Restless Heart [Import]

Whitesnake | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 5, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Europe Generic
• ASIN: B000006TNQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68,170 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Don't Fade Away

2. All in the Name of Love

3. Restless Heart

4. Too Many Tears

5. Crying

6. Stay With Me

7. Can't Go On

8. You're So Fine

9. Your Precious Love

10. Take Me Back Again

11. Woman Trouble Blues

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The great snake sheds more skin..., October 25, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Restless Heart (Audio CD)

I believe most longtime WS fans will dismiss this album as an unfortunate last gasp at recapturing the former Snake glory. If that's all they're looking for, they'd be right. But there's far more to this final(?) Whitesnake release that deserves mention and even a little praise. First of all, I'll get the bad stuff out of the way. Coverdale is clearly in his weakest voice, not quite hitting those high ones anymore, and having to augment the backing vox with female singers (which is, actually, not bad-sounding at all...). Some screams have been replaced with melodramatic whispering, others simply displaying a very aged voice no longer in top form. Adrian Vandenberg, who wrote and played brilliantly on this effort, is recorded on (what sounds like) a single track, pushed way off to the right in the mix, and has no fullness or bombast. Pity. While this intimacy level works well on the slower bluesy numbers, it makes the full-on rock songs sound thin and amateur. Lastly, Coverdale's lyrical content is sadly still relying on cliche, double-entendre, and effortless rhyming. Here is a man who probably has some of the best stories to tell in all of rock, and instead gives us the same silly "heart/apart", "mine/time", "I'm drunk again and I lost my woman" lyrics. Did the alternative music revolution do NOTHING to inspire this man to begin telling his life stories with finesse and zeal? All that notwithstanding, this would make a fairly interesting Coverdale/Vandenberg solo record, and should have been titled as such. Coverdale's baritone is still the coolest thing to hear, and as mentioned earlier, Vandenberg shines. I admire that Coverdale & Co. stuck to their guns an put out a quasi-blues rock album instead of more L.A.-style hair metal, but the talent displayed here had SO much more to offer. But.....if you feel Coverdale is Shakespeare and can do no wrong, you'll love it. The rest of us are just left wanting more......

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Partial return to the good times!, July 1, 1999

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This review is from: Restless Heart (Audio CD)

....RESTLESS HEART sounds more honest than the glam metal albuns that hit the big time in America during the late '80s. And it is so good to listen to Coverdale singing closer to the style of the old days of COME AND GET IT and READY AND WILLING. There's almost no high-pitched histrionics in this album. Coverdale doesn't need it. His bluesy, deep voice is what made the old Snake so special, together with the no-frills arrangements, and he rescued this legacy in this album.

The band is competent. Of course I miss the old guitar-players Moody and Marsden, but I have to admit Coverdale put together a line-up that played true to the spirit of bluesy hard rock.

"Don't Fade Away" ia a gentle opening. It is a beautiful ballad, Coverdale's voice is superb. It is like a '90s version of "North Winds", the title song of a pre-Snake solo album. The lyrics are meaningful, displaying a mature side of the singer that many people can relate to.

The energy builds on the next tracks. "All in the name..." is charming, the arrangement right to the point. Good classic rock. "Restless Heart" is the first hard rock. Strong! "Too many tears" is a ballad with a Nashville feel. Good to listen to, and it sounds like a progression from songs of the old Snake like "Carry Your Load"(1980).

"Crying" is the heaviest rock of the album. The riffs remind me of Zeppelin. Actually, the Coverdale-Page collaboration of the early nineties shows the direct influence in this song and also in the slow heavy blues of "Take Me Back Again" and the last track, "Woman Trouble Blues". That's allright, Coverdale! Don't forget the roots of the best British rock!

"You're So Fine" is an unremarkable rock 'n' roll, but every Snake album had a song like that and all the fans can dig it. The others are rock ballads. If nothing else, the singer is in fine shape in all of them.

People who expect an album like 1987 or SLIP OF THE TONGUE will be disappointed (Thank god!). But if you are a fan on the old Snake, RESTLESS HEART is a satisfying experience. There are maybe too many romantic numbers and too few of the cocky rock ones. But that would be innevitable, since at this point in David's life it makes more sense for him to sing something like "Don't fade away" than "Sweet Talker"(don't get me wrong, I know the latter is great rock 'n'roll).

If only he could return to record with Moody, Marsden and Murray... But it is unlikely, the singer and the players haven't been exactly in friendly terms recently.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally the voice is back!, January 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Restless Heart (Audio CD)

I've been waiting for this to come! It's like "candy to my ears" to hear Coverdale really sing the way only he can. The first track Don't Fade Away is a majestic melodic rock-blues-ballad that truly shows his powerful, at the same time sensitive, voice. A truly great opening. All In The Name of Love, with great guitarwork from Adrian Vandenberg, has a lot of Hendrix-spirit in it. In all, this album has everything that the other late Whitesnake albums were lacking; strong melodies, superb singing. It really seems honest. Tomas Lange