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RockAlot · #**106** 12-16-2010, 12:34 PM

Not sure if this was posted already? This is getting exciting!

@jblogg Jeremy Welt SVP of New Media at Warner Bros Records had the opportunity to hear a playback yesterday of new music from Stevie Nicks... Was it the whole album? I wonder what his thoughts are on what he heard?

Things are moving forward!

blinker12 · #**107** 01-13-2011, 10:07 AM

Updated to reflect inclusion of "Secret Love," from Rod Stewart Web site announcement naming it as the first single.

Dodfather · #**108** 01-13-2011, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Nikolaj

But this delay 'til March (?) 2o11 is unconscionable. A single could have been ready by late summer and the full cd could have been released by October. SN chose to wait, wanted to wait. Her call, absolutely. But now they've been tinkering with it for months, with months more to go before the release. A successful completion of 'an entirely new way to record an album' would have been for the cd to have been released quickly and not toil in post-production. It's about the songs, which are said to be great.
All the time that will have passed since their initial burst of creative energy until the cd finally drops dilutes the spontaneous synergy they achieved.
Having the music go through many months of mixing, post production and rethinking before it's released is exactly the same way she's worked for many years.
I would have liked to have seen confidence and a little boldness in just getting the cd out as quickly as it was recorded. Elton & Leon did it.

I could not agree with this more. It sums up exactly how I fweel about the whole thing. I'm excited for the album and pretty sure it will be great, but no excuse for it having taken so long.

sorcerer999 · #**109** 01-13-2011, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by blinker12

Updated to reflect inclusion of "Secret Love," from Rod Stewart Web site announcement naming it as the first single.

Boo. Really? Could this be the old vault song that she described as "having a child's voice" on the demo? I was never a fan of that one. Maybe the rerecorded "older, wiser" Stevie will make it good (along with Dave Stewart's production) but I don't know. Just have to wait and see.

FM77 · #**110** 01-13-2011, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by sorcerer999

Boo. Really? Could this be the old vault song that she described as "having a child's voice" on the demo? I was never a fan of that one. Maybe the rerecorded "older, wiser" Stevie will make it good (along with Dave Stewart's production) but I don't know. Just have to wait and see.

The new song sounds nothing like the demo you have heard. It is very good. Her voice is rich and very up front in the mix. It sounds like a single.

CADreaming · #**111** 01-13-2011, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by FM77

The new song sounds nothing like the demo you have heard. It is very good. Her voice is rich and very up front in the mix. It sounds like a single.

Excellent!

Christopher · #**112** 01-13-2011, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by FM77

The new song sounds nothing like the demo you have heard. It is very good. Her voice is rich and very up front in the mix. It sounds like a single.

So if these new press release's are true, Stevie recorded her old demo "Secret Love"?

This is a bit of a shock. I have to admit, of all Stevie's old demos, she has so many great/beautiful ones to choose from, this one never stood out. I thought this demo was always a cute little ditty with a sing-songy melody. But I never ever thought she would pull this one out over Forsaken Love, China Doll, Forest Of The Black Roses, Lady From The Mountain, She Still Loves Him, All The Beautiful Worlds and on and on.

By comparison when we heard Stevie was pulling out "Planets Of The Universe" ,"Sorcerer", & "Candlebright" from the vault for TISL. I think everyone was THRILLED beyond belief. "Secret Love" does not even rank up with those songs on the excitement meter.

Artemis · #**113** 01-13-2011, 11:33 AM

I think that's what makes it all the more exciting though, it means that she doesn't have to live up to the old demo, she can put a completely fresh twist on it, without upsetting anyone.

Sahara · #**114** 01-13-2011, 11:37 AM

^^ This.

gldstwmn · #**115** 01-13-2011, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by FM77

The new song sounds nothing like the demo you have heard. It is very good. Her voice is rich and very up front in the mix. It sounds like a single.

Good!

RickRobert · #**116** 01-13-2011, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Artemis

I think that's what makes it all the more exciting though, it means that she doesn't have to live up to the old demo, she can put a completely fresh twist on it, without upsetting anyone.

No Smile At You mk IIs

markolas · #**117** 01-13-2011, 03:36 PM

Did Stevie say she only recorded one "vault song" for the album, or did she mention two? I didn't remember the Secret Love demo at all, but I found it and listened to it. It was one that definitely had potential (an awful lot of her demos are not good and it's obvious why they were never properly recorded), tho I didn't think it was anything special. From the snippet we heard on the website, it sounds pretty good, tho.

sorcerer999 · #**118** 01-14-2011, 03:01 AM

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Originally Posted by markolas

Did Stevie say she only recorded one "vault song" for the album, or did she mention two? I didn't remember the Secret Love demo at all, but I found it and listened to it. It was one that definitely had potential (an awful lot of her demos are not good and it's obvious why they were never properly recorded), tho I didn't think it was anything special. From the snippet we heard on the website, it sounds pretty good, tho.

In her interview with the VCStar, she says...

"I also dug out a lot of songs from the song vault. I pulled songs from 1976 that I don’t know why in the world did not go in the first Fleetwood Mac album. I must’ve misplaced the cassette. I had one of my backup singers, my sister-in-law Laurie, go to Phoenix and the storage vault where all of our old cassettes are. She found the cassette and I played it for Glen Ballard and Dave Stewart at the studio just a few days ago. It’s kind of been lost for 30 years."

This is a song you penned yourself?

"Yes, it was just me and a little piano. I think I wrote it in 1976, maybe even ’75. It sounds like I’m 5. Glen Ballard said, “So where has this little gem been hiding?”

I was able to pull four or five songs out of my song vault, and then a song I wrote about the “Twilight” movies and a song about Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans. So I came into this record with only two new songs. I had no idea I was going to write songs with Dave."

So, if 5 songs were written without Dave (since there are 14 tracks and she said 9 were co-written with Dave), and discounting Twilight & New Orleans songs, that leaves at least three songs she pulled from the vault. Of course we now know about "Annabelle Lee" and "Secret Love", which means there could be one more vault song that she rerecorded. Here's hoping!

BombaySapphire3 · #**119** 01-14-2011, 03:13 AM

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Originally Posted by sorcerer999

So, if 5 songs were written without Dave, and discounting Twilight & New Orleans songs, that leaves at least three songs she pulled from the vault. Of course we now know about "Annabelle Lee" and "Secret Love", which means there could be one more vault song that she rerecorded. Here's hoping!

I'm hoping for the strange Lady from the Mountain myself.After hearing the wonders performed on Secret Love I think it could be incredible.

sorcerer999 · #**120** 01-14-2011, 03:16 AM

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Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

I'm hoping for the strange Lady from the Mountain myself.After hearing the wonders performed on Secret Love I think it could be incredible.

I would die a happy man if she rerecorded "Lady From The Mountain", and made it just as beautiful as "Secret Love"!!!

"Lady From The Mountain" is my all time favorite unreleased Stevie song! I'm not going to get my hopes up, though.