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Crystal Visions - The Very Best of Stevie Nicks | 
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| Artist: Stevie Nicks
Label: Reprise / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 1664
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 100363
UPC: 093624999812
EAN: 0093624999812
ASIN: B000N3ST7A
Release Date: March 27, 2007
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Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: cd is sealed. no apo/fpo.
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| Tracks:
| • | Edge of Seventeen | | • | I Can't Wait | | • | Sorcerer | | • | If Anyone Falls in Love | | • | Stop Draggin' My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks, Petty, Tom | | • | Silver Springs | | • | Dreams | | • | Rhiannon | | • | Rooms on Fire | | • | Talk to Me - Stevie Nicks, Sandford, C. | | • | Landslide | | • | Stand Back | | • | Planets of the Universe | | • | Rock and Roll - Stevie Nicks, Bonham, John | | • | Leather and Lace | | • | Edge of Seventeen |
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| Editorial Reviews:
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 via this 16-track career retrospective. 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 album is also available in a deluxe edition featuring a DVD packed with videos, commentary, and more. --Jerry McCulley
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.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Awesome December 1, 2008
Rebecca K. Roby
I am a huge Fleetwood Mac fan, have been so since I was in High School (I'm 45 now), but in my personal opinion, this is probably Stevie Nicks' best CD, which is a collection of some of her best. Highly recommend it, especially if you are a Stevie Nicks fan, (and as a Fleetwood Mac fan, also) as I have come to be because of this CD. The music, the poetic words, the stories she tells through her music. Brilliant. My personal favorites are "Sorcerer;" a new version of "Dreams;" which is equally awesome. The original version of this song was excellent, but this new version is even better. If Stevie Nicks were to venture onto this website and read what her fans are writing, I think she would be pleased. Awesome. More!! Out of Fleetwood Mac, she is truly worth listening to.
 Missing A Lot of Hits November 24, 2008
Another Critic
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Stevie Nicks deserves a better compilation than this. Most of the live songs ("Edge of 17," "Landslide," "Rock and Roll") are inferior compared to the original versions. It's nice to hear the live version of "Rhiannon," but Stevie's performance from Fleetwood Mac's "The Dance" was better than the performance selected here. So, these live versions ultimately take up space that could have been occupied by actual hits ("After the glitter fades," "Nightbird," "Needles and Pins," "Sometimes it's a Bitch," "Has anyone ever written anything for you," etc.). It would have been nice to have other Fleetwood Mac songs too ("Sara," "Gypsy," "Gold dust woman," to name a few). So, this compilation ultimately misses the mark despite being a decent listen. Fans wanting her best songs and hits should probably stick to "Timespace" and "Fleetood Mac's Greatest Hits."
 Just like the white winged dove February 8, 2008
Tim Brough (Springfield, PA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Nicely updating Timespace: The Best of Stevie Nicks, this 2007 Best Of catches up with the music Stevie Nicks has been making since then. Nicks' asset has always been that her dreamy voice meshes so perfectly with her hippy queen image, and allows her to get away with making poetic statements like "Edge Of Seventeen" or "Rhiannon." That hippy image also contrasts sharply with the fact that she could rock pretty hard when she chose to, like on "I Can't Wait" or the classic duet with Tom Petty, "Stop Dragging My Heart Around."
Frankly, I doubt that anything I could say here would influence anyone's opinion of Stevie Nicks...so just suffice to say that the remastering of the songs is quite good and a step up from the previous best-of's. The live takes of Fleetwood Mac material are nice additions, and I get a charge out of Nicks' version of Zep's "Rock and Roll" (although Heart's version tops Stevie's). "Leather and Lace" remains a highpoint of both Nicks' and Don Henley's musical lives, and the re-working of "Dreams" is the best "new" thing on this CD. Add Stevie's personal notes (she loves Jack Black!?!), and this is certainly worth having if you're a fan.
Crystal Visions - The Very Best of Stevie Nicks January 21, 2008
Oneida Lakota (NE)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We had a chance to listen to Crystal Visions and I really enjoyed hearing Stevie all over, she is a really great singer and now we have most of the favorite songs together. We had some friends over for New Years Eve and it was good to listen and say which songs were favorite.
My husband is a fan forever and really had a good time listening, he always remembers Stevie Nicks at Red Rocks in Colorado and how he can't forget hearing her sing.
Crystal Visions September 8, 2007
E. Anderson
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really can't say I am a diehard Stevie Nicks fan but I always have enjoyed a good number of her popular hits (with and without Fleetwood Mac). Her best of collection CRYSTAL VISIONS is perfect for casual listeners like msyelf. The cd contains all of my favorite songs that Stevie has done in the past and present. My personal favorite songs? "Room on Fire" and "Talk to Me" (which goth band Diva Destruction does a spectacular cover for the indie film GYPSY 83). I never really was crazy about Fleetwood Mac's music but in this case I really enjoyed songs like "Silver Springs" and "Landslide".
In this day and age of Hannah Montana, The Pussycat Dolls, and other disposable pop tarts who tries to pass themselves off as singers, it is refreshing to hear Stevie Nicks. In my opinion, Stevie sounds as good as ever with her distinct raspy vocals which I absolutely adore. She can definitely teach the latest pop du jour on a thing or two about singing and maintaining a career that has gone on for more than the proverbial 15 minutes. CRYSTAL VISIONS is a great testament to Stevie's longevity in an industry that is more concerned with the bottom line than creating long-lasting careers for artists.
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