Stevie put out to pasture

Jondalar · #1 08-25-2011, 02:35 AM

It just occurred to me that Stevie has been put out to pasture. She has put out a really good solo album and doesn't have a chance of getting airplay. The A/C and Triple A stuff is crap. It's not going to get her record sales. The only thing she can do is promote and promote and promote on TV shows.

She has country songs on this album that should definitely be on country radio but they will never play them. Doesn't matter if her songs sound more country than a lot of country songs out there. She is Stevie Nicks - associated with Witchcraft and blah. They'll will never play them. Glen Campbell and the Dixie Chicks can remake what they will and have hits but they won't play Stevie. She is old to boot.

The funny thing is there is not really any good music out there. I mean, people complain about record sales, however, what is new and exciting? I mean I haven't heard anything earth-shattering. Katy Perry and Adele are decent, but nothing too special. Gaga seems more like a performist artist than anything. We have seen these people before. Blah, who cares.

I haven't heard a great song in years. I know rock is dead, but you would think that when a rock star like Stevie puts out an album that is as good as anything out there, people would play it.

**mylittledemon** · #2 08-25-2011, 04:04 AM

I consider bands like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin being put out to pasture more than someone like Stevie. They haven't been prolific in decades, and yet, they continue to be popular. Miss Nicks is still touring, still making records... She's still successful. I think the truth of the matter is that Stevie will be put out to pasture eventually... once she stops making music. And even when she's dead and gone, you'll still have people twirling in their bedrooms to Gypsy when nobody's looking.

chiffon head · #3 08-25-2011, 04:52 AM

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Originally Posted by mylittledemon

... And even when she's dead and gone, you'll still have people twirling in their bedrooms to Gypsy when nobody's looking.

So very true~isn't it great

SuiteShangriLa · #4 08-25-2011, 05:45 AM

I dont need Stevie to have a hit record to feel good about her.
Shes made a great record, and i love it.
I don't need to hear these songs all over the radio to know that they are amazing.

StandbackStevie · #5 08-25-2011, 06:13 AM

Stevie is fighting to get her music to be played If she does another solo album I really think she should do an all country record hopefully it will get played, Country is the way to go if she wants to go there, She always pretty much has a little country on all her records. I consider her a classic rock artist. I have requested to play her new music and no response from the local radio stations except for one dj sent me back an email saying oh cool I love her, she didn't say she would play her new music and I listen to the radio all the time and not once I have heard 3 songs of Trouble In Shangri-La were played quite a bit here in ct on classic rock stations and some pop stations.

On Ice · #6 08-25-2011, 07:43 AM

Stevie's not the only classic rock artist to release some of the best music of their careers and have it ignored by radio. Peter Frampton (Thankyou Mr Churchhill) Heart (Red Velvet Car), Robert Plant, The Doobie Brothers, to name a few, all have put out first rate records and not a stitch of airplay. The music on the radio in 2011 has to have an electronic tinge and a rap verse to even get noticed. The big difference is that current "artists" will not be heard on a great record 30 years from now. At this point, if our favourites continue to make great music into their 60's, heck 70's, we should be happy with that. None of them need the money, and I don't really care if they sell millions of albums and I don't think they really do either. Winning awards would be much better recognition. Oh, and Stevie will never go out to pasture as long as she has fans like us.

Oops I missed the most important point of all this...these artists, including Stevie, make their bread and butter on the road and they make more in a few shows than most of us do in a year, so feeling bad about no radio airplay and record sales? Not.

Aussie W/Heart · #7 08-25-2011, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by On Ice

Stevie's not the only classic rock artist to release some of the best music of their careers and have it ignored by radio. Peter Frampton (Thankyou Mr Churchhill) Heart (Red Velvet Car), Robert Plant, The Doobie Brothers, to name a few, all have put out first rate records and not a stitch of airplay. The music on the radio in 2011 has to have an electronic tinge and a rap verse to even get noticed. The big difference is that current "artists" will not be heard on a great record 30 years from now. At this point, if our favourites continue to make great music into their 60's, heck 70's, we should be happy with that. None of them need the money, and I don't really care if they sell millions of albums and I don't think they really do either. Winning awards would be much better recognition. Oh, and Stevie will never go out to pasture as long as she has fans like us.

Oops I missed the most important point of all this...these artists, including Stevie, make their bread and butter on the road and they make more in a few shows than most of us do in a year, so feeling bad about no radio airplay and record sales? Not.

Yes i agree!! & with artists such as The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac/Stevie {Queen of rock}, plus many more bands, that will live on forever & will never really die, which cant be said with the crap we hear on the radio stations today, most of them will be long forgotten.

mikephxaz · #8 08-25-2011, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by SuiteShangriLa

I dont need Stevie to have a hit record to feel good about her.
Shes made a great record, and i love it.
I don't need to hear these songs all over the radio to know that they are amazing.

Well said! In a world where people have the attention span of a fly, Stevie continues to put herself out there.. Jeeez, what do you people want??!! It's not 1982 anymore!!! Enjoy this beautiful collection of songs and leave this sweet 63 yo woman alone ! LOL.

Macfanforever · #9 08-25-2011, 08:56 AM

Stevie put out to pasture .I say so.According to radio airplay.I've been saying this for along time.She got to record a country album.Probably got to team up with a young country artist.I hate to say this guys.Maybe with Taylor .The only way Stevie will get on the mainstream charts.she got to team up with one of these young artists.Radio is strange biz.They love you ,or they dont.I am glad the FM's SYW did get some radio airplay .but mostly on classic rock stations like the River format.Mainstream music sucks these day.

ontheEdgeof17 · #10 08-25-2011, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Jondalar

It just occurred to me that Stevie has been put out to pasture. She has put out a really good solo album and doesn't have a chance of getting airplay. The A/C and Triple A stuff is crap. It's not going to get her record sales. The only thing she can do is promote and promote and promote on TV shows.

I think radio has been put out to pasture. I haven't listened to a radio station in several years. To me, I don't care if she gets airplay or not. She gets airplay to my ears and the ears of her true fans, so that's all that matters to me.

Macfanforever · #11 08-25-2011, 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

I think radio has been put out to pasture. I haven't listened to a radio station in several years. To me, I don't care if she gets airplay or not. She gets airplay to my ears and the ears of her true fans, so that's all that matters to me.

I agree.Me too.They play the same crap every hour .on the hour.you did not miss much.

markolas · #12 08-25-2011, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by ontheEdgeof17

I think radio has been put out to pasture. I haven't listened to a radio station in several years.

I haven't listened to the radio (except for NPR) since the mid-'90s. And I really don't like the idea of Stevie doing something gimmicky (like a country album, or an album w/ Taylor Swift or whoever) just to try to get played on the radio. There is good music out there, but it's all stuff I've found online - I have no idea if they play Fleet Foxes or Florence + the Machine on the radio, nor do I really care.

markolas · #13 08-25-2011, 09:30 AM

Also, I was under the impression that local DJs don't even decide what to play anymore, for the most part. It's all dictated by Clear Channel or whatever corporation owns the station(s).

David · #14 08-25-2011, 09:49 AM

I squirm to think of Fleetwood Mac as the Gatsby of rock, chasing their airplay & their hit singles decades past their commercial heyday.

Fleetwood Mac believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning----

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the "Rumours" past.

Macfanforever · #15 08-25-2011, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by markolas

Also, I was under the impression that local DJs don't even decide what to play anymore, for the most part. It's all dictated by Clear Channel or whatever corporation owns the station(s).

Your right.Corporate radio is in charge.Crap Channel .CBS and so on.Deregulation of broadcasting industry from the FCC ruined that.so big corps like CC buys up all the competition.

Here more info.

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~nahl/student...lan_baroza.htm