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| Sales Rank: | 2920 (lower is better) |
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| Release Date: | 2007-03-27 |
| Label: | Reprise / Wea |
| UPC: | 093624999157 |
| Binding: | Audio CD |
| Published By: | Reprise / Wea |
| ASIN: | B000N3ST8O |
| Category: | Music |
Tracks on Crystal Visions - The Very Best of Stevie Nicks (CD / DVD) by Reprise / Wea
- Edge Of Seventeen (CD)
- I Can't Wait (CD)
- Sorcerer (CD)
- If Anyone Falls In Love (CD)
- Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (with Tom Petty) (CD)
- Silver Springs (with Fleetwood Mac) (CD)
- Dreams (with Deep Dish) (CD)
- Rhiannon (Live) (CD)
- Rooms On Fire (CD)
- Talk To Me (CD)
- Landslide (Live with The Melbourne Symphony) (CD)
- Stand Back (CD)
- Planets Of The Universe (CD)
- Rock And Roll (Live) (CD)
- Leather And Lace (with Don Henley) (CD)
- Edge Of Seventeen (Live with The Melbourne Symphony) (CD)
- Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (with Tom Petty) (DVD)
- Edge Of Seventeen (DVD)
- Stand Back (Scarlett Version) (DVD)
- Stand Back (DVD)
- If Anyone Falls In Love (DVD)
- Talk To Me (DVD)
- I Can't Wait (DVD)
- Rooms On Fire (DVD)
- Whole Lotta Trouble (DVD)
- Sometimes It's A Bitch (DVD)
- Blue Denim (DVD)
- Every Day (DVD)
- Sorcerer (with Sheryl Crow) (DVD)
Editorial Reviews and Product Descriptions
Album Description
How beloved is Stevie Nicks? All six of her original solo albums, spanning 1981-2001, plus two "best of" collections,have been certified at least gold. With rock's superstar chanteuse about to go back on the road after guesting on Tom Petty's Highway Companion tour, Crystal Visions... covers her entire solo career for the first time in a CD+DVD package. Featured are several previously unreleased live tracks on the CD, as well as Stevie's voice-over commentary for each video and her artwork on the DVD. Crystal Visions...The Best Of Stevie Nicks is exactly that.
Amazon.com
With a career that's seen her soar from struggling journeywoman to superstar via a fateful invitation to join Fleetwoood Mac, the singer who now bills herself as the most successful female artist in rock history looks back on the various facets of her iconography with this 16-track career retrospective and its accompanying DVD. The mystic-folkie ethos that has long been her caricature are well showcased via the cult fave Rumours outtake/B-side "Silver Spring," the muscular Sheryl Crow collaboration "Sorcerer," and a live version of the moody "Rhiannon" that casts it in even longer shadows. Yet Stevie Nicks has always displayed a willingness to push herself beyond her hippie muse, as witnessed by the dense aura of Deep Dish's remix of Mac's "Dreams" and such disparate, pop-savvy solo highlights as "I Can't Wait," "Stand Back," and shrewd, successful duets with Tom Petty ("Stop Draggin' My Heart Around") and Don Henley ("Leather and Lace"). Indeed, bookended by the original version of the hit "Edge of Seventeen" and a live revamping with the Melbourne Symphony that amps its every melodramatic nuance, reinvention often seems the anthology's subtext. The included DVD compiles 13 of Nicks's evocative videos with new commentary by her, as well as an insightful, previously unreleased home video shot during the Bella Donna sessions. --Jerry McCulley
Customer Reviews
Incredible set, worth every penny. - Reviewed on 2008-04-26
I admit, I'm a relatively new Stevie Nicks fan. I didn't REALLY get into her music until the last five or six years. And in that time, I've come to love and appreciate her as one of the greatest women in rock.
Being a fan who owns Enchanted, when I first heard she was going to release ANOTHER best of, I admit, I rolled my eyes. But as more information came out, I found myself getting more and more excited. And then when the press releases came out, I knew this one was going to be worth picking up.
First off, my comments on the CD. The sound quality is FANTASTIC. All of these songs have been beautifully remastered for spectacular sound quality. And while yes, original versions of her Mac songs would have been nice, and yes one can gripe about missing tracks like Beauty And The Beast, this CD does offer some semi-new material. The live versions of Rhiannon and Landslide are absolutely gorgeous, and her live cover of Rock And Roll is SICK. (In a good way.) And I like that the Deep Dish remix of Dreams is on here, as I thought it was a great reinvention of a classic.
But the best "new" track on here is the live version of Edge Of Seventeen that closes the disc. (And unlike Enchanted, which was missing the studio version in lieu of a live version, this CD also contains the amazing original studio version.) In fact, I'd go so far as to say it's actually BETTER than the studio version. A new powerful string arrangements amps up the drama of the song and makes it truly an event rather than just a great song. She's had a lot of amazing live versions in the past, including a mostly acoustic one for VH1 Storytellers, but this one trumps them all.
The DVD with this set is TRULY the reason fans should pick this set up. The DVD contains all 11 of her released music videos, an unreleased version of Stand Back that has been floating around the internet in terrible 15th generation VHS rips for years, and a live performance of Edge Of Seventeen from her White Winged Dove Tour HBO broadcast. (Sadly, it's currently the only live solo Stevie we have on DVD outside of the awesomely bad Red Rocks DVD. Reprise seriously needs to release the uncut HBO special on DVD, including the songs not included in the broadcast or subsequent VHS and laserdisc releases.) If that wasn't enough, you can watch the videos with commentary by Stevie, where she discusses the songs, wardrobe, her hair, that awful treadmill in Stand Back, Mick Fleetwood's cameo in I Can't Wait, etc. And in addition, there's priceless home video footage of the making of the Bella Donna album. In all, you have up to two and a half hours of viewing pleasure if you count separate viewings of the videos with and without Stevie's commentary.
The CD/DVD package is a beautifully done digipak which opens up to three panels. The left panel holds the CD, the right panel holds the DVD, and the middle panel holds the CD booklet in a sleeve. The booklet and trays of the digipak include all kinds of gorgeous photos of Stevie, some never before seen. The discs themselves are adorned with artwork created by Stevie herself. The set's liner notes are also incredible and feature a short essay on her career by David Wild and Stevie's thoughts on almost every song. (Commentary on Rooms On Fire is oddly missing.)
It doesn't matter if you already own Enchanted and/or Timespace. You MUST own this set if you're a Stevie fan. The commentary on the videos and priceless behind the scenes footage alone is worth the price, but add the incredible new live tracks and remixes and the fact that this is the first best of CD she's released with Silver Springs in its original form? Absolutely a no-brainer.
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- Pop/Rock
- Pop/Rock Music
- Rock
- Rock/Pop
- Soft Rock
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