Heart Greatest Hits: Live [Live]

Track Listings

1. Barracuda

2. Silver Wheels

3. Crazy on You

4. Straight On

5. Dreamboat Annie

6. Even It Up

7. Magic Man

8. Heartless

9. Dog and Butterfly

10. Bebe le Strange

11. Tell It Like It Is

12. Mistral Wind

13. Sweet Darlin'

14. I'm Down/Long Tall Sally

15. Rock & Roll

Tracks:

Barracuda
Silver Wheels
Crazy On You
Straight On
Dreamboat Annie
Even It Up
Magic Man
Heartless
Dog & Butterfly
Bebe Le Strange
Tell It Like It Is
Mistral Wind
Sweet Darlin
I'm Down/Long Tall Sally
Rock And Roll

Customer Reviews:

Good From the Heart.......2006-02-01

Don't get me wrong, they looked a lot better in the 80's with stilletos and all that make-up, and puffy hair that could raise any skyscraper, but old Heart is a hell of a lot better than their newer stuff. I thought they sounded like they meant it like: Crazy On You, Barracuda, Straight On, Heartless (my favorite from them). Yep these vixens who were compared to Led Zeppelin as a hell of a rock band, boy oh boy, pretty damn close I might add. Anyways this album kicks serious butt.

WHERE IS STRANGE EUPHORIA?.......2005-05-30

"Strange Euphoria" was the one of the "new" songs on this recording but it was deleted from the CD of this late 1980 release. Call Strange Euphoria" what you want, but it is a cool song and sounds like Ann and Nancy are on a LSD trip while singing. It was a great song which was not replicated on 1997's Whirlygig even though Heart tried.

The cover sports one of my favorite photos of Ann Wilson with the stand-off-ish, jacked up, over-confident look.

Excellent Introduction To Heart Before 1984 Hit Sensation.......2005-05-28

Greatest Hits Live originally recorded in 1980 was one of my early CD purchases during early 90s but I happened to miss simply because it was dubbed as "Live" and I thought that was not I had been looking for. (At that time I was looking for Definitive collection of Heart including 80s hits). Time has changed and I happened to uncover this CD from the heap of my dusted CD collections.

It has nine best tracks from their early works such as Dreamboat Annie(1976), Little Queen(1977), Magazine(1978), Dogs and Butterfly(1978), Bebe Le Strange(1980). On the back jacket name of the albums the each tracks are from are shown. Then the album become live recording collection during August and September 1980 tour. Live recording of BEBE LE STRANGE takes place at the stage side where the chat among members before the show can be heard. Interesting intrigue. TELL IT LIKE IT IS is unusually not live but studio recording and became single cut from this greatest CD. And then the ending live performance is LED ZEPPELIN classic ROCK'N ROLL. Alas, it shows their rock spirit.
Yes, it misses PRIVATE AUDITION(1982) and PASSIONWORK material to be the early Heart collection. But the timing for the release was excellent because it was made when HEART was at their artistic height.

Verdict: It is no doubt Heart fans' essential and 70s rock fans' paradise. Showing well how HEART had been during their early prime.
Rating: 88 out of 100. Well-edited (particularly Silver Wheel and Crazy On You combination just as their live performance) and consistent. Transition from studio recording part and live recording part has been done excellently.
Recommended for: Every Heart fan. Lots of 70s rock fans and the appreciators of recent Heart releases such as Desire Walks On(1993) and Jupiters Darling(2004).

The Missing Links would make this 5 stars.......2005-05-26

Will they ever release this CD remastered with the 3 missing songs, Strange Euphoria, Hit Single and Unchained Melody?

This was the first greatest hits package ever released by Heart. Heart is my favorite band and I am only able to give this 4 stars because of the missing songs and the missing inner sleeve photos.

Those of us who bought this album when it came out, simply wore the damn thing out. When you enjoy an album like that you should be able to hear it on CD in it's original state. It kills me when a record label omits songs to squeeze the release onto one CD. I would have paid and still will pay the price to have this release in it's original line-up of songs. Kansas did the same thing with their live album, Two For The Show, as did Nazareth and Jethro Tull with their live albums.

Otherwise, Greatest Hits/Live is a masterpiece. Heart have released other greatest hits albums more recently and only one of them really defines the first years of their career better than this. However, I simply must have the 3 songs missing from this album. Won't somebody do something about this!

Bought it for a hit - not worth anything actually.......2004-07-13

Back in the days when I tried to collect the much-reviled (of course I was not aware of it then) hits of the pre-Nirvana era, hearing the then-unplayed "Magic Man" (reviled by my brother).

it is fair to say that this loud rock hit singles collection really has nothing to offer, being, except for the fairly generic folkie flourishes that make such songs as "Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child)" mildly worthwhile to listen to, there is nothing more than amelodic noise in most of these tunes, especially "Barracuda" - whilst "Crazy On You" really was awfully overblown.

The later songs, dating from 1978 to 1980, are mostly live but at the same time even less memorable and more overblown. there was none of the listenable acoustic passages present in these songs as the band bridged whatever distance existed between it and radio. Here we see the first pseudo-macho posturer after Suzi Quatro emerge - though Ann and Nancy Wilson never intended to start what can only be described as a very bad trend for women in music. Even so, they could at least have become a listenable folk duo in any other era.

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1. Barracuda
2. Silver Wheels
3. Crazy on You
4. Straight On
5. Dreamboat Annie
6. Even It Up
7. Magic Man
8. Heartless
9. Dog and Butterfly
10. Bebe le Strange
11. Tell It Like It Is
12. Mistral Wind
13. Sweet Darlin'
14. I'm Down/Long Tall Sally
15. Rock & Roll