Heart - Essential Heart
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Free Music Notes for Essential Heart
Free Music Review: For Those About To Rock....................
Hit: 5 Stars
To become familiar with Heart's music is to learn to open your soul up to life and life's experiences. At some point we all have those hard to define moments of love and/or love gone bad and/or a million other things. Heart has lyrics but the lyrics rock or they sooth you for whatever the mood and frame of mind you are in.Having seen them live when they first started,as the opening act they put the pressure on Jefferson Starship to put on a show, and HEART was indeed a memorable experience with the show ending with their version of Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll".
As high pitched as Plant sings it takes a strong female voice to pull off the highs of the song, something few male vocalist could do like Robert Plant, except maybe Jon Anderson of YES.
The songs are a must for you to experience the vitality of the times they were created in and the vitality of live performances due this spring and summer across the USA. ...
I stress this. All of HEART's (Ann and Nancy Wilson ...) music is a solid investment in your LIFE, LIBERTY, and PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS past, present and future.
Free Music Review: Essential Plus Non-Essential
Hit: 4 Stars
When I review a `greatest', `best of', or in this case, `essential', CD I try to consider two aspects of the CD. The first aspect is whether the CD is good in and of itself, and the other is what the CD brings to the collected works of the artist or artists.This collection is more comprehensive than Heart's previous greatest hits collection. Thus this collection adds another CD of material, much of which is good and worthy of having. Of course, you can hardly go wrong with any Heart music, hard rockers that have been around since the mid-70s. Many of their songs are now standards on classic rock stations and rate as some of the best songs in rock. While nearly anyone reading this review should know those classics, some of the better known are `Barracuda' (that riff is absolutely classic), `Magic Man', `Heartless', `What About Love', `Alone', `Never', and if I don't stop now I'll be repeating the entire CD list. All of their biggest hits are on this CD.
The difficulty is whether this CD meets the standard of `essential'. Certainly the `essential' part of the CD is here, but so are a number of songs that might be good, but are hardly essential. However, I've noticed that some business manager somewhere has creatively figured out that if Heart offers greatest hits CDs with few greatest hits, and they offer this one with two CDs worth that truly contain the greatest hits with some other songs to fill out two CDs, the choice will force most people looking for depth to buy this CD. It's unfortunate that the original Heart CD `These Dreams: Heart Greatest Hits', which really had the greatest hits on a single CD, no longer appears to be available.
The music industry has recognized that one way to milk music that has sold a lot of CDs in the past is to keep repackaging the music in various ways to get people to buy the same music over and over. In the case of this CD, the artists are true greats, the music is great, and the CD was truly unnecessary to release, given that there was a previous CD. This CD gets 4 stars because the music is awesome and well done, subtracting 1 star for overly clever business practices that will anger people and wonder whether they should buy any music at all.
Free Music Review: not essential
Hit: 2 Stars
Ann and Nancy Wilson are legends-no doubt about it. I'm a huge fan of their seventies stuff, so disc one is my favorite. But since I have all their albums from the seventies up to and including Bebe Le Strange, I don't feel the need to buy this cd. As one other person pointed out, Mistral Wind not there? Dream of the Archer not there? Magazine not there? C'mon!!!! I love Heart, love the 'Mongers, but I'm leaving this one "Alone". And please gals, come on out with some new stuff! We are ready...How about some acoustic stuff like you used to do ie: Nada One, Cry to Me, Just the Wine. PS -someone is confusing Jefferson Starship with Heart. They sang Familiar Stranger I believe.Free Music Review: Familiar Stranger is not Heart
Hit: 3 Stars
To the person looking for the "Heart" song Familiar Stranger, its not on this release cuz its not a Heart song. I believe that song is actually Starship, and the song is just called Stranger.As for this release on hand, some but not all of the songs deserve the title "Essensial". I prefer their earlier work to their later stuff. Would have prefered a collection that contained more from the earlier albums rather than songs like "Alone" or "Never" or "Nothing at All" etc. Problem is, those songs, and that period for Heart, were when they were most successfull commercially, so Greatest Hits packages are going to include that material. For me personally, their other Greatest Hits packages (the one from 1980 "Greatest Hits/Live" and the one from 1998 I believe) have the material that I prefer over this one. This release here isn't bad, but my preference is for different material from this band.
chris...
Free Music Review: For Music Fan from temple Hills, MD - "Familiar Stranger"
Hit: 4 Stars
This Heart collection has way more hits than their Greatest Hits + Live one. It is a shame they left off Mistral Wind which is also my favorite....
those "Familiar stranger" lyrics are NOT from HEART but from a song called "Stranger" by (Jefferson) Starship. Available on Starships Greatest hits album.
Grace Slick sings the vocals and she sorta sounds like Ann Wilson but I like Ann (and Nancy's) singing better.