Heart - Dreamboat Annie: Classic or Dud?

Both albums are pretty good, all told. "Sing Child" from "Dreamboat Annie" is as good a watered-down Zeppelin ripoff as you're likely to find, and the long break in "Crazy on You" finds its resolution just brilliantly.

revived.
great record,great folky vocals,lots of power pop and folk (a rare combination) more than a hard (that sounds soft) rock . Heart are quite underrated.
Little Queen is also good.

agreed, a pretty great record, but "Love Me Like Music (And I'll Be Your Song)"??...eww...

this song is The Carpenters influence (and not at the only place) but i like the guitar and the vocals.

actually, it's simply a great soft rock record.

Once again, I will say that this is a genius record by a very important and influential band and then leave it at that.

when and where was the last time you said that?

Check with my staff, I'm sure they've documented and notated all my Heart comments.

I picked up 'Dog & Butterfly' for a dollar a few weeks back... it kinda sucks except for "Straight On" and "Mistral Wind"

'Dog & Butterfly" is/was a deeply awful LP title...

I bought this recently and was blown away. Literally! BHWOOSH!!

That whole sequence (known as side 1) that runs from Magic Man, into the first part of Dreamboat Annie, and then into the Spanish guitar prelude to Crazy on You... and then Crazy on You itself.... BVROWW DOW-DOW DOW-DOW-DOW...

One of the best finds of the year, for me.

found Dog & Butterfly on vinyl in town yesterday, how I feel about it is all tied up in how they were my favorite band when it came out, but "Straight On" is still one of their most solid jams.

album could have been a great EP, or a good LP if they'd been able to keep the stuff off "Magazine" that was good and add it to the three/four good ones here

fuck Mushroom records

"Lighter Touch" on the b-side of Dog & Butterfly is much better than I'd remembered it

wish to fuck I'd found a copy of magazine though, jonesing for "Heartless" now

whole b-side is solid, revised opinion of album is "it's pretty great but the middle two songs on the a-side are deeply wtf & kinda suck"

I CAST MY SPELL OF LOVE ON YOU, A WOMAN FROM A CHILD

some childhood/early-adolescence hooks stay in you and this, for me, is one

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Nancy Wilson's leg kick is among the most distinctive lower-body moves in hard rock, right up there with Ian Anderson's leg lift and Courtney Love's leg-atop-the-monitor...(a lot of men have done this last one over the years, but they weren't wearing skirts)...

Well all I know is, I have a friend called Annie and for her birthday I put together mixtape(cd) of songs with the name 'Annie' in the title and there of course Heart was on there and she LOVED it. So classic in that context.
Henry S...which men were these? Was it thrilling?

Thanks, John D.