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Stevie Nicks: The Soundstage Sessions(Reprise)
Katie Toms The Observer, Sunday 15 March 2009 Article historyStevie Nicks The Soundstage Sessions Reprise, CD 2009 Buy it at the Guardian Shop

When a performer needs an album more than the listener, you know you're in for trouble. As Fleetwood Mac embark on the latest of their reincarnations with a 43-date tour across America and Canada and with plans to return to the studio later this year, Nicks pops her own money spinner on the merch stall. These 10 tracks recorded alongside her 2007 solo tour cover career highlights such as "Stand Back", "Sara" and "Landslide", but remain bewilderingly unchanged decades on. Even a cover of "Crash Into You" receives little interpretation from the Dave Matthews Band original. Only for diehard fans.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/20.../14/popandrock

ouch, this was not the best review!

What a crappy review...apparently her opinion is in complete contrast to everyone else who has gotten the opportunity to listen to the album. And it's called Crash into Me, not Crash into You dummy!

that lady probably didnt even listen to it. i hate when people dont know what they are talking about.

Hmmmm, so I guess "Crash" through the eyes of a woman didn't work for this reviewer. :rolleyes: All I can say is just shut up about it and give me that GD record!! :laugh:

What an unlightented and stupid review. I doubt she even listened to the cd, not mentioning that it was a studio effort of 10 of the 19 songs from The Soundstage special, and Stevie's take on 'Crash' is fantastic, to me, it sounds like it could be a long-lost "Tusk" out-take, and the evolution of 'Stand Back' is a case of Stevie having improved upon her original version.
Yet, I have to admit, I haven't heard the cd yet, either! Maybe with some luck and cooperation from the US Post Office and Warner Brothers Records, all of us in pre-order purgatory will have our cd-dvd-lithograph this week! I can't wait, I can't wait.
And isn't it interesting that this is the FIRST time that a Fleetwood Mac tour is being promoted by the release of a Stevie Nicks solo project? A Stevie cd-dvd to promote the Mac tour, and a Mac tour to promote the Stevie cd-dvd. How unusual :)
I bet Mr. Buckingham might even be willing to learn 'Crash' and put it into the next leg of the Unleashed Tour, should the song become a hit. I think radio may jump on it. I hope so.

There are many people on here and on the other Stevie/Mac forum who have reported hearing it on the radio multiple times, which is a very good sign, because radio is actually playing a new Stevie song! My dumbass local radio station thinks that Stand Back is the newest thing Stevie's ever recorded.

Ouch is right! But I have to agree a little bit here... if Stevie is going to bother doing cover versions, she should at least try to do something different with it. But "Crash" is almost note-for-note identical to DMB's original, save for a few gender-related switches.

Perhaps a widely held view, but not a universal one. I haven't liked "Stand Back" onstage since the Wild Heart tour (when I absolutely loved it).

This could be a cool new thread, "Which Stevie songs sound better on stage than the original recorded versions?"

My votes would include 'Outside the Rain' and 'SDMHA', at least from the RAL Tour.

"Gold and Braid" (WWD tour)
"Nightbird" (Solid Gold)
"Rooms on Fire" (TOSOTM tour)
"Sistahs of the Moon" (Mirage tour)
"No Spoken Word" (RAL tour)
"Has Anyone Ever Written Anything..." (GoldDust tour)
"I Need to Know" (all tours)

Well since I haven't got the cd yet or the dvd for that fact....I can't myself review it. I also don't feel like I should blast this reviewer either. They can have there opinion as can we all here. I also won't say great stuff about Stevie just cause I am a fan either. (Same with Fmac too) Its important to be honest. If you like it great if you don't thats ok too. The one thing that I will complain about is:.....why doesn't the cd have all the songs on it or heck at least 15 songs on it. Cds hold so much and to only have 10 songs it so wrong. Its like why are they holding back? I don't understand it. Don't they want to sell it??
I just got Sarah Brightmans Live in Vienna ...the cd has 15 songs on it (don't have the dvd yet--not sure how many 'total' songs are really on it) but she also had her show on PBS too. I watched the dvd. Which is great I might add Sarah has such a wonderful voice. Incredible really....anyway, they put 15 songs on hers why didn't they put more on Stevie's? It makes no sense to me. Anyone else wonder this as well? :shrug::confused:

The CD has 10 songs on it because A) the time of each song is longer than the original versions so it's about 60 minutes of music and B) she didn't want to give us all the same songs yet again like Dreams and Rhiannon.

Ok now do you know that is how many minutes the cd is? Still a cd can hold upto close to /at least 79.00 minutes of music. Plus this is her first 'offically' release live cd ever (not counting Fmac live in 1980)....Just some thoughts thats all. :confused:

It is exactly 54:17, and a standard CD with 12 songs runs about 45 minutes. Here's the site with the run times for each song:

http://www.warnermusic.ch/catalogue_...984214-sD.html

Have to agree. Not my favorite cover of her's. I loved I need to know though :angel: