Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks
How beloved is Stevie Nicks? All six of her original solo albums, spanning 1981.2001, plus two best of collections,have been certified at least gold. With rock’s superstar chanteuse about to go back on the road after guesting on Tom Petty’s Highway Companion tour, Crystal Visions… covers her entire solo career for the first time in a CD+DVD package. Featured are several previously unreleased live tracks on the CD, as well as Stevie’s voice-over commentary for each video and her artwork on the DVD. Crystal Visions…The Best Of Stevie Nicks is exactly that.
With a career that’s seen her soar from struggling journeywoman to superstar via a fateful invitation to join Fleetwoood Mac, the singer who now bills herself as the most successful female artist in rock history looks back on the various facets of her iconography via this 16-track career retrospective. The mystic-folkie ethos that has long been her caricature are well-showcased via the cult fave Rumours outtake/B-side “Silver Spring,” the muscular Sheryl Crow collaboration “Sorcerer,” and a live version of the moody “Rhiannon” that casts it in even longer shadows.
Yet Stevie Nicks has always displayed a willingness to push herself beyond her hippie muse, as witnessed by the dense aura of Deep Dish’s remix of Mac’s “Dreams” and such disparate, pop-savvy solo highlights as “I Can’t Wait,” “Stand Back,” and shrewd, successful duets with Tom Petty (“Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around”) and Don Henley (“Leather and Lace”). Indeed, bookended by the original version of the hit “Edge of Seventeen” and a live revamping with the Melbourne Symphony that amps its every melodramatic nuance, reinvention often seems the anthology’s subtext. The album is also available in a deluxe edition featuring a DVD packed with videos, commentary, and more. –Jerry McCulley
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Lucky13 says:
October 8, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Review by Lucky13 for Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks
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I must confess, I’d like a comp with all the Fleetwood Mac Stevie,
along with the solo stuff. I’m not a fan of live performances,
unless they surpass the studio versions, but the live tracks have something to offer for sure.
That being said, I like this comp, and I can even get by the 80′s period drum machine, and production, because it’s Stevie, and that voice, those words, and the witchy vibe, are what draws us to her.
Pick it up for The Tom Petty colaboration “Stop Draggin my Heart Around” and the Great version of Zeppelin’s “Rock and Roll” but hey it’s Stevie Nicks. It’s all good.
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LindaJ says:
October 8, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Review by LindaJ for Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks
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I wasn’t disappointed. I added this to my 6 CD changer in my Mustang.
Crank the tunes, roll down the windows and make sure the radar detector is plugged in!
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J Can says:
October 8, 2010 at 11:06 pm
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I had to wait a long time for this cd to arrive. Still not sure if I like all the tracks on this cd as I think they remixed a couple of them. It still takes me back in time with a singer that I really like!
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luvdolls says:
October 8, 2010 at 11:06 pm
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Stevie Nicks still has one of the best voices around and this CD is a wonderful collection, not a bad track on it!
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Nancy Diandra Nelson says:
October 8, 2010 at 11:06 pm
Review by Nancy Diandra Nelson for Crystal Visions – The Very Best of Stevie Nicks
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I love this CD and have completely worn out one already. I can listen to Stevie Nicks songs over and over again. I would recomend buying it.
It has all of her great songs on it. If you love her you will love this CD.
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