Heart

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Tied with "Dreamboat Annie" for the best HEART album!

Review Score:

(10/10)
I am going to try to describe the original recording possibly in the most detail of all of the previous reviewers. In 1977, Mushroom released about 50,000 copies of this LP, which had a disclaimer notice on the back. We do not need to get into why, because you probably already know the reason from reading the other reviews. Descriptions of the '77 version. "Heartless" has rough lead vocals but great guitar work by Fisher and Leese. "Without You" has so-so vocals that were polished up for the '78 re-release. "Just the Wine" had a mellotron/Moog synthesizer solo replaced by a flute solo on the '78 version. "Magazine" had :30 cut out in the '78 version where a radio being tuned was originally heard and a faint part of the second guitar bridge in "Magic Man" was heard. "Devil Delight" lacks the echo of Ann's voice singing "Devil, Devil" as on the '78 version. "Here Song" remains the same on the '77 and '78 versions. "Mother Earth Blues" has two guitar solos on the '77 version by Leese and Fisher, the '78 version has only the Leese solo (as noted in the album liner notes), plus Ann imitating Robert Plant's vocals on "You Shook Me" was elimintaed on the '78 version. "I've Got The Music In Me" seemed the same. With all these oddities, both versions are good, however, the "guitar nucleus" of the band is displayed more prominently on the original Mushroom 1977 version. Maybe Ann and Nancy were already pissed at Fisher at this point? Who knows? It doesn't matter, the music is great. It's sad to think that Fisher and the Wilson sisters still have not reconciled, due to the knawing fact that the two Wilson sisters and the two Fisher brothers had their own musical orgies back in the hey day. Time to bury the hatchet people!

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