-1796921774

Huge Stevie fan here, but nonetheless I fathom to guess that person who wrote that hyperbolic clickbait article title hasn't watched a lot of studio footage in their lifetime.

booo to you

it's pretty fkn mesmerizing imo

That stuff along with the "Chronic" history was my favorite thing about that slick PR piece.

Meaning "The Defiant Ones".

Stevie was serious crush material

Wow I had no idea Jimmy Iovine was bald.

Just kidding. That was the first time I've ever seen him without a baseball cap. Next on my list: Edge without his knit cap, Daniel Lanois without his knit cap, Steve Van Zandt without his whatever ...

http://i.imgur.com/LpBt87i.jpg

You look perfectly fine. Lose the dumb hats, Dave.

Ha, Edge looks so much better without the hat!

I need you to hate me, I need you todaaaaayyy.