Without having heard it... POLL

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

we've heard rumblings that Lindsey's new album will be another acoustic outing... and I'm sorry, but Under The Skin was horrendously monotonous to me.

Agreed. I found it to be extremely boring. Honestly, I think I only listened to it.....maybe 4 times. It was just another LB fingerpicking thing, over and over.
Hey Lindsey, how about rocking us out?

[CADreaming]

I can't compare them as solo artists. To me, the solo music represents them as individual stylists. I enjoy Stevie's lyrics and Lindsey's music over everything else I hear in their work, so if it all comes together in the right package, with music I like, careful production and great mixing, etc. then that's just icing on the cake.

I am sure I will enjoy both projects equally.... I hope. If not, then more than likely I will hate Dave Stewart and really love Lindsey's cd.

(but I did love Dave's show in Nashville, so I have great hopes Stevie's cd will be awesome).

[BaronVonBielski]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

Agreed. I found it to be extremely boring. Honestly, I think I only listened to it.....maybe 4 times. It was just another LB fingerpicking thing, over and over.
Hey Lindsey, how about rocking us out?

I can't agree at all. It was a really good album. I liked the idea of an all acoustic record. Flying Down Juniper is one of the best songs he's ever written IMO and Under The Skin is an amazing song... in fact it should have opened the album. Sure there songs on it that I skip... same goes for GoS as well. But if you combine them, trim some fat... you have perfection.

1. Under The Skin
2. Did You Miss Me
3. Love Runs Deeper
4. I am Waiting
5. Wait For You
6. Treason
7. Gift Of Screws
8. Try For the Sun
9. Underground
10. Down on Rodeo
11. Right Place To Fade
12. Flying Down Juniper

Best of both worlds. I'm not saying the remaining songs that I didn't put on here are bad. Songs like Someone's Gotta Change Your Mind, Cast Away Dreams and Shut Us Down are good as well. I basically picked my favorite 12 and made sure they sounded good in this running order.

[bluefox4000]

Originally Posted by BaronVonBielski

1. Under The Skin
2. Did You Miss Me
3. Love Runs Deeper
4. I am Waiting
5. Wait For You
6. Treason
7. Gift Of Screws
8. Try For the Sun
9. Underground
10. Down on Rodeo
11. Right Place To Fade
12. Flying Down Juniper
.

I like that lineup. Also UTS grew on me. I love it now. However I think I would prefer A harder album at this point.

Mick

[holidayroad]

Originally Posted by BaronVonBielski

I can't agree at all. It was a really good album. I liked the idea of an all acoustic record. Flying Down Juniper is one of the best songs he's ever written IMO and Under The Skin is an amazing song... in fact it should have opened the album. Sure there songs on it that I skip... same goes for GoS as well. But if you combine them, trim some fat... you have perfection.

1. Under The Skin
2. Did You Miss Me
3. Love Runs Deeper
4. I am Waiting
5. Wait For You
6. Treason
7. Gift Of Screws
8. Try For the Sun
9. Underground
10. Down on Rodeo
11. Right Place To Fade
12. Flying Down Juniper

Best of both worlds. I'm not saying the remaining songs that I didn't put on here are bad. Songs like Someone's Gotta Change Your Mind, Cast Away Dreams and Shut Us Down are good as well. I basically picked my favorite 12 and made sure they sounded good in this running order.

I also liked UTS and its whole acoustic approach. In fact, I liked it better than GOS!!

[elle]

Originally Posted by BaronVonBielski

But if you combine them, trim some fat... you have perfection.

1. Under The Skin
2. Did You Miss Me
3. Love Runs Deeper
4. I am Waiting
5. Wait For You
6. Treason
7. Gift Of Screws
8. Try For the Sun
9. Underground
10. Down on Rodeo
11. Right Place To Fade
12. Flying Down Juniper

interesting; you have some songs that i would never put on my short list (Flying down juniper, Did you miss me, I am waiting). so i tried to put together my trimmed down list of the UTS/GOS songs, and it actually does have 8 song overlap with yours:

1. To Try For The Sun
2. Cast Away Dreams
3. The Right Place to Fade
4. Down On Rodeo
5. Wait for You
6. Gift of Screws
7. Underground
8. Love Runs Deeper
9. Treason
10. Shut Us Down

[David]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

I think Lindsey and Stevie solo are just too different to compare. Lindsey's pretty far left on the experimental trickery, and Stevie's solidly traditional.

They're definitely too different to compare, but I think you only describe a single by-product, not the fundamental reason. He builds tracks, she doesn't. It would be idiotic to talk about the orchestration, for example, on a Stevie Nicks album because the music is designed only to be a backdrop. Lindsey builds the whole track from the ground up (or from the mind outward), & the artifact is a discrete creation that rewards a closer look, quite apart from whatever song is used to port the lyrical ideas. When we speak of Stevie & her backdrops on any of her albums, we're using a figure of speech (something like metonymy). "Stevie" = "Session musicians+producers." It's the latter guys who give her whatever backdrop her albums have, whereas Lindsey's most important work is orchestral color, as he used to say over & over ("My main contribution to the band isn't as a singer or as a guitarist but as someone who can take raw material & fashion it into a track").

It surprises none of us that Lindsey has recorded instrumental tracks -- & long instrumental stretches within tracks -- for final release on his albums (ever since "Frozen Love," in fact). But can you imagine an instrumental track on a Stevie Nicks album? The idea is loopy because that isn't where the focus ever is in her work.

[elle]

Originally Posted by David

"Stevie" = "Session musicians+producers."

Originally Posted by David

But can you imagine an instrumental track on a Stevie Nicks album?

talking about musicians/producers, any opinions on old instrumental "Lily Was Here" from Stevie's current producer?

[billwebster]

I guess both will be equally very good.

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by David

They're definitely too different to compare, but I think you only describe a single by-product, not the fundamental reason. He builds tracks, she doesn't. It would be idiotic to talk about the orchestration, for example, on a Stevie Nicks album because the music is designed only to be a backdrop. Lindsey builds the whole track from the ground up (or from the mind outward), & the artifact is a discrete creation that rewards a closer look, quite apart from whatever song is used to port the lyrical ideas. When we speak of Stevie & her backdrops on any of her albums, we're using a figure of speech (something like metonymy). "Stevie" = "Session musicians+producers." It's the latter guys who give her whatever backdrop her albums have, whereas Lindsey's most important work is orchestral color, as he used to say over & over ("My main contribution to the band isn't as a singer or as a guitarist but as someone who can take raw material & fashion it into a track").

It surprises none of us that Lindsey has recorded instrumental tracks -- & long instrumental stretches within tracks -- for final release on his albums (ever since "Frozen Love," in fact). But can you imagine an instrumental track on a Stevie Nicks album? The idea is loopy because that isn't where the focus ever is in her work.

..........

[Phoenix]

Originally Posted by louielouie2000

I think Lindsey and Stevie solo are just too different to compare. Lindsey's pretty far left on the experimental trickery, and Stevie's solidly traditional. Lindsey's Out Of The Cradle was better than all Stevie's albums combined, in my opinion. Hell, it was probably better than any of the Rumours Era Mac albums. But you could argue Stevie's solo albums have been more consistent through the years than Lindsey's (for better or worse).

Personally, I'm looking forward to Stevie's new album the most. Mainly because it's been a decade, I'm curious to hear what she has to say, and how she may have evolved as an artist. Secondly, we've heard rumblings that Lindsey's new album will be another acoustic outing... and I'm sorry, but Under The Skin was horrendously monotonous to me.

OH.MYGOD. i think i COMPLEETLY AGREE WITH YOU. ....well, a lunar eclipse IS coming.

[jellyman10]

Originally Posted by David

They're definitely too different to compare, but I think you only describe a single by-product, not the fundamental reason. He builds tracks, she doesn't.

Totally agree with this, David. And I think that's why I personally don't really like LB's stuff. I realise as I write this that I don't really 'do' music, as such. I like some Chopin, a bit of Schubert - but after a while the absence of lyrics starts to bother me. Same reason I don't like prog rock or jazz (though I love swing a la Porter and R&H, because the lyrics are great).

Maybe there's just too much sound in LB's music? Any rate, I don't know if I'll 'like' SN's new album, but like Louie I'm just more eager to see where she's going.

Good thread.

[silvasprings]

Originally Posted by elle

talking about musicians/producers, any opinions on old instrumental "Lily Was Here" from Stevie's current producer?

I LOVE Lily Was Here, I think it's an amazing song! The interplay between Dave's guitar and Candy's sax is just incredible, and that bass line, god I love that song!!!!

[MacShadowsBall]

Look at what you find when you dig through past threads!

Thought I'd bump this since both albums are now available.

[TrueFaith77]

Too soon to do the official poll. That day will come.

I voted Lindsey. I was wrong.