Heart-The Essential-2CD-(Retail)-2002-HHI

HAPPY HACKER INDUSTRIES [HHI] RELEASE INFO Artist......: Heart Album.......: The essential Grabber : EAC Encoder.....: LAME v3.90.3 Release Date: Nov-26-2002 Rip Date....: Jul-17-2011 Genre.......: Rock Quality : VBRkbps / 44.1kHz / Joint-Stereo Playtime : CD1: 79:20 CD2: 78:47 Ripper : Happy Hacker Industries [HHI] CD Songs : CD1: 18 CD2: 19 Label.......: Sony ReleaseNotes: THE BAND: Ann Wilson (lead vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, violin, harp, percussion), Nancy Wilson (guitars, vocals, mandolin, bass, keyboards) and assorted band members throughout the decades - including Roger Fisher (guitar), Steve Fossen (bass), Michael DeRosier (drums), Howard Leese (guitars, keyboards), Mark Andes (guitar, bass), Denny Carmassi (drums). THE DISCS: (2002) 37 tracks on 2 discs (disc-1 at 79:15, disc-2 at 78:44). Included with the discs is a 6-page foldout containing several band pictures, a 3-page intro from 'Rolling Stone' editor David Wild, what songs came from which albums, and thank you's. Digitally remastered sound. Previous labels include Mushroom, Sony and Capitol. This release - Epic/Capitol label. ALBUM REPRESENTATION: Dreamboat Annie (4 songs), Little Queen (4), Magazine (1), Dog & Butterfly (2), Bebe le Strange (1), Greatest Hits: Live (3), Private Auditions (1), Passionworks (2), Heart (5), Bad Animals (4), Brigade (5), Rock The House - Live (1), Desire Walks On (3), The Road Home (1). COMMENTS: Heart is in the same ranks as several other well known artists (i.e. Aerosmith, Chicago, Rush, Motley Crue and Kiss come to mind) with their "Best Of" compilations - and I have to ask how much is enough? To date I know of the following Heart compilations: "Essential Heart", "Greatest Hits: Live", "Greatest Hits 1976-83", "Greatest Hits 1985-95", "The Collection", "The Definitive Collection", "Love Songs", "Ballads & Greatest Hits". With that being said, hands down, this "Essential" collection is THE best one of the bunch. It covers their entire career - from their debut in 1975 ("Dreamboat Annie") through 1994's live and unplugged "The Road Home". Every studio album between these dates are represented (with the exception of "Jupiter's Darling" released after the fact in 2004). All the staples are here - "Crazy On You", "Barracuda", "Magic Man", "Love Alive", "Heartless", "Straight On'", "Tell It Like It Is", "What About Love?" "Never", "These Dreams", Who Will You Run To","There's The Girl", "Alone", etc. As well as a few hidden live gems with "You're The Voice","The Road Home" and a cover of Led Zeppelin's "Rock And Roll". Heart has always sounded great 'live'... even in 2005-06 touring in the small venues... Ann's voice is still an extremely powerful instrument decades later. No compilation is perfect... if there's one out there I haven't seen it. This "Essential" collection is extremely close to being dead on accurate. I've noted only a few minor things wrong: 1. Three glaring song omissions - the live or studio version of "Mistral Wind" (the live track was on "Greatest Hits: Live" and it's a truly chilling version of the song); the title track from the album of the same name "Bebe Le Strange" or "Even It Up", and a deeper (not so glaring) track "RSVP" (from "Bad Animals"); 2. Five songs from "Brigade" is crazy, and 3. One song from "Private Auditions" was probably one song too many (but I respect the fact that they did include something from this mess of an album). There are so many great songs on this set of discs... you will absolutely not go wrong. A great introduction for the beginners, as well as having so many wonderful songs all in one jewel case for the veteran Heart fans. Classic any way you slice it (5 stars). We rip the descriptions from sites like cduniverse, allmusic and amazon. HHI presents no opinion on the artists work; only the quality of the rip. :) Track Listing....: CD1 01.Crazy on you [04:55] 02.Magic man [05:31] 03.Dreamboat annie (reprise) [03:50] 04.Barracuda [04:23] 05.Little queen [05:13] 06.Kick it out [02:47] 07.Love alive [04:25] 08.Heartless [05:01] 09.Straight on [05:07] 10.Dog & butterfly [05:22] 11.Silver wheels [01:25] 12.Even it up [05:12] 13.Rock and roll (live) [05:58] 14.Tell it like it is [03:55] 15.Unchained melody (live) [04:33] 16.This man is mine [03:07] 17.How can I refuse [03:54] 18.Allies [04:42] CD2 01.What about love [03:42] 02.Never [04:06] 03.These dreams [04:14] 04.Nothin' at all [04:13] 05.If looks could kill [03:44] 06.Alone [03:41] 07.Who will you run to [04:06] 08.There's the girl [03:50] 09.I want you so bad [04:20] 10.All I wanna do is make love to you [05:08] 11.Wild child [04:30] 12.I didn't want to need you [04:07] 13.Stranded [03:56] 14.Secret [04:15] 15.You're the voice (live version) [05:07] 16.Will you be there (in the morning) [04:29] 17.Black on black II [03:53] 18.Ring them bells [03:51] 19.The road home (edit) [03:35] ____ 158:07 min 243,2 MB GREETS Everyone that has supported us over the years. You know who you are. Dedicated in loving memory to Ho Man.

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Grooge (2011-07-25)

Thank you.