Favourite Non-famous Stevie Solo Songs
 

Recently I've made two polls jsut to see exactly how much people like the SUPER hits, but I was a little suprised myself that many people chose songs I wasn't expecting, I've also come across some old threads asking us of our favourite Stevie songs and what I got from them is a lot of people have a hard time or get tired of answering that questions because I think a lot of us get frustrated when it comes down to Edge, Stand Back, I Can't Wait, Talk To Me, and all the duets... so what I tohught of doing is creating a thread totally based on our love for the non-single/non HUGE Stevie songs from her solo career through the years.
Aside from that theres no specific rules, list as many as you like (within reason please;) )

Me First!
 

~Nightbird
~Doing The Best That I Can (Escape From Berlin)
~Love Is
~No Spoken Word
~Some Become Strangers
~If I Were You
~Sable On Blond
~Outside The Rain
~Fall From Grace
~Love Is Like A River
~Desert Angel (I think maybe is was a bside....)


-Strictly demo's I adore and needed to add-
-Blue Lamp (I know this is not a demo at all, but since it was never on one her of solo albums I have always considered it a demo even though it totally isn't. Sorry but I had to put it under this category)
-Thousand Days
-Violet And Blue
-Wild Heart (not technically a demo... but I LOVE the recording of the one with her at a shoot getting her make-up done)
-24 Karat Gold


-Since I'm not a HUUUGE Stevie duet fan I'll throw this list in too-
-Stop Draggin My Heart Around
-Whenever I Call You "Friend"
-Twisted
-You Can't Fix This (Not sure where the hell this would go so let's throw in this category)
-I Need To Know (I actually like the Bella Donna version best, I know this kinda is a duet because she has sang it WITH him before on somewhat recent shows but I'm talking about the BD performance...so technically it isn't a duet it's more ofa cover but I don't feel like making a cover section so let's throw it in this one)
-Leather And Lace
-I Will Run To You


I could probably sit here for another 6 hours moving songs around and changing certain things but I would still probably end up with sometihng very close. This is as good as its going to get. :o

Off the top of my head.. and just Stevie solo songs or demos

Sleeping Angel
China Doll
The Dealer
Nothing Ever Changes
The Highwayman
Think About It
Outside the Rain
For What It's Worth
It's Only Love
Rose Garden
Long Way To Go
Sorcerer
Crystal
Candlebright
Wild Heart
Sable on Blonde
You Can't Fix This
If You Ever Did Believe

That's all I can think of on the spot.

Sanctuary (demo)
Gold and Braid
Enchanted
Ghosts
Fire Burning
If Anyone Falls
Violet and Blue
If You Ever Did Believe (the demo)
Nightbird
Lond Way to Go
Blue Denim
For What It's Worth
After the Glitter Fades
All the King's Horses (demo)
Think About It
Gate and Garden

Landslide - I wish it was a hit for her over the Dixie Chicks
Outside The Rain
Gold & Braid
Sleeping Angel
The Dealer
Wild Heart
Enchanted
All The Beautiful Worlds
Violet And Blue
Sister Honey
If I Were You
Some Become Strangers
No Spoken Word
Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You?
Imperial Hotel
Tied Up (In Promises)
Jimmy Come Back
It's Not A Dream
Chanel Chanel
If You Were My Love
Christian (Spinning Wheels)
Mistaken Love/Frustrated Love/Forsaken Love
Blue Water
Battle Of The Dragon
Julia
One More Tomorrow
China Doll
Ooh My Love
Whole Lotta Trouble
Long Way To Go
Two Kinds Of Love
Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind
Greta
Listen To The Rain
Unconditional Love (Master Mix)
Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream)
New Orleans
Annabel Lee
Secret Love
Planets Of The Universe
Sorcerer
Love Changes
Every Day
Fall From Grace
Love Is
Ghosts Are Gone
Desiree
Smiling Islands
Apartment Song
Secret
Cathouse Blues
Midnight Wind
Belle Fluere
All The Kings Horses
Twisted (Live version)
Nightbird
Sweet Girl (demo version)
Charmed Ones: City of Hope
For What It's Worth
Rose Garden
Call On Me For Magic
I Call You Missing
This Is My Cross To Bear
Castaway
Real Tears
Crash Into Me
The Second Time
Crying In The Night
If You Ever Did Believe
Circle Dance
Rich Old Lady/Mystical Love
Have No Heart
24 Karat Gold (R&B Mix)
Rock A Little (Go Ahead Lily)
Trouble In Shangri-La
I Miss You
Don't Treat Me Like A Stranger
Inspiration
Baby Doll
Let Me Count The Ways
Mirror Mirror
Love And War/Mix Down
Starshine
Ooh Baby
The Nightmare
She Loves Him Still
Rock-A-Bye Baby
Witch/Melacine
Sable On Blonde
What Has Rock N Roll Ever Done For You?
Stay Away
Touched By An Angel
Watchdevil/Watchchain
Cecelia
You Like Me
You're Not The One

In chronological order, solo career:

How Still My Love
Beauty and the Beast
Nightbird
HAEWAFY
The Nightmare
I Sing for the Things
Doing the Best that I Can
Whole Lotta Trouble
I Still Miss Someone
Jane
Kick It
Love Is
I Miss You
Touched By an Angel
Crystal
At Last
Everybody Loves You

With FM:

Beautiful Child
Straight Back
When I See You Again
The Second Time
Sweet Girl
Illume
Everybody Finds Out

I really need to impose a number or I'm just going to end up listing 80% of her catalogue. :laugh: I'll stick with 20. Going with "non-major songs" being defined as ones that were never released for radio airplay or as videos (as far as I'm aware).

You May Be the One (made a minor impression on me at first but is fast become an all-time fav)
Annabel Lee
Everybody Finds Out
Trouble in Shangri-La
Bombay Sapphires
Blue Lamp
Battle of the Dragon
Twisted (Enchanted version)
Street Angel
Doing the Best I Can
Alice (it's true!)
Ooh My Love
Wild Heart
Sable on Blonde
Straight Back
Bella Donna
Beautiful Child
If You Ever Did Believe
Frozen Love
Blue Water

And I'm glad to see mitzo's put The Second Time up. It doesn't make my top 20, but I love that song, too. Never understood the hate.

Thanks - It has always been a fave of mine. I like my Stevie maudlin.

Me too. A lot of the complaints seem to be about the vocals, which I really don't get. I think her newer voice was settling in nicely and was much more suited to this kind of soft ballad than much of her (IMO far more cringeworthy) soft-singing on Tango and RAL. She also doesn't sound nearly as comatose as she does on many of her songs from around that time, at least to these ears.

If You Were My Love
Smile at You (Angry version)
Think About It
Rose Garden
Sable on Blonde
Nothing Ever Changes
The Nightmare
If I Were You
Sister Honey
Juliet
Ghosts
Trouble in Shangr-La
Italian Summer~~I loved the song so much that I visited Positano the summer after it came out!

Solo:

1) Sable on Blond
2) Kind of Woman
3) Bella Donna
4) Nothing Ever Changes
5) If I Were You
6) Ooh My Love
7) Think About It
8) Trouble in Shangri-La
9) It's Only Love
10) If You Ever Did Believe
11) Sleeping Angel
12) Battle of the Dragon
13) You May Be the One
14) Annabel Lee

With FM:
1) Beautiful Child
2) That's Alright
3) Destiny Rules

The Highwayman
Kind of Woman
After The Glitter Fades
How Still My Love
Gold & Braid

Sable On Blonde
Enchanted
Sleeping Angel

Imperial Hotel
Rock A Little (which I never really loved until I heard the unedited version from the UK 12" I Can't Wait Single. Those extra little bits brought it all together.)
Sister Honey
Mirror Mirror (b-side RAL version)

Ooh My Love

Street Angel
Greta
Rose Garden
Love Is Like A River (like an ugly child that only a mother can love)

Candlebright
Bombay Sapphires
Fall From Grace
Trouble In Shangri La

You May Be The One
Italian Summer
Everybody Loves You
Wide Sargasso Sea

I make this easy.I love all whats listed.

I know some of you will come to me and say that I was not happy with her tune with Dave Grohl.

Dilute the guitars alittlebit for I can hear Stevie's voice.Thats my only rant on that tune.

I love to see if the track stems come available for the tune.I will take care of the guitars.

Hahaha I think I'm going to put the same songs from the other thread!

Solo & with FM (in no particular order)

- Twisted (duet)
- Straight Back
- If You Were My Love (demo)
- Outside the Rain
- That's Alright
- Paper Doll
- Illume
- Sweet Girl
- Silver Girl

That's all I think. I don't know much the rest...

Battle of the Dragon...:cool:

To keep it simple, I find it shameful Imperial Hotel and Outside the Rain were not well known outside the fan community.

Solo:

Sleeping Angel
How Still My Love
Gate and Garden (oft criticized, but really a shining moment vocally as her voice wraps around some questionable lyrics and makes it beautiful)
Battle of the Dragon (wonderful story telling put to some sublime music)
Kind of Woman
The Wild Heart (as with Gate and Garden a stellar vocal performance)
Greta (Rhinestone collections is a really neat opening line)
New Orleans (for the dress up and brush by falsetto which I've so longed for)
Sorcerer (the old BN Demo showcases the show stopping Mac song that wasn't to be and where I draw my name from...Der:)
You Like Me: a song with so much potential and had Rock a Little really rocked a little, this would have been the song to open the album with.


Guest/Duets:

All tracks from Walter Egan's Fundamental Roll, Stevie is all over it, inexplicably more than most Fleetwood Mac albums and serves as a moment of reflection to the band that she should have been on every damn song, she is as good a background/harmony vocalist as she is on lead. (she absolutely lets loose here, check out "Where's the Party" it's just amazing)
Midnight Wind: Stevie saves one of the best performances of her career for this song. It just doesn't get much better.
Desiree: As above, Stevie should have captured this period on one of her own records, sort of post Mask where she sang perfectly.

Edit to Add Insider, how could I have forgotten to add this gem, a simple song and is the best of the Petty collaborations, again Stevie just shines vocally and wraps her voice around the incredible story that makes the song.


Fleetwood Mac:
The four songs that accompany the hit Sara from Tusk, what more can we say.
Thrown Down: should have been a monster hit for the Mac, lead single anyone?

Amen to that.

YES! Forgot these two on my list-- great picks.

Spot on with all of these, On Ice...I bolded some of my favorites. I think it's cool that Petty took the title for his record (Hard Promises) from the Insider lyrics. Also, the John Stewart/Walter Egan/Rick Vito (and even Petty) albums are really a tribute to Stevie's hitmaking presence as a harmony singer. It seems like having her on your record would probably boost sales to about twice what they would have been otherwise. Additionally, Gate and Garden is one of my all time favorites, and I honestly didn't realize how crappy the lyrics were until it was pointed out to me-I was just busy enjoying the amazing vocal.

I would go as far to say that the Gate and Garden vocal contains just about every strength that Stevie had in her voice and is up there with Edge of Seventeen as her very best solo album vocal. It's just perfect. Especially "while it is not heaven" and "it's just a game that we play" she just nails it. :nod:

urghh too many to name:

Frozen Love
Crystal (both)

Think About It
Planets (both)
Beautiful Child

Outside the Rain
How Still My Love
Bella Donna
Blue Lamp

Garbo
Sleeping Angel
Nothing Ever Changes
Beauty & the Beast

If I Were You
I Sing For the Things
No Spoken Word

Demos:
Mistaken Love
Space Needle
Starshine
Belle Fluer

(just about all of TOSOTM)
Ooh My Love
Ghosts
Fire Burning
Juliet
Doing The Best
I Still Miss Someone

(Yes) both Sometimes it's a Bitch and Love's a Hard Game

Freedom
Affairs of the Heart
Paper Doll
Twisted (duet)
Sweet Girl

(alot from SA)
Rose Garden and pretty much all of (side 2) from Unconditional Love

If You Ever Did Believe
Reconsider Me
TISL
It's Only Love
Fall From Grace
Love Is

Thrown Down
RTTG
Destiny Rules

The many covers Free Fallin', I Need To Know, Crash Into Me, The One

For What It's Worth
In Your Dreams
Annebel Lee
You May Be The ONE!

Don't Stop and Rock N' Roll :laugh: j/k

Outside the Rain (if I had to chose a fave Stevie song, this would be it)
How Still My Love
Insider
Sleeping Angel
I Will Run To You
Nothing Ever Changes
Sable On Blond
Rock a Little
Some Become Strangers
Unconditional Love
Kick It
Trouble in Shangri-la
Sorcerer
You May Be the One
Annabel Lee

That's Alright
Straight Back
Freedom
Paper Doll
Running Through The Garden
Illume
Kind Of Woman
Sable On Blond
Garbo
Nothing Ever Changes
I Sing For The Things
Imperial Hotel
One More Big Time Rock And Roll Star
If I Were You
Ooh My Love
Ghosts
Love Is Like A River
Greta
Rose Garden
TISL(the song)
New Orleans
Battle Of The Dragon
Blue Lamp

There are a million and a half demos I could pick but I'm just gonna write the one I always play first, especially when I'm at the beach: Blue Water

Oh bless you, you constructed a perfect list for me. Sleeping Angel was the beginning of my Stevie and subsequent FM obsession, and I think my love for The Dealer borders on unhealthy. :lol:

The Rose Garden demo from 1985 is the best one. Let me add Blue Lamp, Violet and Blue, and Lady From the Mountain before she Twilightized it.

LOVE these choices. I never understood all the hate for Paper Doll:shrug:

I would like to add the brilliant demo version of The Chain that we finally got to hear this year. I'm shocked that those lyrics never surfaced in another song, they're spell binding.

Oh definitely, if I did a whole list, Paper Doll would certainly be on it.

Michele

Stevie is probably the only artist that I play the entire album through without skipping songs.

Me too. When I put the album on, I usually end up listening to the whole thing (although I skip Rock a Little and most of Mirror).

Because it sounds like a circus polka. :shrug:

Edit: I wanted to add - this is not a bad thing on its own. It's the specific combination of circus polka and Stevie Nicks that is terrible. Two things that should never mix. Ever. I would liken it to Dolly Parton doing scream metal, or Madonna doing super twangy country music, or Justin Bieber covering Edge of Seventeen. Some things just don't go together, and Paper Doll is the offspring of one of those terrible, unnatural combinations.

I can kind of see where you're coming from. Not the best choice for musical accompaniment, lol.

I have always seen Paper Doll as a kind of goofy novelty song. It is so far out there it is almost a kind of parody.

True, but I've still always been fond of the vocal.

Paper Doll really works for me, but it certainly was kind of an oddball step for the band. I can see why a lot of people don't much care for it. That certainly isn't the kind of sound people normally listen to Stevie Nicks with the hopes of hearing.

I like Paper Doll. I think it's a good song, but it's maybe not the sound of Fleetwood Mac.
For me, it's just like Family Man, or songs like that. They're good, but contrast with other songs, I don't know if I'm talking clear...
And, knowing that after its release, Stevie left the band, it' her farewell song, and it gives another meaning maybe. But, I repeat, it's a good song, but not ideal for FM.
Regards!

I love Escape from Berlin. I don't quite know exactly why I do, but it has always appealed to me. And Annabel Lee because, well, Edgar Allen Poe is one of my very favorites. Rock a Little is also a favorite....let's see...and If I Were You I've always just totally adored.

Oh and Blue Lamp is one of my very favorites too.

I really put in the effort to limit myself on this, so I stuck to solo album tracks and came up with:

If I Were You
If Anyone Falls
Outside the Rain
How Still My Love
Some Become Strangers
Gate and Garden
Blue Lamp

Lyrically speaking, I couldn't leave these out:

I Sing for the Things
Imperial Hotel
Ghosts

For some reason, I view these latter songs and a few others in a group all their own. I think I do this because, reading the lyrics, a side of Stevie is portrayed that differs from a lot of the notions people have about her from what she says in interviews and such. These songs all portray those feelings of doubt, regret, and just genuine fear about her life and the path that she has ultimately chosen. They make it seem as if she believes in the thoughts she doesn't largely put out for the public, that being Stephanie Nicks, aside from the persona of Stevie Nicks, isn't all it's cracked up to be and that fame, wealth, and success are truly not of the utmost importance at the heart of it all. As with her quote in Mick's book, "Sometimes I think I should go back to being a waitress; maybe I would enjoy life more."

For me, personally, it invokes a bit of sadness and serves as a reminder to make sure that I will be able to live with the decisions I make for my future. As a young law student, I am fully aware that the career path I have chosen mirrors the path that Stevie chose in that it isn't very conducive to family life, is largely male-dominated, is very demanding and time-consuming, but can be extremely successful and rewarding. Songs like these say to me, "while it may be fantastic and successful and people may think your career path, or even your life, is enviable, there will be nights where you live in doubt and regret and want the exact opposite of all that you have."

-------Nightbird

Think About It
How Still My Love
Sable on Blonde
No Spoken Word
Doing The Best I Can
Love Changes
Everybody Loves You
You May Be The One
Battle Of The Dragon
Garbo
Violet and Blue