IYD Press Reviews & Discussion

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by Richard B

....her two daughters, Sharon Celani and Lori Nicks.

It's one thing for a 20-something like Vanessa Carlton to be mistaken for your daughter, but women your own age?? Yikes!

[SortaSavageLike]

ex-Fleetwood Mac

Fail.

her two daughters, Sharon Celani and Lori Nicks.

EPIC fail.

[TakenByTheSky23]

Great review, and thanks for posting! Also...here's the latest Amazon sales ranking. This is freaking fantastic!

[Richard B]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

It's one thing for a 20-something like Vanessa Carlton to be mistaken for your daughter, but women your own age?? Yikes!

LOL
Sharon the Skelator is ageless. No one knows for sure.

[WildHearted]

Hahaha. I just laughed for a good few minutes over that reviewer mistaking Sharon & Lori for Stevie's daughters...

Brilliant, in a horrible failure kind of way.

Stevie and Lori look about the same age! Sharon just looks like.. Sharon.

[darklinensuit]

Originally Posted by jellyman10

They forgot to mention Stevie's granny, Mick, and her sister Waddy.

Don't forget good ol' Aunt Lindsey (to be spelled Lindsay, of course).

- Jake

[jwd]

Originally Posted by 77Rumours77

http://allmusic.com/album/in-your-dreams-r2126486

Perhaps it’s all down to Stevie Nicks being at peace with her legacy, perhaps she was coaxed back toward the ‘70s by producer David A. Stewart, perhaps it’s the presence of Lindsey Buckingham on “Soldier’s Angel,” or perhaps it’s the fact that she excavated a 1976 song called “Secret Love” for this album, but In Your Dreams is Stevie’s first solo album to embrace the sound of Fleetwood Mac at their prime. Nicks never exactly ran away from the Mac, but her ‘80s solo hits were tempered by a steely demeanor and her subsequent solo albums strove too hard to recapture the magic that In Your Dreams conjures so easily. Despite the quite deliberate connections to her past, In Your Dreams never feels labored; the hippie folk drifts into the mystic pop, punctuated by some witchy rock that may be polished a bit too sharply by Stewart, yet he manages to keep everything warm despite its cleanliness. Stewart’s real coup is focus: he keeps everything tight and purposeful, letting each element snugly fit together so In Your Dreams winds up capturing the essence of Stevie Nicks, which -- as her previous three decades of solo albums prove -- is no easy feat.

Right On! Stevie's come full circle and IYD captures it perfectly.

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by Richard B

It’s not just ‘In Your Dreams,’ Stevie Nicks is back
By: Tom Lanham 05/02/11 9:40 AM

By now, you’ve probably heard the — cough, cough — “Rumours.” And rest assured, they’re pretty accurate.

The most unexpected comeback of 2011 — indeed, in many a moon — is the sucker-punch return of ex-Fleetwood Mac faerie queen Stevie Nicks, with a rock-solid new seventh solo set, “In Your Dreams,” which hits stores tomorrow.

Recorded in her own home studio and shrewdly produced by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard, the album features her longtime guitarist Waddy Wachtel, plus the Heartbreakers’ Mike Campbell and her two daughters, Sharon Celani and Lori Nicks.

It’s her first new material since the Grammy-nominated “Trouble In Shangri-La” a full decade ago.

And from the spooky-synth opener “Secret Love” (a track penned way back in 1976 about an unspecified celebrity beau), Nicks’ voice is as lissome and smoke-plumed as ever. She adeptly dips into country (“For What It’s Worth”), the “Twilight” phenomenon (the piano-based ballad “Moonlight (Vampire’s Dream)”), sparse-gravely blues (“Soldier’s Angel”) and, of course, her traditional gauzelike sound (the 5½ minute “Wide Sargasso Sea”). She even morphs Poe into pop, singing the verses of his forlorn “Annabel Lee.”

Nicks says the record is the first since “Rumours” where she’s felt so at home in a collaborative environment, which she attributes to Eurythmics mastermind Stewart. Naturally, tracking everything in her own house certainly helped, as well.

We happily doff our plumed fedora to this Rock and Roll Hall of Famer — welcome back!

http://www.sfexaminer.com/blogs/back...vie-nicks-back

OMG in the midst of all this chaos it's fabulous to have a real, heart-felt belly laugh. I'm seriously DYING of laughter .

Now, someone please tell me that the guy was joking?? Even a casual fan wouldn't assume something like that would they? I actually hope he wasn't joking because it would be that much more hilarious.

I say we all send the writer Tom nasty emails, hee hee! Poor guy. He's bound to get sh*t from his boss for this.

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Don't forget good ol' Aunt Lindsey (to be spelled Lindsay, of course).

- Jake

And husband Karen...

[WildHearted]

Originally Posted by SapphireSister

And husband Karen...

I think you mean her pet yorkie, Karen.

[Artemis]

I can see why he might assume Sharon is Stevie's daughter; afterall, she does have the body of a 12 year old girl.

[SapphireSister]

Originally Posted by Artemis

I can see why he might assume Sharon is Stevie's daughter; afterall, she does have the body of a 12 year old girl.

Yes, Stevie and Mick's long lost love child .

[WildHearted]

I was thinking they thought Lori was Stevie's daughter because of the shared last name...

Apparently they think Sharon got married.

[BombaySapphire3]

this from AZcentral

Stevie Nicks, 'In Your Dreams'

Rating: 3.5 stars




Stevie Nicks

(Reprise)

It's been 10 years since Stevie Nicks released an album, and she starts her new one with a song she wrote the same year Fleetwood Mac recorded "Rumours."But Nicks sounds surprisingly vital and engaged in the creative process here, especially on "Secret Love," a song she's had 35 years to record. Of course, it sounds exactly like the sort of thing she would have written then. Even Dave Stewart's production has a certain Lindsey Buckingham-esque sheen to it on that one. And the lyrics would have fit right in: "I am not asking forever from you/I'm just asking to be held for a while."

It's not the only highlight here.

"Italian Summer" is a lush romantic waltz with stately orchestration, recalling both the drama of Roy Orbison and the aching beauty of that Morning Benders single from last year that tried so hard to sound like they'd recorded it in 1961. And Nicks rushes the phrasing in all the right place on the chorus hook: "At the end of the Italian summer, It rains fast and it rains hard/The wind blows right through you/Tears you apart."

There are echoes of Stewart's past shading the techno-pop intro to the yearning "Everybody Loves You," whose chorus hook ends on a brilliantly Beatlesque chord change. Buckingham's harmonies on "Soldier's Angel," a dark, dramatic anti-war lament whose eerie atmosphere recalls "The Chain," are sure to conjure flashbacks to the '70s for Fleetwood Mac fans. There's also a definite Buckingham vibe to the rollicking California rockabilly of the title track, despite his lack of input on that song. And it's a shame she didn't get "Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream)" together in time to cash in on the "Twilight" craze.

Those "Twilight" kids would find plenty to love if they investigated Nicks' back pages.

- Ed Masley

[aleuzzi]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Musi...s.review.roll/


It's the best RS review she's ever gotten. Period. 3.5 stars from RS is pretty damn good.