Timespace: Best of

Stevie Nicks | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 3, 1991)
• Original Release Date: September 3, 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Atlantic
• ASIN: B000002JO6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,654 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sometimes It's a Bitch [#]

2. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around

3. Whole Lotta Trouble

4. Talk to Me

5. Stand Back

6. Beauty and the Beast

7. If Anyone Falls

8. Rooms on Fire

9. Love's a Hard Game to Play [#]

10. Edge of Seventeen

11. Leather and Lace

12. I Can't Wait

13. Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You

14. Desert Angel [#]

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Stevie Nicks hasn't scored an incredible number of post-Fleetwood Mac hits, but she's had enough to fill this CD. (Her 1998 four-CD box set may qualify as overkill). Her best solo songs are ones that sound like they could have come from Fleetwood Mac, including "Stand Back," "Leather and Lace," and "If Anyone Falls"--all included here. The highlight of this CD, and of Nicks' solo career, is "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," her collaboration with Tom Petty. Petty proves to be Nicks's best foil since Lindsey Buckingham. --Charles R. Cross

Product Description

One of rock's most alluring chanteuses, Stevie stepped outside Fleetwood Mac in the '80s and the spotlight stayed with her. Her memorable smashes with Tom Petty ( Stop Draggin' My Heart Around ) and Don Henley ( Leather and Lace ) join her solo hits Talk to Me; Edge of Seventeen; I Can't Wait; Rooms on Fire; If Anyone Falls , and more!

Customer Reviews

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars CD Representing the life of a true rock poet!, July 30, 2002

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Chris McLeod ""Never have I been a blue c... (Locust Grove, GA. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Timespace: Best of (Audio CD)

I reviewed this CD first in December of 1998, when I was still a new and becoming Stevie Nicks fan. I have had years to reflect and list to everything this woman has done. This CD is full of Nicks' solo hits, as well as a couple of new tunes (well they were new when this album was put out in 1991 anyway!)
Stevie Nicks, the quintessential Queen of Rock, released TIMESPACE : THE BEST OF STEVIE NICKS in 1991 (not exactly her prime time in the music business) With her multi-platinum success with Fleetwood Mac and as a solo artist, juggling both was not always easy for Stevie, but her millions of adoring fans are what helped her make it through (the drug addictions, weight gains, all of it!)
In the booklet of this CD, Stevie explains each song, so that no-one can be confused on the meanings of these songs. This is a great and must have album for any Stevie fan, or anyone at all for that matter. Standout cuts are the poetic and deep "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You?" - The rock ballad "Edge of Seventeen," her famous duets of the early 80s such as "Leather and Lace" with Eagles frontman Don Henley, and "Stop Draggin My Heart Around" with rocker Tom Petty. "Beauty and the Beast" is a soft and emotional ode to former lover Mick Fleetwood. "Stand Back," as always, is a great upbeat song, great for driving!
"Talk To Me," one of Stevie's biggest solo hits, is upbeat and an awesome tune. "Rooms on Fire" tells her fans where Stevie stands as the 80's end. "Desert Angel," is a deep song written for the troups in the Persian Gulf War. All in all, every song has a story, and every song on this CD is worth plenty of listens! DO NOT hesitate to buy this Cd.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The very best of the best of Nicks' early solo albums, May 6, 2004

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Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Timespace: Best of (Audio CD)

If you want a collection of the best songs of Stevie Nicks from both solo career and her glory days with Fleetwood Mac, then you will have to put it together yourself (which, of course, is not that much of a problem in these modern times). If you are looking for the best songs of her solo career then you might as well save yourself the effort and just pick up "Timespace: The best of Stevie Nicks." These fourteen tracks provide ample proof that when she is good, Stevie Nicks is very good.

When Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974 they made the new and improve group the most popular band on the planet. Hit singles like "Rhiannon" and "Dreams" made Nicks stand out from the rest and in 1981 she recorded her solo debut album, "Bella Donna," which hit #1 on the Billboard album chart or the strength of duets with Tom Petty ("Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" #3) and Don Henley ("Leather and Lace") as well as her hard rocker "Edge of Seventeen (Just Like the White Winged Dove)." Three other solo efforts followed: 1983's "The Wild Heart," 1985's "Rock a Little," and 1989's "The Other Side of the Mirror." Those four albums make up the source material for "Timespace."

Nicks had almost a dozen Top 40 singles from those four albums, all of which feature her distinctive voice (I want to describe it as almost a Janis Joplin type of voice without the hard edge, but that seems so woefully inadequate and I cannot come up with anything better). Not all of her singles are here, with both "After the Glitter Fades" and "Needles and Pins," the other duet with Tom Petty, from her debut album missing. But of course you have her highest charting single, "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," and the gorgeous "Beauty and the Beast," with the wonderful piano bridge by Roy Brittan. "Stand Back," "Edge of Seventeen" and "Rooms of Fire," represent her hard rock side while "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You" offers another look at the softer side. There is also a "new" track to start off the album with "Sometimes It's a Bitch," co-written by Jon Bon Jovi.

While there is room to debate a few of the songs (I can replace both "Love's A Hard Came to Play" and "Desert Angel" with better tracks), I think there is agreement that the very best of the best of Stevie Nicks is here. If you do not have a Stevie Nicks album in your music collection, then this would definitely be the single CD to pick up to rectify that error.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Magical music., October 28, 2003

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This review is from: Timespace: Best of (Audio CD)

I think I'm in the minority of people who like "Stevie Nicks" just a little more than "Fleetwood Mac". Maybe because I grew up in the 80's. Anyway, this is a great collection, and off the top of my head I can't think of any of her solo songs missing. This includes "Talk To Me", "Rooms On Fire", "If Anyone Falls", and "Edge Of Seventeen". Plus it has "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" with "Tom Petty", and "Leather And Lace" with "Don Henley", two of the best duets I've ever heard. Another moving song is "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You", which makes my wife cry every time. Overall it's 14 wonderful tracks that sound as good as she looked.