Stevie Nicks solo - Classic or Dud?

Hilarious!

"Edge of Seventeen" is fucking immense.

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

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...

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

Hahaha. Why?

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'.

Leather & Lace, live 1981

How Still My Love, live 1983

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

wow so awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HguL2bIri1Q&feature=player_embedded

man this clip is making my life better

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.

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

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