IYD Press Reviews & Discussion
 

First one to arrive in my email, so I figured I'd start a thread for all the reviews that will no doubt be all over the internets...and also doing my part to keep the board as uncluttered as possible...

Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams
James McNair

Last Updated: Apr 27, 2011


In Your Dreams
Reprise
***

The "search for love that might work" Nicks - still charismatic at almost 63 - refers to here seems to précis something of her own life, but Fleetwood Mac's self-styled "Welsh Witch" is still adept at turning mysterious diary entries into potent songs.

Witness Everybody Loves You, replete with "Iberian noir" intro and an airy, indelible chorus co-voiced by the former Eurhythmic, Dave Stewart. Nicks, Stewart and the Alanis Morissette collaborator Glen Ballard co-produce here, while guests include Nicks's Mac bandmates Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham.

For What It's Worth - co-penned with Tom Petty's right-hand man Mike Campbell - also shines.

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-cultu...in-your-dreams

GaW!!? These last 3 reviews of late, leave me laughing and crying as they try hard to taunt me!:rolleyes:

^ Haha, nice. I was just listening to Rooms on Fire.

Iberian noir... I LOVE everything Spanish... so perhaps that means we're in store for some sort of Spanish guitar? :D This actually makes me very curious about Everybody Loves You for once. Maybe it's not as horrid as the clip we've heard after all! :nod:

This review is getting somewhat closer to the descriptiveness I desire, but it is still more than a bit ambiguous.

I defy anyone to tell me what the frack this means.

Thanks for posting this review, but what a piece of crap. Does this guy really write music reviews for a living?

another review that mentions For What it is Worth...

Kind of weak that she is getting these really brief reviews but I guess if we can piece them all together we may be able to get a decent grasp on what the album sounds like..The three reviews thus far have all cited "For What It's Worth " as a highlight.

hmmm nefarious? I'm not sure about that word. I to love Spanish guitars and such. I guess it would go Italian Summer in a way. I hope this song is fully realized.

Good grief... this is what I get for double tasking. I meant ambiguous. :o

Rolling Stones Review
 

3.5 stars

Stevie Nicks built her legend on the California-Babylon chronicles she perfected in the Seventies with Fleetwood Mac, and in the Eighties on underrated solo gems like The Other Side of the Mirror. But she still has that eternal edge-of-17 tremor in her voice. The gypsy queen is in royal form on In Your Dreams — it's not just her first album in 10 years, it's her finest collection of songs since the Eighties.

In Your Dreams has the high-gloss L.A. production of her collaborators, Glen Ballard and Eurythmics' Dave Stewart. But the material is Nicks in platform-soled hyper-romantic mode, with her voice in surprisingly supple shape. "Secret Love" is an oldie she wrote in 1976 — who knew she was still keeping secrets from her Rumours days? It seems to be about one of her rock-star beaus, although she coyly maintains she can't remember which one. Yet it isn't even one of the better tracks on In Your Dreams. The over-the-top seduction ballad "Italian Summer" could be her answer to the Stones' "Wild Horses." It climaxes in a very Stevie credo: "Love was everywhere/You just had to fall."

Nicks finds storytelling inspiration everywhere, from the Twilight series ("Moonlight [A Vampire's Dream]") to Jean Rhys ("Wide Sargasso Sea"). But the real showstopper here is the Edgar Allan Poe tribute "Annabel Lee," a fan fave that's been kicking around on bootlegs since the Nineties. It's a six-minute meditation on love and death with echoes of the Fleetwood Mac classic "Dreams." Poe's key line — "The moon never beams without bringing me dreams" — might have been written in 1849, but it was clearly meant for Stevie Nicks to sing.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/al...reams-20110427

Leave it to Rollingstone to write a totally positve review but not give her four stars. :shrug:

^^^ I will never, ever understand reviews of anything where they say scarcely a single negative thing and then penny-pinch on the star rating. The text of that is a 4-star review in anyone's money, and yet it's 3.5. Why?? And of course most people only glance at the star-ratings.

Up yours, RS. :mad:

Exactly. Britney Spears got 4 stars! Just goes to show where their values are in regards to what they perceive to be good music.

Yeah! :mad:

Stevie Nicks
In Your Dreams
Reprise
Rolling Stone: 3.5 stars
By Rob Sheffield
April 27, 2011

Click to listen Stevie Nicks' In Your Dreams

Stevie Nicks built her legend on the California-Babylon chronicles she perfected in the Seventies with Fleetwood Mac, and in the Eighties on underrated solo gems like The Other Side of the Mirror. But she still has that eternal edge-of-17 tremor in her voice. The gypsy queen is in royal form on In Your Dreams — it's not just her first album in 10 years, it's her finest collection of songs since the Eighties.

The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time: Stevie Nicks

In Your Dreams has the high-gloss L.A. production of her collaborators, Glen Ballard and Eurythmics' Dave Stewart. But the material is Nicks in platform-soled hyper-romantic mode, with her voice in surprisingly supple shape. "Secret Love" is an oldie she wrote in 1976 — who knew she was still keeping secrets from her Rumours days? It seems to be about one of her rock-star beaus, although she coyly maintains she can't remember which one. Yet it isn't even one of the better tracks on In Your Dreams. The over-the-top seduction ballad "Italian Summer" could be her answer to the Stones' "Wild Horses." It climaxes in a very Stevie credo: "Love was everywhere/You just had to fall."

Nicks finds storytelling inspiration everywhere, from the Twilight series ("Moonlight [A Vampire's Dream]") to Jean Rhys ("Wide Sargasso Sea"). But the real showstopper here is the Edgar Allan Poe tribute "Annabel Lee," a fan fave that's been kicking around on bootlegs since the Nineties. It's a six-minute meditation on love and death with echoes of the Fleetwood Mac classic "Dreams." Poe's key line — "The moon never beams without bringing me dreams" — might have been written in 1849, but it was clearly meant for Stevie Nicks to sing.