5 most important Stevie songs in music history?
 

This may have been done before but here goes. If you had to select 5 Stevie songs (Fleetwood or solo) that most represented her importance to the catalogue of music history what would they be?

Landslide
Rhiannon
Dreams
Sara
Edge of Seventeen

Rhiannon
Landslide
Dreams
Gold Dust Woman
Edge of Seventeen

Honourable mentions to Sara/Stand Back/Gypsy.

Rhiannon
Dreams
Sara
Edge of Sevnteen
Landslide

Dreams
Rhiannon
Silver Springs
Landslide
Sara

Most important to whom? I will say for Stevie and her career.

Rhiannon - she says she never thought it would be a single but her first hit plus her encore for solo shows

Dreams - her only #1 song and the Mac's only #1 song

Stop Draggin My Heart Around - first solo single and her biggest solo hit. It proved she could do it alone

Stand Back - she proved her first solo album was not a fluke and splashed into the MTV video scene

Gold Dust Woman - opened her solo concerts for several years

Rhiannon- introduced Stevie to the public
Dreams- only #1 song
Stop Dragging My Heart Around- she needed a hit right out of the gate and this song delivered
Stand Back- first top 10 hit completely solo, and a big hit on MTV
Landslide- introduced Stevie and the band to a whole new generation

Edge of 17

Rhiannon

Gold dust woman

Stand back

Silver springs

Landslide
Rhiannon
Dreams
Gold Dust Woman
Sara
Edge of Seventeen
Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
Leather and Lace
Stand Back
I Can't Wait
Sorry, that's ten but it's the big ten that truly define her across all platforms.

I don't know which five, but definitely Edge of Seventeen and Rhiannon.

It's kind of hard because songs that I know are integral to her legacy are songs that I don't want to name, because I feel that people stop there and don't go beyond. So, I would say Landslide and Dreams, but they're too facile at this point in time.

Michele

I agree with this one. If Crystal were sung by her, I might have included it.

1. Landslide
2. Rhiannon
3. Dreams
4. Edge of 17
5. Stand Back

HM: Gold Dust Woman and Gypsy.

I agree about Stand Back. She has dozens of better quality songs, but as a career marker, that has to be there.

As for Gypsy's honorable mention, I think it might even be acceptable to swap Landslide out for Gypsy. And the Gypsy video was also groundbreaking, cementing that song's place in herstory.

I know it wouldn't make an objective list, but for me Angel would be among her most important songs.

Michele

It seems that Angel indicated where she was headed for her solo career .I love Gypsy but at this point I don't think that Landslide can be swapped out. It is her one song and perhaps even Fleetwood Mac's one song that might still be played a century from now.

Why does everyone mention Edge of 17? Almost no one knows that song except Stevie fans...

I'd say:

Landslide
Dreams
Gypsy
Rhiannon
Gold Dust Woman