My Stevie compilatin album for a friend
 

Hi everyone,

A good friend of mine, after hanging around with me for so long, is belatedly getting into Fleetwood Mac and Stevie. After giving one of my several copies of Rumours and watching the classic albums documentary I'm going to see how she fares with Tusk, haha.

Amyway, she asked me to make her a cd of Stevie's solo stuff and so that's what I spent some time on today. I'm sure these kinds of threads have been done time and time again but hey, they're always good for fun debate and provoking outrage so I thought I'd share my choices with you and see what you thought.

I'd also be interested in what you think of the sequencing, as I was constantly changing the order of the tracks until I was happy with them.

I set myself some ground rules: All tracks had to be from her solo output (have done a companion Mac cd for her), all albums had to be represented and I focused on her biggest hits and my favourite album cuts. I think there are a few random choices in there!

Here's what I've come up with for her:

1. Stand Back (was gonna go for Soundstage version but since it's an introductory cd I didn't.)

2. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
3. Rooms On Fire
4. Leather and Lace
5. Enchanted
6. Talk To Me
7. Too Far From Texas
8. How Still My Love (again, not soundstage one. It was too long!)
9. If Anyone Falls (No 'in love' on my tracklist. I'm old school - haha!)
10. Think About It
11. Blue Denim
12. After The Glitter Fades
13. Sorcerer
14. Crash
15. Fall From Grace (again, the album version, not Soundstage)
16. Beauty and the Beast (it HAD to be Soundstage version this time!)
17. Edge of Seventeen (and I've just noticed the 'seventeen' is track 17 now - d'oh!)

What do you guys think? I'm pretty happy with it but I do know that Rock A Little, Other Side of the Mirror and Street Angel are undererpresented but hey, there's always volume 2 for slightly more obscure tracks!

Let the debate begin....

Why 'Too Far From Texas'? I'd either switch that with 'Nightbird', 'I Can't Wait' or 'Planets'.

i'd use beauty and the beast from the wild heart,
and put i cant wait in

I was in two minds whether or not to put I Can't Wait on. I know it was a big hit and Stevie always says how much she likes it (as she proved by putting it on Crystal Visions) but it's just never done it for me and so my own opinion won out! I thought Talk To Me would do just as well as an introduction to the Rock A Little era. I can always just play I Can't Wait for her here sometime.

As for Too Far From Texas - I just love it! One of the strongest tracks she's done in years and I think it's a very important song on Trouble In Shangri-La.

I like your selections but I definitely would add I Can't Wait. To me this song is one Stevie needs to add to here solo tours as the opening number. I also would add in a couple of gems that don't get alot of attention, as bonus tracks.

1. No Spoken Word

2. Outside the Rain

Great complilation, your friend is lucky you know how to get your Nickfix!!

Didn't Stevie say once that they tried doing I Can't Wait live once and it was a complete disaster? I think it may have been on the Crystal Visions dvd of the video. She said something like it's a studio track and just doesn't work on stage or something like that....

I dont think shes ever done it live has she

If I were you I'd add Outside the Rain, I Can't Wait, Sister Honey, and Alice. I'd also throw in some demos and stuff in there, like Christian/Spinning Wheels.

Yes. She sang it throughout the Rock A Little Tour.

Yeah she said that...either she forgot she played it basicly the whole entire RAL tour, or she thought on one night in sounded bad, and the rest were on fire.

You never knew what you could get with I Can't Wait...but that's the fun part. :) Search for I can't wait live on youtube, I've posted up one version there.

I would put Edge first on your list...just cause it's such a powerful track that got me personally into Stevie in the first place.

I gotta agree with replacing Too Far from Texas - with just about anything. :lol: I'd kick out Crash and replace with any of her own songs - how about Maybe Love? It would be nice to end with HAEWAFY or any other slower song.

But it is very nice how it is now...cool that you are giving someone else "the bug"

I love thinking about this kind of stuff . . . it's like "if you were stranded on a desert island and could only take 5 cds" . . .

Anyway, I would agree that Too Far From Texas is a little out of place. I would replace it with something like Blue Lamp, or maybe Long Way to Go from RAL. I can't remember now--did you have After the Glitter Fades? That's one of my favorite Stevie solo songs.

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yeah, I'd put I Can't Wait, Wild Heart, Blue Lamp, Gold and Braid, Violet and Blue, and Nightbird on there. Those are some of my favs...all her stuff is amazing though. Its hard to narrow down. I would drive myself crazy trying to make a CD where you can only put 17 or 18 tracks on it lolol :lol:

Would it be far too controversial to add Crystal and/or If You Ever Did Believe?
I know they aren't "vintage" Stevie strictly speaking.. but..

Get rid of Blue Denim and sorcerer. Where is Nightbird and Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You.

Outside the rain.
Alice.

:rolleyes: