Product Description

'Crystal Visions' is a collection of songs that spans threedecades worth of work by solo artist and former Fleetwood Mac member Stevie Nicks. The album includes remastered and live versions of tracks that weren't included on 1991's best of 'Timespace'. Classic hits such as 'Edge Of Seventeen', 'Stand Back', 'Dreams'and a raucous live version of Led Zeppelin's 'Rock And Roll'all feature. A comprehensive and endearing overview of Nick's work. This is a must for all Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac fans.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Edge Of Seventeen
2. I Can't Wait
3. Sorcerer
4. If Anyone Falls In Love
5. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around - Petty, Tom & The Heartbreakers/Stevie Nicks
6. Silver Springs - Fleetwood Mac
7. Dreams
8. Rhiannon
9. Rooms On Fire
10. Talk To Me
11. Landslide - Nicks, Stevie & The Melbourne Symphony
12. Stand Back
13. Planets Of The Universe
14. Rock 'N' Roll
15. Leather And Lace - Nicks, Stevie & Don Henley
16. Edge Of Seventeen - Nicks, Stevie & The Melbourne Symphony

Disc 2:

1. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around - Nicks, Stevie & Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
2. Edge Of Seventeen
3. Stand Back
4. Stand Back
5. If Anyone Falls
6. Talk To Me
7. I Can't Wait
8. Rooms On Fire
9. Whole Lotta Trouble
10. Sometimes It's A Bitch
11. Blue Denim
12. Everyday
13. Sorcerer - Nicks, Stevie & Sheryl Crow
14. Bonus Footage

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #29595 in Music
• Released on: 2007-03-27
• Number of discs: 2

Customer Reviews

Great artist, average package
As the third Stevie Nicks 'greatest hits' or 'best of' in 17 years, there seems precious little reason for the release of this package. The tracklisting is less than definitive, therefore casual fans would be better advised to pick up 1990s 'Timespace' collection, whilst there is nothing here for Nicks completists, other than three average live performances, (Rhiannon, Rock & Roll, Edge of Seventeen), one quite good live performance (Landslide), and Deep Dish's recent electro reworking of the classic 'Dreams'.

Of course the songs included in their original format are as good as they ever were, and comprise the majority of Nick's solo singles, there are however some noteable exceptions, such as 'Whole Lotta Trouble', 'Blue Denim' and 'Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You'.

Listening to the disc in it's entirity, one can't help but wonder why the selected compositions from Nick's Fleetwood Mac recordings were not included in their original format, which would have surely made the collection essential.

The included DVD, surprisingly, is where the collection excels, collating the majority of Nick's solo video output into one disc, with the option of wry, and sometimes humorous commentary provided by Nicks herself.

Furthermore home footage of the 'Belladonna' sessions is included as an added extra, and although it feels a little 'tacked on', in combination with the video commentaries, serves as something of a reward for long term fans who have seen the videos and bought the recordings contained within several times over.

All-in-all, 'Crystal Visions' is something of an oddity, neither providing casual fans with a definitive 'best of', nor containing much to pursuade hardcore fans this is a set worth purchasing, nevertheless, the quality of the material shines through in this nice, if slightly pointless collection.

Will there ever be a definitive best of
The one thing i'd really like to see Stevie Nicks do is release is a definitive best of. A double cd comprimising all her solo hits and misses along with her Fleetwood Mac singles and key album tracks.
She has yet to do this fully with only this Crystal Visions coming close as to giving us a more fuller look at her back catalogue. The 'Timespace' collection didnt feature one of her Fleetwood Mac classics and the 1998 release 'Enchanted' gave us a average piano version of Rhiannon. This new best of collection features four of her songs she recorded with Fleetwood Mac. Two of them ( Rhiannon and Landslide) are presented as live versions while the recent deep dish version of Dreams is included which was a big club hit earlier this year.The original version of 'Dreams' is the version we all know and love so would have made more sense that being here unless they wanted to appeal to the young people who maybe got to know about Stevie through Deep Dish. The track 'Silver Springs' is the only Fleetwood Mac track here that is featured in it's original version.
Strangely two of her most beloved tracks 'Sara' and 'Gypsy' are ommited here. The live version of 'Rhiannon' is one of the best i've heard and her vocals are stronger than ever but the live version of the rock classic 'Landslide' is sung with too much nasal and remains flat throughout - the version recorded for 'The Dance' a few years ago would have been more fitting. The other live track included here is 'Edge Of Seventeen' as with 'Landslide' its recorded with The Melbourne Symphony.'Edge of Seventeen' opens the cd with the studio version we all know and love so a second version and a below average live recording seems pointless inbeing tagged onto the end.An inclusion of another hit single would have been far more sufficient. It's no secret that Stevie's voice has now become alot deeper and sings more with her nasal and you cant always count on her hitting the notes right but she still has that rough essence in her voice and the huskiness we all came to love.
This package includes most of her big solo hits. Many other reviews have stated that 'Stand Back' doesnt feature on this set where in fact it does along with 'Talk To Me' 'If Anyone Falls' 'Stop Dragging My Heart Around' 'Rooms On Fire' ' Leather and Lace' 'I Cant Wait' and a version of Lez Zeppelins 'Rock and Roll' which as good as it is 'Heart' have done it better.
It's good to see 'Sorcerer' and 'Planets Of The Universe' from 2001's Trouble In Shangri La included the latter being one of the best tracks she's recorded.
The real pull for fans to buy this is the bonus dvd. With her videos featured with commentary and a making of 'Bella Donna' which is interesting to view after all these years.As you would expect from an '80s artists most of videos have dated pretty badly but its a really good addition to a so so album.
This could have been alot better with a few more additions but still this collection most of time shows us why this lady is still going strong today and why she remains the queen of rock and roll.

Crystal Myopia
It's a weird 'Best of...' that excludes 'Gypsy' and 'Stand Back' however good everything else is!