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05-12-2011, 10:40 PM
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I am absolutely loving reading these positive reviews. I can't ever remember a time in her entire career where she's gotten so much respect and appreciation. It's truly amazing!
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05-13-2011, 01:49 AM
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Global Times, May 12, 2011
http://life.globaltimes.cn/entertain...05/654599.html Return of the Mac: Stevie Nicks' new album follows 10-year hiatus By Michael Gold That Stevie Nicks is one of the greatest singer-songwriters of the era belies the fact that her style, both musically and otherwise, has not evolved one iota since the 1970s heyday of her smashingly successful Fleetwood Mac. And why should it? Very few artists wear the amber in which they've encased themselves quite so comfortably, or sell it to quite such legendary effect – which is why it's so reassuring that on In Your Dreams, Nicks' seventh solo studio album and her first in 10 years, the original witchy woman doesn't stray from the formula, delivering a reliably solid package of the same Midwestern-American aging ex-hippie white-girl fantasies she's been rolling out for nigh-on 40 years now. For all her still-smooth skin, however, those fantasies hardly bear the same deliciously vindictive spirit of Nicks' younger days – where "Rhiannon," from the Mac's seminal 1975 self-titled release, cast spells and enchanted lovers, Dreams sets sail for a romantic "Italian Summer" and the "kingdom by the sea" of cool orchestral rocker "Annabel Lee." Nicks hardly need apologize for mellowing in her old age, though if the cringe-inducing lyrics of "Cheaper than Free" ("What's more exciting than high fashion/High passion") are what we get from this new, nicer Stevie, I'll take the wailing banshee of "Gold Dust Woman" any day Thankfully, "Cheaper than Free" represents the low point of an album full of the verbal spun silk that has become Nicks' trademark and that acolytes like Taylor Swift – roundly upstaged by Nicks at the 2010 Grammys – can only dream of. Nicks' gift for commingling the magical with the mundane comes out full-force on plaintive thought-poem "New Orleans" (though one wonders if her paean to the hurricane-ravaged city isn't about five years overdue), where she riffs on brushing by Anne Rice amid a zoo of ghosts and vampires. Reliably refined, Nicks still manages to rock out while making nearly every other diva of any era look positive gauche by comparison, especially on the Eagles-esque "Wide Sargasso Sea" and Mac-classic-styled "Ghosts Are Gone." Exquisite enunciation, hooks as smooth as a Swiss watch, emotional expression as meticulous and well-controlled as a hydroelectric dam: On the surface, it all feels very much slick and corporate, or at least the work of an artist who knows her way around a focus group. And yet, as her true fans will attest to, Nicks has never been anything but completely genuine, a near-perfect product of the exact same humdrum, whitewashed, vanilla-with-just-a-touch-of-spice middle American dream she's been pushing for decades.
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05-13-2011, 05:50 AM
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^^^^I am a member of rateyourmusic.com (I recommend everyone join). On a scale of 1/2-to-5 stars, 4 stars is what I've always rated Stevie solo studio albums. Now, with IYD, she has her first 4-1/2 star album (which translates as: "Great"). I'm starting to think that if only, as this critic suggests, had she NOT included "Cheaper than Free" (why did she do that when it's already on Dave's ablum????), the album would be worthy of the full 5--the first and only Mac solo album so honored in my catalogue.
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05-13-2011, 10:13 AM
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kind of odd that the critic in that last review kept referring to Stevie and her music as "Midwestern" when for decades most in the press have referred to both as the epitome of California or more specifically Los Angeles ..my favorite quote which I think was from Pitchfork magazine when they were listing song about L.A. and chose "Gold Dust Woman" was "Stevie Nicks is to Los Angeles as Cleopatra was to Egypt"
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05-13-2011, 05:19 PM
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 Great review and I'll just have to say that I agree with it!!Last edited by jwd; 05-13-2011 at 05:26 PM..
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05-13-2011, 05:34 PM
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05-13-2011, 06:02 PM
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Not Make Believe: Isn't just that we cause each other such pain Everywhere we go now, at home or at play It hurts my self esteem, it hurts my everything I am reeling... oh, it hurts my feelings Sometimes it was heavenly (Sometimes it was heavenly) Sometimes it was too heavy (Sometimes it was too heavy) Sometimes it's just too much for me (Sometimes it's just too much for me) Well I want to run away (Oh, well I want to run away) Everybody Loves You (most underrated track on the new disc!): She was so enchanted by his voice She was so shaken by his words His plan for her was just not possible She had no words Boy it isn't just that we cause each other such pain at home or on the stage Sometimes it was heavenly... sometimes was too heavy I looked the other way
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05-13-2011, 06:10 PM
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 Damn, you guys are so good and just goes to show that you're really paying attention to what Stevie's sayin'. By the way "Everybody Loves You" was my biggest surprise on how it actually turned out, compared to the snippet we heard. GREAT SONG!!
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05-13-2011, 06:21 PM
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05-16-2011, 08:32 PM
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No Ripcord, May 16, 2011 by Gary McGinley
http://www.noripcord.com/reviews/mus...ks/your-dreams In the many years which have passed since Stevie Nicks left Fleetwood Mac, she has failed to match the commercial success or ubiquity of her former band’s music. Maybe it’s wise, then, that her first studio album in over a decade, In Your Dreams, doesn’t veer too far from the trademark FM radio rock which made Fleetwood Mac a household name and opens with a Rumours out-take, Secret Love, which has been dusted off and pulled into the 21stcentury. In Your Dreams is helmed by production stalwarts Dave Stewart (of Eurythmics) and Glen Ballard who is probably best known for his work on Alanis Morisette’s world-slaying Jagged Little Pill. None of the material here is as angsty as Alanis or as ear catching as the Eurythmics, but that’s not to say that it’s all bad. New Orleans is a touching ode to the birthplace of jazz which shows that her bohemian lyrics are still as affecting as ever, and she channels the current vampire craze adequately on the predictably titled MoonLight (A Vampire’s Dream). One of the more robust tracks, Annabel Lee, is based on a 19thcentury poem by Edgar Allan Poe; the storytelling lyrics about a love that lasts beyond the grave and an arrangement which slips into classical mode during the middle of the song are a perfect match for her gypsy chanteuse image. While In Your Dreams has some highs there are also several undoubted lows which include the rollicking country rock of the title track - more dated than it is catchy - and Wide Sargosso Sea which meanders in search of a direction - a fate which befalls many of these songs. The rustic beauty and sweeping string arrangement of Italian Summer gives the album its strongest track. It’s a shame that it appears 12 songs into the track listing, by which time many listeners may have already lost interest. Over the course of this slightly bloated track listing there is too much focus on the soft rock element of her sound and this which works to the detriment of her fascinating lyrics and bewitching theatrics. This album may have been more engaging if she had pushed beyond the limits imposed by her brand to explore new territory instead trying to faithfully retread past glories. Fleetwood Mac plan to reform in 2012 and, judging by many of these tracks, that’s probably for the best. Stevie Nicks is yet to deliver a solo album to match her legendary status.
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05-19-2011, 11:56 AM
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Here, Canada East.com
http://herenb.canadaeast.com/music/article/1407672 Stevie Nicks' voice on In Your Dreams is husky, approaching a rasp, and her songs are tinged with deep sadness. She easily moves between country, blues and pop, and confidently mixes them together. Mick Fleetwood contributes drums and Lindsay Buckingham vocals. The recording's standout song for me is New Orleans. It's grand and a bit faded-sounding; a captivating piece of song writing. -Charles Mandel
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05-19-2011, 12:06 PM
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I so love reading these, thanks for posting Michele!
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05-19-2011, 12:07 PM
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Thank heaven there's nothing on IYD that sounds like Alanis Morrissette. I always thought her music was awful. I think the reason I can't stand most music critics is that they don't seem to be able to talk about the music without comparing it to something else ("produced by Dave Stewart, but doesn't sound like Eurythmics," "reminiscent of Fleetwood Mac's radio rock," "solo work not as good as Fleetwood Mac"). The constant name-dropping of other artists is really tiresome.
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