24 Karat Gold: Reviews

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Originally Posted by PenguinHead

I'm trying to understand your point. Are you saying that Stevie had less influence on the music for this album, as opposed to any other album? I've always believed that her producers are a vital influence to the process of rendering her songs much like Lindsey is with her Fleetwood Mac songs. Dave certainly had a heavy hand in her recent 24 Karat Gold album, with stunning results.

I do understand what you are saying about Mike Campbell. He's been a good supporter to Stevie, but his approach is somewhat generic.

Just to be clear, I'm saying nothing at all about 24KG. I was talking solely about IYD, and speculating that perhaps some people (not me!) were put off by it because on so many songs Dave Stewart actually wrote the music and not Stevie.

It's not the same as helping her arrange the music, ala what Lindsey and many of her other producers have done. Stewart wasn't just arranging he was writing. The song credits for many tracks were "Words by Nicks, Music by Stewart".

Now again, *I* am not bothered by that, and even though Stewart wrote the music, when you watch the film for IYD you see Nicks is often dictating specifically what she likes and doesn't like about which musical direction he's going in. So to *me*, Nicks actually had a hand in the sound of the music if not enough to get an actual credit for writing the music.

But, maybe some fans were put out that most of the album is with Nicks "purely as lyricist". IYD is actually the Nicks solo album where she wrote the least amount of music, from what I can tell: She has music credit on Secret Love, Soldier's Angel, Moonlight, Annabel Lee. I think that's it, and I believe that's less music that she's written for an album than her other solo albums isn't it?