Your Favorite Stevie Mixtape?

[Dodfather]

Originally Posted by mylittledemon

I made a Stevie tape (aka CD) for someone a year ago. I still have the playlist in iTunes:

Planets of the Universe
Stand Back
Landslide (The Dance)
Reconsider Me
If You Ever Did Believe
After The Glitter Fades
Blue Denim (single mix)
Silver Springs (The Dance)
Sara
Leather And Lace
Stop Draggin My Heart Around
Talk To Me
Edge of Seventeen
Gypsy
Thrown Down (SYW)

Nice work. This is a pretty solid collection! Love the inclusion of Thrown Down, which is my favourite song from Say You Will, same goes for If You Ever Did Believe. Great choice.

As ever, I could add a few to your list etc but that would end up just being mymix - which is to follow! I'vemade so many over the years.

[skuncles]

I used to make Stevie mix tapes all the time, I have dozens of them lying around. But one of my favorite ones I made was called "The Rock & Roll Life Of Stevie Nicks" (made in July 0f 1999), the idea of it being her life as told thru her lyrics. Due to space limitations it only goes up thru the death of Robin. I planned on doing a part two, but never got around to it. Here's what is on it:

My Grandfather (radio excerpt)
I've Loved And I've Lost (radio excerpt)
Garbo (demo)
After The Glitter Fades
Kind Of Woman
Gold & Braid
The Dealer (demo)
Landslide
Leather & Lace
Silver Springs (demo)
Dreams (radio interview version)
Outside The Rain
How Still My Love
If You Ever Did Believe
Storms
Beauty & The Beast (bluesy demo)
Sara (cleaning lady version)
The Tower (demo)
Sisters Of The Moon (demo)
Bella Donna
Edge Of Seventeen
Gypsy
Nightbird
City Of Hope (demo)
God's Garden (demo)
I Sing For The Things

I always planned on "I Sing For The Things" to end it. Maybe I should do a CD/MP3 version of this and fully update it!!

[Macfanforever]

Yes the same here .The last one that I made up was in the late 1980's around her 1989 tour was going on. At the same time. I remember very clear because one of my co-workers accidently dropped my boom box cassette recorder at work and ruined it by the record button got jammed on record. when it hit the floor.So the beginning got trashed.I had to re-record the segment over again to fix the tape.I almost killed her .but it was not worth losing my job over it.I repaired the boom box anyway..Most of my mixtapes were mixed with FM tunes too.Plus the two tv concerts sound tracks.I did some mp3 mixes over the years with the tunes similar what you guys listed already

[Silver Springs]

My mix is probably terribly cliched, but here it is. . :-

Side 1 : Over The Stones

1. Sometimes It's A Bitch
2. Seven Wonders
3. Smile At You (Demo)
4. Talk To Me
5. Gypsy
6. Gold Dust Woman
7. Think About It
8. Stand Back
9. Say You Will (Single Mix)
10. Edge Of Seventeen
11. Trouble In Shangri-La
12. Rhiannon
13. Rooms On Fire
14. Paper Doll

Side 2 : Down To The Sea

1. Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You
2. After The Glitter Fades
3. Beauty And The Beast
4. Beautiful Child
5. The Highwayman
6. Storms
7. Dreams
8. Crash Into Me
9. Landslide
10. Leather And Lace
11. Goodbye Baby (Acoustic Demo)
12. Silver Springs (The Dance Version)

[starshine]

Originally Posted by HighPassion

Haha, don't worry starshine you don't have to dig for it if you don't want. Just thought I'd start up the topic cause I was curious to see what stevie songs others would put on a mix tape. I love to see other people pick their favorites and how they sequence them.

OK its only in my car 'if' your interested but I guess your not.

[HighPassion]

Originally Posted by starshine

OK its only in my car 'if' your interested but I guess your not.

Im totally interested! But I don't want you to have to go an extra mile just for my curiousity. lol

@skuncles that's a really interesting idea for a Mix! I love how you're making it tell a story, and how you have the radio excerpts to make it more authentic.

@Silver Springs - cliche'd stuff is sometimes the best! Especially for us dedicated fans. Sometimes we get so lost in the obscure it's fun to go back to basics like that.

Mmmm. I wanna make playlists of all your guyses stuff

[Ghosty]

This is a fun thread. I love seeing everyone's favorite songs grouped together. Especially how some of you name the mixes. Mine were often very uncleverly named Nicks Mix. One I named I Can't Wait which I made for the drive down to one of her concerts, I think it was OSOTM tour.

I haven't made mixed tapes in years. Probably since Street Angel era. I would not even know where to begin to try and make one now, with all her decades of songs. Do you find her newer stuff (TISL - IYD, including SYW) mixes and flows well with her older stuff?

[skuncles]

I used to make them whenever a new album came out. I made one called "Enchanted ~ The Best of Stevie Nicks" about two years BEFORE the boxed set of the same name came out. Made one called "From Bella Donna to Street Angel" that was simply that, tracks from all the solo albums in that period. The "hook" of the tape was that it included the title tracks from all of the solo albums from BD to SA.
I just found one of the last mix CD's I made, I called it "Touched By An Angel" and it's a collection of Stevie's songs that mention angels somewhere in the lyric. I was going to do one called "Running In The Shadows" that would be all of her songs that mention shadows somewhere, but never got around to it. Here's the "Touched" track list:

Touched By An Angel
Sleeping Angel
Blue Lamp ("go find some Christmas angel")
Whole Lotta Trouble ("and the angel said, you must have had some kind of dream")
Street Angel
Ooh My Love ("there was a time you used to call her angel")
Angel
The Second Time ("do you remember how the angels sang")
God's Garden ("sometimes I hear angels sing")
Jane ("there are angels here on earth")
Inspiration (doesn't mention angels, but fits the theme)
Desert Angel

[HighPassion]

Originally Posted by skuncles

I used to make them whenever a new album came out. I made one called "Enchanted ~ The Best of Stevie Nicks" about two years BEFORE the boxed set of the same name came out. Made one called "From Bella Donna to Street Angel" that was simply that, tracks from all the solo albums in that period. The "hook" of the tape was that it included the title tracks from all of the solo albums from BD to SA.
I just found one of the last mix CD's I made, I called it "Touched By An Angel" and it's a collection of Stevie's songs that mention angels somewhere in the lyric. I was going to do one called "Running In The Shadows" that would be all of her songs that mention shadows somewhere, but never got around to it. Here's the "Touched" track list:

Touched By An Angel
Sleeping Angel
Blue Lamp ("go find some Christmas angel")
Whole Lotta Trouble ("and the angel said, you must have had some kind of dream")
Street Angel
Ooh My Love ("there was a time you used to call her angel")
Angel
The Second Time ("do you remember how the angels sang")
God's Garden ("sometimes I hear angels sing")
Jane ("there are angels here on earth")
Inspiration (doesn't mention angels, but fits the theme)
Desert Angel

Impressed! I've yet to do themed CD's. INteresting concept

[HighPassion]

Originally Posted by Ghosty

This is a fun thread. I love seeing everyone's favorite songs grouped together. Especially how some of you name the mixes. Mine were often very uncleverly named Nicks Mix. One I named I Can't Wait which I made for the drive down to one of her concerts, I think it was OSOTM tour.

I haven't made mixed tapes in years. Probably since Street Angel era. I would not even know where to begin to try and make one now, with all her decades of songs. Do you find her newer stuff (TISL - IYD, including SYW) mixes and flows well with her older stuff?

I find her newer stuff flows very well with her older stuff if done properly. I can sometimes just start "hearing" the next song as one of the previous songs conclude. That's how I know it'll work good on a mix. Like In Your Dreams to Ooh My Love.

[Blueletter18]

Originally Posted by skuncles

I used to make them whenever a new album came out. I made one called "Enchanted ~ The Best of Stevie Nicks" about two years BEFORE the boxed set of the same name came out. Made one called "From Bella Donna to Street Angel" that was simply that, tracks from all the solo albums in that period. The "hook" of the tape was that it included the title tracks from all of the solo albums from BD to SA.
I just found one of the last mix CD's I made, I called it "Touched By An Angel" and it's a collection of Stevie's songs that mention angels somewhere in the lyric. I was going to do one called "Running In The Shadows" that would be all of her songs that mention shadows somewhere, but never got around to it. Here's the "Touched" track list:

Touched By An Angel
Sleeping Angel
Blue Lamp ("go find some Christmas angel")
Whole Lotta Trouble ("and the angel said, you must have had some kind of dream")
Street Angel
Ooh My Love ("there was a time you used to call her angel")
Angel
The Second Time ("do you remember how the angels sang")
God's Garden ("sometimes I hear angels sing")
Jane ("there are angels here on earth")
Inspiration (doesn't mention angels, but fits the theme)
Desert Angel

Oh, I love that idea! I always love when the word 'angel' is included in a song...anyone's song, for that matter, it just sounds nice whenever it's sung.

[moon]

Well, I think my mix is the most rare...or not...

Moon's mixtape of Stevie (well, the songs I always hear on my earphones!) :P


Solo Work:
01. Edge of Seventeen
02. I can't wait
03. Silver Springs
04. Rhiannon (from Crystal Visions)
05. Rooms on Fire
06. Talk to me
07. Stand Back
08. Planets of the Universe
09. Rock & Roll (from Crystal Visions)
10. Edge of Seventeen (from Crystal Visions)


With Fleetwood Mac:
01. Gold Dust Woman
02. Sara
03. Sisters of the Moon
04. That's Alright
05. Gypsy
06. Straight Back
07. Welcome to the room...Sara (yes!)
08. Paper Doll
09. Landslide (from The Dance)
10. Illume
11. Say you will
12. Smile at you
13. Everybody Finds Out


A 3rd disc - Special mentions or Bonus Tracks:
01. Dreams (from Live)
02. Joan of Arc
03. If You We My Love (demo - "sparkly piano")
04. Sisters of the Moon (instrumental)
05. Silver Springs (instrumental)
06. Edge of Seventeen (instrumental)
07. Stand Back (instrumental)
08. Goodbye Baby

Lot of songs, I konw...
Regards!

[Blueletter18]

Originally Posted by moon

Well, I think my mix is the most rare...or not...

Moon's mixtape of Stevie (well, the songs I always hear on my earphones!) :P


Solo Work:
01. Edge of Seventeen
02. I can't wait
03. Silver Springs
04. Rhiannon (from Crystal Visions)
05. Rooms on Fire
06. Talk to me
07. Stand Back
08. Planets of the Universe
09. Rock & Roll (from Crystal Visions)
10. Edge of Seventeen (from Crystal Visions)


With Fleetwood Mac:
01. Gold Dust Woman
02. Sara
03. Gypsy
04. Sisters of the Moon
05. That's Alright
06. Gypsy
07. Straight Back
08. Welcome to the room...Sara (yes!)
09. Paper Doll
10. Landslide (from The Dance)
11. Illume
12. Say you will
13. Smile at you
14. Everybody Finds Out


A 3rd disc - Special mentions or Bonus Tracks:
01. Dreams (from Live)
02. Joan of Arc
03. If You We My Love (demo - "sparkly piano")
04. Sisters of the Moon (instrumental)
05. Silver Springs (instrumental)
06. Edge of Seventeen (instrumental)
07. Stand Back (instrumental)
08. Goodbye Baby

Lot of songs, I konw...
Regards!

Wow, that's a really nice compilation with some unique choices! Did you pick your favorites, or ones that would sound nice together?

[moon]

Originally Posted by Blueletter18

Wow, that's a really nice compilation with some unique choices! Did you pick your favorites, or ones that would sound nice together?

Haha thank you! No, I choose them because they're really my favourites. I think the live versions are so strong, specially Rhiannon. Planets of the Universe is definitely one of my favourites from the last Stevie's works, with her FM songs in SYW, and I love all the songs she did for Mirage and TITN, except for When I see you again, that I still don't understand very much . Paper Doll is rare but nice, and this demo of If you wer my love is the longest and I liked it since the first time I heard it!!
Regards!!!!!

[HighPassion]

@moon - that is a really unique set. love it!
How come two Gypsy's? Is one The Dance version?