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What Would You Like with Your Stevie?


1. Buckingham Nicks: "Crystal" 0 votes

2. Buckingham Nicks: "Crying in the Night" 0 votes

3. Kenny Loggins with Stevie Nicks: "Whenever I Call You Friend" 2 votes

4. Stevie Nicks and Don Henley: "Leather and Lace" 1 votes

5. Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" 7 votes

6. Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham: "Twisted" 0 votes

7. Don Henley and Stevie Nicks: "It Don't Matter to the Sun" 0 votes

8. Other (please specify) 1 votes

Edgy MD
Jan 31 2016 04:24 PM

Maybe you like your Stevie Nicks. But maybe you don't lurve her. Stevie solo is too much Stevie. She makes you cry. She makes you break down. She shatters your illusions of love. But Fleetwood Mac has her sublimated. Not enough Stevie. You only love her when she's playing.

If this is you, maybe you turn the career of Stevie the duettist. And that's why we have this poll, to pick your favorite Stevie Nicks Plus One track.

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1. Buckingham Nicks: "Crystal"
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2. Buckingham Nicks: "Crying in the Night"
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3. Kenny Loggins with Stevie Nicks: "Whenever I Call You Friend"
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4. Stevie Nicks and Don Henley: "Leather and Lace"
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5. Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers: "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around"
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6. Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham: "Twisted"
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7. Don Henley and Stevie Nicks: "It Don't Matter to the Sun"
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8. Other (please specify)

d'Kong76
Jan 31 2016 05:06 PM
Re: What Would You Like with Your Stevie?

I'm not fussy, if she could get up a half hour before the alarm goes
off and put on some coffee for us then butter my bagel...

MFS62
Jan 31 2016 05:09 PM
Re: What Would You Like with Your Stevie?

When you hear her sing, you get images of both leather and lace.
That song is HER.

Later

Fman99
Jan 31 2016 06:35 PM
Re: What Would You Like with Your Stevie?

I prefer the Buckingham/Nicks album they did, pre-Mac, to any of the Fleetwood Mac era music that they made. It's insane to think that they've never re-released it.

This is my favorite track from that album, not one listed above.

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Edgy MD
Jan 31 2016 06:47 PM
Re: What Would You Like with Your Stevie?

The rights have reverted to the two of them and they continually hint at re-releasing, but never get around to it. I imagine that Lindsey wants to spend some time in the studio re-mastering it.

Sorry I couldn't include every track from that album. I agree that it's good stuff. But nothing takes a back seat to "Second-Hand News."

MFS62
Jan 31 2016 06:56 PM
Re: What Would You Like with Your Stevie?

d'Kong76 wrote:
I'm not fussy, if she could get up a half hour before the alarm goes
off and put on some coffee for us then butter my bagel...

She could do anything she wants for (or to) me.
And I'd giver her as much time as she wants to do it, too.

Later

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Jan 31 2016 07:09 PM
Re: What Would You Like with Your Stevie?

Dont tell anyone cool but I'm a sucker for 'Whenever I call you friend' Not sure if it is my vote yet.

Frayed Knot
Jan 31 2016 07:51 PM
Re: What Would You Like with Your Stevie?

I always liked some Lindsey & Walter with my Stevie

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Edgy MD
Jan 31 2016 08:55 PM
Re: What Would You Like with Your Stevie?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote:
Dont tell anyone cool but I'm a sucker for 'Whenever I call you friend' Not sure if it is my vote yet.

I adore it, but I'm kinda falling for "Crying in the Night."

Cool things about "WICYF":
[list][*]While it was billed as duet on the album, the single was credited just to Kenny Loggins, so it's technically the first Kenny Loggins "solo" hit.

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[*]It was co-written with Melissa Manchester, but somehow she got aced out of being the female lead. She would release her own, more understated, version the next year with some guy named Arnold McCuller, but it went nowhere.

[/*:m]
[*]Kenny Loggins was certainly trying to show his chops as vocal arranger, which the lush, multi-layered Beach Boysian harmonies in the intro foreshadowing what he would do a few years later on the bridge of "I'm Alright."

[/*:m]
[*]I thought for about 15 years that this was a pair of African-American soul singers. I think when Kenny moved to LA, he was working out of the same studios as the Jacksons, and was influenced by young adult Michael's strained, breathy delivery. That's my theory, anyhow.

[/*:m]
[*]Stevie and Kenny have an unofficial agreement never to perform this unless the other is on hand to do it together, although Melissa Manchester insists to this day that she and Kenny will someday cut a version together.[/*:m][/list:u]

"Magnet and Steel" — like "Gold" or "Hello, It's Me" — may be some fine music-making on which Stevie Nicks appeared, but it ain't no duet.

Edgy MD
Jan 31 2016 10:17 PM
Re: What Would You Like with Your Stevie?

But this, which I just discovered, more or less is...

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d'Kong76
Jan 31 2016 10:30 PM
Re: What Would You Like with Your Stevie?

Changed my 'other' vote... draggin' will win in a landslide...

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Feb 01 2016 02:19 PM
Re: What Would You Like with Your Stevie?

I don;t see how 'Draggin' is six times better than 'Friend.' It's like the brightest song ever.

Edgy MD
Feb 01 2016 02:58 PM
Re: What Would You Like with Your Stevie?

Fact-like things About "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around":

[list][*]Petty had earlier written a song for Stevie Nicks, and while working with her on producing it, fell in love with it, and said, "Listen, I know I wrote this for you, but now I want to do it myself. I'll write you another song." The make-good was "Stop Dragging."

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[*]Despite the above fact-like thing, Petty never really wrote her a make-good song, and instead offered to turn "SDMHA" into a duet only after he and the Heartbreakers had recorded and mixed it as a solo effort.

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[*]This is apparent on the refrain, when Stevie, who sings most of the lines on the verses, is suddenly bumped to the harmony line.

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[*]It probably would have been a better song just sung from a guy's point of view, all spurned and bitter-like.

[list]There's people running 'round loose in the world
They've got nothing better to do
Than make-a meat of some bright-eyed kid
You need someone looking after you
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...sounds much less powerful as a woman's description of a world trying to exploit her than as the argument of a man trying desperately to insinuate himself more deeply into the life of a woman giving him the brushoff.

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[*]Speaking of bitter, Petty came to resent this song, because it was released around the same time as the excellent "Woman in Love" and he blamed it for keeping the latter from climbing the charts. As if the charts couldn't sustain two Petty songs at once or something.

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[*]It's pretty appropriate that Petty came to the table with the Heartbreakers, and Stevie came with her two backup singers, Lori Perry and Sharon Celani. Both artists bring a signature part of their sound that way.

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[*]Did I say the Heartbreakers? Not quite. Bassist Ron Blair sat out that session (perhaps foreshadowing his soon to come replacement by Howie Epstein). Replacing Blair was legendary bassman Donald "Duck" Dunn.

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[*]Got crazy amounts of airplay on early MTV with their thin library of selections, and ended up being the biggest hit for either artist.[/*:m][/list:u]

Edgy MD
Feb 01 2016 05:09 PM
Re: What Would You Like with Your Stevie?

Hey, listen, another lost Stevie Nicks duet!

This one is a mostly bad power ballad nugget co-performed with Stevie's eighties protégé, Houston singer/songwritery person Sandy Stewart.

I dare you to vote for it! I'm talking to you, Seawolf!

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cooby classic
Feb 01 2016 06:31 PM
Re: What Would You Like with Your Stevie?

She's a cutie.

I had a tough time between "Draggin" and "Friend" but I ultimately chose Petty b/c I feel like I look like him in the summer

seawolf17
Feb 02 2016 07:57 AM
Re: What Would You Like with Your Stevie?

Edgy MD wrote:
I dare you to vote for it! I'm talking to you, Seawolf!


You know, just because it's a power ballad...

"Draggin'" for me.

Edgy MD
Feb 07 2016 04:02 PM
Re: What Would You Like with Your Stevie?

I tried to get real duets here, rather than traxx where Stevie acts as a mere backup singer (like "Secret" with Robin Zander, where Stevie gets no lines of her own), or tracks where she gets big shot help on the side (like "If Ever You Did Believe," with Sheryl Crow, where Sheryl Crow gets no lines of her own).

But since Koz regular earns his top billing as exclusively an instrumentalist, I think this counts as a pure duet.

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Mets Willets Point
Feb 10 2016 09:06 AM
Re: What Would You Like with Your Stevie?

Wow! So many duets and yet she never sang with Jennifer Warnes.