Assembling one album from the hazy years
 

Stevie said in an interview that she wrote nothing good from 1987-1995, if I remember correctly.
If she had released one album in this period (I know, I'd hate that, too), which THIRTEEN songs FROM ALBUMS THAT WERE RELEASED IN THESE YEARS should be included? Feel free to pick songs that were on albums but were not written by her, but you may not change any song's production, arrangement, vocal, etc. Also, B sides are fair game.
Then choose ONE of the songs to be the album title.

My choices:

Seven Wonders
WTTRS
Rooms on Fire
Long Way to Go
Ooh My Love
Ghosts
Juliet
Freedom
Blue Denim
Destiny
Rose Garden
God's Garden
Paper Doll

The title is Paper Doll (edging out Seven Wonders). Not a bad album, actually. I even had to leave out a few almosts.

Your picks?

- Jake

Hmmm....now you've got me thinking about burning off a new compilation album, "The Klonopin Years 1987-1995!"

The songs you chose reflect some of the best of those comatose years.

I haven't heard that exact quote, but I have heard similar. What I have heard her say however, is that even though she was on Klonopin when TOSOTM was released and she toured, she was not on Kolonopin when it was written and that she does not think it was a bad album. I have to agree as I really like that album and I think it was not a big hit for a number of reasons-mostly that she just wasn't the hot new thing anymore so it got a little overlooked, and I also think releasing Two Kinds of Love as the second single was wrong, considering Long Way to Go was getting lots of airplay and had entered the Billboard top 10 for Rock Tracks (Rooms On Fire actually went to no.1 on that chart). So I think TOSOTM wouldn't be considered a failure had it had one more hit song, plus that would've helped it sell more. Ooops, sorry about my OSOTM rant!
So I'm not sure I'd have enough to choose from to make an album if I'm considering OSOTM as not an option to choose from, but I would definately say I think Maybe Love Will Change....., and it's B side Inspiration were great examples of Stevie's sort of sweet soft-pop sort of side, that I loooooooooove her take on Free Fallin', and that about 1/2 of Street Angel is pretty good (when she isn't wailing like a female BonJovi, as Rolling Stone said in their review!).
Ricoh

My album:

Long Way To Go
Juliet
Seven Wonders
Doing The Best That I Can (I detest the production, but the song itself is incredibly intense)
Greta
Rooms On Fire
Ooh My Love

I can't think of any others! :laugh:

My Album...

1. Blue Denim
2. Rooms on Fire
3. Seven Wonders
4. WTTR...S
5. Long Way to Go
6. Freedom
7. Somebody Stand By Me
8. Paper Doll
9. Thousand Days
10. Doing the Best I Can
11. It's Late
12. Juliet
13. Cry Wolf

The track order is messed up, but oh well :-p

I wish I had room for #s 10 and 13. They're good.
To be honest, I forgot # 7, which is a great one.

- Jake

I'm with you on all of these except Greta. I think it's one of the worst ever by her. But I do like the outtake with the quicker drum track for some reason.

- Jake

FYI, from May 12, The Globe and Mail (with thanks to the Nicksfix):

Stevie Nicks doesn't remember it. But that's quite understandable, because she remembers very little from the period. She describes the whole era from 1986 to 1994 as "my black hole." They were, for Nicks, the Prozac years, when a well-intentioned doctor directed her to tranquilizers, such as Prozac and Klonopin, as a way of breaking her from the self-destructive cycle of cocaine and brandy binges that had marked the previous decade.

"The eight years that I took Prozac are the only real regret I have in my life," recounted the 53-year-old singer in Toronto recently. "Those eight years were a big, black hole. I didn't do anything good. I didn't write any good songs."

- Jake

I love it just because it's something very different from the usual Stevie. it sounds *very* out of place on SA, though. As any GOOD song would. :laugh:

I love Destiny (in this case, NOT the demo!) quite a bite.
The album version of Greta has the same quality I don't like in Love Changes on TISL. Just don't ask me to name the quality; I haven't been able to.

- Jake

You'd have to dope me up with valium to get me to give Love Changes a spin on my turntable, and the same goes with Destiny. Destiny smacks of cheesiness and it just seems to go on forevevah. And the sax on it is very annoying to these ears. :laugh:

I prefer Dave Koz to Kenny G on her songs any day.
I love the harmonies near the end of Destiny. They were left out of the live version on the tour, so the song in concert didn't work for me at all. (The thudding drums were a minus, too.)

- Jake

I prefer guitar to sax on her songs any day. ;) :laugh:

I hate to say it, but when I saw her in '94, I flipped through the tourbook during Destiny. Hey, at least I didn't go to the bathroom!

That is the WORST tourbook!
Somebody spilled beer on mine, the pages stuck together and some got torn, and let me tell you, none of that diminished the quality of the book at all.:laugh:
The full page pics are awful.* There were great photos during that period. Why didn't she use them?
(* I do like the inside cover photo, with her on the red couch, hand on chest, if I remember.)

- Jake

Sorry, nothing compares in sheer awfulness to the TISL tourbook; that was the pits. I'm embarassed to say that I actually spent $20 on that piece of sh*t.

I only look at the tourbooks once anyways, then I put them in plastic and and frames, then I hang them up.