Bring back In Your Dreams and drop Landslide!!!!! - Page 2

darklinensuit · #16 08-21-2011, 11:33 AM

I'm sorry she dropped it.
Has she ever dropped one song for another, but then returned to the first choice on the same tour?

- Jake

michelej1 · #17 08-21-2011, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Regina

I agree. In Your Dreams would be a great opening number...the whole "come in out of the darkness..." bit would be a nice change. And, guess what? The tour is in support of a little album she did called...wait for it! In Your DREAMS. How novel to actually sing the song that you named your album after?

That's a good point. And I think it would make a good opener just because it's energetic and a nice throw away song. The audience is so happy to see the performer for the first song, that it doesn't matter as much what they're actually singing. You're feeling the initial exuberance.

Overall, I think IYD is a fluff song though. It actually sounds like Christine could have written it -- and Christine's songs are great when there's an underlying hollowness or yearning. But when she is just doing upbeat, they aren't as resonant and that's what IYD reminds me of. Songs like that . . . I hear them one minute and have forgotten them the next. Airiest song on the album, I think

Michele

THINKABOUTIT · #18 08-21-2011, 01:41 PM

I agree....KEEP IYD!!!!!! It fricken rocks!!

APerfectLie · #19 08-21-2011, 02:04 PM

I guess we should be happy we got a few live versions of it. We never got any live versions of Wild Heart, Rock A Little, Street Angel, or Trouble in Shangri-la.

mezzoforte · #20 08-21-2011, 02:20 PM

Honestly? Keep Landslide!
Don't get me wrong--I'm as worn out on Landslide as most of you, and my fantasy Stevie show would include the new album in its entirety. But as long as Stevie wants to continue playing large venues, she owes it to the audience to give them what they've paid good money for. 99% of the audience has spent that money with the expectation of hearing Landslide.
Personally, I'm just ecstatic that she's still singing 6 new songs, and that the audience is receiving them well. That's about as much as we can ask for, in my opinion.

vivfox · #21 08-21-2011, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by michelej1

I think it would make a good opener just because it's energetic and a nice throw away song. The audience is so happy to see the performer for the first song, that it doesn't matter as much what they're actually singing. Overall, I think IYD is a fluff song though.

I agree with these statements. In my experience the first song should always be a non hit because many people are still waiting in line to get a beer and some are still looking for a free place to park and others(like myself) are running to find their seats in the arena because I was running late trying to find a free place to park.LOL.

WildHearted · #22 08-21-2011, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by mezzoforte

Honestly? Keep Landslide!
Don't get me wrong--I'm as worn out on Landslide as most of you, and my fantasy Stevie show would include the new album in its entirety. But as long as Stevie wants to continue playing large venues, she owes it to the audience to give them what they've paid good money for. 99% of the audience has spent that money with the expectation of hearing Landslide.
Personally, I'm just ecstatic that she's still singing 6 new songs, and that the audience is receiving them well. That's about as much as we can ask for, in my opinion.

I completely agree.

Regina · #23 08-21-2011, 04:40 PM

OK-if Landslide is the most "known" song to those who aren't rabid Stevie lovers (and among those who really, really, really want new stuff to be the complete focus of the concert)...throw out something else. OR stay five minutes longer and do it. And, really, the only reason I want this particular song in there is because it does have the "darkness/beautiful day" line (and the kick-ass music that follows) which redeems the fluffiness. And she did name the album after it (I'd just as soon hear something else from the album, myself, but--to me, this makes more sense).

IF you are doing some sort of growth/reinvention, you don't sacrifice the new for the old. If you feel a need to give fans what they want...like I said, stay five minutes more and give them what you feel you'd like them to hear. After the Unleashed tour, I'm pretty sure she will never please everyone. I was up at the stage, and this woman (whose boyfriend/husband/keeper bragged about how much he spent for broker front row tickets) kept yelling at Stevie "Leather and Lace! Leather and Lace! You better sing MFing Leather and Lace." She was very pissed-off (and, in ye Olde English...pissed) by the end of the show because Stevie didn't sing L&L at a FM concert.

But, whatever. I'll sing along to Landslide, I'm sure. Or, I'll mentally check out for 3 1/2 minutes;-)

Maria78 · #24 08-21-2011, 10:54 PM

Please bring it back, it's my fav song from this album! Plus it's the title track - I don't know much about the whole CD promoting thing, but it makes sense to me to keep the title track of the album in the set list to help with the promotion.

AWomanWithAPast · #25 08-21-2011, 11:01 PM

I like In Your Dreams too, but I'm actually glad she put Landslide back in the set. Even though it's not my favorite song or anything, it's the one song that everybody sings along with, and I just love the feeling of the entire venue singing along. Gives me goosebumps. As others have said, it would be great as the encore song.

vivfox · #26 08-22-2011, 03:54 AM

I don't even like the song IYD but I'm still bummed she dropped it from the set. I'm also bummed she dropped 2 songs completely. Heck she should be singing no less than a 20 song set.

MacMan · #27 08-22-2011, 07:00 AM

First and last songs of the night are important I think... Of all the concerts I've seen for people I was REALLY excited to see... I always remember what they opened the show with, their entry to the stage... the whole kick-off. Stand Back is a great opener too, but being it was a big hit, she could also put that song second to last, still play Love is last and open the show with IYD...

Travis · #28 08-22-2011, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Dodfather

She dropped it for such a very brief period recently and it was very refreshing but in general I think she'll allways keep it in. I'd rather she dropped Sorcerer. In Your Dreams has to go back in the set!

What you said :-). Landslide should remain in the set for the casual fans, but yes, drop Sorcerer and add back in IYD. Problem solved.

SaraThePoet · #29 08-22-2011, 08:28 AM

I love IYD..and i am sad she dropped it. But a Stevie Nicks concert without Landslide? C'mon now...it has got to be one of her most far reaching songs..and i will never,ever get tired of hearing it live

Tango · #30 08-22-2011, 08:38 AM

There's only--what--15 shows on this tour? Do "In Your Dreams" for all the reasons Regina suggested, do Landslide because it's become your most recognized sing a long, and do Leather & Lace, because there is nothing sacrosanct about Don Henley among most of your fans Stevie.

It's a short tour. You can do it.