What are your unpopular Stevie opinions

[Livia]

Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

I LOVE Listen To The Rain....

Me too! I think it should have been released as a single.

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by Livia

Me too! I think it should have been released as a single.

ME TOO!! It soooooo should've been a single. It's better than Maybe Love any day.

[Kris10723]

I also really loved Street Angel

[bluecalmsea]

Bumping this ancient thread...

-I LOVE the Red Rocks concert video. No shame.

-Too many of Stevie's songs are over-produced. I almost exclusively listen to demos and outtakes. I love songs like "It's Not A Dream"- simple, nothing but Stevie. And I love the synth stuff. So much.

-I have tried for almost two years, but I do not like the "In Your Dreams" album at all. I do not connect with the music, production, or vocals. The whole thing feels too polished, too cautious for my personal tastes. However, I do love that so many people love it, that Stevie loves it, and that so many people consider it amazing

Also agreeing with these posts:

Originally Posted by wheart

- I don't like the present day "Rhiannon" on stage.
- RAL will always be my absolute favorite album by her
- I don't like and never have liked "The Other Side of the Mirror"
- Her songs on "Say You Will" sucked. Lindsey should have kept it a solo album. His songs on that record are FAR superior.

Originally Posted by TheBlueLamp

My unpopular opinions:

*Stevie got better looking as she got older.

*The Tango/80s big hair and outlandish outfits made her look hot.

*The Nightmare, Welcome To The Room...Sara, When I See You Again and Two Kinds Of Love are all great songs.

*She's lying when she says she didn't know cocaine was dangerous.

Originally Posted by StevieRox2

1) I love watching the coked out Stevie - would've loved to have hung around with her then, I think she was alot of fun back then

2) I love the wavy, curly hair - HATE this straight stuff, I think it makes her look older

7) I think TISL would've been better without Sheryl's influence, some of the songs I just don't like AT ALL, don't think it was her best work yet, in fact I wish she'd write more like BellaDonna and WH, RAL, etc.

8) She's had some kind of minor work done face-wise, she looks just too incredible!

12) she really knows what her songs are about but won't tell, EVER - they're a secret

Originally Posted by eclipse

- I don't buy the "I was a sweet girl and had never drank before FM", -I do buy that Christine taught her how to drink- English style- snifters of brandy and some lovely wines...

-Oh yeah...the coke deal...C'mon, even if everyone was doing it-somewhere in your mind you HAD to know it would come to no good end-

Originally Posted by sasja

Addendum to my post on page one of this thread

4. Stevie and Lindsey were in love in the early seventies but haven't been for over thirty years. Fans are the only ones that haven't moved on.

~joins the federal witness protection program~

Sasja

Originally Posted by BlackWidow

Stevie PLEASE STOP THE AIR GUITAR..THE AIR DRUMS & AIR VIOLIN & AIR LASSO!!! PLEASE I BEG YOU TO STOP IT!!!!!

Originally Posted by totallycait

I'm with you on this one. I always thought the Alice In Wonderland vid for "Don't Come Around Here No More" after Stevie wouldn't record it meant... something.

Reading through this thread, I see that other people love Mirror Mirror, Desert Angel, and When I See You Again as much as I do. God, I love WISYA, it's so raw.

I love the stuff that so many fans seem to hate as too synthy and overproduced, namely Wild Heart, Rock A Little, and The Other Side Of The Mirror. WH is my favorite Stevie album.

My favorite Stevie song is Batte Of The Dragon and I'm amazed at how little attention it gets.

Her post-Tusk voice is more effective than older recordings where she sounds so girlish. The rougher and shakier she sounds, the better.

Her best hair was the overfluffed Mirage/Wild Heart look.

(As a side note, something happened between Lindsey & Christine somewhere along the way. And from the sound of TITN, it was pretty intense.)

Originally Posted by melly

I don't think there should be a film made about Stevie's life.

Originally Posted by DashingDan

Chris Nicks' resentment of the way he was treated as a child, versus the way his precious and talented sister was treated, played a part in his ability sit back and watch his sister, as an adult, completely fall apart and reach death's door on two seperate occaisions, while he was on her payroll.

I don't know anything about the situation, obviously, but I always wondered what her family thought of the drugs. I can't imagine working for my sibling and just watching him/her spiral. (I don't know if Chris just "watched," it just kind of seems that way from an outsider's perspective).

[louielouie2000]

I agree with so much of this thread:

I think much of her solo career is way, way overproduced... which is why I generally prefer her work in Fleetwood Mac.

*ALL* post '82 Rhiannons are painful trainwrecks.

I just can't get into You Can't Fix This... the music is fantastic... Stevie's lyrics are atrocious.

I too like Red Rocks, and Rock A Little is one of my fav of Stevie's solo albums.

I think there is a LOT of strong material on Street Angel. So many straightfoward, back to basics rock songs.

They aren't pretty, but When I See You Again & The Second Time are some of Stevie's most poignant songs. They capture the absolute desperation of the time when they were written... they showcase just how crazy & sick she was, how she almost didn't pull through.

I truly enjoy Desert Angel. I think it's very atmospheric and it's the closest thing we've ever gotten to a political protest song from Stevie. I dig the sentiment behind this one.

I think Destiny Rules & Illume are every bit as good as Gypsy & Gold Dust Woman.

I don't think Stevie's voice is up for extensive touring anymore. Most of the time she just sounds plain bad. She's toured too much, for too long. It's taken it's toll.

[bluefox4000]

1. Street Angel is not as bad as it's rep says.
2. Beauty and the Beast is awful
3. Rhiannon is WAY overpraised.
4. Highway man is my Fav Stevie solo tune
5. Stevie needs shorter more concise albums.

Mick

[michelej1]

Gypsy video does nothing for me.

Originally Posted by bluecalmsea

I don't know anything about the situation, obviously, but I always wondered what her family thought of the drugs. I can't imagine working for my sibling and just watching him/her spiral. (I don't know if Chris just "watched," it just kind of seems that way from an outsider's perspective).

I think Chris had his own issues.

Michele

[bluecalmsea]

Originally Posted by michelej1

Gypsy video does nothing for me.

I think Chris had his own issues.

Michele

That makes sense.

[bluefox4000]

She needs to stop with the Mac.....you can tell....at least everytime i've seen a clip or performance.....She does NOT want to be there. Why do something you're clearly not into.

Unless it's money..which it probably is.

Mick

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by bluefox4000

She needs to stop with the Mac.....you can tell....at least everytime i've seen a clip or performance.....She does NOT want to be there. Why do something you're clearly not into.

Unless it's money..which it probably is.

Mick

Fleetwood Mac tour = $$$$$$$$$$

I'll tell you now, Stevie is NOT sitting at home in Phoenix thinking "oh wow, I'm really looking forward to getting out on the road and performing and doing what I love and making lots of people happy". She's thinking "KA-CHING!! I can rehash some songs and fake some love for Lindsey, thousands of gullible casual fans will lap it up and scream when we play "Landslide" and pretend we're still in love and I will make a **** LOAD of money for it!!"

Stevie once said "I'm not an actress". Yes she bloody is. Every night on stage with Lindsey she's doing it.

[lettucesoap]

This is a really interesting thread... and I wonder if I'm being far too premature in trying to join in because I've only reaaaally been able to call myself a proper actual seek out information fan for about 4 weeks, but there are a few things I suppose I've thought about in that time, as there's so much to go on with such a lengthy career. I have no idea if these are unpopular/controversial whatever, but here goes!

I find anything solo post-Bella Donna really hard to like (up until Trouble in Shangri-La, which I like a lot). Scary 80's, very scary. She barely even looks like the same person sometimes.

Her vocals on Buckingham Nicks are probably my favourites apart from That's Alright which I can listen to over and over and never get bored of (so far ) and for some reason I just go all tingly when I hear her backing on Honey Hi (I love that song a bit too much, dunno why - is that normal? hah).

I love her style around Rumours - Tusk including the crazy bun/top knot thing. I'm pretty fascinated with her generally around this era.

I've found In Your Dreams really hard to get into, and her take on Annabel Lee is not nearly as nice as the Sarah Jarosz version, IMO.

I'm really bored of the Lindsey story already.

I think she lives in total Stevieland but (from what I have gathered by trawling through as many interviews as I can in 4 weeks) seems polite, warm, gracious, generous and grateful.

[markolas]

It didn't used to be that unpopular of an opinion around here, but I regard Rock a Little as a minor masterpiece.

Also, her version of "I Still Miss Someone" is brilliant, and one of the best things on TOSOTM.

[mitzo]

Originally Posted by markolas

It didn't used to be that unpopular of an opinion around here, but I regard Rock a Little as a minor masterpiece.

Also, her version of "I Still Miss Someone" is brilliant, and one of the best things on TOSOTM.

I so agree about ISMS, such a hidden treat on that album.

[soul_drifter333]

Originally Posted by Kris10723

I also really loved Street Angel

Me too! The tour was excellent also.