Name ONE song by Stevie Nicks that "changed" your life?

[Meowi]

When I first heard Edge of Seventeen on School of Rock. From then on I joined the cult of Gypsy Warriors, White Winged doves, Priests of nothing and Welsh Witches

Plus I wouldn't have became a Ledgie

[GoldDustWoman87]

Gypsy, definitely. 'I still see your bright eyes'. Just a beautiful song and it's made me think positively about life.

Gold Dust Woman should be changing my life...

[BellaDonna93]

Has anyone ever written anything for you <3

The lyrics was like I was singing them to all of my friends: "Have you ever heard me sing? Listen to me now, you know I'd rathe be alone than be without you, don't you know? I want you to remember me"

Because when I first heard Stevie, I was in 8th grade and hadn't been singing in front of my class yet. My music teacher knew I could sing but I was too shy to sing in front of them. So I sent him recorded songs on the email, but if I wanted the highest grades, I had to do it. So I finally did, and I sang Dreams...but it was HAEWAFY that made me do it, because I was thinking about the part "In all your darkest hours, have you ever heard me sing? Listen to me now"...and I got A in music So that song made me belive in myself more...

And also that part in That Made Me Stronger "No, you write your songs yourself!", made me think that it's better to write my own songs...

Like all her songs has made me more comfortable with myself, you know, most of her songs is like medicin...you hear one line of the song and go like "WOW, Stevie just helped me"...
"If you do not run the race, how will you know? If you do not run it, then you cannot win it, ever!", that's an exemple...that part has made me belive in myself sooo much more than I ever really did Thank you Stevie!

[Liza]

There are so many - but I love, love, love Angel - first time I heard it when Tusk first came out all those many moons ago I just loved it. Then when I heard the tusk documentary and Lindsey and Stevie harmonising just lovely.

Love Gypsy, Sarah, Rhannon, Gold Dust Women and so on too

[mikebise]

Okay "ONE" means I'm skipping "Edge of Seventeen" changing my life by turning me into a Stevie Fan in November 1981.

The BIGGEST change (aside from becoming a Stevie Fan in the first place) happened in August 1988 in Houston, when I went to a record show on a Sunday afternoon. Remember record shows??? We had them every month almost in Texas back then.

I only had Almanac as my only taste of unreleased Stevie (aside from several live bootleg LPs). Well, I FREAKED OUT at the one dealer who had this 3-LP set with the Rhiannon painting on the front and various Stevie photos on the back ~ I mean, I Queened out in a Stevie-gasm!!!! WHAT the HELL were ALL of these titles????

"Castaway"? "Forest of The Black Roses"?? "If You Ever Did Believe"??? What the HELL??!?!?!?!!

The second I got home North of Houston, I put the records on (these were the black vinyl with the better sound; I got the coloured vinyl a little later). OMFG!!!!!!!!!!

Amidst amazing things like the "Leather and Lace" demo, the live '77 "Silver Springs" and the TWO piano demos of "Rhiannon", there was ONE UNCREDITED SONG...

Of course, with my destiny, it was the WORST quality song on all 3 records, on top of not being listed on the sleeve.

However... it was the song that changed my life...

I could NOT get that song out of my head! As amazed as I was by these other wonderful unreleased songs, this song which the bootleggers did not even know the name of was the one that captivated my imagination.

In 1994, I would finally learn the song's name and get better sounding quality versions.

The piano, Stevie's voice, the WEIRD changing tempo!!! The ambiguous lyrics, the stop/start hallmark of Stevie's trademark songs, the fragileness and fierceness in her voice...

The version from Uncirculated Rumours, the one that changed my life, was recorded in my later home town, Dallas. For The Wild Heart...

That song, of course, is "Julia"...

[tilthefirefades]

Sara completely changed my life, and what i knew as music. I had never anything so emotional and true. I remember thinking: "what in the world had this woman experienced to write this?!" around that time i also downloaded Fireflies on some downloading site and was blown away even more. But Sara still remains my favorite song ever.

[iamnotafraid]

It would have to be "SARA". It led me to Fleetwood Mac.

[jaycee]

Originally Posted by iamnotafraid

It would have to be "SARA". It led me to Fleetwood Mac.

By that same reasoning, I'd have to say "Seven Wonders". I most likely would've discovered FM sooner or later, but that was one of two FM songs (can't quite remember the other...) that inspired me to get TVBOFM... which changed my life.
As a side, the FM concert of 15 Dec in Brisbane arguably changed my life again, as I now have trouble thinking about anything other than FM during the course of my days (thus explaining the sudden surge of posts sent and general time spent here on The Ledge)! And I couldn't be happier!

[ButterCookie]

For me, it was the day my mum handed me a copy of Timespace. She'd bought it me from a second hand store for very little money, came home and told me to play it and that I'd love Stevie.

So, I duly put it on, and started with 'Leather and Lace' and my mind was blown! From there I descovered Fleetwood Mac and all Stevie's other solo work and I've never looked back

[silvasprings]

For me, It has always been "Gypsy"- my sister and i had always been very very close and then one day she just walked out of my life with her new partner and became more and more distant- to this day i haven't spoken to or seen her since last august, because when i call her or write her, she ignores me, she doesn't speak on the phone (she even went to the same Fm concert as i did and didn't bother to say anything) and she's never ever been like that to me... So everytime i hear "I still see your bright eyes... I can't find you..." it just tears me to pieces...

Lightning Strikes Maybe Once Maybe Twice so never ever let anything get past you...

[wheart]

I would have to say that "Talk to Me" changed my life...it was due to the fact that I liked this song that purchased Rock a Little. With the very first spin, I was hooked and so my obsession with Stevie began, all those years ago.

[BEmuzed]

Gypsy..."some lace and paper flowers". Totally changed the way I listened to music...

[cactusjack]

"I Can't Wait" made me a Stevie fan, so that is pretty important.

Apart from that though, probably Outside The Rain or Beauty & The Beast.

"If you know, tell her, tell her now..."

[galestreet]

It would have to be Landslide, a very very long time ago, someone tried to teach me the song and it will always have a very special meaning in my heart.

[gold_dust]

It has to be Rhiannon. I remember trying, and failing, to get to sleep one dark, winter night, so I put on an old best of FM CD on my portable player (it saddens me that that has just aged me) and listened to the first track. It was Rhiannon and I'd never heard it before and I played it over and over and over, and became so wired by it, I wasn't tired anymore, I just wanted to hear it in any way I could. It totally consumed me. Then a few weeks later I saw a doc on T.V with Rosebud footage and I just remember hearing, 'Once in a million years a lady like her rises!' and thinking I absolutely had to hear that.

Gold Dust Woman was always important to me, too. I remember back in school doing an analysis of it for English Lang. and none of my friends had ever heard of it, and since we couldn't find a CD player, I had to sing it to them. I was uber embarrassed and absolutely terrified, but was so proud when I finally played them the record and they said I sang it very well. My English teacher was so impressed with that song that I remember she made me write down the lyrics and she stuck them on her wall in the classroom.