Songoftheday 9/25/14 - Sometime she talks to him sometimes when she's only dreaming, then when she wakes up somehow she still believes him...

Stevie Nicks - "I Can't Wait"
from the album Rock A Little (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #16 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 8

Today's Song of the Day is by singer/songwriter Stevie Nicks, whose third album apart from her stint in the rock band Fleetwood Mac had already scored her fourth top-40 pop hit (and highest non-duet rank) with "Talk To Me". She also was on the charts coming in to 1986 with her featured appearance on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' live single cover of "Needles And Pins". At the same time, she released her second single from Rock A Little; "I Can't Wait" was a percussive uptempo pop song co-written with Rick Nowels and Eric Pressly. It would be her "danciest" of singles, driven by the thundering drumrolls and the power chord synths. And in the frenetically paced video, you can see the coke is taking its toll...

"I Can't Wait" became the second top-20 pop hit from the album in April of 1986. The single also climbed to #6 on the Mainstream Rock radio chart (her sixth top-10 solo effort) and even showed up on the dance club play chart at #26. Internationally, the record went to #20 in Australia, and top-40 in Ireland and New Zealand, but petered out at #54 in the United Kingdom the fist time around, though came back on the British charts in 1991, scaling to #47.

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and here's the extended mix of the song from the clubs...

Stevie only performed "I Can't Wait" on the tour behind the Rock A Little album in 1986...

 In 2004, the Italian dance act Stellar Project sampled the synth riff at the end of "I Can't Wait" for the backdrop to their single "Get Up Stand Up", which topped the American dance airplay chart and went to the #14 on the British singles chart...

Up tomorrow: the second biggest Austrian act of 1986 has a lively hit.