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The Soundstage Sessions

The Soundstage Sessions

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Artist: Stevie Nicks
Label: Reprise
Category: Music

List Price: £15.99
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Seller: keymailorder
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars 4 reviews
Sales Rank: 11803

Format: CD
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

MPN: 508028
UPC: 093624984214
EAN: 0093624984214
ASIN: B001AW9DKU

Release Date: March 30, 2009
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Tracks:

  • Stand Back
  • Crash
  • Sara
  • If Anyone Falls in Love
  • Landslide Orchestra version
  • How Still My Love
  • Circle Dance
  • Fall From Grace
  • Sorcerer
  • Beauty and the Beast
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Customer Reviews:
4 out of 5 stars Sounding good as ever   May 21, 2009
S. Peel (East Sussex, UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

This album showcases Stevie and her live band performing together as one, and I believe a little overdubbing and studio tweaking was done afterwards. The result is almost a "live album for people who don't like live albums"! It's a good and eclectic choice of tracks from Stevie's catalogue, with some of her Fleetwood Mac favourites - a beautiful orchestral style "Landslide" is notable - and many of her best solo works. The mighty version of "Stand Back" will be familiar to anyone who has seen Stevie live and though she's obviously not as youthful as she was when some of these songs were written, her voice remains clear and powerful and delivers the goods. I recommend it as a must for anyone who is a fan of her solo material, and a good introduction to it for those who may know her only for her work with Fleetwood Mac.


4 out of 5 stars The DVD is better but still good!   November 3, 2009
Mark Haynes (Telford UK)
I first bought the DVD before buying this and was blown away by it. This is worth buying over the DVD if you (like me) have a top quality CD player which can bring out even more Stevie goodness. Really it was How Still My Love which blew me away on the live DVD and here it is just jaw dropping! The extended vocal improv with her band at the end of the song really is the stuff of (vocal) dreams and puts other more hyped young singers to shame (Duffy, etc). Also excellent is her new rendition of Beauty and the Beast (originally from her second album 'Wild Heart'). At first I was slightly thrown by this version as it is a slightly slower tempo but once you listen to that emotion drenched Stevie vocal accompanied by full orchestra you see that the slightly slower pace allows more room for expression than the original (which I thought was flawless and unmatchable). Good too is the uptempo pop/rocker 'Stand Back'. This would be a 5 star review but for 2 low points. First, the recording of 'Fall from Grace' (which sounds so good on DVD) is inexplicably poor - make of that what you will. And secondly Stevie's new rendition of 'Sara' really sounds tired and uninterested. Maybe she's fed up with singing it? Still 8/10 is still good for a 61 year old but maybe not quite as good as the DVD.


2 out of 5 stars Actually Its Rather Good!   June 22, 2009
standbackuk (Scotland UK)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

For Stevie Nicks fans there are some particularly good gems that have taken ages to come to the stage and about time too. The surprise is however that the quality of this album shouldn't automatically be discounted for the lack of Fleetwood Mac hits; it exudes a better sound quality than Fleetwood Mac's "The Dance," album ever did. Largely down to technology Nicks who is now 60 years old isn't afraid to try new ways of improving her hits. br / br /Of the songs that are more interesting though, Nicks' new band has made a decent stab at some songs. "Stand Back" which had its original analogue sound helped by keyboards a la Prince/Symbol/Whatever looses its sound to a more Beth Orton inspired grunge style and trots back happily to the heavy rock associated with most live concerts of Stevie Nicks. It's a good starter song to bring the album crashing to the ears of fans. br / br /"Crash Into Me," by Dave Matthews is an old country ballad that brings a different slow style to the rhythmic urgency of the first song and it is clear to why she chose this song not just singing it in a style close to Bob Dylan. Although largely acoustic it is evident that Nicks has had her voice mixed electronically in this song but it doesn't destroy the beauty of the lyrics or overall output. br / br /Strumming guitars and glistening, glinting acoustic guitars bring in the third track and to those who love Fleetwood Mac will instantly recognize Stevie's voice as she sings about her best friend in the song, "Sara." br / br /The next song, "If Anyone Falls," is one of Stevie's early singles from "The Wild Heart," album of 1983 and it has always been one of my favourites. Here the signature keyboards are evident against a much-needed backdrop of electric guitar power chords, off beat bass line and a trio of strong backing vocalists, something that seems to be lacking in many artists akin to Nicks' era. The song works well although some of the verses at the end are lost due to the power of the backing vocalists. Musically though it works well as a live song although Stevie doesn't get the high notes as she does on her original album but that's no loss. br / br / br /"Landslide," takes the original theme from Fleetwood Mac's album, "The White Album," and features a very similar Lindsey Buckingham-esque glinting acoustic guitar plucking and singing out its basic accompaniment. It's not until the chorus that you get to hear a decent string orchestra in the background and similar harmonies that the Dixie Chicks had done previously with Stevie's excellent homely song. Less dramatic and more poetic this version is well executed, particularly against the false drama that "The Dance," live reunion album by Fleetwood Mac gives. br / br /The next song is a surprise and comes from Stevie's first album in the 1970's, from her best selling album, "Bella Donna." I've always had a soft spot for "How Still My Love," and the way in which it has been done live is very similar to the album version albeit with a lot more reverb and a certain hush from the guitars, bass guitars, drum kit and keyboards. br / br /The next song is one I've fallen for simply because it's a brand new track and one that Stevie has taken from Bonnie Raitt. "Circle Dance," shows off how well Stevie is good at singing another pop female's work that isn't Sheryl Crow based! Not only slightly poetic helped by a solo country style violin, the song exudes warmth and sadness in proper string accompaniments that seems to be a new trait Nicks is fiddling with. With Vanessa Carlton at the helm as a duet partner, this song works extremely well and gives a different light to the usual Stevie Nicks material if not slightly reminiscent of Nicks' own song, "I Miss You," from "Trouble in Shangri-La." It is not the first time however that Carlton has duetted with Stevie; her own solo album shows off the inspirational similarity in the song, "The One." br / br / br /Sadly the disappointing track on this live album is the song of revenge, "Fall from Grace." It doesn't work well live simply because the reverb doesn't sound as if it belongs there. Half the time it sounds as if Nicks is battling with supremacy against the electric guitar and her backing vocalists. br / br /Last but not least, "Sorcerer," from "Trouble in Shangri-La," works surprisingly well even though its clear that this two beat tap song lacks the gloss of Sheryl Crow on backing vocals. Bouncing and dripping with guitars around, the vocals are clear and crystal like, which for a live version is a general improvement. br / br /Undoubtedly the best has been kept to the last and in true Stevie Nicks fashion, the typical song of saying goodbye is heard in a piano solo and combined string orchestral arrangement of "Beauty and The Beast," much like the original but in a fuller and more welcomed way. At last as documented in the linear notes on "Timespace", the Greatest Hits of Stevie Nicks, Stevie gets her wish as granted; the song gets a decent orchestra to accompany Stevie on this song live, and in its production is a lot better than the Melbourne Orchestra version that suffered from flat and sharp out of tune notes. br / br /The inlay booklet is awash with colour photos and very little extra text whilst the lack of an audience can be forgiven here although quite why Stevie never put her excellent cover of "Rock and Roll," by Led Zeppelin remains a mystery. Over the poorly engineered "Fall From Grace," the latter song would happily warrant me five stars for this album. Thanks for reading. br /


2 out of 5 stars Stevie Nicks   May 28, 2009
D. Fitzpatrick (UK)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful

Very dissapointing compilation. Only two maybe three tracks worth listening to. The rest is a dated combination of mediocre performances. I only bought it for the tracks Sarah and Landslide both of which are excellent but the rest are fairly dire br /

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