One year of In Your Dreams; how is it holding up?
 

I still really like this album. I feel that some of the songs are a little too long, but I really the songs and her voice.

It def holds up, but I agree with you about some of the song lengths. I go through phases, but sometimes skip 1, 2, 4, 5.

Still love it.... still listen to it a few times a week...!!! and as you said, song length can sometimes be an issue.

This year has flown by. I still really like the album and play it often - Stevie is my wing woman on my drive to work!

I still love the cd. FWIW will go down as one of my favorite Stevie songs. The cd is strong and Stevie should be proud. Cheaper than free and Everybody loves you will always be my least favorite. Most disappointing closing song on ANY Stevie album....yes, even worse than Jane. Still yet. I love in your dreams!

How funny - Everybody Loves You, In Your Dreams and Italian Summer would go on my stevie nicks greatest hits.

Yup. It's crazy what appeals to some and not to others. I LOVE Italian Summer. It should have closed the cd!

I don't care for Cheaper Than Free and You May Be The One all that much. Other than that I still think it's one of her best and most consistent records ever.

I still love this CD. I love "Secret Love", "You Could Be The One", and ofcourse.....I tend to always go straight to "Moonlight". I love love love "Moonlight" and have not gotten burned out on it yet. The last songs that I listened to forever without getting burned out was "Rooms On Fire", and "Love Is"...... she is still giving us some great music. :)

Still love it. Pretty much everything but Ghosts are Gone. For some reason, I just didn't take to that song.

It's still as brilliant to me as it was when it came out, although I've cooled considerably to Everybody Loves You and find You Could Be The One to be one of the strongest songs on the album.

Still a great cd.But they robbed her on radio airplay.

i think bad single releases helped, but it would be nice to get some single edits - the single edit to ForWhat its Worth was better, please edit Italian summer, annabelle lee and moonlight and see what we get

It's still Excellent for me. It's still the best work she's done, for me, since WH. I think it's lightyears better then what Lindsey offered. My only problem is one she's had for a while. She has trouble editing her stuff. Songs could have been left off and/or shortened. Other then that wonderful album.:thumbsup: I'd dump.....Secret Love, Everybody loves you, Cheaper then Free and I've cooled on Anabel Lee, Also I wish she could have Shortened Ghosts are gone and Wide Sargasso Sea. They just go on a little long. I made a 9 track version that I like. runs 46 mins. And i still listen to the original on occasion.

Mick

A lot of songs need shorterened and it looks like they could of done it. The radio edits were good. The album would of been tighter with more edits.

Dave is finding a distributor for Stevie's documentary right now. We are going to to get it.

I haven't listened to it since it was first released...

Still holds up for me... Great album! If it's the last full length solo album we get from her, she ended on a high note.

There should have been a remix single on one of these tunes put out there.

well that means you will be listening to it fresh -- time to break it out

See? I lump For What It's Worth as one of the worst Stevie tracks along side Jane... but Everybody Loves You is one of the highlights of the album to me. I guess that's the great thing about Stevie... her solo works contain such a potpourri of styles that there's something for everyone.

Otherwise we agree: I still very much enjoy the album 1 year on. I still think quality wise, it's amongst her best solo works... which in my book are Bella Donna & Rock A Little. While there aren't any terribly iconic songs on In Your Dreams, I still think it's a fantastic album. It's meant to be listened to as a whole. Which is why I pretty much always listen to the full thing without skipping any tracks... every piece of the puzzle helps create the beautiful big picture. :thumbsup:

Does anyone have the single edits? I haven't heard them. Also, I wonder if she'll go for a dance remix on this album like she did with Planets of the Universe?

Ghosts Are Gone is the only long song that needs to be that long. That ending is transcendent.

I firmly agree that FWIW ruins the album, and that ELY is among her all-time best. And that there are no standout jaw-droppers here. To me the album is polished flat and hard, without the typical Stevie excesses or self-indulgencies. There is no BATB, EO17, HAEWAFY, Love Is, TISL on this album. Therefore, to me it is great to have a new solo work after 10 years, but it doesn't touch me like some others have.

I still love it.
Cheaper Than Free video is incredible. Can't wait to see what they've done in the documentary with Annabel Lee.

A year later,

Songs I skip:

Wide Sargossa Sea
New Orleans
Soldiers Angel
You May Be The One
Italian Summer

Listen to:

FWIW
In Your Dreams
Annabel Lee
My Heart
Everybody Loves You
Cheaper Than Free

I think that Cheaper Than Free is the saboteur. But coming at the end as it does, if I skip it (and I don't always) I don't ruin the album experience at all. I still here the collective.

The album still holds up for me, but I don't overplay it. I played it when it first came out and then I backed off, so it comes as a revelation when I return to it. Michele

Sorry Hahahahaa. Cheaper Then Free and FWIW are my faves. As everybody knows here that I'm a big country music fan.But I have to say all the tunes on IYD are great.There's no bad apples on IYD .

About once a month I listen to Wide Sargasso Sea,New Orleans,Soldiers Angel & Annabel Lee, and then I pop out the CD.

I listen to it occasionally late at night on the iPad with the earphones on. Most of the time I play nearly all of the songs picking them out one at a time. Annabel Lee is still my favorite even though it is a bit over the top but it is still pure Stevie.

I've started skipping Wide Sargasso Sea. It started to feel a little grating after awhile.

I still feel that New Orleans and Soldier's Angel are well-intentioned in their lyrics, but not good as actual songs. I've warmed to the live performances of Soldier's Angel though.

I like shorter pop songs, too.

My favorite last year was "Annabel Lee," and that is still, by far, my favorite. The words are wonderful, the melody is great, and the sound is classic Fleetwood Mac.

Waddy Wachtel's 10-second instrumental bridge is pointless and unimpressive. It should have been hatcheted.

IYD is still her best album ever. Every track is a winner, and I still agree with the reviews that said IYD is the first Nicks solo album to achieve the classic Mac sound.

"Moonlight" ranks up there with Nicks' best songs. "Annabel Lee" and "New Orleans" are right up there too. "Secret Love", "Everybody Loves You", and "Italian Summer" are wonderful. There isn't a bad song on the album.

I like the instrumental. Makes it grander. The vocal is just about perfection.

Love the jangles in the beginning too.

After one year of its official exsistence I must say that "In Your Dreams" is still the most played album in my private collection :) It's definately the album that I wanted to hear from Stevie at this moment of her career. Solid production, inspiring lyrics, superb vocals and great melodies make this album the strongest effort since "The Other Side of The Mirror". And what's important each listen brings out new elements and aspects of this music. For example in the beginning I wasn't keen on "Ghosts Are Gone" or "You May Be The One" but with time I have learned to appreciate them. The length of some of these songs is not a problem for me. "Annabel Lee" could last for 10 minutes and I would still love every single second of it :) Right now my favourite tracks include: "For What It's Worth" (definately one of the crowning achievements of Stevie's career), "Secret Love", "In Your Dreams", "Wide Sargasso Sea", "New Orleans" and "Annabel Lee". The only negative thing that can be said concerned with the album is the lack of commercial success.

I still listen to it quite a bit. My favorites are still the same: Moonlight, Annabel Lee (wish it was a little shorter), and You May Be the One. I still dislike FWIW. I have tried to like it, but I have no idea what anyone sees in that song. I also still don't care for Ghosts Are Gone.

Gawd, has it been a year?! I still LOVE the album! :thumbsup:

'Moonlight' has become probably my all time favorite Stevie song, and I just adore the rest of the album - well, except for 'You May Be the One' (boring.... ), and 'Ghosts are Gone' (just alot of noise with lame lyrics).

Also, 'Cheaper than Free' could have been replaced by a stronger and better closing track ('Call On Me For Magic' for instance).

Anyways, I still listen to 'IYD' several times a week. :nod:

Oh, I got to see the 'IYD' tour in Saratoga Springs, NY last year, am heading to Boston in July to catch her show there! :blob2:

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Im still listening to it also. I probably listen to it 60% of the time that I am in my car. My favorites are Secret Love, FWIW, WSS, YMBTO, and Italian Summer. Clunkers for me are Moonlight and Cheaper than Free. Im not a big fan of Ghosts are Gone either. I still love the album though.

I haven't listened to the album in its entirety in a while, but my opinion of it hasn't really changed. I'd still rank it as one of Stevie's top 3 solo albums.

Secret Love, Wide Sargasso Sea, Moonlight, and Annabel Lee are still in frequent iPod rotation. I disagree mightily that there are no "iconic" Stevie songs on this album. Those four I just mentioned are as iconic to me as Rooms on Fire or Edge of Seventeen.

I'm prone to thinking that anyone who would rate FWIW as one of Stevie's worst songs simply has bad taste in music. :laugh:

For me "For What It's Worth", "Annabel Lee", "Wide Sargasso Sea" and "Moonlight" and "Soldier's Angel" are Iconic Stevie's songs. Of course being "iconic" doesn't mean that they are the best. "Moonlight" and "Soldier's Angel" sound iconic to me but are not as good as the others (like "New Orleans" or "In Your Dreams"). "Wide Sargasso Sea" is song of epic proportions and love it so much!

I'm still listening to it, never stopped, and I still think it's a good album, but I'm still trying to hear the "blood in these tracks". I do hear blood throughout Bella Donna, The Wild Heart, The Other Side Of The Mirror, and Trouble In Shangri-la, and even some in Street Angel.