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| Heart - Heart - Greatest Hits Band: Heart Tracks: - Strong, Strong Wind - Magic Man - Crazy on You - Dreamboat Annie - Barracuda - Little Queen - Kick It Out - Love Alive - Heartless - Straight On - Dog and Butterfly - Even It Up - Bebe le Strange - Tell It Like It Is - This Man Is Mine - How Can I Refuse - Rock & Roll [Live] How Can I Refuse to buy this superb Heart Greatest Hits This is a much improved greatest hits package of Heart over the 1980 Greatest/Live. Instead of stopping with the 1980 cover of Aaron Neville: Tell It Like It Is, it covers the early eighties albums Private Audition and Passionworks. This boasts superb sound, excellent sequencing (chronologically), and fine liner notes. However, one curious choice seems to go unnoticied by a number of reviewers...Dreamboat Annie is NOT the familiar version. Instead of choosing the two minute title track, which is the popular version and which launched their career, they opt for the reprise! Not too bad a version, slower, heavier, but an odd choice. Had they chose the title track, there may have been room for another cut (Mistral Wind or Allies, perhaps). True, at the time the title song to their first lp was on the Capitol These Dreams best-of, so that meant less overlapping, but this has now been deleted. The replacment will be due in late May and will drop all of the seventies tracks (it will be Greatest Hits 1985-1995). Maybe Epic will fix this error and put the original version of Dreamboat Annie on this. Still, it's great to have fine cuts from Little Queen like Kick It Out, and Love Alive that were not on the previous best-of. A terrific greatest hits of the prime era of Heart. Great complementary album to Heart's Definitive Collection. A few months ago, I wrote an album review for Heart's<BR>Definitive Collection. Well, I purchased this album<BR>and Definitive Collection, because each album contained<BR>tracks the other album didn't have. <BR> Strong, Strong, Wind, Magic Man, Crazy on You, <BR>Dreamboat Annie, Heartless, Bebe Le Strange, Rock<BR>and Roll [Live] are the tracks that available on this<BR>album, but not available on Definitive Collection.<BR>Definitive Collection contains the following tracks<BR>that aren't available on Greatest Hits: Dream of The<BR>Archer, Cry To Me, Lighter Touch, Nada One, Sweet <BR>Darlin, Perfect Stranger, Allies and Johnny Moon.<BR> In my opinion, what Sony should have done is <BR>taken the tracks exclusive to both collections<BR>and include the common tracks, and release it<BR>as a 2 disc set instead of two separate albums.<BR>This is much better than buying two seperate Heart<BR>compilation albums, which contain common tracks. <BR> The album starts off with a power ballad,<BR>Strong, Strong, Wind, followed by the somewhat<BR>mystical Magic Man. The guitar wails on this track,<BR>and sounds a bit rock and a bit on the blues side.<BR>Crazy on You is just pure hard rock, perhaps even<BR>with a heavy metal edge to it that just rocks the<BR>house down. Dreamboat Annie slows it down a bit,<BR>and isn't so high energy as Crazy on You, but then<BR>again, it's hard to replicate that effort on every<BR>track. I feel we get to the meat of the album from<BR>tracks 6-15. I feel this is Heart at their best.<BR> Dreamboat Annie and other tracks from<BR>their debut album that was missing from Definitive<BR>Collection are made available here.<BR> I feel Rock and Roll [Live] is best left to <BR>Robert Plant and his band, Led Zeppelin, although<BR>the Heart version is passable. Ann Wilson does a<BR>much better job on Aaron Neville's Tell It Like It<BR>Is in my honest opinion. All in all, this is a <BR>pretty solid album, but I would rate Definitive<BR>Collection higher. Perhaps Sony would take the<BR>hint and release 2 CD box set of 25 songs that<BR>contains everything on Greatest Hits and <BR>Definitive Collection, since there is quite a bit<BR>of overlap here. Heart ~ The Original Female Rock Pioneers I have all their albums but still decided to buy "The Greatest Hits", I just couldn't resist. Ann Wilson has been a major influence to me. I remember reading my sister's rock mags and seeing her voted top female rock Artist in all of them for several years, mags such as Creem, RIP etc. I've always credited the Wilson sisters as being the first "true" female "rockers" in music. Pioneers paving the way for groups like "The Runaways" and "Hole." Ann's voice is to this day the best and she definitely could have given Robert Plant a run for his money during the 70's. Nancy just showed all the guys that it wasn't a Boys club anymore. I Love their songs, especially the early ones, and will forever Love the vocals. Wow, what power, expression and range...my boyfriend even learned 3 of their songs on guitar due to my "Heart" obsession. Sure, they're alot of cool bands around, Creed, Live, Fuel etc., but "Heart" always touches my soul. I Love this compilation of songs...what more can I say...they're incredibly talented woman. Buy Heart Heart Greatest Hits at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.comJamster - the latest ringtones for your phone! |
