Stevie's Strongest Recorded Vocals

[On Ice]

Great find on Tunnel of Love, reminds me of her Green Manalishi ending. Awesome.

Strongest Vocals:

Pre Fleetwood Mac:
Everything, except the start of Long Distance Winner. The demos are all also superbly sung, especially Sorcerer and Nomad. To have been in the audience when she sang Farewell Failure would have been a memory to behold. Amazing.

Fleetwood Mac:
1. Rhiannon: Studio version. Although the end of live Rhiannons gives me chills, still to this day, I would have sacrificed that to maintain the power she lost in the middle of the Rumours tour and only got back in spurts from then on.
2. Gold Dust Woman: I love it when Stevie stands up and takes her place in the classic rock hall of fame, and this song puts Fleetwood Mac in the vein of all the top groups. Gold Dust Woman is the most perfect rock song she has ever recorded.
3. Sisters of the Moon: The vocal is stellar, but the mix is terrible on Tusk, too far back and muffled.

Solo:
1. Edge of Seventeen: That classic rock vocal of hers is back...briefly. On Bella Donna, this track steals the show. I know I'll get clobbered, but I think it sucks live, it drives me crazy when she lowers the white wing dove and she never brings it up to where the song calls for it. The edge walk be damned.
2. Wild Heart: Again, the voice is back, but the lyrics just suck. I try not to listen to the lyrics and concentrate on the voice which is fantastic on this song.
3. Fall From Grace: Her best "modern vocal" song, delivered with the passion that drew me to her as an artist, and frustrated me to no end that she didn't deliver every tune like this one. A moment where Stevie earns her mentor status.