Monday, May 02, 2011

(Fan Review) Stevie Nicks In Your Dreams "TRULY MASTERFUL RESULTS!"


Just picked it up (10 years later and 10 hours early) Whoa! This is a brilliant record, a real one, a Grower! The Lovely Stevie, Masterful Mr. Stewart and all involved...TRULY MASTERFUL RESULTS! This is a record you'll (keep on repeat) AND keep going...a timeless piece; impossible to absorb in just a few listens. AND People, DON'T LISTEN TO THIS ON the "EAR BUDS" >>>>>
MANDATORY!! FIRE UP on the HEADPHONES for "IN YOUR DREAMS."

Best,

Washed up 70's Warner Promo Rep from the Great White North, 'EH! 

Olie

(Review) Stevie Nicks ""Italian Summer" is a lush romantic waltz with stately orchestration"

'In Your Dreams' Rating: 3 half stars
(Reprise)
AZ Central
Ed Masley

It's been 10 years since Stevie Nicks released an album, and she starts her new one with a song she wrote the same year Fleetwood Mac recorded "Rumours."But Nicks sounds surprisingly vital and engaged in the creative process here, especially on "Secret Love," a song she's had 35 years to record. Of course, it sounds exactly like the sort of thing she would have written then. Even Dave Stewart's production has a certain Lindsey Buckingham-esque sheen to it on that one. And the lyrics would have fit right in: "I am not asking forever from you/I'm just asking to be held for a while."

It's not the only highlight here.

"Italian Summer" is a lush romantic waltz with stately orchestration, recalling both the drama of Roy Orbison and the aching beauty of that Morning Benders single from last year that tried so hard to sound like they'd recorded it in 1961. And Nicks rushes the phrasing in all the right place on the chorus hook: "At the end of the Italian summer, It rains fast and it rains hard/The wind blows right through you/Tears you apart."

There are echoes of Stewart's past shading the techno-pop intro to the yearning "Everybody Loves You," whose chorus hook ends on a brilliantly Beatlesque chord change. Buckingham's harmonies on "Soldier's Angel," a dark, dramatic anti-war lament whose eerie atmosphere recalls "The Chain," are sure to conjure flashbacks to the '70s for Fleetwood Mac fans. There's also a definite Buckingham vibe to the rollicking California rockabilly of the title track, despite his lack of input on that song. And it's a shame she didn't get "Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream)" together in time to cash in on the "Twilight" craze.

Those "Twilight" kids would find plenty to love if they investigated Nicks' back pages.

REVIEW Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams".... "gorgeous, melodic romance-pop, creatively arranged"

Photo by Kristin Burns
* * * ½ DREAMY POP 
Stevie Nicks / Sound & Noise, In Your Dreams 

On her first solo album in a decade, the pop priestess delivers a lucky 13 tracks of torchy, tender and engaging tunes aimed at the heart of adult-contemporary radio. There are touches of country and soul, but mostly this is gorgeous, melodic romance-pop, creatively arranged. (Producer Dave Stewart co-wrote about half of the album.) Lyrically, Nicks plays it a bit too safe by leaning hard — again — on dreams/angels/ghosts imagery. The strongest songs are the more personal.

— Jerry Shriver
USA TODAY

Download: Everybody Loves You, Soldiers Angel

Review | In Your Dreams "Stevie Nicks" [8 out of 10] 13 great tracks combining country, pop and rock easily fitting her distinctive voice







Some of this might be lost in translation...

CD-Bewertungen.de

Happy returns, says a proverb. Therefore, it is perhaps not surprising that a retro-2011, also a singer Stevie Nicks has found their way back into the spotlight. And it can be quite excited because both vocally and visually, the Texan seems to have changed. It may not quite believe that Stevie is already almost 63 (!) And provides for more than 40 years the music industry on its head. Decorate your career more than 40 Top 50 hits and sold over 140 million albums. Before one can only salute. Just as before their new album "In Your Dreams".

This was from Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) and Glen Ballard co-produced and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge. The result are 13 great tracks that combine country, pop and rock together easily and fit perfectly to the distinctive voice of Stevie Nicks. Singing Technically it is partially supported by Dave Stewart, Lindsey Buckingham, Sharon Celani and Lori Nicks, with both Celani and Nicks since as early as 1978 and 1980 good friends of Stevie and the band are touring.

So you can understand this album almost as a kind of goodbye, finally, returns the last studio album for ten years! Already in February 2010, Dave Stewart has said on Twitter that he is working with Stevie, Mike Campbell, Waddy Wachtel, Mike Row on a new album. Not all of them unknown, so it is not really surprising, is what great work at such a team is formed. Three months ago, in February, the first single "Secret Love" was published, which is also the opening track of the album. A good choice because it is catchy, quiet yet trendy. There is almost the softest numbers on "In Your Dreams", especially since the last songs are plain rocking.

Stevie has not only in the studio on it, but also live. Of 20 March to 23 April, she and Rod Stewart on "The Heart & Soul Tour," which the two founding fathers of North America and cities like New York, Los Angeles and Tampa has done. In a few days, Stevie starts with some solo shows, among other things will occur in Las Vegas and Indio, CA. Your album will be released in Germany on 06.05. and should be of interest not only by fans of Stevie Nicks and Fleetwod Mac! The comeback will really succeeded!

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Stevie Nicks, her 1st CD in 10 years, & it’s a whole lot better than you might have assumed

Stevie Nicks – In Your Dreams 
Crawdaddy 
Mike Conklin published on May 2, 2011

Jesus, this is turning out to be a weird week for new records, isn’t it? Also, doesn’t it seem like there should already be a Fleetwood Mac record named In Your Dreams? Regardless, it is, in fact, a brand new solo album from the inimitable Stevie Nicks, her first in 10 years, and it’s a whole lot better than you might have assumed. She’s still doing her standard mystical romantic thing, which would be straight-up unbearable were her voice not still in fine shape.