Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Glee: The Music, Volume 6 - Out May 23rd - Includes Fleetwood Mac Tracks

NEW YORK, May 3, 2011 PRNewswire 

Glee: The Music, Volume 6, the final official album release of Glee's second season, is available on Monday, May 23, 2011. With the return of fan favorites Kristin Chenoweth on Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams," Jonathan Groff on Adele's "Rolling In The Deep" and Gwyneth Paltrow on Adele's "Turning Tables," Glee: The Music, Volume 6 has something for everyone. Among its 18 tracks, Glee: The Music, Volume 6 features 3 new and original tracks including "As Long As You're There" (featuring Charice), "Pretending," and "Light Up The World" a New Directions showcase co-written by Max Martin.

The full track listing for Glee: The Music, Volume 6 is as follows:

  1. Turning Tables
  2. I Feel Pretty / Unpretty
  3. As If We Never Said Goodbye
  4. Born This Way
  5. Dreams
  6. Songbird
  7. Go Your Own Way
  8. Don't Stop
  9. Rolling In The Deep
  10. Isn't She Lovely
  11. Dancing Queen
  12. Try A Little Tenderness
  13. My Man
  14. Pure Imagination
  15. Bella Notte
  16. As Long As You're There
  17. Pretending
  18. Light Up My World

(Review) Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams

The dreamy, mystical “Annabel Lee” offers Nicks’ catchiest melody in years, her precise vocals pulsing over a sturdy, John McVie-esque bass and a Lindsey Buckingham-influenced guitar sweep.

Paste Magazine
By Ryan Reed

5 Stars

Amid the fingerpicked folk of “For What It’s Worth,” the most nostalgic, romantic track from Stevie Nicks’ seventh studio album, America’s most beloved and mysterious gypsy princess emotes, “I got to sing; I got to dance; I got to be a part of the great romance.” No mystery there. As a former vocalist and songwriter for ’70s legends Fleetwood Mac, Nicks did experience the ups and the downs, the fame and the decline, the mysticism and the harsh reality of the rock star life.

No matter what she does, Nicks will never escape the large-looming legacy of her former band, the monster collective that cranked out masterpieces like Rumours and Tusk. Not that she’s avoiding the association—she did, after all, record with the band on their 2003 comeback, Say You Will, and participate in the sporadic tours that have taken place since. But she’s never quite reached her former act’s level of acclaim or commercial success, and she’s certainly never crafted that one album that’s come to define her as a solo artist. Her first attempt, 1981’s Bella Donna, has come closest on all counts, sprouting an array of top-notch singles (like “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” and the oft-referenced “Edge of Seventeen”), but even still, most of her best moments as a soloist bear The Mac’s stylistic hallmarks.

Full Review

Stevie Nicks on In Your Dreams and the Duet That Brought Her Back to 1973 With Lindsey Buckingham

Stevie Nicks on In Your Dreams and the Duet That Brought Her Back to 1973 With Lindsey Buckingham

By: Robert Burke Warren

Stevie Nicks says writing and recording her seventh studio album, In Your Dreams, was probably the most fun she’s had making music since Fleetwood Mac put out its self-titled album in 1975. The thirteen tracks came together at Nicks's Pacific Palisades home in early 2010, with producer-songwriter-guitarist Dave Stewart (Eurythmics), hit-maker Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette, Michael Jackson, Aerosmith), and Fleetwood Mac alums Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood. Vulture spoke with Nicks about her "magical" communal writing process and how it compared to her contentious collaborations with Buckingham.

Why was making this album so much fun for you?
We worked four or five days a week, and we’d break at seven for dinner — we had dinners for ten to twelve people every night — and we’d discuss politics and music and the world, and then went back to work for two or three hours. It was an experience. It was like Magical Mystery Tour. It was so much fun that when it was over and all of the people started packing to go and taking the recording equipment, I just sat down on the couch and started to cry. It was like, "I don't want this to be over."

(Review) “In Your Dreams” reminds us that Stevie Nicks has far too much music in her to be solely confined within Fleetwood Mac"

Stevie Nicks
“In Your Dreams”
Reprise
★★★ out of 5
The Oakland Press

It’s been a decade since her last solo studio album, but Nicks sounds anything but rusty here. Former Eurythmics principal Dave Stewart co-wrote seven of these 13 songs and sings on two, clearly pushing Nicks into vintage form on Beatles-leaning cuts like “Everybody Loves You,” “Italian Summer” and the lengthy Edgar Allan Poe adaptation “Annabel Lee,” rockers such as the title track and “Ghosts Are Gone,” and rich melodic fare like the single, “Secret Love,” “For What It’s Worth” and “New Orleans.” Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham both show up here -- the latter on the affecting “Soldiers Angel” -- but “In Your Dreams” reminds us that Nicks has far too much music in her to be solely confined within Fleetwood Mac.

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(Reviews) Stevie Nicks "might, shockingly and unexpectedly, be Nicks’s best album"

STEVIE NICKS: In Your Dreams (Warner Music) B-
The Vancouver Province - Ultra Sound

Fleetwood Mac’s beloved diva has always relied on a great producer to make her often pedestrian songs spring to life. Dave Stewart, who produced her first disc in 10 years with Glen Ballard, and wrote the music to some of its strongest tracks, might be no Lindsey Buckingham, but he’s been the midwife for what might, shockingly and unexpectedly, be Nicks’s best album. While some songs are expendable and most are simply too long, this is more consistently fun than we had any reason to expect.

STEVIE NICKS: In Your Dreams (Warner Music)
Calgary Herald — Mike Bell

It’s telling that there’s a song on the new Stevie Nicks album inspired by the new Moon film (yes, the film, not the book). Telling because it sets the tone for a dreary, ridiculously maudlin set of aC pap, the type aimed singularly at lonely, frumpy, single women in their mid’40s named Mallory, abigail or susan (but goes by “suze,” cuz it’s more fun!), who’ve given up on finding anyone or anything else to fill their lives. The material congeals into one amorphous blob of soft rock, and features every trite and obvious touchstone in the songwriter handbook, including: war, on the cringe-inducing soldier’s angel; epic tales of star-crossed love on wide sargossa sea (inspired, presumably, by the film, not the novel); and the now ubiquitous new orleans song, titled, quite imaginatively, new orleans. and the biggest crime is that, be it the original material or merely time, nicks no longer sounds like that vibrant gypsy singer of past days. she sounds like, well, like someone who gets inspired by Twilight films.

Smukt Stevie
Stevie Nicks. **** out of 6 Stars
Hvad: In Your Dreams,
producere: Dave Stewart og Glen Ballard.
Hvor: Reprise/Warner.
Denmark: Berlingske Tidende

Det er et vidunderligt genhør med en af rockhistoriens største kvindelige stemmer. Det er helt klassiske folk-sange, kærlighedsballader og grandiose rockschlagere. Sublimt produceret af Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart og Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette). Og Stevie Nicks selv, for det er naturligvis om hende disse linjer roterer, lyder virkelig som den snart 63-Ã¥rige levekvinde, hun er, med ridser, revner og buler. Det gælder bÃ¥de selve sangskrivningen og den vokal, man ikke har lyst til at leve uden. Bob Dylan vil elske denne plade, hendes gamle beau, Lindsey Buckingham, ligesÃ¥. Det er Nicks’ første soloskive i ti Ã¥r, og hendes bedste siden de første solodrøn i startfirserne. Fremhæves mÃ¥ den gigantiske strygerbÃ¥rne ballade »Italian Summer«, hvem der kan lytte til den uden at kny... Hvem der kan undgÃ¥ at skære sig pÃ¥ »Soldier’s Angel« og synge med pÃ¥ den flyvske titelsang. Et herligt comeback.

(Review) Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" 4 STARS "best solo work since she began recording outside Fleetwood Mac"

'In Your Dreams'
Stevie Nicks' 'In Your Dreams' is her best solo work to date
JIM FARBER
New York Daily News

Stevie Nicks lives in a world of clues and innuendos. Her songs read like gossip items with the names cut out, tantalizing bits driven by hints rather than disclosures.

That's never been more true than on her first disk in a decade, on which she made sure to title the lead single "Secret Love," in case you miss her love of the salacious.

The song alludes to an affair Nicks had in the mid-'70s with a coupled man, a guy whose identity she has told journalists she can't quite recall.

Nicks follows that with a song ("For What It's Worth") that addresses another "great romance" with somebody famous on the sly. Later, in "Wide Sargasso Sea," a mysterious "Englishman" moves in with Nicks, but hates her West Coast lifestyle and, so, takes off, while in "Ghosts Are Gone" a shadow of an old lover keeps haunting her dreams.

Snapshot of the New York Daily News Article
It's a vintage Stevie move — a guessing game disguised as poetry. But, then, what else would you expect from a woman who rose to power in a band that turned their own romantic entanglements into something both marketable and mythic? In doing so, Fleetwood Mac functioned like a musical reality show, 30 years before its time.

Luckily, her exploitation of the strategy on "In Your Dreams" isn't the only intriguing thing about it.

(Review) Stevie Nicks – In Your Dreams **** (out of 4 stars)

Stevie Nicks’ ‘In Your Dreams’ 
This Dream Album Might Just Be Her Best Ever 
Written by Greg Victor
Parcbench.com

Here she is — the eternal chronicler of California canyon stream of consciousness sending out notes as if they were bubbles capable of bursting at any altitude, yet entirely capable of floating up to the heavens intact. I’m talking about the one and only Stevie Nicks, of course. In case you feel like treating your ears, your heart and your soul well — Stevie has released her new album, In Your Dreams. It’s one of those albums that comes along in a legend’s career — the milestone album that solidifies the reputation of a true artist forevermore. The queen of folk rock is in royal form. Long may she live and love and make songs to unpack the hidden meanings of it all.


In Your Dreams sounds like it could only have been an extraordinary experience to make. Co-producers Dave Stewart, Glenn Ballard and Stevie Nicks have created an album that attempts to do it all (that’s praise-worthy enough)… what’s more, they damn near succeed. It’s an album bursting with creativity. Yet it maintains its balance through a precise focus. These songs present Stevie as potent as ever without relying on any sort of gimmick. All that is asked of her is to be truer than ever in her delivery. Yeah, that’s all. And she is. It’s just this sort of relaxation within the parameters of tautness that brings out the best in most artists. And it must have been a fun album to make, what with Stevie Nicks writing and recording in her home studio. Writing and recording In Your Dreams must have been as close as it gets to what the experience was in the profound 1970s heyday of American rock.

At 62, the gold dust woman proves that there is legend after Fleetwood Mac. She has turned out the finest solo album of her four-decade career. If you love her unmistakable, ageless vocals and intricate storytelling, you will love this album.

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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