Heart (Heart album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Heart
Type = Album
Artist = Heart


Released = 6 July 1985
Recorded = January - April 1985 at The Record Plant, Los Angeles and The Record Plant, Sausalito, CA
Genre = Hard rock
Length = 39:11
Label = Capitol Records
Producer = Ron Nevison
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5yg9kebt7q7x link]
Last album = "Passionworks" (1983)
This album = "Heart" (1985)
Next album = "Bad Animals" (1987)

"Heart" is the self-titled 8th album released by Heart, in 1985. The album completed the band's transition into a pop group, a genre that yielded the band its greatest success by far, marking the band's Capitol Records debut, and it spent 92 weeks on the U.S. Billboard 200 and became the first and only album of the band's to hit number one. Sales reached quintuple platinum, after a previous lull. It also yielded the first number-one single for the band: "These Dreams". There were also four other hit singles on the album: "If Looks Could Kill", "What About Love", "Never", and "Nothin' at All". The latter three also made the U.S. top ten.

"Never" and "Nothin' At All"

The tracks "Never" and "Nothin' At All" both have alternate mixes (as on their music videos), and these mixes had also been pressed onto some release runs of this album, be it on LP, CD or cassette. One may get a copy with both songs in their original mixes, both in their alternate mixes, or one song in a different mix. Copies with serial No. SL-12410, for example, features the alternate mix for "Never," but the original mix for "Nothin' At All." (Similar treatment to its fellow 1985 smash, "Whitney Houston (album)")

Track listing

#"If Looks Could Kill" (Jack Conrad, Beau Garrett) – 3:42
#"What About Love" (Brian Allen, Sheron Alton, Jim Vallance) – 3:41
#"Never" (Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Gene Black, Holly Knight) – 4:07
#"These Dreams" (Martin Page, Bernie Taupin) – 4:15
#"The Wolf" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Howard Leese, Mark Andes, Denny Carmassi, Sue Ennis) – 4:03
#"All Eyes" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Black, Knight) – 3:55
#"Nobody Home" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis) – 4:07
#"Nothin' at All" (Mark Mueller) – 4:13
#"What He Don't Know" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis) – 3:41
#"Shell Shock" (A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Leese, Andes, Carmassi, Ennis) – 3:42

Chart positions

Performers

*Ann Wilson – lead vocals, backing vocals
*Nancy Wilson – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
*Howard Leese – electric guitar, keyboards, mandolin, backing vocals
*Mark Andes – bass guitar
*Denny Carmassi – drums

with

*Peter Wolf – piano, synthesizer
*Mickey Thomas – backing vocals on "What About Love", "Shell Shock", and "All Eyes"
*Johnny Colla – backing vocals on "Nothin' At All" and "These Dreams"
*Grace Slick – backing vocals on "What About Love"
*Lynn Wilson Keagle – backing vocals
*Holly Knight – keyboards
*Frankie Sullivan – solo guitar on "Nobody Home", additional guitar on "Nothin' at All"