Favourites on "In Your Dreams"

[editme2]

Mine would be:

Secret Love
For What It's Worth
Moonlight
New Orleans
Italian Summer

[Phil]

My picks in order are:

1. Everybody Loves You (I love everything about this song - the lyrics, Stevie's supple voice, the harmony with Dave during the chorus, the orchestration - just superb!)
2. Moonlight (An exquisite vocal and a clever re-write of Lady From The Mountain. It's a shame that the "go with her" segment was not included because I think it would have worked a treat. Also wish it was titled differently - "Strange" would have been preferable.)
3. Annabel Lee (I'd been waiting for this to be recorded for years and always thought it would be with Fleetwood Mac. It turned out sounding like it had been!)
4. You May Be The One (What a great little number this is - the whole thing just works so well. Great tune and wonderful vocal arrangement featuring the girls. Should have been a single.)
5. New Orleans (This really surprised me. I had been fearing the worst during the years preceding it's release because I just didn't think she'd be able to pull off an ode to the city without embarrassing herself. I was so glad to be proven wrong. Love the coda of "go on down" - truly beautiful.)

These are all classic Stevie songs in my opinion and stand with the best of her material. They all made an immediate impression with me and nearly two years later, I haven't wavered in my adoration for them.

Honourable mentions must go to For What It's Worth and Italian Summer.

All things considered, In Your Dreams is a rather wonderful album that I certainly didn't expect at this stage of Stevie's career, particularly considering the ten year gap between albums. The only track I still can't tolerate is Soldier's Angel, but I would be curious to hear the full band version. I think it would benefit from a fuller arrangement because there's not much of a tune there to withstand the bare-bones production. It's frustrating because with some tweaking of the lyrics, it could have actually worked for me. I would have favoured a less literal and more cryptic approach. I guess at the end of the day, I really have a problem with the subject matter, but then that's just me...

[StevieNicksfann]

In no particular order My top FOUR definitely are

1) New Orleans
2) Moonlight
3) Annabel Lee
4) Secret Love

Tied for 5th would be:

For What It's Worth
Ghosts Are Gone
Everybody Loves You

[fairydust75]

1. You May Be The One
2. Wide Sargasso Sea
3. Everybody Loves You
4. Moonlight
5. Annabel Lee
6. Ghosts Are Gone
7. Italian Summer
8. For What Its Worth
9. Soldier's Angel
10. My Heart (The earlier TISL demos were much better)
11. Secret Love
12. In Your Dreams
13. Cheaper Than Free
14. New Orleans

[Macfanforever]

I have to say all of them.I enjoyed playing IYD while traveling to her shows last year and 2011.The car CD player played on and on.

[WatchChain]

5 Favorite Songs from IN YOUR DREAMS

1) For What It's Worth
2) New Orleans
3) Secret Love
4) Annabel Lee
5) Cheaper Than Free

[bluefox4000]

5 Faves

1. Moonlight
2. For What it's Worth
3. Italian summer
4. Wide Sargasso Sea.
5. You May Be the one.

Great


6. New Orleans
7. Ghosts Are Gone
8. Annabel Lee

Good.

9. In your Dreams

Don't Like

10. Soldier's Angel
11. Secret Love
12. Everybody Loves you.
13. Cheaper Then Free

Mick

[johnnystorms]

Moonlight
You May Be the One
Everybody Loves You
Secret Love
Italian Summer

[SummerlongBoots]

Moonlight
Wide Sargasso Sea
For What It's Worth
New Orleans
Italian Summer

[FierySequences]

You May Be the One
For What it's Worth
In Your Dreams
Annabel Lee
Moonlight ? I guess; it's really a toss for me

Ghosts are Gone
Wide Sargasso Sea
Italian Summer
Secret Love

I could live w/o:
New Orleans
Soldier's Angel
My Heart
ELY
CTF

Considering I couldn't pick 5 probably explains why I don't listen to the CD as much as I did.

[Fireflies]

italian summer
moonlight
for what it's worth
annabel lee
wide sargasso sea

[gypsy-sara]

11) Secret Love --> 15 points
3) For What It's worth --> 46 points
7) In Your Dreams --> 22 points
6) Wild Sargasso Sea --> 30 points
8) New Orleans --> 20 points
1) Moonlight --> 63 points
4) Annabel Lee --> 44 points
10) Soldier's Angel --> 17 points
5) Everybody Loves You --> 31 points
12) Ghosts Are Gone --> 8 points
2) You May Be The One --> 54 points
9) Italian Summer --> 19 points
13) Cheaper Than Free --> 3 points

[Blueletter18]

For What It's Worth
Secret Love
Wide Sargasso Sea
In Your Dreams
You May Be the One

[mitzo]

Really like:

Everybody Loves You
You May Be the One

Kinda Like:

Secret Love
Italian Summer
Ghosts are Gone
Wide Sargasso Sea
Cheaper than Free

Just OK:
New Orleans
Soldier's Angel

Mostly Ignore:

Annabel Lee
Moonlight
In Your Dreams

Actively Dislike:

For What It's Worth

[elle]

Originally Posted by gypsy-sara

11) Secret Love --> 15 points
3) For What It's worth --> 46 points
7) In Your Dreams --> 22 points
6) Wild Sargasso Sea --> 30 points
8) New Orleans --> 20 points
1) Moonlight --> 63 points
4) Annabel Lee --> 44 points
10) Soldier's Angel --> 17 points
5) Everybody Loves You --> 31 points
12) Ghosts Are Gone --> 8 points
2) You May Be The One --> 54 points
9) Italian Summer --> 19 points
13) Cheaper Than Free --> 3 points

it's going to be interesting to compare results from this thread to the survivor thread results and see differences and/or similarities.