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gldstwmn · #16 05-01-2005, 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by SpyNote

Trouble in Shangri-La was finally released. Do you still love/hate this album as much as you did then?

Yes. I still love it. I love the cover photo and all the colors in it.
I love Sorcerer and Candlebright and the title track and Planets. There's a lot to love there.

AliP · #17 05-01-2005, 08:04 PM

I guess I'm in the minority here, but I really liked it when it came out, but now, not so much. I don't think it holds up to Bella Donna, The Wild Heart, and even Rock a Little

The only songs that I *really* like on it are "I Miss You" and "Fall From Grace." I don't listen to it much anymore.

SpyNote · #18 05-01-2005, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Livia

The NicksFix doesn't post ticket buying passwords as an effort to thwart scalpers.

Well, anyone can get the password. You can get it if you register with the sites offering the presales. As far as the regular sales, scalpers run computer scripts to snap up any front seats the second they are released. The same is true for radio stations that offer "free prizes" through some promotion on their website, where listeners have the chance to win everything from tickets, CDs to iPods once they are released to the site. But people in the know have come up scripts there too to snap up those prizes the second they are released. Until the fans come up with a similar system, we will always lose out.

GateandGarden · #19 05-01-2005, 08:26 PM

I didn't get it until May of 2003 when I first became a Stevie fan (my first Stevie purchase evah!!! <3), but I love it more than I did initially. At first, I liked only the first five tracks, but I love almost all of it now. I'm still blown away by the title track, and "Every Day" still makes me cry sometimes.

rbs3676 · #20 05-01-2005, 08:52 PM

TROUBLE IN SHANGRI-LA continues to be in my top 5 CDs that rotate constantly in my Jeep. I never tire of the songs...it truly is her masterpiece and the timing of it's initial release seemed to be so perfect for so many.
It did well critically and commercially and I know that gave Stevie the pat on the back she needed at that point.

I look forward to hearing some of the Shangri-la songs in Vegas!!

rbs

xxxmx · #21 05-01-2005, 09:16 PM

oh TISL, my beloved disc...

love it as i always have, though i have made a few alterations to the track order:

TISL - love it, love singing it
Nomad - like the demo one bee-llion times more than Candlebright
Sorceror - don't like the song and theres way too much Crow, replace with My Heart
Planets - prefer the nine minute club mix
Everyday - one of my alltime faves, don't get why so many people hate it
TFFT - love it, would love it more if that Chick's part was sung by someone else
TMMS - hated it, still hate it
Only Love - blech, liked it more before i found out that Crow wrote it... is replaced by Space Needle on my playlist
Love Changes - appreciate the lyrics much more now vs. 4 years ago
I Miss You - love it, love it, love it
Bombay - uberblech, leave it off
FFG - great song, total ass-kicking rocker
Love Is - prefer the demo, more delicate, like the extra lyrics

yeah, i love this disc... i'm going to have a TISL listening party up in here, after i'm done listening to the contest submissions

Dark Angel · #22 05-01-2005, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by SpyNote

Trouble in Shangri-La was finally released. Do you still love/hate this album as much as you did then?

I loved it when it first came out, and now it's not even in my top 3 favorite albums. I haven't listened to it in at least six months, and when I do, the only songs I really care to listen to are Fall From Grace, TISL, and I Miss You. The rest of it really does nothing for me.

catinthedark · #23 05-01-2005, 10:01 PM

I love it more.

I liked it on first listen (back in May 2001), but it didn't "speak" to me at that point. It was only when I went back to it a few years later that it all suddenly made sense, and I just fell in love with many of the songs. I still cringe at TFFT and Everyday, and just can't bear TMMS. But at the other end, TISL, Nomad (Candlebright), Planets (sigh, Planets), FFG, and Love Is are among my all-time favourites.

Somajoseph · #24 05-01-2005, 10:47 PM

As much as I've loved Bella Donna all these years, when TISL came out, it pretty much became my favorite Stevie album.
I had never heard "Candlebright" "Planets" or "Sorcerer" in demo form like alot of other fans, so it was all new music for me, and I am glad I waited.
I wish TISL had sold as much as Bella Donna, because it deserved to.
I love all the tracks except for "Too Far From Texas", and I can even get into that once in awhile.
My favorites are:
TISL
Candlebright
Sorcerer
Planets Of the Universe
I Miss You
Fall From Grace
Love Is

Joseph

LiquidBlue5000 · #25 05-02-2005, 01:05 AM

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Originally Posted by SpyNote

Trouble in Shangri-La was finally released. Do you still love/hate this album as much as you did then?

Her best album ever, with the best production she's ever had, thanks to Mr. John Shanks... Planets will forever be my favorite off that album and second favorite Stevie song ever... the extended version is just a masterpiece, imo..

Dreammms · #26 05-02-2005, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by LiquidBlue5000

Planets will forever be my favorite off that album and second favorite Stevie song ever... the extended version is just a masterpiece, imo..

I LOVE the extended version! It's sooo good!

Kelly · #27 05-02-2005, 08:21 AM

TiSL is my favorite Stevie album...followed very closely by
Wild Heart. All of the songs have deep meaning to me. There is no doubt in my mind that the songs were carefully chosen and sequenced because of some underlying theme. (concept of shangrila...maintaining it)
TMMS is the only track I do not like and even that one has its place on the album....
For me all the songs tell a story, pretty much in order and the placement of TMMS in the running order is part of the theme. She starts out with the song, TISL...which is an overview of the concept of the album. Then the story starts with the BN songs, continuing into Planets, written during her breakup with LB. Shangrila is lost. When we get to TMMS the transition begins.... Stevie is again on her way up, reaching for shangrila again. She achieves it again perhaps personally, definately musically. Then it slips away again...Love Changes..I Miss You..FFG..Bombay..she is faced with difficult challenges and upsetting times in her life. She ends with Love Is...talking about what her concept of love is, how it feels perfect but when it is gone...she breaks down. All of this falls under her concept of achieving and maintaining her shangrila in her own life.

Fantastic album and truly her masterpiece. It is much deeper and intimate than BellaDonna, at least for me.

chiliD · #28 05-02-2005, 08:35 AM

I've grown to listen to TISL more than any other Stevie Nicks solo album.

Plus, I seem to have the two songs that most people DON'T like on the album as my two faves from it: "Bombay Sapphires" & "That Made Me Stronger". (plus "Planets Of The Universe", too)

dissention · #29 05-02-2005, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Dark Angel

I loved it when it first came out, and now it's not even in my top 3 favorite albums. I haven't listened to it in at least six months, and when I do, the only songs I really care to listen to are Fall From Grace, TISL, and I Miss You. The rest of it really does nothing for me.

I completely agree. It has some truly amazing songs on it, but as a whole, it's pretty mediocre. I think it kind of falls apart after the first five tracks. Really bad sequencing.

SpyNote · #30 05-02-2005, 09:43 AM

I'm curious where that mysterious "Bombay Sapphires" outtake came from. Could this track have come from the scrapped Dallas Austin sessions? It has so much more depth than the original and boasts such a great rumbling bassline throughout.