Heart - Greatest Hits

Heart

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 25, 1998)
• Original Release Date: August 25, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000ADGH
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,700 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Editorial Reviews

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If you're pondering the purchase of Greatest Hits for its one new track--an ordinary power ballad penned by Diane Warren and produced by Peter Asher--move on. If, however, you're in the market for a summary of the stalwart Northwestern band's fertile 1976 through 1983 period, this will do. Selections from Dreamboat Annie, Little Queen, Dog & Butterfly, and Bebe Le Strange dominate this 17-song collection, which is fleshed out by "Heartless" (from 1978's Magazine) and tracks from four '80s Epic LPs. --Steven Stolder

Product Description

First they went platinum...Now they're going green. Your best loved music in its simplest form. 20 best-selling "Greatest Hits" & "Best of" collections now available in a new eco-friendly package. 1CD in card wallet packaging - no plastic, no booklet - just great music! Booklets are available online through a unique URL on the package. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How Can I Refuse to buy this superb Heart Greatest Hits, March 29, 2000

By	Brian O'Marra (Little Rock, AR USA) - See all my reviews

This is a much improved greatest hits package of Heart over the 1980 Greatest/Live. Instead of stopping with the 1980 cover of Aaron Neville: Tell It Like It Is, it covers the early eighties albums Private Audition and Passionworks.

This boasts superb sound, excellent sequencing (chronologically), and fine liner notes.

However, one curious choice seems to go unnoticied by a number of reviewers...Dreamboat Annie is NOT the familiar version. Instead of choosing the two minute title track, which is the popular version and which launched their career, they opt for the reprise!

Not too bad a version, slower, heavier, but an odd choice. Had they chose the title track, there may have been room for another cut (Mistral Wind or Allies, perhaps).

True, at the time the title song to their first lp was on the Capitol These Dreams best-of, so that meant less overlapping, but this has now been deleted. The replacment will be due in late May and will drop all of the seventies tracks (it will be Greatest Hits 1985-1995).

Maybe Epic will fix this error and put the original version of Dreamboat Annie on this.

Still, it's great to have fine cuts from Little Queen like Kick It Out, and Love Alive that were not on the previous best-of.

A terrific greatest hits of the prime era of Heart.

51 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great music, but not a "true" greatest hits CD..., December 30, 2000

By	[e-mail] - See all my reviews

This CD only features Heart's early music, which is great of course, but it totally neglects Heart's success in the 80's and 90's. A MUCH BETTER greatest hits CD is "Heart - These Dreams/Heart's Greatest Hits", which for SOME reason Amazon does not sell. That CD is the consummate Heart collection, with their early hits AS WELL as their later music, all on one CD.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heart ~ The Original Female Rock Pioneers, September 26, 2000

By	"mimi126" (New York City) - See all my reviews

I have all their albums but still decided to buy "The Greatest Hits", I just couldn't resist. Ann Wilson has been a major influence to me. I remember reading my sister's rock mags and seeing her voted top female rock artist in all of them for several years, mags such as Creem, RIP etc. I've always credited the Wilson sisters as being the first "true" female "rockers" in music. Pioneers paving the way for groups like "The Runaways" and "Hole." Ann's voice is to this day the best and she definitely could have given Robert Plant a run for his money during the 70's. Nancy just showed all the guys that it wasn't a boys club anymore.

I love their songs, especially the early ones, and will forever love the vocals. Wow, what power, expression and range...my boyfriend even learned 3 of their songs on guitar due to my "Heart" obsession. Sure, they're alot of cool bands around, Creed, Live, Fuel etc., but "Heart" always touches my soul.

I love this compilation of songs...what more can I say...they're incredibly talented woman.