What should be the "concept" behind the next solo album?

[darklinensuit]

For TISL Stevie talked a lot about how she had the concept in mind & cut songs that didn't fit, though she knew concept albums are out of fashion.
What are your top picks for the next one?

Mine:
- the long-awaited Rhiannon album

- the wisdom of age/surviving in a business of boobs and teenyboppers/being strong

- escape from personal woes & current events - I'd call this album "Sanctuary" and include the song - I know TOSOTM was sort of like this, but I'm ready for a less keyboard-ish sound

- looking back with happiness at past loves

- Jake

[Neal]

I think that "escape from personal woes and current events" is always timely, but personally I 'd like to see an album built around the theme of "looking back at past loves". So I'd like to see either...

[The Chain]

I really like the idea of the Rhiannon album, TISLreally was the last one of her "mystical" songs, since SOTM.... But I would also think it would be cool if she did albums on:

- An album reflecting the Tusk Era, tour days

-An album reflecting the RAL relations/ tour days

- An album about her personal life with FM, BEHIND THE MUSIC, like you know in the studio, backstage...all that

[dissention]

Originally posted by darklinensuit
- the long-awaited Rhiannon album

Prepare to wait some more.

I think it'll make it's appearance once the Goldfish and Ladybug cartoon is released and Stevie's book is written. Oh, and when her Rhiannon movie has been cast and her book of art is published. Also, when the FM documentary is broadcast and all of the masters have been converted. Let's not forget, too, when Stevie and Lindsey co-write a song together from the ground up and Christine re-joins the band.

[DownOnRodeo]

I like this concept: 'I work at Lindsey's now.'



Pleeease, in a choice between two or even three more FM cds in thenear future, or more Stevie solo and a delayed FM cd yet again labelled as some sort of reunion - nuts to that.

[strandinthewind]

I, too, would love the much mentioned but never materialized Rhiannon rocord. She has, however, released a portion of the songs or the lyrics of the some of the songs to wit:

Rhiannon (she said she wrote it before she knew the legend but surely it is one of the songs)

Goodbye Baby (I am convinced this was part of the set as it fits the legend)

Angel (she said in some interview at the time of Tusk that the lyrics od Angel some from the Rhiannon story)

Interestingly, I always thought POTU smacked of the Rhiannon saga but have nothing to confirm it.

Also, I am unsure how her voice today would work in these songs. Of course, I said that about Silver Springs prior to seeing it during The Dance, and, with hat in hand and head bowed, I exclaimed "boy was I wrong."

[cliffdweller]

"The Three Birds of Rhiannon" with "Maker of Birds," and "Forest of the Black Roses,"-- that would be awesome.

[David]

I'm weary of Stevie's "I survived" themes in her albums & songs. I'd love to hear her try a country-tinged album of the old Appalachian school with a slightly political, Americana bent, like some of the tunes on John Stewart's Robert Kennedy album.

Or do the Rhiannon album! But make it weird. But, please, enough with the "I'm the elder statesman of women in rock" stuff. You're enough of a dinosaur as it is, without you yourself harping on it. Lindsey & Mick do the same thing. I wish they'd all knock it off -- it's bunk & it's vanity when you focus so insistently on the self & the self's alleged place in the pantheon.

[darklinensuit]

Originally posted by David
I'm weary of Stevie's "I survived" themes in her albums & songs. I'd love to hear her try a country-tinged album of the old Appalachian school with a slightly political, Americana bent, like some of the tunes on John Stewart's Robert Kennedy album.

I was thinking this the other day in the car. So many of her great songs sound like country, not to mention they often require less of a synth sound, thank goodness.

- Jake

[chiliD]

Sh*t-can the idea of any more solo albums and stick with Fleetwood Mac, damn it!

[darklinensuit]

I see your point & love her & Lindsey together, but I still prefer her work on TISL to what's on SYW - writing, vocals, and production.

- Jake

[face of glass]

Maybe ChiliD should think of the possibility that if LB and SN decided to do solo albums from now on, then Mick and John would have to form a new incarnation of the Mac.

You'd like that, wouldn't you?

[darklinensuit]

Originally posted by face of glass
then Mick and John would have to form a new incarnation of the Mac.

Yeah, imagine it, Christina and Justin as the singer/songwriters.


- Jake

[strandinthewind]

Originally posted by darklinensuit
Yeah, imagine it, Christina and Justin as the singer/songwriters.


- Jake

Well, actually, Justin Timberwoman and Brittney Speakeasy Spears do fit the role od ex's throwing recrimminations in prose mold.

[darklinensuit]

Originally posted by strandinthewind
Well, actually, Justin Timberwoman and Brittney Speakeasy Spears do fit the role od ex's throwing recrimminations in prose mold.

I doubt they could even write the word "prose".

- Jake