I've Had Enough Time With "InYourDreams"
 

I just wanted to see what everyone's thoughts are now that we've had "In Your Dreams" for a month????
With any album- when I first purchase a cd there's a rush of excitement or high expectations or unmet expectations that effect my initial opinions on the cd. These preliminary opinions start to change and take shape after a few weeks of listening. I think I now know my true thoughts about In Your Dreams.
First - thank you, Stevie...this is a thoughtful, well produced, well written album. I believe it is better than her last three albums - TISL, SA & OSOTM...If "In Your Dreams" had been the same caliber of TISL I would have been thrilled..but it exceeded it!! How it ranks with her first three cds - I'm not sure (that can be debated forever)
No one could have ever convinced me that Stevie would be re-energized to this degree. It must be due to the production of Mr Stewart. She brought up her song writing expertise to BellaDona, Rumors & Tusk levels - Moonlight, FWIW, NO, WSS, IS are classics that may never see radio play but they rank up there with true Stevie classics...I think that Lindseys involvement in Soilders Angels reminded me how "heavy" his involvement/production can take Stevie's music...(Especially in her later work - Say You Will songs, for example). Dave Stewart managed to lift her music to a lighter level but still maintaining the atmosphereic mood of Stevie's music....I love how her voice is clear and clean on these tracks...I would have wished for a little more "wild" Stevie at the end of a few of these songs...and if there had been a few "crazy Stevie" moments on IYD this would have ranked as Stevie's best work for me... What does everyone else think?????
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Stevie!!!

After a month I still love In Your Dreams and still consider it Nicks' best solo album ever. There are so many strong songs on this album that it's difficult to choose favorites or to choose what should be singles. Stevie deserves to be very proud of this album.

After a month, here's more or less my final ranking of the album, tracks 1-7 being my favorites. I don't listen to tracks 8-14 anymore. They have been deleted from my iPod!

01. Moonlight
02. Annabel Lee
03. In Your Dreams
04. Italian Summer
05. Secret Love
06. Cheaper Than Free
07. My Heart

08. Everybody Loves You
09. You May Be The One
10. Wide Sargasso Sea
11. New Orleans
12. For What It's Worth
13. Ghosts Are Gone
14. Solider's Angel

You scared me for a second, I thought you were breaking up with IYD :lol:

I love it as much as the first time I heard it. I still kinda prefer it without My Heart, even though the song is ok, I got used to the standard cd from listening to the Rolling Stone stream. Every song is so unique, they seem modern and classic at the same time. I just wish they would release a good single (Moonlight, IYD) so more people could hear this amazing album.

I actually think I listen to "New Orleans" the most followed by "Moonlight" then "For What It's Worth"

I still think it is her most consistently strong album since the early 1980s and listen to it almost as much as a month ago.I really hope this is the start of a new burst of musical creativity for Stevie.

Fist Pump
 

My CD is still in the car, in near constant rotation. I can't get it in the house long enough to rip. I really love this album. I agree about not loving it as much as BD or WH, but do love it more than TISL, SA, OSOTM and maybe even RAL.

I think Dave, Glenn and Chris Lord-Algae have done a FABulous job with the technical aspects. They deserve a LOT of credit. In my opinion, if it weren't for them, this album would be skating on the lack-luster side of things.

Stevie's vocals really do shine throughout on this work. It's exciting to hear. I love that she's added a bit of jazz and pizazz to her styling. "At Last" has always been a favorite of mine. I wish she would record more songs like that.

In my heart of hearts, I would love to see this album take off. There are more than a few cuts that would make the grade for regular rotation on adult contemporary. I couldn't say that about TISL, even in the honeymoon phase.

At first I was impressed with the new songs and then for a short while it was no big deal to me. Then I decided that I really wanted to enjoy this record so I started listening again. Sapphire Sister sent me a copy to play in my car. I spend a lot of my life driving and while I did play it in the house, these songs came to more of a vibrant life on my car speakers.
I listen to the CD a lot and really enjoy most of the songs. The Ghosts are Gone is a song I know I should really love, but it's missing something and I cannot pinpoint what it is. The live version of TGAG from the Wiltern is very enjoyable to me and I loved watching her be so into it while performing it. The title track didn't click with me like it has with most of you but it is slowly growing on me. And I do mean slowly.
New Orleans is my favorite song. I was so excited to hear it since I first heard her sing part of it on the Unleashed Tour.

From the sizzle reel of WSS Stevie speaks, "And even though they were so in love, they drew a line in the sand just because." I have to admit I was and still am dissapointed that she sings it in the song. I really wanted her to stop singing and speak the line and then continue singing again. I thought that would have added a nice, smooth touch of class to the song.

My favorite songs in this order:
01. New Orleans
02. Moonlight
03. Everybody Loves You
04. Anabel Lee
05. Soldier's Angel
06. You May Be The One
07. Wide Sargasso Sea

08. Italian Summer
09. For What It's Worth
10. Cheaper Than free
11. The Ghosts Are Gone
12. My Heart
13. Secret Love
14. In Your Dreams

I still love the album but am terribly burned out on it, so I haven't been listening to it for the past 2-3 weeks. I definitely don't think this is the best work of Stevie's career, but I do think it's in her top 3 solo albums (#1 Bella Donna, #2 Rock A Little, #3 In Your Dreams). I still think Stevie's best work was on the first 4 Mac studio albums, though... with Tusk containing both the best singing & songwriting of her career.

Surprisingly, In Your Dreams also won't be my fav new album of 2011 either. That prize goes to Joseph Arthur's new album, Graduation Ceremony. Still, In Your Dreams is a solid album and I'm so glad we have it. :) I hope more than anything that it will be a catalyst for new material from both Stevie & especially Fleetwood Mac. In Your Dreams proves that Stevie still has something to say, and is still very much a viable artist. :nod:

I would put it in her top 3 or 4 albums.

Top 3 for me.

For me its...

Bella Donna
Trouble in Shangri La
Wild Heart
In Your Dreams
Rock A Little
Street Angel
The Other Side of the Mirror

I listen to it when I'm in the car. I'm in TX, so that's a lot.
I like the album quite a bit, but it lacks many of the Stevie-isms (esp. the layered vocals & WTH-is-she-talking-about lyrics) that I love so much, so it's not at the top of my rankings.

Bella Donna
Rock a Little
The Wild Heart
In Your Dreams
Trouble in Shangri-la
Street Angel
The Other Side of the Mirror


- Jake

Still listening to it, not burned out at all. Current favorites (not in any order):

- Moonlight
- Annabel Lee
- Wide Sargasso Sea
- Secret Love
- My Heart
- For What it's Worth
- In Your Dreams
- Ghosts Are Gone
- Italian Summer

As far as her solo albums go, I'd also put it in the top 3:

1. Bella Donna
2. Rock a Little
3. In Your Dreams
4. The Other Side of the Mirror
5. Trouble in Shangri-La
6. The Wild Heart
7. Street Angel

I'd put it as the 3rd best after Bella Donna and The Wild Heart. The only track that I usually skip is Cheaper Than Free, although New Orleans is startying to grate on me a bit but that just could be the mood I'm in. Otherwise I think it's an incredibly consistent record.

In Your Dreams is number 2 in my book, right behind Bella Donna. It's like listening to the radio. There is soo much variety on this record and it all works. It's like she successfully dipped within each genre.

Bella Donna was a short album. It's just about perfection maybe because it's soo short. And it has great atmspheric hits and some real gems that aren't hits.

In Your Dreams doesn't have any big song. However, it's got a bunch of songs that I think in the day would of hit in the 20s and 30s of the top 40. In Your Dreams, Moonlight, You May Be the One, Everybody Loves You, Ghosts are Gone, Cheaper then Free and Italian Summer all sound like hits to me in one way or another. And Soldier's Angel and New Orleans are atmospheric, political songs that work very well as thoughtful pieces. Secret Love, Annabelle Lee and For What's it Worth I like too for different reasons but I don't go back to those too often. I do love the bridge in Annabelle Lee. Secret Love is kinda funky but the sound is not as endearing to me. For What it's Worth is touching but too straightforward and simple. I would of liked a change up like the other songs.

In Your Dreams ranks higher to me than the Wild Heart because the Wild Heart never really flowed. Stevie's voice sounds 10 times better on In Your Dreams. The Wild Heart is also Stevie's most dated album because of the synthesizors.

I blew off In Your Dreams for about 2 weeks but then I had to drive a long distance to a hospital and it was in my truck and I realized just what a good album it is. On the surface the album hits all the right notes, but on deeper levels it does too, especially that last half the album. This album is sooo suprisingly deep. It really is better than the radio.

So my list is

1. Bella Donna
2. In Your Dreams
3. The Wild Heart
4. Rock a Little/Trouble and Shangri La
5. The Other Side of the Mirror/Street Angel

Ok so it isn't exactly a secret that I didn't love IYD. I'll be honest and say I haven't listened to it since that first week or so. Right now I've moved on to Leon Russell and John Stewart. :sorry:

I am still loving it...
 

I love all of the songs on the album. The only 2 that I ever skip are 'Ghosts Are Gone' and 'Cheaper Than Free'

Album-wise, I rank it as so:

1- Belladonna
2- In Your Dreams
3- Rock A Little
4- The Wild Heart
5- Trouble In Shangri-La
6- The Other Side of the Mirror
7- Street Angel

The only songs I tend to skip are "Wide Sargasso Sea" (just because I can't really sing along to it) and "Soldier's Angel", again because it's tough to sing along with. But "Moonlight", "Annabel Lee", "For What It's Worth", "Everybody Loves You", "Ghosts Are Gone" and "Italian Summer" are the favorites.
Still can't rank the album with the others, as I see it as a stand alone kind of thing. But if I had to put it alongside the others, I guess it would look like this:

Bella Donna
In Your Dreams
The Wild Heart
Trouble In Shangri-La
The Other Side Of The Mirror
Rock A Little
Street Angel

I listened to it multiple times every day for the last month. The crazy thing is, 2 days ago I didn't listen to it at all...by accident. I didn't leave the house and I was so busy doing other things that it just kind of slipped by me. It wasn't until the end of the day that I realized I hadn't had my In Your Dreams fix.
That being said, I still can't rank the album with her other work. It's still too new to me. I have also tried to rank the songs, can't do it. I can say that Ghosts are Gone kind of pulls me out of the mood of the album. I've tried re-sequencing my playlist, and that didn't help at all. I like the song, it just doesn't fit the rest of the album for me. I also tend to skip You May Be The One. Everything else I play over and over.
The other problem? merging these songs into a Stevie playlist!!! Too HARD!!

Maybe this album just needs to stand alone. And I mean that in the best way possible.

Don't apologize. You can't force yourself (or be forced) to like something. :shrug:

I'm still in love with IYD. Some songs (Moonlight, FWIW) still bring tears to my eyes and/or give me chills.

Best tunes for me:FWIW
You May Be The One
In Your Dreams
Moonlight
Annabel Lee
In Your Dreams

Good, solid songs
Ghosts Are Gone
Wide Sargasso Sea
Secret Love
My Heart

Still iffy on these
Italian Summer (the music & vocal are stunning. The lyrics? Not so much.)
Soldier's Angel (love the haunting quality, but her voice is a bit too nasal for my taste. You know how ChiliD said Dave Stewart deserves an award for de-goating her voice? Well, LB shows up & the goatiness returns. :p It's also a bit...I dunno. Self-serving? Like, really Stevie? You know how it feels for these people? Being in Fleetwood Mac is like being in the army, right? :rolleyes: )
New Orleans (Cheeesy to me, esp. the lyrics. But I find myself sining along more & more so I guess it's growing on me.)

Can't do it
Everybody Loves You. I almost always skip it. Do.Not.Like. The brigde is great (I think you'd call that part a bridge? The "bird on a wire" part?) Other than that, I loathe it. It's this album's 2 Kinds Of Love. Barf. it's the music, really - the lyrics aren't too bad. But the music? Oy. It hurts my everything.

I enjoy the album. I still feel like something is missing from it that I just can't figure out. I really love Annabel Lee, Moonlight, In Your Dreams, and You May Be the One. I very much dislike For What It's Worth. I like Everybody Loves You more than I originally thought I would. I like Italian Summer less than I thought I would.

Still adore this album! Still listen to every track! She rocked this one!!!!

1. WH (tie)
1. TISL (tie)
2. RAL
3. BD
4. IYD
5. TOSOTM
6. SA

Top IYD tracks:
1. Annabelle Lee
2. Moonlight
3. WSS
4. FWIW
5. SA

I still think it's a great album, it's probably tied with TISL and just behind Bella Donna and TWH, for me. Now that I don't care about listening to each song equally, the three songs I listen to the most are For What It's Worth, New Orleans and Everybody Loves You. All three of them just work for me. :laugh:

Still blown away by this record! I wore it out the 1st 3 weeks (including the RS preview week stream) so much that I laid off it for almost a couple of weeks. But every time since I've returned to it, I'm still so impressed with the quality of *everything* about this record. To me it has a timeless quality - IYD is a record I know I will continue to enjoy for the remaining months of 2011 and many years to come. She just HAS to tour behind this record.

Though I skipped over "Secret Love" (due to fatigue) initially upon IYD release, after absorbing the rest of the record, SL is back in rotation and I do love it in the context of the whole record. My one and only tiny complaint is the track sequencing, but otherwise IYD is one solid work where I like or LOVE every single song - which has not happened on a Stevie Nicks record since BD, WH & RAL (TISL came close) & the 75' through 82' Stevie FM songs. When Stevie 1st began recording IYD, I just knew Dave & her had the mindset that this record better be great, coming off the heels of a 10 year drought and TISL being a good return for her. But IYD exceeds TISL on so many levels. It's a mature & wise record lyrically with the musical sophistication that I always knew Stevie could achieve with the right team. It's almost perfect to my ears. This is the "one" I've been waiting for from Stevie since "Bella Donna" :nod: It only took 30 years with a few missteps here and there along the way, but it seems it was worth the wait. What a sweet dream this record is for this fan who fell hard for Stevie 30 years ago and never wavered in fandom (even during the wonky klonopin years) :angel:


Bella Donna/In Your Dreams
Rock A Little
Trouble In Shangri La
Wild Heart
Other Side Of The Mirror
Street Angel

I still love IYD. Though not as I intensely as I did. The problem.....As with most of Stevie's work is she does not know how to edit to save her life. The album is far to bloated....songs and song times could have been cut. It's still my 2nd favorite Stevie album. Just could have used trimming is all.

Mick

A month in and In Your Dreams is still in my car CD player, playing loudly everytime I need to drive somewhere. New Orleans is actually growing on me, so that leaves Soldier's Angel and Ghost Are Gone as the only songs to get skipped. If I'm listening to them at home, I dont skip anything.

I'm really loving this album, still. I do feel it's Stevie's best collection of songs since The Wild Heart. That's not to say it's my favorite, or that I think it's better than the albums in between WH and IYD, but just that I think it's a great album overall.

The tracks mix very well with Bella Donna, Street Angel and much of TISL, and that's been fun too, making playlists.

I still think it's her best ever. Still think it should be taken as one whole statement rather than chopped into individual tracks. She should've done Prince's trick of making the entire album one track, to FORCE everyone into listening to the thing as a whole instead of going into ADD mode and listening to one track at a time, skipping tracks, etc.

Yes, believe it or not, I STILL don't have a track on the album that I would skip. :shrug:

That's how I felt about TISL. For all of you it's been 10 years since her last album. For me its been since 1994.

I couldn't agree with you more. I have IYD on repeat in my car since I got it and have not tired of it yet. I found some of the songs were re-energized for me once I saw the LIVE videos from the Wiltern also. Especially Moonlight! I am forever grateful to Dave for making the process fun for Stevie, I think that had alot to do with it. In one of the articles recently she talked about how Dave would suggest things to her and she would be more open to them then in the past when Lindsey would try to change something. I think she felt "heard" by Dave and their collaboration was epic in my eyes. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: from me....

When we first got the Rolling Stone stream of the album, I jumped immediately to "Moonlight" because I was so excited to hear it. My roommate was laughing at me because I was sitting there crying like a baby the second I heard the "Lady From The Mountains" opening. :lol: I still get chills during that song, every time.


My favorites:
For What It's Worth
Wide Sargasso Sea
Moonlight
Annabel Lee
Soldier's Angel
You May Be The One

Good tracks:
Secret Love
New Orleans (LOVE the beginning but it loses something for me once the chorus picks up)
Ghosts Are Gone
Italian Summer

Take it or leave it:
In Your Dreams (it's so.... eh to me.)
My Heart
Everybody Loves You (love the verses, hate the chorus)
Cheaper Than Free

I agree, the live videos from Wiltern reignited my interests in the song, Moonlight. I am soooo hoping that her recent experience with Dave will tempt Stevie to put out more music in the new thirty six months..I don't care if it's a movie soundtrack, fleetwood album, duets album, standards cd, buckingham/nicks album or new solo project...she needs to keep moving forward.

Here's mine Dani...

My favorites:
You May Be the One
My Heart
Annabel Lee
Moonlight

Good tracks:
Secret Love
Ghosts Are Gone
Italian Summer
Everybody Loves You
Soldiers Angel

Take it or "meh" it:
Cheaper Than Free
New Orleans
Wide Sargasso Sea
In Your Dreams

I feel like the album should have been called Moonlight instead of In Your Dreams. It's in almost everyone's Top 5 in this and almost every other thread about favorite songs. It's important to have a strong title track to anchor the album, which kind of goes back to having a strong theme or concept to tie the whole thing together. But more importantly, "Moonlight" embodies the quintessential Stevie Nicks experience... love, longing, and Rhiannon.

I think it's in the top 3 with Wild Heart and TISL.

Michele

They could have kept the Moonlight tile, but called the album "Lady From The Mountain"....I think that sums up the feel of the album perfectly.

Here is my list, after a month of having the tracks:

LOVE:

For What It's Worth
You May Be The One
New Orleans
Moonlight
Annabel Lee
My Heart
Everybody Loves You
Cheaper Than Free
Italian Summer

LIKE:

Secret Love
Wild Sargasso Sea

OK:

In Your Dreams
Soldier's Angel
The Ghosts Are Gone

THIS.

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Where is For What It's Worth?:eek:

I guess we're twins then! :)