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This is the dumbest review I have read and it's obviously by another diehard so-called Stevie Nicks fan who is upset that she never made another Trouble In Shangri La album, which never did well critically or that well commercially. This album is getting great reviews. Read the reviews from US Magazine, Rollingstone or Entertainment Magazine. Get an unbiased opinion. The production and songwriting on this album are stellar. Unlike many of her latter including Trouble Shangri in La, people are going to like this one. What an idiot!

p.s. Rollingstone has hardly fawned over Stevie Nicks. She has only recieved 3 positive reviews from them for her SOLO work out of a possible 7. Sorry, but your bitter review and only goes to show you shouldn't have a job and you need to start taking Prozac.

Mr. Keefe, you have no idea what you are talking about. There are so many wrong statements in this review, you obviously took no time to do your homework. The song "Moonlight" is a song that Ms. Nicks wrote decades ago. She added the chorus inspired on the Twilight series. The original song is "lady from the mountain." I suggest you do a little research. I'm sure you based your opinion on one listening while you were driving in you beat up camaro talking on your cellphone thinking you are a hot music reporter. Anybody that gives your review a second thought.....well, no one will. Get a real job because you blow at this one.

I absolutely cannot believe this review. There are so many things said that seem lost and disconnected. Who is this guy? From the very first time I heard the sneak peek of Stevie Nicks' new CD "In Your Dreams" I have not been able to stop listening to it...days on end, I'm not getting tired of it, only more enamored with it. In fact, as of this moment, the AMAZON Album sales are a direct slap in the face to this review: Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #4 in Music

#1 in Music—Classic Rock—Album-Oriented Rock

#3 in Music—Rock

#4 in Music—Pop

...AND that is exactly what the amateur music reviewer Jonathan Keefe needs, is: A SLAP IN THE FACE!!!! Take a few pointers from ALL the reactions to your pap-smear review & learn what music really is!!!

Did you listen to the same cd as me? I have been a fan since day one and yeah...*Maybe* Street Angel was a *slight* misfire, but this new work is a Masterpiece....she has not lost that compelling voice, some remarkable lyrics...Wide Sargasso Sea is an epic mysterious rock-n-roll song...on Italian Summer she bellows out that last note and holds it...in this day of lip-synch and autotune, she makes all the other current female singers, (except for a few), seem like fake plastic versions of what an entertainer is all about...With Stevie Nicks, you've got the REAL DEAL...Trouble in Shangrila was great dude...but c'mon...it is a decade later...as a writer...you seem kinda chintzy and dated...Meanwhile...In Your Dreams is #1 Classic Rock/#4 POP/ and #3 Rock on Amazon.com's Music Bestsellers List...This bitter little piece of journalism will be long forgotten around Grammy time next year...

All you girls need to calm the hell down, it's just a review...that happens to be a negative one.

I agree with many points of this review. Though I wouldn't call the album bad by any means, it is definitely a misstep for Ms. Nicks.

And what in the Sam Hill does the album's sales ranking on amazon have to do with its quality? LOL.

(BTW) love the user name Gypsy, I use this one every board I can...Mr. Keefe...I've never listened to critics and don't plan on it now. Is this another "Wild Heart" NO...It is not her best...but I absolutely LOVE the song "New Orleans". It is the city of my heart, and I'm almost as big a fan of Anne Rice and her vamps as I am of Stevie. So when I heard one hero mentioning the other I thought it was the best thing in the world. ALOT of HER REAL fans will be Myers and Rice fans. If you don't like it...don't listen. We don't want people like you among our ranks. This great lady will be 64 in May. I hope we can all be doing what we love when we are her age...and look as GREAT as she does doing it. She probably doesn't get to go to the movies alot without being hounded...or do much of anything for inspiration. Rhiannon was written about a book...and not a good one either. "Vampire" is about the plot, which Ms. Myers has taken from several classic stories such as Romeo and Juliet...so you are showing YOUR depth...thank you.

I don't understand you 88 keys. Sounds like your saying the album is actually good, but it''s a misstep? Not everyone likes her failures. It's obvious the reviewer does. Trouble in Shangri La was underappreciated because it was a BAD ALBUM. Get over it! Don't slam this album because of TISL or because you want her to get back to Fleetwood Mac. This review is definitely SLANTED!

I don't think your review will stop Stevie Nicks fans from enjoying her music. I haven't found anything that she's done alone or with Fleetwood Mac that I haven't enjoyed.

Chances are you are already a Stevie fan if you are reading this review. I have two words, Italian Summer. One of the most beautiful, thrilling songs Miss Nicks has ever recorded. Enough said.

I'm a huge Stevie fan and I love everything the woman does but I do have to say I was hoping this album would have been better. I do find some of the songs annoying but then I guess everyone has their own taste. I just wish some of these songs would pop but they really didn't. I loved TISL it was a great album with a lot of songs you could listen to. TISL is definitely underrated but then again stevie is underrated in general. This album just doesn't have anything that you can really rock to. I am disappointed in what she did to lady from the mountain and really disappointed in what they did to secret love. Sorry guys. I think Wide Sargasso Sea is my fave on the album.

I just hope this won't be her last. We really need some more solid stuff from stevie. Most of these songs almost get there but then they just kind of leave you hanging.

This one is def for us hardcore fans because this is not going to attract any new comers. Not these songs. I bought it and listened to it because it's stevie but man most of these songs are a mess. :(

Oh well maybe they'll grow on me like street angel did.

P.S. Stevie please put all the beautiful worlds on your next album ;p

Could not agree more with this review. The album is BAD! Dave Stewart captured none of the snakey grace that makes Stevie's work with Fleetwood Mac so unique. On top of that, her voice is low and nasal and has lost what made it once great. And the album cover? C'mon Stevie...you're not kidding anyone with the photoshop stuff. Age gracefully and proudly, no matter what your handlers advise.

Oh, and Stevie....if you love New Orleans so much how about donating some of your time or cash to some rebuilding efforts? I kinda doubt you've spent much time there or you'd know Anne Rice left years ago to find Jesus in CA.

Lame.

Speaking of vapid, I can't think of a more vapid profession than being a professional critic. Your opinion holds no more weight than anyone else's and I'd hardly consider yours on In Your Dreams fair in any form.

The album is very eclectic and she does a lot of different sounds with it, and regardless if you love a song right away or not, it grows on you and find the album to be a solid piece of art.

New Orleans is her worst song? As a New Orleanian (born and raised), I have to disagree. Stevie Nicks accurately captures the spirit and heart of our city with her cultural references as well as with her folksy delivery.

Italian Summer is a beautiful ballad as well as Moonlight. Are the lyrics in Moonlight complex? No, but it isn't intended to be as she's clearly singing about the love affair of Edward and Bella from the Twlight films. I think she does a beautiful job as I've also been touched by the themes in the films such as love, loss, and making sense of difficult situations.

Lastly, this New Orleanian doesn't need Ms. Nicks to throw her own money to our city (as so obnoxiously suggested), as it isn't her obligation, because she writes and sings about things that clearly matter to her. People who cannot create art may rip into those who do, but Ms. Nicks is clearly the artist, not the slanted critic.

Wow, what a review! Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed? and maybe landed on your ear which left you deaf so you couldn't enjoy this gem of an album??? I totally disagree with you on every point. Stevie's voice is just becoming more phenomenal with age which I would guess has to come from the fact that she's a woman who's so passionate about her "love", her craft. She obviously is a true artist in the highest form who writes and sings out of true inspiration and not just to try to sell a record and make it on some chart. Her music is the kind that endures long "after the glitter fades". I personally was not a fan of Stevie's during the height of her career, but just came to love her and appreciate her music only a short year ago. I've grown to love all of her music-the chart-toppers and the one's that were not as popular, and for me I just have learned to never compare one of her works over another, because they have all inspired me in so many different ways. What she writes today is relevant today and what she wrote yesterday is equally as relevant. At any rate this entire album moves me to tears no matter how many times I listen to it, its simple beauty just stirs me, and that to me makes it all the more worth it that she chose to share this with all of us. Thank you, Miss Stevie Nicks, for sharing your gift.

Mr. Keefe, you have described this album so perfectly, it is unbelievable. Indeed, it is a rare misfire for her, and nothing works at all. In spite of what all the fanboys and fangirls say, the album is just a tragedy, especially coming from Stevie Nicks. A fan who can admit when an artist has made a mistake is a true fan. To make matters worse, there's simply too long a wait for this album at 10 years. She made us wait forever, for something she did in a year or so, and the end result is this. Unfortunately, at least for me, I knew it wouldn't be any good once I found out that Stewart was the producer; he lost his touch around the time of the Eurythmics, and long ago at that. From what I can see, Stevie no longer takes herself seriously as an artist, and I'm not holding my breath for another album to see if she can redeem herself. What a shame to see talent squandered like that.

I'm a longterm fan of Stevie Nicks. Unfortunatelly, I have to completely agree with this review. This album is full of forgettable and sometimes outright annoying tunes. I only like 'Annabel Lee' and 'Moonlight' without the chorus. The latter is based on the beautiful 'Lady from the mountain' demo. Unfortunatelly a new bloated chorus was added.

@timothym: 'Italian summer', 'Everybody loves you' and 'Cheaper than free' are songs which make me inclined to vomit. Really the worst songs of her entire song catalogue.