IYD Press Reviews & Discussion

[BombaySapphire3]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

this is someones personal site, how are they able to put up soldiers angel on their site

The review seemed more well written than some of the pros.He does heap praise on that song so maybe Reprise will let it stay there.

[tabruns]

Originally Posted by 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.

I still think she got docked half a star either for being over 30 years old or for this not being a Fleetwood Mac record. :P This really should have been a 4 star rating, considering the review text.

[kak125]

Stevie Nicks – In Your Dreams
Jesus, this is turning out to be a weird week for new records, isn’t it? Also, doesn’t it seem like there should already be a Fleetwood Mac record named In Your Dreams? Regardless, it is, in fact, a brand new solo album from the inimitable Stevie Nicks, her first in 10 years, and it’s a whole lot better than you might have assumed. She’s still doing her standard mystical romantic thing, which would be straight-up unbearable were her voice not still in fine shape.

http://www.crawdaddy.com/index.php/2...icks-and-more/

[BombaySapphire3]

STEVIE NICKS: In Your Dreams (Warner Music) B-
The Vancouver Province - Ultra Sound


Fleetwood Mac’s beloved diva has always relied on a great producer to make her often pedestrian songs spring to life. Dave Stewart, who produced her first disc in 10 years with Glen Ballard, and wrote the music to some of its strongest tracks, might be no Lindsey Buckingham, but he’s been the midwife for what might, shockingly and unexpectedly, be Nicks’s best album. While some songs are expendable and most are simply too long, this is more consistently fun than we had any reason to expect.

I thought that this was indicative of the general low regard with which is Stevie held in critics circles in that a critic would state that it might be her best album and still only assign it a B-.

[Jondalar]

Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

STEVIE NICKS: In Your Dreams (Warner Music) B-
The Vancouver Province - Ultra Sound


Fleetwood Mac’s beloved diva has always relied on a great producer to make her often pedestrian songs spring to life. Dave Stewart, who produced her first disc in 10 years with Glen Ballard, and wrote the music to some of its strongest tracks, might be no Lindsey Buckingham, but he’s been the midwife for what might, shockingly and unexpectedly, be Nicks’s best album. While some songs are expendable and most are simply too long, this is more consistently fun than we had any reason to expect.

I thought that this was indicative of the general low regard with which is Stevie held in critics circles in that a critic would state that it might be her best album and still only assign it a B-.

Which is exactly why Stevie can never win, and she will never get a grammy.

[jellyman10]

Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

STEVIE NICKS: In Your Dreams (Warner Music) B-
The Vancouver Province - Ultra Sound

.... While some songs are expendable and most are simply too long, this is more consistently fun than we had any reason to expect.

"While some reviewers are expendable and most are simply thick, this is every bit as facile and begrudging as we have come to expect."

I suggest you shove it sideways, sir.

[BombaySapphire3]

IYD is 72 right now on metacritic.com actually 2 points higher than TISL .God bless Entertainment weekly for their 5 star review to offset that absolute pan from Slant magazine.

[Jondalar]

Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

IYD is 72 right now on metacritic.com actually 2 points higher than TISL .God bless Entertainment weekly for their 5 star review to offset that absolute pan from Slant magazine.

Some of these critics are on wacko land. I mean she is mostly getting great reviews, but the one's who zing her, really zing her and it's usually because of the mac or they like her weirder stuff.

[BombaySapphire3]

Album Review: Stevie Nicks' 'In Your Dreams'By Melinda Newman - Is her first solo album in 10 years worth the wait? Tuesday, May 3, 2011 5:44 PM


Stevie Nicks
Part of Stevie Nicks’ great charm as a songwriter is that she seldom apologizes for her actions in her songs. Whether from her days in Fleetwood Mac or throughout her solo career, she’s concentrated on providing the listener with an insider’s view of her romantic entanglements —and what incredibly entanglements they’ve been— unfiltered by any judgments. It’s a rare, vulnerable trait that has only endeared her further to her millions of fans.

She’s not about to change now on “In Your Dreams,” her first solo album in 10 years out today (May 3).

In the first two songs on the album—first single “Secret Love” and “For What It’s Worth”—she’s involved with taken men. She neither gloats about her bewitching appeal nor recriminates herself for her actions. These are her stories and her feelings. Let others sort out the messiness of such complications.

There’s a lovely country-rock tinge to “For What It’s Worth,” the superior of the two tracks, which written with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ Mike Campbell. “What you did was, well, you saved my life. I won’t forget it,” she sings, making the song about much more than an illicit affair.


Those country leanings continue with the title track, “In Your Dreams,” which has rollicking rock guitar riff reminiscent to “Queen of Hearts,” a great tune written by Hank DeVito and made popular by both Dave Edmunds and Juice Newton 30 years ago. Even on album closer, “Cheaper Than Free,” a graceful, swaying mid-tempo duet with Dave Stewart, it feels as if the spirit of The Byrds and other pioneers of country rock are sitting on her shoulders, smiling.

Produced by Stewart and Glen Ballard, “In Your Dreams” will delight long-time Nicks fans. Recorded in her Los Angeles home, there’s a warmth and an ease to much of the album that invites the listener in with open arms, even on the most up-tempo tracks, such as the propulsive “Ghosts Are Gone," which captures vintage Stevie at the tail end. Many of the songs, seven of which Nicks wrote with Stewart, are based on poems she’s written over the years, including “Annabel Lee,” a piece she wrote as a teenager after reading the famous Edgar Allan Poe poem. Nicks’ voice has always had a husky rasp to it that, luckily, time doesn’t diminish, although she sounds a little gruffer on a few of the tunes here she seldom sings as openly as she did during, say, the “Nightbird” stage.

There are some lovely moments here: her yearning for the Crescent City is palpable on “New Orleans” (if there was either a town that she should be from, it would be New Orleans, instead of Phoenix.), but there are some misses, like “Wide Sargasso Sea” or “Everybody Love You,” which has strong lyrical content about the living a private life publicly, but a synthesized opening out of the ‘80s seems horribly out of place.



This from "The Beat Goes On"

[jcfree]

May 16, 2011, People Magazine (Special Collector's Issue) on page 54-CRITIC'S CHOICE 3.5 stars (out of 4)

Stevie Nicks-IN YOUR DREAMS

Pop-Rock: Ten years after her last solo studio album, Stevie Nicks is ever the enchantress, bewitching with songs that travel across time ("Secret Love," written in '76 about a clandestine affair she had) and place ("New Orleans," inspired by Katrina). She also transports between fantasy - see the New Moon influenced "Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream)" - and harsh reality (the war-themed "Soldier's Angel"). The latter enlists Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham, but it's Eurythmic Dave Stewart who, cowriting and coproducing, really makes a dream team with Nicks.

[Jondalar]

awesome, wondered what they thought

[Lee]

I can't really comment on it b/c I still don't have her CD. I'm still debating as to get whether to get the one with the bonus track or not.

http://srrocks.blogspot.com/

Anyway, I listen to this station everyday @ work. If you have IYD, & care to leave Steve a comment, please feel free.

Lee

[Jondalar]

Originally Posted by Lee

I can't really comment on it b/c I still don't have her CD. I'm still debating as to get whether to get the one with the bonus track or not.

http://srrocks.blogspot.com/

Anyway, I listen to this station everyday @ work. If you have IYD, & care to leave Steve a comment, please feel free.

Lee

I don't get this blog. He wants more electric guitar. So...

[tabruns]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

I don't get this blog. He wants more electric guitar. So...

So why doesn't he mention "Wide Sargasso Sea"? There's electric on that.

I think one of the things that Nicks has to contend with is that some fans seem to want one type of Stevie and ONLY that type of Stevie, everything else be damned. So you're going to get "I only want the rockers, everything else sucks" or "I only like the mystical stuff" or "The romantic stuff is the best".

She gets nailed lyrically too....some complain her lyrics are too "obtuse", others complain her lyrics are too straight-forward....

[Artemis]

Star rating is in from All Music Guide, 4 stars for IYD, same as TISL and The Wild Heart. Sounds right to me. Personally, AMG are the only reviewers I take seriously, they seem to get it spot on every time with Stevie.