Heart - Essential Heart
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Free Music Review: Excellent selections on a 2CD set!!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is all of Heart's greatest well known songs spanning their entire career! Disc one is more of the early stuff having that classic rock style that Heart started with, then Disc 2 is more of the typical 80s sounding rock. It was this greatest hits collection that inspired me to purchase some of Heart's other great CDs!! Get this if you are new to the band or if you just want the best hits.Free Music Review: Full of Heart
Hit: 5 Stars
Everything is here from the Seattle/Vancouver group featuring Ann and Nancy Wilson. From the early hits including "Crazy on You" and "Magic Man" to their covers of Led Zeppelin's "Rock and Roll" to everybody's cover of "Unchained Melody". To their later breezy "What About Love, These Dreams" and the slightly more upbeat "These Days" and "Alone" there is something in this collection for everyone. Enjoy. Free Music Review: What about the missing hits?
Hit: 3 Stars
Overall a great collection of nifty Heart classics, but where are the hits: Even It Up and Bebe Le Strange? I like the fact that they divide the two CDs into the 70's rock era and the 80's "fluff" material as Heart themselves even call it. To me, the 80's fluff material isn't worth my time, but the classics on disk one make this worth the price of admission, despite the fact that it's missing at least two of their best hits. But if you're like me and not into the 80's fluff material, you're better off getting their previous Greatest Hits CD/album which only covers their rock era and does include truly all their best hits including the two they left off this compilation.Free Music Review: BEST HEART COMPILATION MONEY CAN BUY
Hit: 5 Stars
I remember the mid- 1980s because of Heart not vice-versa. I don't relish the `80s simply because they were the 1980s. It was "about he effin' music" to me. I wasn't watching MTV until the late 1980s so whoever says mid-`80s Heart was a media creation needs to get a clue. Whoever saw their gold mold era stage shows knows Ann & Nancy were not just total glam & fascination, but also the very real thing which made it even more stupendous to watch. I'm not going to make a ridiculous review of each song because a person can simply listen to a clip instead.
This is the best & most comprehensive Heart compilation you can buy and the mid `80s Heart is represented well on this cd as it should be. The problem is that Heart's early `80s songs "Rockin' Heaven Down" & "City's Burning" are not on here because the former got reasonable radio play in 1980 & the latter got some radio play in 1982 and even TV play on MTV or somewhere. This myth that mid-1980s Heart was a MTV creation will last longer than the claim that Van Halen doesn't eat browm M&Ms. Ask someone who was at their shows(who's telling the truth) before you make that assumption.
They needed TONS of pictures to accompany this cd but instead chose a bad one to front the cover of this cd. This compliation needs to be redone so lots of pictures to be added along with the hits "Rockin' Heaven Down" and "City's Burning to it. It was sheer incompetence & not an oversight that these 2 hits were not on this cd. "Ring Them Bells" wasn't a radio hit and doesn't belong on here.
Free Music Review: The Ultimate Girl Group Gets The Ultimate Greatest Hits Set
Hit: 5 Stars
Heart was the first rock and roll group to be led by a woman to break into the mainstream. In fact, they were led by two woman, sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson. With 20 top 40 hits and a string of hit albums, they are certainly the ultimate rock and roll group. After numerous slipshod greatest hits collections, fans finally got what they were looking for in 2002 with "The Essentail Heart", a comprehensive two disc sampling of all their best songs that any music fan should own.
"The Essential Heart" includes all of Heart's most well known songs, including "Magic Man", "Crazy On You", "Barracuda" (with one of the all time greatest guitar riffs of all time), "What About Love", "Never", "These Dreams" and "Alone".
To entice hardcore fans who already own these songs are in for a surprise because there are a lot of songs on here yet to appear on a Heart collection. I'm glad the producers of the album chose to include one of my favorite Heart songs ever, 1991's "Secret". From the somber keyboards to Anne's amazing vocals, this is an amazing song. Also, I am pleased that songs like "This Man Is Mine", "How Can I Refuse", "Allies", "Unchained Melody" (yes, the song from "Ghost") and "Black On Black II" were included as well
Coming with this collection is beautiful booklet filled with nice photos and excellent liner notes by music historian David Wild. You can't ask for a better collection of Heart's music than this. You must buy this cd.