If Stevie was to do a...

UnwindedDreams · #1 12-10-2005, 10:49 AM

...Rod Stewart Great American Songbook(something around there) but it didn't have to be all classics what cover tracklisting would yours have.

Stevie
Nicks
TIMELESS...

1.I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
2.Time After Time duet with Cyndi Lauper
3.Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours
4.Circle Dance duet with Bonnie Raitt
5. I've Got The World On A String
6. I Write The Songs with Barry Manilow
7. At Last
8. Hot Legs with Rod Stewart
9. Fever
10. Hotel California with Don Henley
11.Strong Enough with Sheryl Crow
12. White Room with Eric Clapton
13. Rock and Roll with Robert Plant
14. So You Wanna Be A Rock N' Roll Star

DavidMn · #2 12-10-2005, 12:51 PM

Ok, I hope she doesnt do that, because to me that means that the end is near. I could be wrong, but....

Jyqm · #3 12-10-2005, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

...Rod Stewart Great American Songbook(something around there) but it didn't have to be all classics what cover tracklisting would yours have.

So you mean just a regular covers album then?

I'd rather she didn't, personally. If she were to do an album of mostly jazz/blues standards with maybe a couple of wildcards thrown in (a la Willie Nelson's Stardust, which is still a brilliant album, even if it is the one that first gave rock and country stars the idea to flood the marketplace with all manner of crap in the same vein), with a very small, basic band and maybe a string quartet or something, I think that could be interesting.

But just a bunch of rock covers? What would be the point? Would she be inspired enough to make them significantly different from the originals? A whole album of "I Need To Know" and "Just Like A Woman" ain't gonna cut it.

UnwindedDreams · #4 12-10-2005, 12:54 PM

I'm just pretending here...

UnwindedDreams · #5 12-10-2005, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Jyqm

So you mean just a regular covers album then?

I'd rather she didn't, personally. If she were to do an album of mostly jazz/blues standards with maybe a couple of wildcards thrown in (a la Willie Nelson's Stardust, which is still a brilliant album, even if it is the one that first gave rock and country stars the idea to flood the marketplace with all manner of crap in the same vein), with a very small, basic band and maybe a string quartet or something, I think that could be interesting.

But just a bunch of rock covers? What would be the point? Would she be inspired enough to make them significantly different from the originals? A whole album of "I Need To Know" and "Just Like A Woman" ain't gonna cut it.

I guess she can add in a few wildcards, but it kinda would be cool to see all classics but then everyone is copying off of each other.

Jyqm · #6 12-10-2005, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidMn

Ok, I hope she doesnt do that, because to me that means that the end is near. I could be wrong, but....

In Stevie's case, you're probably right, although there are many other artists who have released covers albums smack in the middle of their careers.

But don't most folks around here believe the end is near for Stevie's career already anyway?

Jyqm · #7 12-10-2005, 12:56 PM

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Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

I guess she can add in a few wildcards, but it kinda would be cool to see all classics but then everyone is copying off of each other.

What do you mean by "everyone is copying off each other"?

UnwindedDreams · #8 12-10-2005, 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Jyqm

What do you mean by "everyone is copying off each other"?

Cyndi Lauper did At Last, Rod Stewart did all the Great American Songbooks...like that.

DavidMn · #9 12-10-2005, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Jyqm

In Stevie's case, you're probably right, although there are many other artists who have released covers albums smack in the middle of their careers.

But don't most folks around here believe the end is near for Stevie's career already anyway?

Well that's true. I guess it's just deinal.

Jyqm · #10 12-10-2005, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by UnwindedDreams

Cyndi Lauper did At Last, Rod Stewart did all the Great American Songbooks...like that.

Well, that is why they're called standards: they're standard, and lots of people record them, and there are certainly enough out there that she could find some that haven't been recorded very recently (although Rod seems to be ****ting out every old tune he can get his hands on, like they're going out of style). The point is just to bring something new to the table with those songs and reinterpret or reinvent them in some way, or just give them a new voice.

If she released a project like this tomorrow, though, I can see how a lot of people would feel like it'd be just a retread, since there have been a lot of folks doing standards albums lately. But if she waited a few years, and chose her songs very carefully so as not to overlap too much with what Rod and others have been doing, I think she could have something pretty respectable on her hands.

DavidMn · #11 12-10-2005, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Jyqm

Well, that is why they're called standards: they're standard, and lots of people record them, and there are certainly enough out there that she could find some that haven't been recorded very recently (although Rod seems to be ****ting out every old tune he can get his hands on, like they're going out of style). The point is just to bring something new to the table with those songs and reinterpret or reinvent them in some way, or just give them a new voice.

If she released a project like this tomorrow, though, I can see how a lot of people would feel like it'd be just a retread, since there have been a lot of folks doing standards albums lately. But if she waited a few years, and chose her songs very carefully so as not to overlap too much with what Rod and others have been doing, I think she could have something pretty respectable on her hands.

Well, Imight be a bit more interested if that happened.

rbs3676 · #12 12-10-2005, 05:57 PM

It would be the kiss of death to her songwriting career if she ever did anything like what Rod is doing. Rod isnt much of a songwriter - and his career was basically in the toilet until he pulled the Linda Ronstadt stint of doing covers. And he has had a huge hit with it -- good for him. Rod is a great performer. I met him in the 80's and he was a total doll.
I think that Stevie still has many tricks up her sleeves...she SHOULD release the orchestra Australian show...tour behind that WITH an orchestra....do the Rhiannon project that she has always teased us with...and then...put out the autobiography.

rbs

StreetAngel86 · #13 12-10-2005, 06:32 PM

personally, i do NOT want Stevie to do an album full of covers
wouldn't you rather have NEW material?

But if she *god forbid* decided to record one she would totally have to sing 'After All' with Liddy of course

Stevie BETTER release the Melbourne show on CD/DVD hell TV special will do great too. It's what singers do when they're at the TOP baby PERFORM WITH THE Melb Symph Orch

foxyluva · #14 12-11-2005, 03:35 AM

I think this would be a really bad idea. I think an unplugged cd/dvd of her own music would be better