What's your LEAST favorite Stevie album, and why?

[FMlex]

Originally Posted by vivfox

I was only shocked because I had no idea she had even recorded an album! In May,1989 a friend asked me if I heard the new Stevie Nicks single being played on the radio. I told her there was no new single. She said there is. So I called the radio station and they confirmed it. I heard Rooms on Fire for the first time at night looking out the window at a full moon in the sky. I loved the song from first listen and I love it to this day. I absolutely love the album. I often rank on Two Kinds of Life but even that song has some good points to it.

For some reason I really like this song... Great temptations never really die.

[APerfectLie]

My least favorite has to be The Soundstage Sessions. I like all of Stevie's albums and the only one that I never really get in the mood to listen to is Soundstage. My problem with Soundstage is that it has been advertised as Stevie's "new album" which I don't think is an accurate description. And don't get me wrong, I like the cd, and I think it has some great stuff of on it, but I feel it is just lacking. It only has 10 songs on it and I think they could have thrown in several others from the DVD. Also, I feel that Stevie has so many amazing songs she could have done for this that she didn't, and it's sad. Why did she not do Outside the Rain or Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You? Or Bella Donna, The Highwayman, Doing the Best I Can, Alice, Nightbird, Angel, Trouble In Shangri-La?? I would kill for those on a live CD. I think she could have made this really amazing. And I know its not a standalone album really, but I always find myself listening to one of her albums, including her greatest hits, and I can't help but think "Wow, I forgot how amazing this was" but I never get that feeling with Soundstage.

[David]

Least favorite album: Mirror. I don't think the songs are bad -- I don't think most of the songs on any of her albums are bad. But I don't like the vocals she laid down. Her voice doesn't sound good to me when she strips it of her trademark warble. Her early '80s albums were always favorites of mine because she warbled all over the scale. She had such elasticity, too, taking big leaps with intervals & creating a much wider range in dynamics -- all attributable to youth, I suppose.

I have just about nothing good to say of the album's engineering or orchestrations, except that Hornsby's acoustic piano on one of the tracks at least gets my foot tapping (the way that Roy Bittan did on Gold & Braid). I'm particularly irked by the way the drums were recorded throughout -- with virtually no bottom end. The whole album leaves me panting for a Mick Fleetwood kick drum sound, deep & full & satisfying.

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by APerfectLie

Why did she not do Outside the Rain or Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You? Or Bella Donna, The Highwayman, Doing the Best I Can, Alice, Nightbird, Angel, Trouble In Shangri-La?? I would kill for those on a live CD

Yeh, you and the rest of us Chiffon heads

Seriously though, she hasn't played some of those songs, if at all, in YEARS.

Outside The Rain - last played Gold Dust Tour 2005
Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You? - played every tour from 85 - 01 until it was replaced by "Beauty And The Beast" in Las Vegas 2005.
Bella Donna - last played Bella Donna Tour 1981
The Highwayman - Never played
Doing The Best I Can - played once on a TV interview, never played on tour
Alice - last played Other Side Of The Mirror tour 1989
Nightbird - performed live twice, both TV appearances, never played on tour
Angel - last played at US Fest in 1983
Trouble In Shangri-La - Played accapella as an opening song on TISL tour, but was a recording, not live and only a few lines.

I'd love to see Stevie pull some of these tracks out of the wood work, but I doubt it will happen. I'd really like to see Talk To Me, WLT, Rooms On Fire, Blue Denim, No Spoken Word, Think About It and Loves A Hard Game To Play all put back in the set, but I highly doubt they will.

Out of the soundstage songs, I really wish "Gold Dust Woman" was on the CD, because I think it was her best in YEARS. I'm glad "Sara" made it on though, and "Stand Back" is totally rockin! Love the new version of "How Still My Love" too but it goes on and on and on and on and on and on and zzzzzzzzzzzz fallen asleep.....

[nailatixela]

Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

Yeh, you and the rest of us Chiffon heads

Seriously though, she hasn't played some of those songs, if at all, in YEARS.

Outside The Rain - last played Gold Dust Tour 2005
Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You? - played every tour from 85 - 01 until it was replaced by "Beauty And The Beast" in Las Vegas 2005.

Hey, don't be so harsh on her. She played both of these songs in 2008.

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by nailatixela

Hey, don't be so harsh on her. She played both of these songs in 2008.

DID SHE!?
Well where the hell was I when that happened?

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

Love the new version of "How Still My Love" too but it goes on and on and on and on and on and on and zzzzzzzzzzzz fallen asleep.....

I guess love is very still. Michele

[APerfectLie]

Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

Yeh, you and the rest of us Chiffon heads

Seriously though, she hasn't played some of those songs, if at all, in YEARS.

Haha I know!
But I feel she really had an opportunity to pull some of these out and do something really amazing with soundstage.
I mean how many live versions of Landslide do we need?!
I thought she should have done some live stuff we hadn't seen in years, or ever.
And thats why it kinda disappointed me.

[daniellaaarisen]

Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

Trouble In Shangri-La - Played accapella as an opening song on TISL tour, but was a recording, not live and only a few lines.

THANK YOU for mentioning this! I totally forgot about that. I just had the excitement of hearing those first few lines flood back to me... I was nine, so I barely remember the show but I remember LOVING that.

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by daniellaaarisen

THANK YOU for mentioning this! I totally forgot about that. I just had the excitement of hearing those first few lines flood back to me... I was nine, so I barely remember the show but I remember LOVING that.

You are most welcome. If I remember correctly, someone mentioned the lights sort of "built up" as the TISL intro was playing and then the stage went full on when Stop Draggin' kicked in.

[addiejean]

Originally Posted by TheWILDheart

Yeh, you and the rest of us Chiffon heads

Seriously though, she hasn't played some of those songs, if at all, in YEARS.

Outside The Rain - last played Gold Dust Tour 2005
Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You? - played every tour from 85 - 01 until it was replaced by "Beauty And The Beast" in Las Vegas 2005.
Bella Donna - last played Bella Donna Tour 1981
The Highwayman - Never played
Doing The Best I Can - played once on a TV interview, never played on tour
Alice - last played Other Side Of The Mirror tour 1989
Nightbird - performed live twice, both TV appearances, never played on tour
Angel - last played at US Fest in 1983
Trouble In Shangri-La - Played accapella as an opening song on TISL tour, but was a recording, not live and only a few lines.

I'd love to see Stevie pull some of these tracks out of the wood work, but I doubt it will happen. I'd really like to see Talk To Me, WLT, Rooms On Fire, Blue Denim, No Spoken Word, Think About It and Loves A Hard Game To Play all put back in the set, but I highly doubt they will.

Out of the soundstage songs, I really wish "Gold Dust Woman" was on the CD, because I think it was her best in YEARS. I'm glad "Sara" made it on though, and "Stand Back" is totally rockin! Love the new version of "How Still My Love" too but it goes on and on and on and on and on and on and zzzzzzzzzzzz fallen asleep.....

I bought Soundstage on iTunes, and was so happy that they added Gold Dust Woman as a bonus track... Its amazing.

[TheWILDheart]

Originally Posted by addiejean

I bought Soundstage on iTunes, and was so happy that they added Gold Dust Woman as a bonus track... Its amazing.

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Is it still available?

I am so jealous of you in the US who can download the iTunes version with GDW and Edge. And also, the amazon version with Enchanted! It was SO unfair when Crystal Visions came out that you guys got Stand Back live and we didn't