Introducing Your Friends To Stevie's Music

[baboles]

Ok...if you had to introduce a friend to Stevie's music, then what song or music video or live recording would you play for them?

I would show a friend the live performance of "Sisters of the Moon" from the 1982 Mirage Tour. It really captures Stevie's intensity and wicked-cool image.

[Djwidow]

I actually turned a friend on to stevie the night he broke up with his boyfriend...it was christmas eve and he was home alone, his boyfriend was to be with him, but decided to break up with him that day...so I traveled in a snow storm to his house, picked him up and on the drive back, I played him "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You" he cried his eyes out...we went out the day after Christmas and bought the Rock a little cd...
He was also turned onto Kate Bush by myself as well...thru another break up...I believe if you listen deeply to stevie's music...you will be enchanted forever...but if you see her as mindless fluff...you will never understand the true mystical side of her path...

[LiamMcConville]

Originally Posted by Djwidow

I actually turned a friend on to stevie the night he broke up with his boyfriend...it was christmas eve and he was home alone, his boyfriend was to be with him, but decided to break up with him that day...so I traveled in a snow storm to his house, picked him up and on the drive back, I played him "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You" he cried his eyes out...we went out the day after Christmas and bought the Rock a little cd...
He was also turned onto Kate Bush by myself as well...thru another break up...I believe if you listen deeply to stevie's music...you will be enchanted forever...but if you see her as mindless fluff...you will never understand the true mystical side of her path...

I recently burned this mix for the girl I brought with me to the Front & Center concert:

1. Nightbird
2. Trouble In Shangri-La
3. Gypsy
4. Landslide [MSO]
5. That's Alright
6. How Still My Love
7. Goodbye Baby
8. Silver Springs
9. Straight Back
10. Beautiful Child
11. If I Were You
12. Everybody Finds Out
13. Wild Heart
14. Storms
15. If Anyone Falls
16. When I See You Again
17. Beauty and the Beast


Her favorites were Gypsy and Goodbye Baby.

DJWidow -- How funny that you mention Kate Bush. I'm just getting into her, and so far I love Running Up That Hill and This Womans Work. Along those lines, what can you recommend to download?

[baboles]

Funny...I recently just got into Kate Bush too! I got her greatest hits at Christmas. Too bad the audio quality needs to be remastered! But she has some really great songs.

I have yet to turn any of my friends on to Stevie...I tried...but nobody takes the time to get absorbed into the lyrics. Everybody just wants to know if she has any popular songs that they would recognize! So I end up playing "Edge of 17"..."Stand Back"..."SDMHA"...etc...

[Phoenix]

The key to this is finding out what kind of music they like first. ie.:
Rock,techno,country,r&b. ECT. THEN you taylor your stevie mixes around those types of songs. THis is not about what youd like to play for them, its about what would THEY TAKE TO. What are the ages of your friends? what other music do they listen to? what other artists do they like? YOU HAVE TO DO THE REASERCH AND KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE.

IT WORKS. I post this like every 3 months, but nobody believes me and trys it.

I made my christian friend who believed stevie was into black magic, BLAH,BLAH BLAH, the stevie christian esque mix and it worked like a charm. it was songs like "touched by an angel" and "unconditional love" ect. they were like "hey nice, she writes about angels and love now, i like this"

seriously, these people need to wake up and recognize stevies talent.

My country friend got the
its late, after the glitter fades, too far from texas, ect.

Rock friend, Fall from grace,planets, edge of seventeen, live rhiannons, ect.

techno speeks for it self: dreams remix, planets remix, standback remix, ect.

Slow and meaningful (im bieng generic, and you know what i mean, too manny to list)

they like r&b smooth grooves types of stuff Lead off with classic dreams, then songs like straight back, love changes, how still my love. ect.
u gettin the idea?

[vivfox]

Originally Posted by Phoenix

The key to this is finding out what kind of music they like first. ie.:
Rock,techno,country,r&b. ECT. THEN you taylor your stevie mixes around those types of songs. THis is not about what youd like to play for them, its about what would THEY TAKE TO. What are the ages of your friends? what other music do they listen to? what other artists do they like? YOU HAVE TO DO THE REASERCH AND KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE.

IT WORKS. I post this like every 3 months, but nobody believes me and trys it.

I made my christian friend who believed stevie was into black magic, BLAH,BLAH BLAH, the stevie christian esque mix and it worked like a charm. it was songs like "touched by an angel" and "unconditional love" ect. they were like "hey nice, she writes about angels and love now, i like this"

seriously, these people need to wake up and recognize stevies talent.

My country friend got the
its late, after the glitter fades, too far from texas, ect.

Rock friend, Fall from grace,planets, edge of seventeen, live rhiannons, ect.

techno speeks for it self: dreams remix, planets remix, standback remix, ect.

Slow and meaningful (im bieng generic, and you know what i mean, too manny to list)

they like r&b smooth grooves types of stuff Lead off with classic dreams, then songs like straight back, love changes, how still my love. ect.
u gettin the idea?

This is the smart way to go baby! Now if yer friend only listens to hip hop what might you suggest I play for him?

[GoldDustOrphan]

Get a new friend.

[Chrislit18]

^^^ omg
LMAO


Phoenix, thats a great way of getting your friends into stevie!
i have a freind who likes country music, and i played him thats alright, and he liked it a lot!!

then of course myspace pages. i always [not recently though] have stevie or other mac/macster stuff on my page and my friends like it alot!

[baboles]

Good suggestions. All my friends are between the ages of 16-18. They all tell me I'm a 45 year old trapped in a 17 year old body. Ha!

[Ghost_Tracker]

Beauty and the Beast, Caesar's Palace, August, 2005.