What should be the "concept" behind the next solo album?
 

For TISL Stevie talked a lot about how she had the concept in mind & cut songs that didn't fit, though she knew concept albums are out of fashion.
What are your top picks for the next one?

Mine:
- the long-awaited Rhiannon album

- the wisdom of age/surviving in a business of boobs and teenyboppers/being strong

- escape from personal woes & current events - I'd call this album "Sanctuary" and include the song - I know TOSOTM was sort of like this, but I'm ready for a less keyboard-ish sound

- looking back with happiness at past loves

- Jake

I think that "escape from personal woes and current events" is always timely, but personally I 'd like to see an album built around the theme of "looking back at past loves". So I'd like to see either...

I really like the idea of the Rhiannon album, TISLreally was the last one of her "mystical" songs, since SOTM.... But I would also think it would be cool if she did albums on:

- An album reflecting the Tusk Era, tour days

-An album reflecting the RAL relations/ tour days:nod:

- An album about her personal life with FM, BEHIND THE MUSIC, like you know in the studio, backstage...all that

Re: What should be the "concept" behind the next solo album?
 

Prepare to wait some more. :laugh:

I think it'll make it's appearance once the Goldfish and Ladybug cartoon is released and Stevie's book is written. Oh, and when her Rhiannon movie has been cast and her book of art is published. Also, when the FM documentary is broadcast and all of the masters have been converted. Let's not forget, too, when Stevie and Lindsey co-write a song together from the ground up and Christine re-joins the band. :nod:

;)

I like this concept: 'I work at Lindsey's now.'

:D

Pleeease, in a choice between two or even three more FM cds in thenear future, or more Stevie solo and a delayed FM cd yet again labelled as some sort of reunion - nuts to that.

I, too, would love the much mentioned but never materialized Rhiannon rocord. She has, however, released a portion of the songs or the lyrics of the some of the songs to wit:

Rhiannon (she said she wrote it before she knew the legend but surely it is one of the songs)

Goodbye Baby (I am convinced this was part of the set as it fits the legend)

Angel (she said in some interview at the time of Tusk that the lyrics od Angel some from the Rhiannon story)

Interestingly, I always thought POTU smacked of the Rhiannon saga but have nothing to confirm it.

Also, I am unsure how her voice today would work in these songs. Of course, I said that about Silver Springs prior to seeing it during The Dance, and, with hat in hand and head bowed, I exclaimed "boy was I wrong." :laugh:

"The Three Birds of Rhiannon" with "Maker of Birds," and "Forest of the Black Roses,"-- that would be awesome.

Re: What should be the "concept" behind the next solo album?
 

I'm weary of Stevie's "I survived" themes in her albums & songs. I'd love to hear her try a country-tinged album of the old Appalachian school with a slightly political, Americana bent, like some of the tunes on John Stewart's Robert Kennedy album.

Or do the Rhiannon album! But make it weird. But, please, enough with the "I'm the elder statesman of women in rock" stuff. You're enough of a dinosaur as it is, without you yourself harping on it. Lindsey & Mick do the same thing. I wish they'd all knock it off -- it's bunk & it's vanity when you focus so insistently on the self & the self's alleged place in the pantheon.

Re: Re: What should be the "concept" behind the next solo album?
 

I was thinking this the other day in the car. So many of her great songs sound like country, not to mention they often require less of a synth sound, thank goodness.

- Jake

Sh*t-can the idea of any more solo albums and stick with Fleetwood Mac, damn it!

I see your point & love her & Lindsey together, but I still prefer her work on TISL to what's on SYW - writing, vocals, and production.

- Jake

Maybe ChiliD should think of the possibility that if LB and SN decided to do solo albums from now on, then Mick and John would have to form a new incarnation of the Mac.

You'd like that, wouldn't you? ;)

Yeah, imagine it, Christina and Justin as the singer/songwriters.
:cool:

- Jake

Well, actually, Justin Timberwoman and Brittney Speakeasy Spears do fit the role od ex's throwing recrimminations in prose mold. :cool:

I doubt they could even write the word "prose".

- Jake

Since I am absolutely amazed by Stevie's performances of At Last and Sunday Kind Of Love, I'd love for her to do an album of standards, with a big orchestra and everything as an "in between" album. Mind you, I'd rather have an album of all-new songs, but this would be such a fine treat!!!

Nothing wrong with dreaming, is there? ;-)

Rick

I am right there with you on this. My only thing is that given her propensity to make the music a little overproduced and sugary, I say let it be a live thing. Hey - as long as we are dreaming . . . :cool:

I'm not a huge fan of standards but would buy it. I think this would work best as a concert/video, like off the pages of the Gypsy video set. Even better, if Stevie were to write original songs in a big band style. It could be interesting. She's shown she can write in styles that are sappy, rock, country, waltz- esque (Garbo), etc. This would be something new.

- Jake

I believe the fabulous "Rhiannon" album would be in order, But with a futuristic slant or with tribal overtones, very dark, very mystical, very...far east meets ancient welch myth inspired.

A song or two with those powerful gong sounds with lots of chimes to put one in the mood. I've always dreamed Stevie would do that kind of album the critics have always hated - play up to that airy-fairy mentality that she always tried to steer away from intentionally.

Ultimately, I would love her next album to be a kind of Welch Witch turned Space Witch kind of a feel and really give Cher a run for her money :nod:

Another interesting idea would be to do a dark telling of surviving the biz in a Traveling Circus Carnival type of theme set in the '20 or '30 in true gypsy fashion, complete with freak show...naturally.
Of course, much of this idea is based on HBO's original series "Carnivale"

I don't have to tell you what character Stevie would portray on the album cover do I? This idea would probably be better suited for Fleetwood Mac themselves.

Always with
Peace, Love, and Magick~
Tommy

I'd like...
 

a mixing of the wisdom of age/surviving in a business of boobs and teenyboppers/being strong

and...

- looking back with happiness at past loves

Hmm...
 

Instead of an album revisiting the past (yet again!!), how about something looking towards the FUTURE? Something innovative, different, and unexpected....I'd love an album that doesn't have a single song that used to be a demo from 1975 or repeats verses/melodies/ideas she's used multiple times before. No Rhiannon album for me. I'm tired of the black dress. I'm tired of the same ole "witchy, mystical" affectations. Stevie is a legend, but dadgum it, she's starting to bore me because she just doesn't seem to have a lot of spunk anymore. She needs to have a torrid affair with Ashton Kutcher to get her creative juices flowing, if you ask me! :-)

Re: Hmm...
 

That would be great, and new...:nod:

What SHOULD be the concept of Stevie's next album?

None of us are Stevie, are we? Shouldn't that question be directed to Stevie herself? So many critical fans and would-be artists like to think they know what is best for her. I'm glad none of them have any say in her career.

Yes, I wish she would have done things differently in various stages of her career. But I accept her music for better or worse. Yet, I'm not so presumptuous to think I know better as to what she should be doing, conceptually or otherwise.

Contridicting myself, I think it would be great for Stevie to get a big orchestra and belt out a whole set of standards (ala At Last and Sunday Kind Of Love), and release a live album of it. It would open the eyes of those who have never paid any attention to her. A revelation to the uninitiated to how unique and amazing her voice is.

I really love a lot of Stevie's piano demos. Even some songs like Rock a Little that I don't like that much I like much better as a piano demo. So maybe an album with just Stevie singing and a piano and not a lot more. I love the Love Is demo/outtake that is like this. It's so pretty and I prefer it to the TISL version. However, I'm not very fond of Stevie's piano version of Rhiannon on Enchanted. Her old piano demos of Rhiannon are far superior.

I haven't heard the Rock a Little demo. (Time to PM Dissention for that one.)
I like the piano versions of Love Is and Jane much better than the album versions, though the vocals are better on the albums, IMO.

- Jake