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Stevie Nicks - Timespace: The Best of Stevie Nicks Audio CD

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Stevie Nicks Band: Stevie Nicks
Title: Timespace: The Best of Stevie Nicks
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Release Date: 1991-09-03
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Sometimes It's a Bitch 2: Stop Draggin' My Heart Around 3: Whole Lotta Trouble 4: Talk to Me 5: Stand Back 6: Beauty and the Beast 7: If Anyone Falls 8: Rooms on Fire 9: Love's a Hard Game to Play 10: Edge of Seventeen 11: Leather and Lace 12: I Can't Wait 13: Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You 14: Desert Angel

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I was disappointed with the bad tracks on this CD. The album is an excellent one, however, the CD was not in as good condition as described by the seller. It should not have been marked "very good condition. " I would not have purchased it if I had known there were so many bad spots on this CD.
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Stevie's Best Compilation To Date
Alas, these songs were not included in the updated "Crystal Visions" compilation, either. This is Stevie's best compilation to date, though it's a bit frustrating that a few smaller hits are missing ("After the Glitter Fades," "Nightbird," "Needles & Pins"). Still, this CD does contain all of her biggest solo hits and is still the Stevie compilation to buy (the newer compilation, "Crystal Visions," is a waste of money due to the inclusion of live songs and/or remixes instead of hits). So, until a truly definitive compilation comes along, this is still the one to buy. Note: most of Stevie's solo albums are worth picking up, too, especially "Bella Donna" and "The Wild Heart. ".


New songs maintain consistency of back catalog
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Sample the best of the best
Therefore this a great collection of some of her best stuff. I am a fan of Stevie's, just not so much that I would want to own every thing she's put out.


Read Between Her Lines...If You Can
Who knows what she's talking about half the time? Is that a bad thing? Nah, it's just her. Subjected to the precis test, most Stevie Nicks songs would probably come up a little short. Some songwriters offer the listener a clear narrative that could--if anyone cared to--be easily summarized. Stevie Nicks is not one of them. She's not a Joni Mitchell-type storyteller. But unlike say, Grace Slick, Laura Nyro or Nico, she is less cryptic than fragmentary. You know that "Sara" is about an intense romantic relationship, for instance, but just who was telling whom to build that house? And why? And it turns out Rhiannon was in fact a Welsh witch. Who knew? Or rather, who would know on the basis of the actual text?

But the vagaries were all part of Nicks' charm. Sorta Like looking at the hurried jottings from a diary. . . one that includes a few poetic fragments mixed in with the innocently self-absorbed musings. And, for the most part, it works. You do find yourself asking things like, "Well, just who is that second voice calling through the door on 'If Anyone Falls In Love?'" Tantalizing hints of a story there. But it doesn't get fleshed out.

And just as well too. Occasionally, Stevie finds another songwriter--like Tom Petty!--who complements her style and matches her sensibility. (The STORY behind "Stop Dragging Heart Around" is a little sketchy too, after all, but that doesn't keep it from being just about THE PERFECT Stevie Nicks track). By contrast, when she does more pedestrian songs by more pedestrian writers like Jon Bon Jovi or Bret Michaels, well, the songs' basic conceits are just SOOOO obvious. Too obvious, in fact. Love's a hard game to play? Yeah, no kidding. Sometimes life is pleasure, sometimes it's pain? Do tell, Jon.

But even with these less-than-stellar efforts, Stevie gives them the old college drop-out try and actually pulls them off. Just as her sheer conviction steers her through her own wheezy whimsy on schlock-masterpieces like "Beauty and the Beast. " This ode to Gallic cinema and sentimentality should by rights be a clunker, but by dint of sheer will power, she makes something very meaningful of it. I get a little chill every time I hear her sing the line, "I never doubted your beauty, I've changed" even though I'm not 100% sure what that means [if she NEVER doubted her lover's beauty, why did she have to change]. Doesn't pay to overinterpret though. Just sit back and listen to her give Piaf a run for her money. And only Nicks can get away with whispering "la belle and la bete" tout en francais over the fade out. C'est magique. . . and magnifique.

And as awkward as some of the lyrics to the album's "political" closer "Operation Desert Angel" are, it still works, and her embrace of the participants in THAT desert war, seems to reach out to those who may have fought in the last one (Viet Nam) with her "you should know how much we love you" comments. And the song could certainly stand to be revived these days and for this war.

I see below that the hardcore fans have their arguments about just what tracks should have been included on any Stevie Nicks "Best Of. " You're always going to get that kind of argument. Me, I am as happy as a pig in swill to be able to hear my two favorite Nicks numbers ("Stop Draggin. . . " and "Stand Back," well, if not quite back to back, certainly within minutes of each other. Magic Time.



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