do not read if you hate soft rock

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note that "magic man" has some of the most henious synthesizer molestation outside of rick wakeman's body of work.

you mean his positively, right? or am i the only one who enjoys the hell out of the weird, cheesy synth and the lovely eerie vocals?

― your null fame (yournullfame), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 02:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have bad animals, it's quite good!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 06:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

When i was young and at my relatives' place in Georgia a stranger asked me what kind of music I liked and I didn't know what to say, so I said "soft rock". Maybe somebody said it for me and I agreed with them, I can't remember. Anyway I think Heart would have sent shockwaves through my trog skull like Marty Mcfly zapping his dad with Van Halen on the headphones.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 06:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

"these dreams" is cool.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 07:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

By the time they got to "These Dreams" and "Alone", weren't they song-doctored power-ballad crap? Search: the Dreamboat Annie LP, which you can find for a dollar. Although even it has dud numbers.

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 1 October 2002 13:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Magic Man", "Crazy On You", and "Barracuda" are all essential AOR/hard rock singles which justify anything else on their low-priced albums. Yeah, a poppy Zeppelin with female vocals, interesting arrangements, and less instrumental virtuosity. And, yes, the proto-disco synth-and-congas break in "Magic Man" is wonderful.

― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 1 October 2002 16:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

five years pass...

luv the crowd shot at the beginning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpSsr6C1TIY

― gershy, Friday, 18 April 2008 05:06 (sixteen years ago) link

I don't hate softrock, as I love ELO, Supertramp and 10CC, for instance. But I hate that particular brand of slightly hard rock influenced softrock that Heart were part of.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 18 April 2008 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link

man I saw them on that '78 tour, I was 11 years old and they were the fucking best - at the Forum in Inglewood they'd sell seats behind the stage for cheap and from the balcony (2nd cheapest) where I was seated I could see the people behind the stage go completely nuts when Nancy would walk behind the drum riser and give 'em 8 bars.

I love this band all the way through Dog & Butterfly & some of Bebe le Strange still - my love for them is all bundled up with becoming a music obsessive and realizing that I gave lots more of a shit about who played what and which album ruled over which other album etc than most of my friends did

― J0hn D., Friday, 18 April 2008 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link

I also saw them in '78, opening for ELO at the Pontiac Silverdome...(the show that saw ELO get sued by the promoter for "lip-syncing" the string arrangements)...the Nancy Wilson kick is still one of the best stage moves in rock, right up there with the Daltrey mike-throw, the Jagger chicken-strut and the Ian Anderson leg-lift...I remember going into a Tech HiFi to check out stereos back then, and the salesguy putting on "Barracuda" to demonstrate how good a particular turntable sounded...(and it did sound good)...he dropped the needle, sat back and said, "how about a little Heart?...Barracuda...barr-a-coooo-da"...

― henry s, Friday, 18 April 2008 13:22 (sixteen years ago) link

don't leave me like this, doh-ohnt leave me stranded

― zaxxon25, Friday, 18 April 2008 13:47 (sixteen years ago) link

john, where'd you grow up? i grew up like 3-4 miles from the forum

― jaxon, Friday, 18 April 2008 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link

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