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Heart - Dog & Butterfly [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXTRA TRACKS] Audio CD

A fair review of the Heart "Dog & Butterfly [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXTRA TRACKS]" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Heart reviews here, or go back to the Heart tabs.

Heart Band: Heart
Title: Dog & Butterfly [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXTRA TRACKS]
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Release Date: 2008-03-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Cook With Fire 2: High Time 3: Hijinx 4: Straight On 5: Dog & Butterfly 6: Lighter Touch 7: Nada One 8: Mistral Wind 9: Heartless (Live) 10: Feels 11: A Little Bit

There really is a Dog and Butterfly

1) The Songs tell stories
2)it has a good mix of hard rock and soft rock
3) MISTRAL WIND IS LIKE THE BEST SONG EVER

Now if your a heart fan here are the albums that are essential for Heart fans to own
Dreamboat Annie
Little Queen
Magazine
Dog & Butterfly
Bebe Le Starnge
Desire Walks On
and Jupiters Darling
All of them were written by the Wilson sister and co-writer Sue Ennis. As both a Heart fan and a music lover I beilieve this album is very essential to have here are the reasons. And all of the songs are genius some other albums i recomend are
The Road Home, Brigade, and Bad Animals
well i hoped this helped
Peace Out.


heart, dog/buttercup...
-far as i know. 8 songs are good and orig. but pretty easy goin rock lp for this group thats not listened too so much, just a long ever now and then due to the above i think. mistralwinds always been me fav powerhouse song on this lp w/ straighton and thetitletrac a good comm. pop hit. " a lil bit" way to short and heartless live just takes up space-they should have put another unrealsed song on here-were there any left?.


a seattlite's view
i grew up listening to heart, and i still remember where and what i was doing when i heard my first heart song. yes, i lived in the seattle/pacific northwest for pretty much most of the late 70's and almost exclusively in the 80's. i also remember the same as to when this album was released. listening to it brings back some fond and hallowed memories from my youth, such as the seahawks amazing 9-7 records in only their 3rd and 4th seasons, the sonics title battles with the bullets, the sounders impressive clashes with the cosmos. . . and listening to this wonderful album brings back all of them. only weeks after the album was released would i run across anne in person while she was just acting like the seattle girl she always has been. i never knew a neighborhood acquaintence actually went to high scholl with the sisters!
the music is wonderful. it shows signs of the powerful driving guitar rock that would become far more evident, but yet it also had those sweet, harmonious, dreamy poetic songs that they were also known for in the 70s. i do wonder which parts of herself did she see as the dog, and which part of herself was the butterfly? as a poet and songwriter, i can realized such things. "maybe its living, that's making us give in. " one would suggest the growing separation between one's dreams and reality; or possibly between the mind and the heart. whatever specifically it is, it is personal, and beautiful. . . elegant performed. it brings a soft, calm smile every time i listen to it. i think it does this for many. thank you anne and nancy.
the album is one of those essential 70's rock albums. heart created 2 of them. they might have made their real fame and money in the 80's. . . but the purest music was in their first and fourth. though bebe le strange was good for its own merits. . . but they were pushing a point there.
this is almost purely accoustic indulgence.
buy this album, and enjoy the journey.
.


Dog & Butterfly
It's their mellowest from their early era. For a long time this has been my favorite Heart album. Side 2 of the vinyl edition just blew me away, this would be songs five through eight for those unfamiliar with that format. I hadn't owned this album in many years until I got this remastered edition. At first I didn't see why it was my favorite Heart album but upon repeated listenings it's the four songs "Dog & Butterfly", "Lighter Touch", "Nada One" & "Mistral Wind" that really impress me. "Mistral Wind" is one of the best 'mood' songs ever done by anyone. All four of the songs are mellow but "Mistral Wind" has some passages that get heavy.

Ann Wilson is one of rock's greatest vocalists, her gifts are showcased here brilliantly. "Cook with Fire", the opening track, is the hardest rocking song here. The hit "Straight On" is great, maybe not as memorable as "Magic Man" & "Barracuda" but it holds its own with those two classics. "Hijinx" is somewhat funky, very enjoyable. The weakest song on here is the title cut. Many people don't consider this album to be as good as their first two but I disagree. Heart made a conscious effort to be mellow here & somewhat distance themselves from the comparison to Led Zeppelin.

The cd has three bonus cuts "A Little Bit", "Feels" & a live version of "Heartless" which originally was from the album Magazine, many don't consider Magazine to be a 'true' Heart album because it's mostly demos that Mushroom Records released due to Heart's new-found fame. "Heartless" was the best thing from that album & a hit in its own right. Though I'm glad it's here, it doesn't thematically agree with the mellow tone of the original album. Enjoy Heart's last album with their classic lineup of musicians, with Bebe Le Strange changes were happening within the group that would start leading to personnel changes that would hinder the group for a few years. .


Cook with fire
Anne Wilson has the sexiest voice in Rock. The live "cook with fire" is worth the price. Everything on this record is excellent. You should really check out their entire catalog. Still love these women. .


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