What Stevie Album Is In Your CD Player The Most - Page 2

danax6 · #16 05-19-2006, 04:57 AM

Lately it has been mostly TISL, but overall I would say it's a toss up between that one and Bella Donna. I have WH in my car stereo, but since that bitch doesn't drive properly, I don't drive long distances with it anymore, I am saving up to buy a new one.

But, I put a cd together with all my favourite demos a long time ago, and I play that one just as often as TISL and BD, but I guess that doesn't count?

amber · #17 05-19-2006, 05:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Jyqm

I actually have listened to quite a lot of Fleetwood Mac in the past year. Quite a bit more than many other artists. But I've got so much material from them, I just haven't listened to a lot of things multiple times. I've got 961 Fleetwood Mac + solo songs, and I've listened to 675 of them at least once since September.

Yes, that is one of the reasons I really value them is that there is such a huge weath of material spanning all aeons. So many vocalist, so many instrumentalists, so many harmonies, so many phases...so many drugs, so many families, so many stories...If I met a person with this much variety...I would never leave them

Every minute we find a new weird recording/convo/bootleg/bizarre vocal, bizarre anythingyounameit - although they are a pop band and mostly work within those conventions, for many, many years there could be a new weird suprise every minute. And it wasn't some sloppy suprise *mostly*, it was the kind of suprise that comes from great musicians and vocalists working together when they are altered, or not.

And I cherish that element of suprise and variety more than anything about this band. I really believe it can't be repeated.

Thank god everyone and their mother apparently wanted to record this band. I can't believe the media they got before video. And after. I have to admit, I give stevie a bit of extra credit for that. No, I'm not saying she's better or more important, I'm saying she's prettier and more willing to talk to the press and be filmed. Geesh, has anyone ever had more interviews?

Even interviewers describe her as being "chatty". And she never has ever never stopped touring and doing press.

People write her off sometimes, but I think she worked the hardest to sell the band. Not because others didn't want to sell the band, necessarily, but because she was the most well equipped to do it, and she took on that role and just did it. She was pretty, people wanted to talk to her, and film her. She was charming, and chatty, she liked being famous, she like d talking to press, she liked being on camera, she liked to sing at every opportunity. She was different, she embodied a new paradigm, people wanted to see her. She really did love singing, all around, and dancing freely. She would take risks, and "Have Fun With It". ~*~the spyrit of Rock and Roll flowed through her, she felt the strong wynd of the 70's...take me with the sky, bitch.... ~*~

I can seriously imagine her in the animated cast of The Last Unicorn. *beautiful movie/book, if you haven't seen/read it, you are missing out.* Very strange and beautiful.

Stevie would be the unicorns in the last scene where because of the Cruel Covetous Castle guy - (who has no Appreciation for Alliteration) - they all fall running tragically into the sea, that changes colors, but that does not change, not really...and then all the beauty is gone, it is left only in the ~*spyrit*~ of the Unicorns that once touched all the land and have now been forced back into the sea - looking up and the sky's on fiyer... Until a time when no doubt, no pain, come ever again now

Oh, people talk about the 70's being the "Me" decade. There was never a greater expression of the Me-ness of all that is "Me" than in a Stevie Nicks song. She is "Me" in one of it's most pure forms, it's 70's "innocent, benevolent, self expressive me" form.

I feel like she more than fulfilled her role in the band in that way. If the media made her the pretty one, or people "overrated" her, she always took that, took advantage of it, to help her band, to work for her band. She always transferred her cache willingly to the band. She helped spread the genius of the other members of the band in that way. And they all are geniuses is the best part.

You know, I would say with some conviction that she is the hardest working member of FM, if you think about what that really entails('d), and if you look at the product, it is quite an amazing feat all round.

End of small snippet of my Stevie/FM thesis.

Jyqm · #18 05-19-2006, 05:52 AM

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Originally Posted by amber

Yes, that is one of the reasons I really value them is that there is such a huge weath of material spanning all aeons. So many vocalist, so many instrumentalists, so many harmonies, so many phases...so many drugs, so many families, so many stories...If I met a person with this much variety...I would never leave them

Every minute we find a new weird recording/convo/bootleg/bizarre vocal, bizarre anythingyounameit -

And I don't even own many bootlegs! Fewer than a hundred of those 961 tracks are bootleg. The rest is all officially released stuff.

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Thank god everyone and their mother apparently wanted to record this band.

Everyone in the media, anyway. I'm actually surprised by the relative paucity of high-quality bootlegs of Fleetwood Mac concerts, particularly from the 1971-1974 period.

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You know, I would say with some conviction that she is the hardest working member of FM, if you think about what that really entails('d), and if you look at the product, it is quite an amazing feat all round.

I don't know about that. As far as being the hardest-working one, period, including her solo career, yes, absolutely. As far as being the one who worked hardest at publicity, I think that's fair too.

But behind the scenes, Mick did a hell of a lot. He fought tooth and nail for the band for many years. (Honourable mention to Bob Welch for his role in defeatin the "fake" Fleetwood Mac.)

And in the studio? Obviously Stevie was hardly there at all for Tango, and she didn't spend all that much time at the Mirage sessions, either, but even before then, her role during the recording process was relatively limited. Meanwhile, I can't even imagine the countless hours Lindsey spent behind the board (along with Richard and Ken), turning the band's raw music into such intricate finished products.

Janis_no1 · #19 05-19-2006, 06:56 AM

Oh this is a tough one.....

Hmmm i've had a little bit of overkill in my car cd stacker of wild heart...

i would have to say that trouble in shangri la seems to come into season more frequently than the others....
Bella donna probably second, though enchanted disc 1 has had some overkill in my car too.

The other side of the mirror i've only heard from start to finish maybe 3 times. I would of heard the songs individually but not album start to finish. Last time i listened to it was just before stevie came out, so at the start of feb, which is why on her card i got into her dressing room (along with the flowers etc) i closed the note off by saying "thank you for getting "some ribbons and some bows and getting back out on the road"

skcin · #20 05-19-2006, 09:30 AM

TOSOTM lately, so I can listen before I post the "like or dislike" threads.

golddustwoman77 · #21 05-19-2006, 09:51 AM

Lately, it has been a toss up between TISL and Bella Donna.

elie · #22 05-19-2006, 11:37 AM

I listen to Timespace mostly.
And especially Rooms on Fire, Edge of 17 and Stand Back. I am very traditional

chiliD · #23 05-19-2006, 11:44 AM

TISL is the ONLY Stevie solo album I'll listen to these days. (all the way through, that is)

I need to make a CDr of my personal faves sometime, but I just don't have the patience (or ACTUAL desire) to tackle such a project.

Johnny Stew · #24 05-19-2006, 02:19 PM

Lately, it's been 'Enchanted,' Disc 3.

sparky · #25 05-19-2006, 02:25 PM

I had TISL in my truck for a bit. Not now. OSOTM was in there earlier in the year so I could hear LWTG and DTBTIC. SA was in the cd player next to my rowing machine a few months back so I could listen to Blue Denim and Kick It, but I let the thing play and after I suffered the combined trauma of Unconditional Love, JLAW, and Jane, I banished it again to the cabinet in the living room. I don't think any of the others have been out of their jewel cases for years.

skcin · #26 05-19-2006, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by sparky

I had TISL in my truck for a bit. Not now. OSOTM was in there earlier in the year so I could hear LWTG and DTBTIC. SA was in the cd player next to my rowing machine a few months back so I could listen to Blue Denim and Kick It, but I let the thing play and after I suffered the combined trauma of Unconditional Love, JLAW, and Jane, I banished it again to the cabinet in the living room. I don't think any of the others have been out of their jewel cases for years.

Then you need to bust out Wild Heart pronto, my friend.

Villavic · #27 05-19-2006, 02:56 PM

Timespace !!!

amber · #28 05-19-2006, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Jyqm

And I don't even own many bootlegs! Fewer than a hundred of those 961 tracks are bootleg. The rest is all officially released stuff.

Everyone in the media, anyway. I'm actually surprised by the relative paucity of high-quality bootlegs of Fleetwood Mac concerts, particularly from the 1971-1974 period.

I don't know about that. As far as being the hardest-working one, period, including her solo career, yes, absolutely. As far as being the one who worked hardest at publicity, I think that's fair too.

But behind the scenes, Mick did a hell of a lot. He fought tooth and nail for the band for many years. (Honourable mention to Bob Welch for his role in defeatin the "fake" Fleetwood Mac.)

And in the studio? Obviously Stevie was hardly there at all for Tango, and she didn't spend all that much time at the Mirage sessions, either, but even before then, her role during the recording process was relatively limited. Meanwhile, I can't even imagine the countless hours Lindsey spent behind the board (along with Richard and Ken), turning the band's raw music into such intricate finished products.

Yes, I agree with that as well. My point was more about press and media, not about the very important contributions of each member. Funny about her not being very present for Mirage, but there was the whole Making of Gypsy thing on MTV, right?
Yeah, Lindsey's a freak, I'm sure he lived and breathed studio. He gave all with his strengths, too.