Stevie Nicks - The Wild Heart

 I'm afraid..
of Changes.But this cAn be goOd.Stevie Nicks I love you so.Your special.Your flamboyant costumes,the reminder of how you were a little girl in the enchanted box set mirage collage of you looking in the mirror at yourself.The love you put in.The safety one feels from self harming thoughts when their with you or your music.The wild eighties sex and beat of "Stand Back","Wild Heart"..The sheer brilliance and originality of "Nightbird" and the sex in the dark that that invokes.The lonely gotH relates that song.The Boots all summer long? Resilience is what I get out of that liNe.I'm afraid of changes and yet:The Landslide did not bring yoU down. June 17, 2007

 Brilliant rock from the Queen
Stevie Nicks is a legend, and her second solo album from 1983, "The wild heart" is brilliant. A huge hit when it was released, this album spent 11 weeks in Billboard's top ten, peaking at #5, and was the number one selling female album of the year according to Billboard's 1983 chart reviews."Stand Back" was the lead single, and spent weeks in the top ten singles chart and MTV's top ten video charts. It propelled Nicks with a dancy modern sound at the time and the song even made the top 15 on the dance charts. The second single, "If anyone falls" was also a huge hit, peaking at #14, and #4 on the MTV video charts, and features sensuous vocals by Nicks, infectuous guitar licks and a dynamic keyboard sound."Nightbird" was the 3rd single and made the top 30 singles charts, but didn't feature a video, which might be why the song didn't make the top 20, as it's an amazing song, with guest vocals by Sandy Stuart. "Enchanted" also got massive play on album oriented rock radio, and also made the top 20 on Billboard's album rock cuts chart(AOR).Besides the hits, the rest of the album contains no filler and is a solid rock and roll effort. "Gate and garden" is gorgeous with an addictive repeating chorus, and I love the piano on it. Nicks sounds so focused here."I will run to you" is a nice mellow duet with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and "Nothing ever changes" is a frenzied mid tempo rocker with a killer saxaphone solo. "Sable on blonde" features guest Mick Fleetwood on drums, and is a gorgeous honey dripped vocal arrangement, with Nicks slowly building up to a truly impressive wail ending the song. Truly classic. And the set closer, "Beauty and the beast" featuring a full orchestra was recorded in one take, and is chilling, with it's fabled lyrics and Stevie's trademark vibrato commanding this classic ballad. This is a classic rock and roll album, by rock's legendary queen. Spectacular. December 3, 2006

 Stevie Nicks And Her Wild Heart
Wow!!! is the best way to describe this album. I love everything she's done, including the stuff with Fleetwood Mac. This album is my favorite. I remember hearing some of these songs a lot on the radio back in 1987. I'm the same age as this album, 22.

I love Stevie's voice. "The Wild Heart" is a great song. A solid way to open the album. "If Anyone Falls" is not a personal fave but is still a toe tapper. "Gate And Garden" has become a personal hit after just 2 listens. Stevie shows us that she can rock yet again with "Enchanted". "Nightbird" is a great song to relax to. "Stand Back". What else can you say about this song except AWESOME!! The next song, "I Will Run To You", just doesn't do anything for me. "Nothing Ever Changes" is another rocker on here. "Sable On Blond" is similar to "Nightbird" but not quite as forboding. Now comes the finale, "Beauty And The Beast". What can you say about this song? I'd call it Stevie Nick's best song ever! I'm a sucker for ballads, and the portrait of Belle and the Beast is nailed dead on.

song ratings? All get 5 stars except "If Anyone Falls", which gets 4 stars, and "I Will Run To You" which gets 3. Overall though, this album gets 5 stars. A big leap forward compared to her debut "Bella Donna". Recommended if you liked "Timespace: The Best Of Stevie Nicks" and "Tusk" by Fleetwood Mac. August 12, 2006

 Stevie Nicks - The Wild Heart (1983)
Coming off the massive success of Bella Donna, which easily overshadowed Mirage, Fleetwood Mac's well-crafted but tepid 1982 release, Nicks side-stepped the sophomore slump by topping herself with The Wild Heart. Although "Stand Back" was a smash that has become her most popular song, The Wild Heart is not obviously as commercial as Bella Donna. The Wild Heart is more of an artist's album, and Nicks' spreads her wings to command and fill the entire effort with admirable authority.

For a Nicks' fan, The Wild Heart is nirvana: longer songs with more passionate, imagistic lyrics than ever. The title track and the album closer are epics - each over six minutes long - that work the opposite ends of Nicks' spectrum. "Wild Heart" is a thunderous, passionate anthem with her most thrilling vocal work ever, and "Beauty and the Beast" is symphonic gothica for which the term `ballad' is just inadequate. In between, Nicks indulges her mixture of rock and fairydust with alluring results. "Enchanted" and "Nightbird" are pure Nicks and would never have seen the light of day in the more structured programme of Fleetwood Mac.

The Wild Heart also finds Nicks updating her sound into the 80s with striking ease, especially when you consider how most 70s acts that tried to do this either completely sold out or made fools of themselves. She stretches herself well beyond the Fleetwood Mac sound (the torrid "Nothing Ever Changes") and kicks out a trendy hit (the synth-pop confection "If Anyone Falls"). Tellingly, the one weak spot is the out of place Tom Petty duet ("I Will Run to You"). Another Nicks cut, such as "Sleeping Angel" or "Blue Lamp" (both of which ended up buried on soundtrack albums) would worked much better.

If you are a hard core Stevie Nicks fan, The Wild Heart is superior to Bella Donna. For the casual listener, it would be a toss up between two classic albums. However, Nicks' vocal performances, expansive writing, and the way she sells these songs makes The Wild Heart the more personal, adventurous, and therefore better effort. Maintaining careers in Fleetwood Mac and on her own, however, was bound to keep her from burning white hot for long. Her next solo album, Rock a Little, would show the strain. June 27, 2006

 Wild Heart
This is my favourite Stevie album. All of the songs flow together so nicely.Even if the pop hits werent on it it would still be a great record.Listeners who dont like songs like Sabel on the Blonde and Gate and Garden just simply cannot get into there unique groove. Stevies voice is vevety and very sexy on both these song. This album made me relize why Stevie Nicks is so much more than just a rock star she is truely an artist.If you dont think all the songs one this album are good your just not getting them.It dosent sound like anthing eles.Buy it June 12, 2006

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