What is the appropriate number of tracks that should be on a Stevie Nicks Anthology?
 

What is the appropriate number of tracks that should be on a Stevie Nicks Anthology?

Please define anthology. Not the definition of the word - but what your intention was. A career spanning anthology? A greatest hits?

A solo career spanning anthology… includes that soundtracks and miscellaneous stuff she did too.

I picked 40 because it was the highest number, but I think Enchanted had 50, right? So, really I'd like to say about 70 because she's had three albums since Enchanted, and a few more soundtrack tunes.

Then again, if this anthology were marketed as more of an Enchanted II, then 45 tracks is probably sufficient to pick up where Enchanted left off, still spread across three CDs, including the tracks that were missed the first time like Mirror Mirror, Inspiration, Real Tears, etc...

For an anthology I'd say 40 songs:

CD 1:
Stop Dragging My Heart Around
Leather and Lace
Edge of Seventeen
After The Glitter Fades
Bella Donna
Blue Lamp
Stand Back
If Anyone Falls In Love
Nightbird
Beauty and the Beast
Sleeping Angel
Talk To Me
I Can't Wait
Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You
Battle of the Dragons
Rooms On Fire
Two Kinds of Love
Long Way To Go
Ooh My Love
Sometimes It's a Bitch

CD 2:
Maybe Love Will Change Your Mind
Blue Denim
Twisted
Reconsider Me
Every Day
Planets of the Universe
Sorcerer
Trouble In Shangri-La
Love Is
Touched By An Angel
Secret Love
For What It's Worth
Moonlight
Soldier's Angel
You Can't Fix This
The Dealer
Lady
Starshine
24 Karat Gold
Blue Water

Now I'm thinking even moreso this is a great idea, with a re-release of Enchanted, and a simultaneous 6 disc collection to encompass both, in a fabulously deluxe box set, with a lithograph, some post cards, a photo book and some trinket-y thing like a badge, pin, patch or key ring. Or a moon necklace. :laugh:

She doesn't hand those out to just anybody.

maybe something like this...

1. Leather and Lace
2. Edge of Seventeen
3. Stop Dragging My Heart Around
4. After the Glitter Fades
5. Kind of Woman
6. Bella Donna
7. Midnight Wind
8. Stand Back
9. Nightbird
10. If Anyone Falls
11. Beauty and The Beast (soundstage)
12. How Still My Love (soundstage)
13. Sable on Blond
14. Enchanted
15. Talk to Me
16. I can't wait
17 Has Anyone Ever Written
18. If I Were You
19. Rock A Little
20.The Wild Heart
21. Outside the Rain
22. Sleeping Angel
23. Rooms on Fire
24. Juliet
25. Ooh My Love
26. If You Ever Did Believe
27. Kick It
28. Greta
29. Trouble In Shangri La
30. Planets of the Universe
31. Candlebright
32. Sorcerer
33. 24k gold
34. The Dealer
35. If you were my love
36. Hard Advice
37 Blue Water
38 She Loves Him Still
39. Belle Fleur
40. Mabel Normand

I really hope Stevie's next move, if not a new album, is a boxset of all her solo albums with new liner notes, all digitally remastered with bonus tracks, and then a bonus disc. Something like this:

Stevie Nicks: The Complete Studio Recordings

Disc 1 - Bella Donna
CD/DVD set with HBO special + Blue Lamp, Gold & Braid, alternate mixes, outtakes etc
Disc 2 - The Wild Heart
+ Garbo & bonus material
Disc 3 - Rock A Little
CD/DVD set with Red Rocks+ OMBTR&RS, Mirror Mirror, The Nightmare (12" remix) & bonus material
Disc 4 - The Otherside Of the Mirror
+ Real Tears, Whole Lotta Trouble live etc
Disc 5 - Street Angel
+ Inspiration, God's Garden, Thousand Days etc
Disc 6 - Trouble In Shangri-La
+ full 'Planets', Thrown Down, My Heart and alternate mixes/remixes
Disc 7 - Soundstage Sessions
CD/DVD set + Gold Dust Woman and Edge of Seventeen
Disc 8 - In Your Dreams
CD/DVD set including the documentary
Disc 9 - 24 Karat Gold
Deluxe version
Disc 10 - Bonus

1. Sleeping Angel
2. Voilet & Blue
3. Battle of the Dragon
4. Talk To Me (Time/Life version)
5. Sometime's It's A Bitch
6. Love's A Hard Game to Play
7. Desert Angel
8. Touched By An Angel
9. If You Ever Did Believe
10. Crystal
11. Twisted (soundtrack version)
12. My Heart (IYD version)
13. At Last
14. Free Fallin'
15. It's Late
16. Reconsider Me
17. You Can't Fix This

imo..
 

a true Stevie Nicks Anthology should include her Fleetwood Mac work as it is among her best. It may not be solo music, but it still is Stevie Nicks and a significant part of her work.

^^^ Ditto!!! :thumbsup:

We'll of course but that is never going to happen.

I agree theoretically with the principle of an anthology with both solo and FM work, but from a practical point of view I have to say that including her group work would make the anthology of even more colossal proportions.
Also, her group efforts are very different from her solo work and they would sound better if they were released as two separate anthological releases.
Including only her solo work would make room for interesting deep cuts that are less known to the audience.
I would make something like this:

1) Stop Draggin' my heart around
2) Gold and braid
3) Edge of seventeen
4) Bella Donna
5) Leather and lace
6) How still my love
7) After the glitter fades
8) Blue lamp
9) The wild heart
10) If anyone falls
11) Nightbird
12) Stand back
13) I will run to you
14) Beauty and the Beast
15) Battle of the dragon
16) Violet and blue
17) Rock a little
18) Imperial hotel
19) Talk to me
20) I can't wait
21) Has anyone ever written anything for you?
22) Rooms on fire
23) Alice
24) Whole lotta trouble
25) Long way to go
26) Two kinds of love
27) Blue Denim
28) Maybe love will change your mind
29) Crystal
30) If you ever did believe
31) Trouble in Shangri-La
32) Everyday
33) Planets of the unverse
34) Sorcerer
35) Secret love
36) For what it's worth
37) The dealer
38) 24 Karat gold
39) Mabel Normand
40) Lady

(Not necessarily in this order)

Of course it could happen. Why do you think it would NEVER happen?

I like how comprehensive this is. I would add Not Fade Away, Stand By Me, Needles and Pins, and a few others I can't remember right now.

I prefer the distinction of Stevie Nicks solo work apart from Stevie's Fleetwood Mac songs. Both are a part of her legacy, yet they are they two parallel worlds. In Fleetwood Mac she is part of a family, and as a solo artist she is an independent.

Given the volume of her work, it would be somewhat unwieldy compromise to encompass both worlds in a compilation. Her Fleetwood Mac songs are infinitely more familiar, circulated and accessible. Her solo work has the integrity to stand on its own, yet a good portion of it is either obscure or unattainable.

I hope she releases more "new" music in the same manner as 24 Karat Gold. However, a new Enchanted-like box set would be welcome, featuring a complete updated iteration of all her stray songs (b-sides, soundtracks etc...), along with select tracks from her three albums since then, as well as rare songs - live, demos and alternate mixes. It could easily be a three disc set, along with a DVD!

She's already released one Mac track, "Silver Springs" on a solo compilation, so that opens the door for more. A true retrospective of her best work ought to include both. Of course, diehard fans can easily compile their own playlist. But it would be nice for more casual fans to appreciate the overall greatness she's achieved both solo and with others (Mac/duets).

So my initial list would be (assuming this all would fit onto discs):

Disc 1:

Rhiannon
Landslide
Dreams
Silver Springs (original mix)
Gold Dust Woman
Sara
Storms
Angel
Leather & Lace
Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
Kind of Woman
Blue Lamp
Sleeping Angel
That's Alright
Gypsy
Straight Back
Garbo
Beauty & the Beast

Disc 2:

If Anyone Falls
Nightbird
Stand Back
Talk to Me
Imperial Hotel
Seven Wonders
No Questions Asked
Twisted
If You Ever Did Believe
Sorcerer
Planets of the Universe (full length)
Thrown Down
Moonlight
Annabel Lee
You May Be the One
24 Karat Gold
Starshine
Belle Fleur

I have spent this past month trying to come up with the ULTIMATE Stevie Nicks playlist for my iTunes/iPod. I tried my best to sequence it just right...to make one song flow into the next and I think I've finally got my complete track listing. So yes, this is what my version of a perfect Stevie Nicks Boxed Set Anthology would look like. And yes, it includes both solo and Fleetwood Mac, like any complete and comprehensive Stevie Nicks retrospective should. I really hope something like this comes to fruition someday!
(Bear with me ~ this is long. All tracks are the regular album version unless noted as otherwise.)

Disc One
1. Sisters Of The Moon (Single Version)
2. Blue Lamp
3. The Nightmare (12" Single Remix Version)
4. Sister Honey
5. No Questions Asked
6. Alice
7. Sable On Blonde
8. How Still My Love
9. Edge Of Seventeen (Live Single B-Side Version from '81)
10. Sleeping Angel
11. Blue Water
12. If You Ever Did Believe (Practical Magic Soundtrack)
13. Whenever I Call You Friend
14. Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win ~ Single Version)
15. If You Were My Love

Disc Two
1. Docklands
2. Juliet
3. Mirror, Mirror (B-Side of "Blue Denim Cassette Single)
4. Nothing Ever Changes
5. Thrown Down (TISL Acetate Version)
6. Running Through The Garden
7. Watch Chain
8. Angel (Live 1981 Wilshire Fox Theatre)
9. Bella Donna (Live 1981 Wilshire Fox Theatre)
10. Destiny
11. Hard Advice
12. Ooh My Love
13. All The Beautiful Worlds
14. If I Were You
15. Secret Love

Disc Three
1. Candlebright
2. Gold Dust Woman
3. Frozen Love
4. Silver Springs (The Dance Version)
5. Twisted ("Twister" Soundtrack Version)
6. Greta
7. Thousand Days
8. Italian Summer
9. Wild Heart
10. Think About It
11. Gold & Braid (Live 1981 Wilshire Fox Theatre)
12. Enchanted
13. Crying In The Night
14. Fireflies
15. Sara

Disc Four
1. Dreams
2. 24 Karat Gold
3. Moonlight
4. Battle Of The Dragon
5. Bombay Sapphires (TISL Acetate Version)
6. Illume
7. Rock A Little (Extended 12" Single Version)
8. Long Way To Go (Extended 12" Remix Version)
9. Planets Of The Universe (Extended Album Version)
10. Doing The Best I Can
11. Nightbird
12. Gate & Garden
13. Violet & Blue
14. Belle Fleur
15. Blue Denim

Disc Five
1. Crystal (Practical Magic Soundtrack)
2. Beautiful Child (Alternate Mix from FM's "The Chain" boxed set)
3. Everybody Loves You
4. In Your Dreams
5. If Anyone Falls
6. I Can't Wait (Remix with slow intro from Single B-Side)
7. Rooms On Fire
8. Sorcerer
9. Gypsy (Extended Mix from FM's "The Chain" boxed set)
10. Smile At You
11. Trouble In Shangri-La
12. For What It's Worth (Radio Edit)
13. Storms
14. Julia (Take 9 from the Bella Donna Recording Sessions)
15. Goodbye Baby

To note ~ By the time something like this would hopefully come out, she would have given us three more records (Vault Songs #2, A Rhiannon Album and another solo album with new material) plus whatever songs of hers on the upcoming Mac album(s) would warrant inclusion...making this a SIX DISC anthology retrospective.

^^^ But of course that's all just wishful thinking on my part! :lol:

Because Fleetwood Mac is not Stevie Nicks and they want their Anthology to sale, not hers.

I can think of a million artists who were apart of a band that went solo that now have "essential collections" and "anthologies" that include both their band and solo work...ahem...
Gloria Estefan
Lou Reed
STING
Bryan Ferry
George Michael
MICHAEL JACKSON
Diana Ross
Kenny Loggins...
...shall I go on?

It is totally within the realm of possibility that a Stevie solo AND Mac anthology could be released. After all, Stevie's Mac songs are still copy written under her publishing company "Welsh Witch Music" plus her relationship with Mick is better than ever. It is HE, after all, who would have to give permission for "studio album Mac" songs to appear on a "Stevie Nicks" release...and I don't see why he wouldn't do that. Fleetwood Mac would also profit from it as well. It would be a win-win. Don't forget that the studio version of "Silver Springs" was on CRYSTAL VISIONS...most likely as an apology from Mick for not letting her have it for "Timespace". I seriously doubt he'd make that mistake again.

So yes, it's your opinion that it WON'T happen...and it's MY opinion that it WILL happen. Let's just agree to disagree. :sorry::xoxo: