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Free Music Review: The Essential Heart - A Great Value filled with All Their Hits
Hit: 5 Stars
I am becoming more and more of a fan of these Essential collections. They truly do deliver the best of the artists being showcased for a great value.
The Essential Heart does not disappoint. Their entire career is documented in this 2 CD collection from their first hit, "Crazy On You" to one of their last pop hits, "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You."
VH1 recently did a live concert with Heart featured along with other artists lending their voices such as Rufus Wainwright, Grethen Wilson and LeeAnn Womack, to name a few. This inspired me to go and purchase a Heart CD.
There are several compilation CD's out there for Heart, many more than I anticipated. I was very happy to find The Essential Heart, since all of the other Cd's I've purchased under the "Essential" title have all been great purchases.
A Sampling of the songs which I like the best are:
Crazy On You
Barracuda
Even It Up
Dog & Butterfly
Unchained Melody - An amazing live version!
What About Love
Never
These Dreams
Alone
There's The Girl.
Ann Wilson has a phenomenal voice, one of the best in the business. Even in the VH1 concert she still sounded great.
To sum it up, this is a great collection of hits for a great value and does not disappoint!
Free Music Review: The songs I wanted
Hit: 5 Stars
Looking over the songs on the 2 CD's, I see most of my favorites. It's a good survey of their music as well. Obviously a ton of great songs here, and Ann and Nancy are a great combo. It spans their old school rock era as well as their reinvention into different sounds. Highly recommended.
I'll type in the entire song list from my discs since I don't see them listed, give me a "helpful" rating if it's useful :)
Crazy on You
Magic Man
Dreamboat Annie (Reprise)
Barracuda
Little Queen
Kick It out
Love Alive
Heartless
Straight On
Dog and Butterfly
Silver Wheels
Even it Up
Rock and Roll [Live]
Tell it Like it Is
Unchained Melody [Live]
This Man is Mine
How Can I Refuse
Allies
What About Love
Never
These Dreams
Nothin' At All
If Looks Could Kill
Alone
Who Will You Run To
There's The Girl
I Want You So Bad
All I Wanna Do is Make Love To You
Wild Child
I Don't Want to Need You
Stranded
Secret
You're The Voice [Live]
Will You Be There (In the Morning)
Back on Black II
Ring Them Bells
The Road Home [Edit]
Free Music Review: The only one to get
Hit: 5 Stars
Heart's been "Greatest Hits"-ized to death the past few years, but this collection released in late 2002, as part of Sony's "The Essential..." series is worth the while. Every other collection is either Epic or Capitol... this one bridges the gap, and unlike most Epic packages (which cover 76-83), the Dreamboat Annie and Magazine tracks are in the studio form (those two albums were originally released on Mushroom, and now distributed via Capitol... who owns the 85-95 albums too).
This is a tour de force of classic rocking ladies... disc 1 covers Dreamboat Annie through Passionworks. This material is their most rocking. From the soothing Dog And Butterfly to the funky Straight On to the headbanging Barracuda to the poppy This Man Is Mine, this era contains the best material of their career.
Disc 2 covers 1985's Heart through 1995's The Road Home. The disc starts out strong as "Heart" was a great comeback album with five strong singles. However, the formula already was wearing thin by 1987's "Bad Animals", so after "Alone", this set runs out of steam fast.
However, if you're looking for a complete Heart hits package, this is the only one to suffice. Every chart hit of their career is on this baby.
Free Music Review: The only Heart you'll ever need
Hit: 5 Stars
"The Essential"? More like "The Complete". This stuffed 2-disc set is a godsend for Heart fans, and a perfect starting point for those looking to discover some of the Wilson sisters' gems. Disc 1 is the mid-'70s-through-early-'80s complilation (featuring classics like "Barracuda", "Crazy On You", "Magic Man", "Straight On", and "Dog and Butterfly"), and Disc 2 is late-'80s-through-early-'90s (with the uber-ballads "What About Love?", "These Dreams", and "Alone", among others).Both discs are invaluable. The first is full of earthy ballads and ass-kicking rock, glazed with undeniably '70s flourishes, and is arguably the higher "quality" of the two. But the second disc, while more formulaic (in keeping with the times of '80s pop), is still worthy. "These Dreams" and "What About Love?" are classic guilty pleasure ballads (and well-deserved hits) that most anyone will recognize instantly.
THE ESSENTIAL HEART showcases an unerringly solid female rock act that deserves to be rediscovered by all. Well worth the price of admission.
Free Music Review: For Those About To 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.