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Originally posted by face of glass
[B]Let’s deal with SN first, shall we? I’m not going to pit them against each other in any other way than musically. I think both have gotten over the supposed “battle of wills” (or, rather, battle for getting more public attention than the other) that was discussed at the BuckinghamNicks.net board a while ago and that’s good for them. But the differences in their music can be discussed and I still try to make clear that although I criticize Stevie’s music I still enjoy it a lot overall. In fact, I should go to the Stevie forum and start that “Docklands” appreciation thread where I will be the only poster.
And I ain’t trying to win anything
These are the closest she’s got to the “deep-reaching, impenetrable artistic sense” and that’s the attitude I personally hate. Thank God she’s never showed any of that in her interviews but the fact that some fans (not meaning Johnny Stew) hold these as her greatest masterpieces and bash songs like “SYW” is nothing but reflection of the mentality that “she’s too good to appeal to the masses”.
Again, it’s the same thing we discussed last year:
To which I then replied:
The only experiments in “Illume” come from Lindsey Buckingham’s screeching guitars and goofy vocals. I daresay that the obsessive delivery that Stevie has in that track (and is unlike anything she’s been attempting before) came about only when she did the final take. And I will hold that opinion until the demo is leaked.
*joins sighing and swooning* But it disappeared pretty fast, already on the TITN tour it was gone.
Depth is something that only the fans (or those with the potential) are capable of hearing.
Because Stevie Nicks doesn’t experiment in her songwriting; the form does not allow for stretching out anymore.
If there’s any experimentation on her songs, it comes from elsewhere than SN. Breaking the rules isn’t possible for
"Syha, fro example. you stated you dont think lindsey wrote it to sound commercial"
but he used it on the syw cd. why is it that formula of music is ok for lindsey to use and not ok for stevie. why is it when stevie writes a song its because she was thinking commercial , i do agree stevie writes a song like say you will and hopes ppl will like it, but i dont think she always has that on her mind when she is writing. another thing if we are talking musically, yeah lindsey is a genious of a guitar player, he is my fave and will always be. when we are talking lyric wise, i do not see lindsey as a great one for words, call it experimenting call it what ever, but with the exception of out of the cradle , his other solos to me when i listened to them , they never made me think wow he is a genious , i often felt, what is he doing or trying to do, i felt he was at a lost for words, so he used noises and such. when ootc came out, i fell in love with it , with every song practically, and why because lindsey was singing . you may say well you just didnt get his other solo material, and you know what maybe i didnt get it , but i will just be honest and say i didnt like it, it didnt appeal to me at all not lyrcally, or musically. i mean trouble, was good, but as some would say that was a more commercial ,( forlack of a better word) sounding song, than the other material. on say you will , i think come and murrow, yeah are true lindsey type songs that he would love to have more of, but i also think with the rest of his material on this syw cd, syha, pk,wtwct,sg,btlh, altho i like these songs, but i think these are more safe sounding lindsey songs that will appeal to the average listeners ears, rather than the die hard fan who loves his really obscure sounding material. i think rttg,efo, say, illume, (altho you will state that lindseys genious production is on those songs, and im not arguing that at all) im talking lyric wise, i think those songs of stevies are less commercial sounding than lindseys,and even saying that , i do think they appeal more to the general listener than just the die hards.