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ALBUM REVIEW — STEVIE NICKSIn album review on 04/20/2011 at 10:08 am
Stevie Nicks
In Your Dreams
(Reprise)
Despite her long career and legend status, Stevie Nicks is only as good as her collaborators. Think Lindsey Buckingham, who guided her through her prime Fleetwood Mac years, or Prince’s royal synths on “Stand Back.” On her first album in a decade, Nicks teams up with Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard (best known for his work with Alanis Morissette) for an album that embraces both Nicks’ witchy-woman persona (“Moonlight”) and ’70s-era FM-radio rock (“For What It’s Worth”). That combo does little to lift Nicks or In Your Dreams out of their soggy pasts. Which is probably the point. Still, “Secret Love” is her best single since “Talk to Me,” and “Italian Summer” shows some spark. Too bad so much of Dreams is such a snooze-

I found this from some guy in Cleveland that writes reviews .Not sure how legit he is ..hopefully not too.

Eh, he doesn't explain WHY it's such a "snooze" so, I don't think it's too bad.

I'm waiting for the allmusic review; they've already updated her biography with this;

but it wasn't until 2011 -- almost a decade to the day after Trouble in Shangri-La's release -- that Nicks returned with a new solo album. Produced by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard, In Your Dreams found her singing a mix of Bob Dylan-inspired folk songs, Italian love ballads, and rock anthems.

So I'm assuming the review will be out soon. Allmusic has pretty much been spot on with their reviews for all of Stevie's albums, imo.

Stevie's in her 60s and has stayed true to her style for 4 decades... what exactly was he expecting? :shrug:

that's a critical look at In Your Dreams, I don't think so. Anyone ever hear of objectivity.

It sounds plenty objective... but it's wholly lacking in specific details to back up his claims. There is no "this track is lackluster because of this" or "this track is promising because of that" etc.

So he is saying that she's made songs reminiscent of seventy's rock and stayed true to her witchy persona? SOUNDS GOOD TO ME!:laugh::]

Yeah ..this guy's reviews are all short and even the good ones he wrties like for Emmylou's new album aren't very specific.

no it doesn't sound plenty objective, he's already had it in his head that she doesn't have any talent, he's on twitter, and he is a total dork, sounds very immature from twitter.

I twittered him and told him to blow it out his ass. Douche bag.

That's probably not the best way to endear a music critic to Stevie... :wavey:

Well, he is a douche bag, another indie critic nerd. Stevie's too successful for him you know. And the Cleveland Scene is nothing. This isn't really a real review.

I'm gonna cry.:(

At least you had the guts to tell him exactly what I was thinking, too... This review doesn't seem very fair to me.:(

I never listen to "Critics" anyway. If I did, I'd have about 5 albums:lol:

Mick