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| Artist: Heart
Label: Capitol
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 32943
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 46157
UPC: 077774615723
EAN: 0077774615723
ASIN: B000002U9C
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | If Looks Could Kill - Heart, Conrad, J. | | • | What About Love? - Heart, Alton, Sheron | | • | Never - Heart, Knight, Holly | | • | These Dreams - Heart, Taupin, Bernie | | • | The Wolf - Heart, Heart [1] | | • | All Eyes - Heart, Knight, H. | | • | Nobody Home - Heart, Wilson, Ann | | • | Nothin' at All - Heart, Mueller, Mark | | • | What He Don't Know - Heart, Wilson, Ann | | • | Shell Shock - Heart, Heart [1] |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
The adage goes that a band has its entire career to create its first album, and the Wilson sisters, Ann and Nancy, never seemed able to top Dreamboat Annie, certainly one of rock's all-time strongest debut LPs. In fact, by the time they recorded this eponymous effort after switching labels, the industry had pretty much written them off as has-beens. Strangely, the 1985 release became one of the biggest hits of their career, scoring five hit songs. Of course, this was also where the band succumbed to outside tunesmiths and synthesizer-heavy MOR power ballads. Producer Ron Nevision even has Ann at times trying to emulate Madonna. Not a new direction but, frankly, a new band. --Bill Holdship
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Album Description
Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. EMI. 2008.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 42 more reviews...
A classic from the 80's November 17, 2008
Dave Myers (San Diego, CA)
This was one of my favorite tapes back in the 80's from one of my favorite bands. Of the 10 tracks on the album, I can honestly say that I still love five of them, 20 years later.
 Survival September 6, 2008
Lola (Fort Wayne, IN United States)
While this album certainly isn't the same music Heart was known for in the 70s, it brought them back into the music spotlight and brought new fans. Some people who like to act self important wanna call this type of change "selling out", but look at all the other bands of the past who refused to change - most of them are nowhere and forgotten. Very few bands of that era have a sound that maintains through time. Put "bands of the 70s" in your search browser and see what comes up. There's maybe 5 bands on that list that continued to produce music successfully thru the 80s and 90s. And Heart is one of them. When it comes to entertainment, if you wanna survive, you gotta give the fans what they want. And that's what Heart did on this disc and a few more after this.
The Wolves Are Singing! September 5, 2008
Reijo Piippula (Turku, Finland)
Heart's self-titled album is not Heart's first one. Their first album was "Dreamboat Annie". However, after about 10 years these two women release one of their best albums. The opening song "If Looks Could Kill" is really rocking and after that there's many great songs, and you could almost say that this is an ultimate fem-rock album...but then the ninth track "What He Don't Know" proves to be so basic rock. The ballads "These Dreams" and "Nobody Home" are great ones, as well as "What About Love", "The Wolf", "Shell Shock", "All Eyes", and "Never" which are great classic rock songs. "Nothin' at All" has great "echo sounds" which were later copies by The Corrs. This is a great hard rock album although not so similar to "Dreamboat Annie".
Stars: What About Love, If Looks Could Kill, The Wolf
Totally 80's May 10, 2008
L. Bloom (Hollywood)
It sounded like everything else from the 80's - overblown synthesizer ballads. I got my first job in a restaurant in the early 80's and remember hearing this on the radio (in the employees only area, that is)
I graduated high school in '77 just as Dreamboat Annie became a big hit and thereafter I purchased Little Queen and Magazine. I liked the vocals and the guitar parts, kind of a female Led Zeppelin (they are the only band that should be legally allowed to cover Led Zeppelin). By the time I got my job in the restaurant Heart had become just another MTV band, which is not to say that they were bad, it's to say that MTV was and still is bad.
The 80's attracted a lot of criticism of this kind and I didn't feel like paul parroting what's already been said: That MTV videos are choregraphed to death much like the music and that it lacks any individuality or personality.
I picked up a copy of this on CD just recently to learn "If Looks Could Kill" for a band. Couldn't stand to listen to the rest of it and then I remembered why: as a restaurant employee, grateful to have a job, it seemed silly to complain about the background music and if we were really busy it was easy to ignore the radio altogether!
They sold out (sort of) but at least it looked like they succeeded and who could blame them if it sells records? Glam it up and get rid of the hippie girl look from the 70's.
It was indeed easy to ignore and that's the problem. Nothing really gets your attention one way or the other. It's great background music shows signs of maturity all of which has it's place in the world but...it's been a long time, been a long time, been a long lonely, lonely lonely time. (Hint Hint)
 Great Album April 22, 2008
Moose (Chicago Suburbs, IL)
I liked this album since it debuted. The radio stations in Chicago played the hell out of the singles. 9 good songs. The only one I didn't care for is " What He Don't Know".
Ann was gaining alot of weight around this time and in the video's her body is blocked by props on stage or the camera zooms in for jsut head shots of her singing. She's still got a strong, powerful voice.
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