Brigade (album)

Brigade
Studio album by
Heart
ReleasedMarch 26, 1990 (1990-03-26)
Studio
Genre
Length54:33
LabelCapitol
ProducerRichie Zito
Heart chronology
Bad Animals
(1987) 		Brigade
(1990) 		Rock the House Live!
(1991)
Singles from Brigade
  1. "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You"
    Released: March 1990
  2. "I Didn't Want to Need You"
    Released: June 1990
  3. "Stranded"
    Released: September 1990
  4. "Secret"
    Released: February 1991 (UK)[1]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Entertainment WeeklyC+[3]
Rolling Stone[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[5]
Smash Hits[6]

Brigade is the tenth studio album by American rock band Heart, released on March 26, 1990, by Capitol Records. The album reached number three on both the US Billboard 200 and the UK Albums Chart, while peaking at number two in Canada, Finland, and Sweden. The album's lead single, "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You", reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100.[7] Subsequent singles "I Didn't Want to Need You" and "Stranded" peaked at numbers 23 and 13 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively; "Secret", the fourth and final single, charted at number 64.[7] The album was also notable for containing six tracks that charted inside the Top 25 on Billboard's Album Rock Tracks chart: "Wild Child" number 3, "Tall, Dark Handsome Stranger" number 24, All I Wanna Do is Make Love To You" number 2, "I Didn't Want to Need You" number 13, "Stranded" number 25, "The Night" number 25.[8][7]

The album was followed by a successful world tour. Like its 1987 predecessor Bad Animals, Brigade is notable for having fewer writing contributions from lead members Ann and Nancy Wilson, but would be the last of Heart's albums to prominently feature outside writers.

  1. ^ "Heart singles".
  2. ^ Henderson, Alex. "Brigade – Heart". AllMusic. Retrieved June 8, 2014.
  3. ^ Sandow, Greg (April 13, 1990). "Capsules – Notable albums for the week of April 13". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on April 18, 2008. Retrieved June 8, 2014.
  4. ^ Mack, Bob (June 28, 1990). "Heart: Brigade". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 2, 2007. Retrieved June 8, 2014.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Cranna, Ian (April 18, 1990). "Review: LPs". Smash Hits. ISSN 0260-3004.
  7. ^ a b c "Brigade – Heart | Awards". AllMusic. Archived from the original on October 17, 2015. Retrieved June 9, 2014.
  8. ^ "Heart". Billboard. Retrieved July 30, 2022.