Stevie Nicks's fourth solo album is entitles "The Other Side Of The Mirror".

Release Date: May, 1989
BillBoard Position: # 10
Label: Modern/Atlantic
Producer: Rupert Hine

Tracks:

1: Rooms On Fire
2: Long Way To Go
3: Two Kinds Of Love ( Duet W/ Bruce Hornsby)
4: Ooh My Love
5: Ghosts
6: Whole Lotta Trouble
7: Fire Burning
8: Cry Wolf
9: Alice
10: Juliet
11: Doing The Best I Can (Escape From Berlin)
12: I Still Miss Someone (Blue Eyes)

Tracks Released And Their Highest Charting Position:
1: Rooms On Fire.....# 16
2: Long Way To Go (Only hit the UK Charts at # 60)
3. Whole Lotta Trouble (Only hit the UK Charts # 62)



The world had to wait four years before they were given another solo album for Ms. Nicks after "Rock A Little" During that span, Stevie had finished rehab and done "Tango In The Night" with Fleetwood Mac. Sitting behind the producer chair this time around was Rupert Hine. Producer of Tina Turner's come back album "Private Dancer." Since the success of "I Can't Wait", Stevie kept Rick Nowles on board this time around as a co-writer and guitar player.

The first track and big single "Rooms On Fire" is another Nicks/Nowles writing. A mid paced affair and displays the familiar man of dreams who enters and exits just as quickly,much to the woman's regret. A synth shimmered and mixed with a heavy bass rhythm section displays a new sound for Stevie. On her "TIMESPACE" liner notes, Stevie Nicks had this to say about this song.
"The night I met Rupert Hines was a dangerous one. He was different from anyone else I have ever known....he was older, and he was smarter, and we both knew it. I hired him to do the album before we even started talking about music. It seemed we had made a spiritual agreement to do a magical album....in a fabulous Dutch Castle, at the top of the mountain. We recorded it in the formal dining room...where, upon the walls hung all these very old and expensive pieces of art...looking at us....we were never alone. It seemed to me that whenever Rupert walked into one of these old, dark castle rooms, that the rooms were on fire. There was a connection between us that everyone around us instantly picked up on, and everyone was very careful to respect our space....our "TIMESPACE," so we all lived at the castle for about four- and- a - half months. I went home to England with him to mix the album at his studio...he left in December. I joined him there in London in January. We left immediately for his studio, Farmyard Studios, somewhere outside of London. It was like being in a cottage in Wales, it was a little spooky....the atmosphere was like nothing I had ever experienced. Then something happened to him that made it impossible for us to ever be together again. I left him there...the rooms were still burning, but the fire had been stolen from us. It wasn't our love, in fact...it had nothing to do with love. It was just a bad situation. I came back to Los Angeles, a very changed woman. And now, long nets of white....cloud my memory....Now I remember the rooms, the music, and how truly magic the whole thing was.......
"Alright, said Alice, I'm going back......
To The Other Side Of The Mirror."
"What price love......
What price glory......"

The second single "Long Way To Go"...I love this track, the introduction with the guitar is then mixed in a theme on an imagined conversation between another lover of whom she says, "Obsessive was my love." She says "I thought we already did that [say goodbye]. Have fun tell the world."

"Two Kinds Of Love" is a duet W/ Wlliamsburg, Virginia native Bruce Hornsby. A ballad awash in keyboard/guitar instrumentation with a very brief but noticable solo sax by Kenny G. Dual nature is a theme here, The Widow and the Dove, "outraged at each other....[but]engaged to each other in their hearts." the two kinds of love are "one for the way you walk/one for the way you love me."

"Ooh My Love" has a steady bass and rhythm guitar sound similar to John Waite's "Missing You" and that would later show up in Heart's "All I Wanna Do". This is a reminsicence of an emotional fragile woman who sees her "castles fall down" by a man of her dreams, with whom an affair was had, and later. "Yes, it was a strain on her/watching her castles fall down/Oh...but there was a time when he called her 'angel'/Where in the world did you come from?" she sings wistfully.

The melodic, aural, and slow-paced "Ghosts" has Heartbreakers shades of another fragile one whose fear of being burned leads to escapism in music, because "Well just the ghost of what you want to be/And the ghost of the past that you live in/It's the ghost of the future that you're so frightened of/So you turn to your guardian angel." That chorus really hits home with me.

Whole Lotta Trouble became a single, but failed to enter into the American Charts. I actually think this song is one of the best recordings on the album. In "TimeSpace" Stevie had this to say about the song.
" I recorded this song in Michael's (Michael Campbell one of Tom Petty's Heartbreakers) room in Sydney, Australia, on his 4 Track. I actually played guitar, and almost a year later, Michael had worked a track right along with what I had played in Australia. He wrote a bridge for it, and when i got home from MY tour, he insisted I come up and sing it exactly how I had played it that night; and he could play his track right along to me playing rock and roll guitar....I was totally flattered. On the other side of the coin, he is the only person in my whole life who has EVER done one of my songs exactly as I had written it. So thank you Michael, for all your wonderful music and for sharing some it with me....nothing like a tour with Tom Petty and Bob Dylan to make you extremely creative. I asked Tom if I could be an honorary Heartbreaker, and he said.
"You already are one, Stevie....."

There's yet another woman living in the illusion of passion in "Fire Burning", with slight overtones of "Gypsy". "There's no fire burning...just a soul crying", she sings. Terrible to contemplate.

"Cry Wolf" a remake for Stevie Nicks. Origionally performed by Laura Branigan...Stevie finally gives this song the justice that it deserves. Great Cover.

Alice in Wonderland references abound in "Alice", as in "Alice through the looking glass" and the title of this album. and the enigmatic "Juliet" about a wandering gypsy has that "Missing You" beat.

The quiet "Doing The Best That I Can" is another lonely grieving woman whose overwhelming control sundered the relationship. "In my distress...well I wanted someone to blame me/In my devastation...I wanted so to change," she sings. Gorgeous Writting and depiction.

Ending the album, Stevie performs an old Johnny Cash Written and recorded song, " I Still Miss Someone (Blue Eyes).....stunning cover, stunning ending to an excellent album...or atleast that is MY opinion.