#260/894
July 6 1985
Heart
Heart
Genre: Rock
1.5 out of 5
Highlights:
If Looks Could Kill
What About Love
So I wrote a whole review and that’s below. But Beth just walked in the room during “Nothin’ at All” and said, “What is this shit you’re listening to?”
“Heart!”
“Yeah. This is shit.”
My wife, ladies and gentlemen. She knows. She gets it. So…knocking a full point off for that.
So, the Wilson sisters went out and bought a bunch of songs, doling out the lion’s share of the writing to others for the first time and came up with their strongest record.
I have never really cared for any of their albums on the whole. They have moments here and there but I really feel like they cruised on a few big hits of the 70s and then should’ve been a festival act.
This thing is so front loaded with radio friendly monsters that it’s hard to deny it it’s muscle. I could hear any number of bands doing some of these tunes (Journey could’ve had “What About Love” and ridden that to the stratosphere and pick up a rock, throw it at a pop star and let them have “These Dreams”. Boom.).
It takes a while but when we get to the Wilson Sisters penned track “Nobody Home”, you can really smell the difference between them and perfeshunal songwriters. Ann and Nancy do not stand well in comparison.
What I don’t understand is why didn’t they go country? They sound like they really wanna. That community would probably have embraced the Wilsons more than the rock world and, truly, all they had to do was add a dobro to their songs and strip away some of the synths and electric guitars.
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