Audio CD review:
Heart - Dreamboat Annie

Heart - Dreamboat Annie

Band: Heart Title: Dreamboat Annie Rating: Release Date: 1990-10-25 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Magic Man 2: Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child) 3: Crazy on You 4: Soul of the Sea 5: Dreamboat Annie 6: White Lightning & Wine 7: (Love Me Like Music) I'll Be Your Song 8: Sing Child - Heart, Fisher, Roger 9: How Deep It Goes 10: Dreamboat Annie (Reprise)

Heart's Debut Album! This is a great hard rock album. If you'd like to have a female Led Zeppelin band, then Heart is for you. The songs "Magic Man", "Crazy on You", "Sing Child" are fantastic like all of the songs. The only trouble is the song "Dreamboat Annie" which is three times in the album. Still, if you love 70's hard rock sound, then "Dreamboat Annie" is for you. It's maybe their best album. Those two girls really had a great influental affection for fem-rock. This music has a heart and a soul! Stars: Crazy on You, Magic Man, Sing Child. Heart - Dreamboat Annie This one belongs in every true rock fans' CD collection. This is Heart at its best - a great rock and roll album. White Lightning & Wine is a GREAT tune, worth the cost of the record by itself. Great Songs... Love their vocals and arrangements, great band. I love almost every song on the record. Wish they had more like this. My favorite Heart Album This is an essential and must own album for any fan of rock music. The first and best Heart album. Dreamboat Annie The Wilson sisters from Seattle did not disappoint. I remember when "Magic Man" hit the airwaves, I was so impressed that I went out & bought the album. "Magic Man", at the time, was a radical departure for a lead female vocalist. As the Wilson sisters were so fond of saying, "We rawk!" This was an impressive debut from the group. They did three different versions of "Dreamboat Annie", albeit each subtly different. "Crazy on You" was the other hit from this album though it didn't chart as well. "Crazy on You", in my opinion, was just as good as "Magic Man". What set it apart was the acoustic intro, Nancy was an excellent rhythm guitarist. Ann had the killer voice that could gravitate from soft to harsh in a second, a very gifted vocalist. Other great songs on this album include "White Lightening and Wine" & "Sing Child". Heart could do ballads and rock hard. They have been compared to Led Zeppelin, even called "the female Led Zeppelin". I'm not sure who propagated this myth but Heart didn't do anything to disprove it. They wholeheartedly covered Led Zeppelin songs. I'm not familiar with them before they hit it big but did see them in concert about the time the album Magazine was released. They put on a great show but they didn't do any Led Zeppelin songs. Since that time, however, they have released two Led Zeppelin songs that they covered: "Rock and Roll" & "Stairway to Heaven". It's even been claimed that one song from their second album "Dream of the Archer" was a complete appropriation of the Led Zeppelin song "The Battle of Evermore". Certainly there are some similarities. But the comparison to Led Zeppelin was an unfair one. Ann had the vocal ability to match Robert Plant but the rest of the group weren't on the same talent level of Led Zeppelin. Nonetheless, I thoroughly enjoyed Heart, they were a group that was capable of many styles & they did them well. You can see a complete list of all Heart discography, or go back to the Heart tabs