I've Had Enough Time With "InYourDreams"

[Jondalar]

In Your Dreams is number 2 in my book, right behind Bella Donna. It's like listening to the radio. There is soo much variety on this record and it all works. It's like she successfully dipped within each genre.

Bella Donna was a short album. It's just about perfection maybe because it's soo short. And it has great atmspheric hits and some real gems that aren't hits.

In Your Dreams doesn't have any big song. However, it's got a bunch of songs that I think in the day would of hit in the 20s and 30s of the top 40. In Your Dreams, Moonlight, You May Be the One, Everybody Loves You, Ghosts are Gone, Cheaper then Free and Italian Summer all sound like hits to me in one way or another. And Soldier's Angel and New Orleans are atmospheric, political songs that work very well as thoughtful pieces. Secret Love, Annabelle Lee and For What's it Worth I like too for different reasons but I don't go back to those too often. I do love the bridge in Annabelle Lee. Secret Love is kinda funky but the sound is not as endearing to me. For What it's Worth is touching but too straightforward and simple. I would of liked a change up like the other songs.

In Your Dreams ranks higher to me than the Wild Heart because the Wild Heart never really flowed. Stevie's voice sounds 10 times better on In Your Dreams. The Wild Heart is also Stevie's most dated album because of the synthesizors.

I blew off In Your Dreams for about 2 weeks but then I had to drive a long distance to a hospital and it was in my truck and I realized just what a good album it is. On the surface the album hits all the right notes, but on deeper levels it does too, especially that last half the album. This album is sooo suprisingly deep. It really is better than the radio.

So my list is

1. Bella Donna
2. In Your Dreams
3. The Wild Heart
4. Rock a Little/Trouble and Shangri La
5. The Other Side of the Mirror/Street Angel

[chriskisn]

Ok so it isn't exactly a secret that I didn't love IYD. I'll be honest and say I haven't listened to it since that first week or so. Right now I've moved on to Leon Russell and John Stewart.

[OooMissionary]

I love all of the songs on the album. The only 2 that I ever skip are 'Ghosts Are Gone' and 'Cheaper Than Free'

Album-wise, I rank it as so:

1- Belladonna
2- In Your Dreams
3- Rock A Little
4- The Wild Heart
5- Trouble In Shangri-La
6- The Other Side of the Mirror
7- Street Angel

[skuncles]

The only songs I tend to skip are "Wide Sargasso Sea" (just because I can't really sing along to it) and "Soldier's Angel", again because it's tough to sing along with. But "Moonlight", "Annabel Lee", "For What It's Worth", "Everybody Loves You", "Ghosts Are Gone" and "Italian Summer" are the favorites.
Still can't rank the album with the others, as I see it as a stand alone kind of thing. But if I had to put it alongside the others, I guess it would look like this:

Bella Donna
In Your Dreams
The Wild Heart
Trouble In Shangri-La
The Other Side Of The Mirror
Rock A Little
Street Angel

[RavenOfRhiannon]

I listened to it multiple times every day for the last month. The crazy thing is, 2 days ago I didn't listen to it at all...by accident. I didn't leave the house and I was so busy doing other things that it just kind of slipped by me. It wasn't until the end of the day that I realized I hadn't had my In Your Dreams fix.
That being said, I still can't rank the album with her other work. It's still too new to me. I have also tried to rank the songs, can't do it. I can say that Ghosts are Gone kind of pulls me out of the mood of the album. I've tried re-sequencing my playlist, and that didn't help at all. I like the song, it just doesn't fit the rest of the album for me. I also tend to skip You May Be The One. Everything else I play over and over.
The other problem? merging these songs into a Stevie playlist!!! Too HARD!!

Maybe this album just needs to stand alone. And I mean that in the best way possible.

[skcin]

Originally Posted by chriskisn

Ok so it isn't exactly a secret that I didn't love IYD. I'll be honest and say I haven't listened to it since that first week or so. Right now I've moved on to Leon Russell and John Stewart.

Don't apologize. You can't force yourself (or be forced) to like something.

I'm still in love with IYD. Some songs (Moonlight, FWIW) still bring tears to my eyes and/or give me chills.

Best tunes for me:FWIW
You May Be The One
In Your Dreams
Moonlight
Annabel Lee
In Your Dreams

Good, solid songs
Ghosts Are Gone
Wide Sargasso Sea
Secret Love
My Heart

Still iffy on these
Italian Summer (the music & vocal are stunning. The lyrics? Not so much.)
Soldier's Angel (love the haunting quality, but her voice is a bit too nasal for my taste. You know how ChiliD said Dave Stewart deserves an award for de-goating her voice? Well, LB shows up & the goatiness returns. It's also a bit...I dunno. Self-serving? Like, really Stevie? You know how it feels for these people? Being in Fleetwood Mac is like being in the army, right? )
New Orleans (Cheeesy to me, esp. the lyrics. But I find myself sining along more & more so I guess it's growing on me.)

Can't do it
Everybody Loves You. I almost always skip it. Do.Not.Like. The brigde is great (I think you'd call that part a bridge? The "bird on a wire" part?) Other than that, I loathe it. It's this album's 2 Kinds Of Love. Barf. it's the music, really - the lyrics aren't too bad. But the music? Oy. It hurts my everything.

[holidayroad]

I enjoy the album. I still feel like something is missing from it that I just can't figure out. I really love Annabel Lee, Moonlight, In Your Dreams, and You May Be the One. I very much dislike For What It's Worth. I like Everybody Loves You more than I originally thought I would. I like Italian Summer less than I thought I would.

[fumidesigns]

Still adore this album! Still listen to every track! She rocked this one!!!!

[SapphireSister]

1. WH (tie)
1. TISL (tie)
2. RAL
3. BD
4. IYD
5. TOSOTM
6. SA

Top IYD tracks:
1. Annabelle Lee
2. Moonlight
3. WSS
4. FWIW
5. SA

[Artemis]

I still think it's a great album, it's probably tied with TISL and just behind Bella Donna and TWH, for me. Now that I don't care about listening to each song equally, the three songs I listen to the most are For What It's Worth, New Orleans and Everybody Loves You. All three of them just work for me.

[Christopher]

Still blown away by this record! I wore it out the 1st 3 weeks (including the RS preview week stream) so much that I laid off it for almost a couple of weeks. But every time since I've returned to it, I'm still so impressed with the quality of *everything* about this record. To me it has a timeless quality - IYD is a record I know I will continue to enjoy for the remaining months of 2011 and many years to come. She just HAS to tour behind this record.

Though I skipped over "Secret Love" (due to fatigue) initially upon IYD release, after absorbing the rest of the record, SL is back in rotation and I do love it in the context of the whole record. My one and only tiny complaint is the track sequencing, but otherwise IYD is one solid work where I like or LOVE every single song - which has not happened on a Stevie Nicks record since BD, WH & RAL (TISL came close) & the 75' through 82' Stevie FM songs. When Stevie 1st began recording IYD, I just knew Dave & her had the mindset that this record better be great, coming off the heels of a 10 year drought and TISL being a good return for her. But IYD exceeds TISL on so many levels. It's a mature & wise record lyrically with the musical sophistication that I always knew Stevie could achieve with the right team. It's almost perfect to my ears. This is the "one" I've been waiting for from Stevie since "Bella Donna" It only took 30 years with a few missteps here and there along the way, but it seems it was worth the wait. What a sweet dream this record is for this fan who fell hard for Stevie 30 years ago and never wavered in fandom (even during the wonky klonopin years)


Bella Donna/In Your Dreams
Rock A Little
Trouble In Shangri La
Wild Heart
Other Side Of The Mirror
Street Angel

[bluefox4000]

I still love IYD. Though not as I intensely as I did. The problem.....As with most of Stevie's work is she does not know how to edit to save her life. The album is far to bloated....songs and song times could have been cut. It's still my 2nd favorite Stevie album. Just could have used trimming is all.

Mick

[KarmaContestant]

A month in and In Your Dreams is still in my car CD player, playing loudly everytime I need to drive somewhere. New Orleans is actually growing on me, so that leaves Soldier's Angel and Ghost Are Gone as the only songs to get skipped. If I'm listening to them at home, I dont skip anything.

I'm really loving this album, still. I do feel it's Stevie's best collection of songs since The Wild Heart. That's not to say it's my favorite, or that I think it's better than the albums in between WH and IYD, but just that I think it's a great album overall.

The tracks mix very well with Bella Donna, Street Angel and much of TISL, and that's been fun too, making playlists.

[chiliD]

I still think it's her best ever. Still think it should be taken as one whole statement rather than chopped into individual tracks. She should've done Prince's trick of making the entire album one track, to FORCE everyone into listening to the thing as a whole instead of going into ADD mode and listening to one track at a time, skipping tracks, etc.

Yes, believe it or not, I STILL don't have a track on the album that I would skip.

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by chriskisn

Ok so it isn't exactly a secret that I didn't love IYD.

That's how I felt about TISL. For all of you it's been 10 years since her last album. For me its been since 1994.