Heart (Heart album)

Heart
Studio album by
Heart
ReleasedJune 21, 1985 (1985-06-21)
RecordedJanuary–April 1985
Studio
Genre
Length39:28
LabelCapitol
ProducerRon Nevison
Heart chronology
Passionworks
(1983) 		Heart
(1985) 		Bad Animals
(1987)
Singles from Heart
  1. "What About Love"
    Released: May 1985
  2. "Never"
    Released: August 29, 1985[1]
  3. "These Dreams"
    Released: January 1986[2]
  4. "Nothin' at All"
    Released: April 3, 1986[3]
  5. "If Looks Could Kill"
    Released: July 1986
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Rolling StoneUnfavorable[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]

Heart is the eighth studio album by American rock band Heart, released on June 21, 1985, by Capitol Records.[7][8] The album continued the band's transition into mainstream rock, a genre that yielded the band its greatest commercial success. Marking the band's Capitol Records debut, it became Heart's only album to top the US Billboard 200 to date. The album was eventually certified quintuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)—in contrast to Heart's previous two releases, Private Audition and Passionworks, which were uncertified.[9]

The album yielded the band's first number-one single, "These Dreams",[10] along with four other singles: "What About Love", "Never", "Nothin' at All", and "If Looks Could Kill", with the first four singles reaching the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.[10] At the 28th Annual Grammy Awards, the album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.[11]

In a 2022 interview, Ann Wilson stated that the album was self-titled because the band "didn’t write a whole lot of the songs on there, so that aspect of closeness with the work was gone and it was much harder for us to come up with a title that was real."[12]

  1. ^ "New Releases". The Friday Morning Quarterback Album Report. August 23, 1985. p. 30. OCLC 857904873.
  2. ^ "Heart – These Dreams" (in Dutch). Dutch Charts. Retrieved July 9, 2021.
  3. ^ "New Releases". The Friday Morning Quarterback. March 21, 1986. p. 35. OCLC 857904873.
  4. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Heart – Heart". AllMusic. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
  5. ^ Guterman, Jimmy (October 24, 1985). "Heart: Heart". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on December 28, 2007. Retrieved April 21, 2013.
  6. ^ Coleman, Mark; Berger, Arion (2004). "Heart". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 372. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  7. ^ "New Releases". Friday Morning Quarterback Album Report. June 14, 1985. p. 28. OCLC 857904873.
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  9. ^ Popoff, Martin (2014). The Big Book of Hair Metal: The Illustrated Oral History of Heavy Metal's Debauched Decade. Minneapolis: Voyageur Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-7603-4546-7 – via Google Books.
  10. ^ a b "Heart – Heart | Awards". AllMusic. Archived from the original on March 15, 2016. Retrieved June 5, 2014.
  11. ^ "28th Grammy Awards – 1986". Rock on the Net. Retrieved October 27, 2018.
  12. ^ Popoff, Martin. "'Bébé le Strange' to 'Bad Animals': Ann Wilson reveals meaning behind 7 Heart album titles". Goldmine. Retrieved April 6, 2024.