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November 19 2008 | heart | No Comments »
Heart was pretty much considered washed up when they released Heart in 1985. They learned a few important things while they had taken a short sabbatical — they knew that hooks were important and they knew they could play up their looks for MTV. So, they delivered both with Heart, giving their audience anthemic hooks and tightly corseted bosoms, leading to the most popular album they ever had. This doesn’t mean it’s the best, since its calculated mainstream bent may disarm some long-term fans, but it is true that they do this better than many of their peers, not just because they have good polished material from professional songwriters but because they can deliver this material professionally themselves. Yes, “These Dreams,” “Never,” and “What About Love” don’t quite fit into the classic Heart mode, but they are good mid-’80s mainstream material, delivered as flawlessly as possible. There’s still a lot of filler on this record, but the best moments are among the best mainstream AOR of its era.
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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November 19 2008 | heart | 1 Comment »
When Desire Walks On came out in 1993, a lot of arena rock, pop-metal and hair metal artists felt like the rug was being pulled out from under them. Alternative rock had become rock’s primary direction, and bands like Heart were being made to feel antiquated and pass
November 19 2008 | heart | 4 Comments »
In the decade since their last studio outing, Heart’s Ann and Nancy Wilson have apparently done some soulsearching and meditating on what made Heart such a great band in the first place. At their peak, they were a powerful, obsessively compelling rock band that could knock off hit singles and consistently fine albums that appealed to album rock radio junkies and studious types. Jupiters Darling is the result of that reflection. It’s easily the band’s finest moment in over 20 years. Ann and Nancy have gotten their confidence back as bandleaders; the obvious control they exert over these proceedings is one of the album’s chief strengths. Guitarist Craig Bartock (who coproduced with Nancy and collaborated as a songwriter on most of these tracks), bassist Mike Inez, drummer Ben Smith, and Darian Sahanaja on keyboards are all wound deep into the Wilsons’ sonic tapestry that combines tough, edgy, riffbased guitar rock with textures and motifs from Eastern music, the blues, and psychedelia,
November 19 2008 | heart | 3 Comments »
On The Road Home, Heart re-records some of their biggest hits acoustically live in concert. It’s interesting to hear these arena rock and AOR standards — including “Barracuda,” “Crazy on You,” “Dreamboat Annie,” and “All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You” — recast as intimate numbers; Heart manages to find new layers in all of these warhorses, partially due to the sublime production of John Paul Jones. The result is Heart’s best album in years — the old material sounds more alive than anything they have written in a decade.
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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November 13 2008 | heart | 1 Comment »
Released in 1980, just as Heart’s first wave of popularity was fading, Heart Greatest Hits: Live contains a side of the group’s most popular songs — such as “Barracuda,” “Crazy on You,” and “Dreamboat Annie” — balanced by a side’s worth of live tracks, including versions of “Magic Man,” “Dog Butterfly,” and “Bebe Le Strange,” plus a medley of the Beatles’ “I’m Down/Long Tall Sally” and Zeppelin’s “Rock Roll.” Though a straight greatest hits album would have been preferable, this is still a good overview, showcasing Heart’s hooks and live power. Most casual fans should turn to one of their latter-day CD hits collections, but this does have most of their ’70s hits, in one form or another, and it’s worthwhile for that.
- Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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November 13 2008 | heart | 1 Comment »
In the 1980s and ’90s, numerous women recorded blistering rock, but things were quite different in 1976 — when female singers tended to be pigeonholed as soft-rockers and singer-songwriters and were encouraged to take after Carly Simon, Melissa Manchester or Joni Mitchell rather than Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath. Greatly influenced by Zep, Heart did its part to help open doors for ladies of loudness with the excellent Dreamboat Annie (reissued on a gold audiophile CD by DCC Compact Classics in 1995). Aggressive yet melodic rockers like “Sing Child,” “White Lightning and White” and the rock radio staples “Magic Man” and “Crazy on You” led to the tag “the female Led Zeppelin.” And in fact, Robert Plant did have a strong influence on Ann Wilson. But those numbers and caressing, folkish ballads like “How Deep It Goes” and the title song also make it clear that the Wilson sisters had their own identity and vision early on.
- Alex Henderson, All Music Guide
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November 13 2008 | heart | 3 Comments »
Released in 1978, Dog Butterfly was Heart’s fourth success in a row. Like its predecessors, Dreamboat Annie and Little Queen, it sold over a million copies and cast Ann and Nancy Wilson’s superstardom in concrete. There was a price to pay for all of this success, and after Dog Butterfly original guitarist Roger Fisher left the band. The disc reached number 14 on the Billboard album chart, matching Magazine’s position. This remastered and expanded edition of the album features brilliant 24bit sound and three bonus tracks. In many ways, Heart were beginning to make their transition, but the wonderful balance of hard, Led Zeppelininfluenced power rock and multitextured ballads is still everywhere in evidence here. The single from the album “Straight On” continues to resonate with its sultry power and slippery, soulful rockist funk, and the title track is one of the finest examples of the Wilson sisters’ otherworldly ballad style. The bonus tracks include “Heartless” from a live BBC show that same year, “Feels” (a very early and radically different version of “Johnny Moon”), and the previously unissued Nancy Wilson guitar solo “A Little Bit.” Dog Butterfly is still a magical and thoughtprovoking record some 26 years after the fact, and a stellar example that not all rock had deteriorated into corporate formula slickness and hollow bombast in the late ’70s.
- Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
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