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Originally posted by Craig
I'm sorry but Say you will doesn't even come close to Trouble in shangrila, that album is a masterpiece(almost).
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I guess I'm not especially jazzed about either one of them, but I always prefer hearing the Mac musicians over the session players who populate the typical Stevie Nicks solo album. Her entire solo career -- with an exception or two generally courtesy of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers -- has been dogged by session player blandness & conventionality. She herself has usually had enough star power to cut through all that with her dazzling vocals & persona, but too often has been dragged down by it. In fact, I find the constant tension all these years -- the endless battle -- to have been not between Stevie & Lindsey as lovers but between the session player mentality of Stevie's solo work & the below-the-belt attack of Lindsey's meta-pop.
My favorite moment on TISL is "It's Only Love," which, maybe not so oddly enough, is the most Mac-like in its instrumental approach. Stevie's vocal on that one is a keeper.
My favorite Stevie Nicks solo albums are the first two or three, which were fueled by her fantastic singing & her physical beauty.