numberthirty wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2025 7:02 pm
Some of the time, I forget just how sheltered the "Fan Of Music..." lives that some of you have lived actually seem to have been...
Guilty as charged.
Re: Song Writer: Stevie Nicks
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 6:46 am
by penningtron
Cool voice, I like some of those Mac songs but my mind goes here half the time:
Re: Song Writer: Stevie Nicks
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 12:28 pm
by zorg
I like Fleetwood Mac, and I like her voice....never realized that she had sole writing credit on many of those, including several of the big ones. Not Crap. Extra points for the band having three very strong songwriters who also all loved cocaine in their peak era.
“When the band decided that the cover of Tusk should be a picture of Scooter biting my foot, Stevie told me that she had put a hex on Scooter,” Fleetwood Mac producer Ken Caillat explained. “Then, when he died four years later in 1983, Stevie said, ‘I’m glad, Ken. Your dog had that album cover that should have been mine.’”
Re: Song Writer: Stevie Nicks
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2025 4:53 pm
by DaveA
Among other things, she wrote "Gypsy." That's a pretty great moody radio hit.
Re: Song Writer: Stevie Nicks
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 1:31 pm
by Jacques
Incredible songwriter. Even if she'd only ever written "Silver Springs" (my favorite F Mac song), "Landslide," and "Sisters of the Moon," that'd easily be enough for me to vote NOT CRAP. But she's written a ton of other great songs.
Re: Song Writer: Stevie Nicks
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 2:06 pm
by eephus
Rewards close listening.
Landslide alone would be enough. Whatever it is there aren't many songs like it.
Dreams, hypnotic, almost a drone. Two chords most of it.
Rhiannon, also mostly two chords, prototypical W Coast rock groove. Worthy of real analysis. "She is like a cat in the dark and then she is the darkness."
Sara, impeccable, unhurried--art. Long, perfectly arranged in a series of waves. "The sea of love / where everyone would love to drown."
She was genuine, too, with no filter really, and that let her get away with stuff other people might not.
Re: Song Writer: Stevie Nicks
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 2:31 pm
by rsmurphy
eephus wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 2:06 pm
Sara, impeccable, unhurried--art. Long, perfectly arranged in a series of waves. "The sea of love / where everyone would love to drown."
Wonderful song. NC on that alone.
I also enjoyed her appearances on American Horror Story: Coven and the way an old bf imitated her dancing in the "Stand Back" video.
Re: Song Writer: Stevie Nicks
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 3:17 pm
by zircona1
Confession: The first time I heard 'Landslide' was Billy Corgan's cover of it.
Not a huge fan of the Mac but they and Ms. Nicks both have a few tunes I still enjoy.
'Edge of Seventeen' is always welcome on my radio.
Re: Song Writer: Stevie Nicks
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2025 6:41 pm
by Curry Pervert
I just watched the 'official music video' of Sara to remind myself, and 90 seconds in I got a contact high. Good song though.
Re: Song Writer: Stevie Nicks
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 8:45 am
by Wood Goblin
eephus wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2025 2:06 pm
Rewards close listening.
Landslide alone would be enough. Whatever it is there aren't many songs like it.
Dreams, hypnotic, almost a drone. Two chords most of it.
Rhiannon, also mostly two chords, prototypical W Coast rock groove. Worthy of real analysis. "She is like a cat in the dark and then she is the darkness."
Sara, impeccable, unhurried--art. Long, perfectly arranged in a series of waves. "The sea of love / where everyone would love to drown."
She was genuine, too, with no filter really, and that let her get away with stuff other people might not.
Agree with all this. She also wrote “That’s Alright” and “Gypsy,” which (on the right day) might be my two favorite FM songs.
For whatever reason, her solo material leaves me cold. I really don’t like any of it.