Stevie's Collaborations with Mike Campbell - Ranked

StevieandChris · #1 06-23-2018, 11:05 AM

I love or like all of the collaborations except I Don’t Care, which may be my least favorite of all of Stevie’s songs, solo and FM combined. Often I eventually change my mind about songs of hers I dislike, but four years later I still do not like the song.

SteveMacD · #2 06-23-2018, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by StevieandChris

I love or like all of the collaborations except I Don’t Care, which may be my least favorite of all of Stevie’s songs, solo and FM combined. Often I eventually change my mind about songs of hers I dislike, but four years later I still do not like the song.

The music to I Don’t Care is good, but the lyrics are a bit of a stinkaroo.

sodascouts · #3 06-23-2018, 03:13 PM

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The music to I Don’t Care is good, but the lyrics are a bit of a stinkaroo.

One contributor's part is good + one contributor's part is bad = collaboration fail.

Truthfully, I'm not that enamored of the music either. There are good riffs, but the different parts don't fit together well.

SteveMacD · #4 06-24-2018, 01:37 PM

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One contributor's part is good + one contributor's part is bad = collaboration fail.

I agree, but I think Stevie really hasn’t had any great songs since TWH, regardless if it was something she wrote on her own or with a collaborator. I don’t think it really matters who she would have collaborated with, it would still be sketchy. She seems to have lost her ability to write good lyrics as well as her sense of melody.

Hawkeye · #5 06-23-2018, 05:48 PM

LOVE:

1. You Like Me- This is one of my favorite songs of hers ever. Definitely would’ve been my favorite on Rock a Little. And I can’t believe I did t think of this earlier but this should absolutely get done on this tour and should be a Fleetwood Mac
Song. Adding mick and John would take this song to another level.

2. For What It’s Worth

3. Imperial Hotel

4. Freedom

Really Good

5. I Don’t Care
6. Blue Denim

Eh

7. My Heart
8. Whole Lotta Trouble
9. Kick It (has this been included yet, it should)

Not Good

10. Desert Angel
11. Ghosts

sodascouts · #6 06-23-2018, 09:10 PM

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9. Kick It (has this been included yet, it should)

No, we missed "Kick It."

Yikes, that one is pretty bad, too. This list keeps getting more and more inglorious.

I'll edit my initial post.

mitzo · #7 06-24-2018, 08:04 AM

I've said it a million times, Stevie never should have started hanging around the Heartbreakers, her music went ugly. starting with her first album solo.

The collaborations with Campbell are prime examples of the negative side of her Heartbreakers fixation.

Dragon · #8 06-24-2018, 08:48 AM

Collaborations with the Heartbreakers helped Stevie Nicks, Don Henley, and the Eagles.

sodascouts · #9 06-24-2018, 12:35 PM

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Collaborations with the Heartbreakers helped Stevie Nicks, Don Henley, and the Eagles.

Campbell's and Tench's collaborations with Henley and, by extension, the Eagles have been brilliant but I think we see the truth of mitzo's statement - at least in regard to Campbell - in this thread when it comes to Stevie. Just because he clicks with one artist does not mean he clicks with another.

If we extend that to Petty, though, I am less inclined to agree. I enjoy "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," "Insider," "Needles and Pins," and "The Apartment Song." They sounded good together. ("I Will Run to You" - eh.)

And "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" did kick off her career.

But then I swing back to mitzo's opinion when Stevie goes beyond singing with Petty to being so obsessed that she wants to do several of his songs. I do not enjoy all the Petty covers. "Free Fallin'", "I Need to Know," and the ones she throws in live like "So You Want to Be a Rock'n'Roll Star"* and "You Wreck Me"... it's too much. You can't BE Tom Petty, Stevie.

*I realize "So You Want to Be a Rock'n'Roll Star" was not original to Petty but Stevie covered it due to the fact that his live version was so popular, included on his Pack Up the Plantation album.

golden braid · #10 06-26-2018, 09:10 PM

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But then I swing back to mitzo's opinion when Stevie goes beyond singing with Petty to being so obsessed that she wants to do several of his songs. I do not enjoy all the Petty covers. "Free Fallin'", "I Need to Know," and the ones she throws in live like "So You Want to Be a Rock'n'Roll Star"* and "You Wreck Me"... it's too much. You can't BE Tom Petty, Stevie.

*I realize "So You Want to Be a Rock'n'Roll Star" was not original to Petty but Stevie covered it due to the fact that his live version was so popular, included on his Pack Up the Plantation album.

When did Stevie sing "So You Want to Be a Rock'n'Roll Star?"

dreamsunwind · #11 06-24-2018, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by mitzo

I've said it a million times, Stevie never should have started hanging around the Heartbreakers, her music went ugly. starting with her first album solo.

The collaborations with Campbell are prime examples of the negative side of her Heartbreakers fixation.

I like Insider and I Will Run to You a lot (SDMHA is too overplayed for me at this point) but I do see your point. I think her obsession with Tom's type of music and her desire to sound like him took away a lot of what made her special. I think most of Bella Donna was still well produced by Jimmy to sound unique to her but the rest of her albums not as much and it grew even moreso later on. But nothing captured the magic that she had on the FM white album through Gypsy on Mirage in my opinion. And I think that wasn't helped by the fact that after Bella Donna she saved all her 'best' songs in her eyes for her solo career.

DownOnRodeo · #12 06-25-2018, 12:05 AM

Featuring all your least favorite hits.

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sodascouts · #13 06-25-2018, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by DownOnRodeo

Featuring all your least favorite hits.

https://ibb.co/k3OpS8

LOL! "I don't care... not my thing!" Stevie Nicks' other version of the coat.

bombaysaffires · #14 08-21-2018, 12:37 AM

the problem on most of their collaborations is her lame lyrics, not his music. She wasn't writing music because she'd run out of ideas, or was doing too much coke, or whatever. She got lazy. In the early days she'd try to create her own music. Then she got too famous and lazy. So she slapped a lot of messy sloppy lyrics over his music. I wouldn't blame him for things like "take a moment and think for a minute for a moment for a minute"