Heart

Brigade

Awesome album--despite the annoying big hit single

Review Score:

(10/10)
First I'll start with the one negative--the huge smash hit "All I Want To Do Is Make Love To You". The music itself is okay, but what a hokey concept for a song. Annoying lyrics for sure. However, the rest of this album is AWESOME. "I Didn't Want To Need You" and "Stranded" were great hits that should have been bigger than the aforementioned big hit. I heard "Secret" on top 40 radio a few times and was surprised this nice ballad didn't make it bigger. "Wild Child" and "Tall Dark Handsome Stranger" were both great harder songs that rock radio picked up on for a while. That's six of the 13 songs on this album heard in one radio format or another. But some of the remaining tracks are some of the best ones! Listen to the melody in "Fallen From Grace". How about the beautiful mysticism of "Under The Sky" (that song can send a shiver down my spine). "The Night" and "Cruel Nights" are also of high quality. All in all a great album that combines the two eras of Heart (i.e., '70's classic rock and '80's glam rock) very nicely.

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