Jupiters Darling

This article is about the Heart album. For the Esther Williams film, see Jupiter's Darling.

Jupiters Darling
Studio album by
Heart
ReleasedJune 22, 2004
RecordedNovember 2003–March 2004
Studio
  • Whoville (Seattle)
  • The Back Yard (Los Angeles)
  • Ice Station Zebra (Seattle)
  • Vaughn Verdi's house (Los Angeles)
Genre
Length62:04
LabelSovereign Artists
Producer
Heart chronology
Alive in Seattle
(2003) 		Jupiters Darling
(2004) 		Love Alive
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Daily VaultD[2]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[3]
Mojo[4]
Q[4]
Rolling Stone[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]
Smash Hits[7]

Jupiters Darling is the thirteenth studio album by American rock band Heart, released on June 22, 2004, by Sovereign Artists. Sovereign Artist's marketing director, Paul Angles, simultaneously released their album via file sharing networks,[8] which were included in an amicus curiae brief to the US Supreme Court.[9] Two promotional singles were released simultaneously with the album: "The Oldest Story in the World", which peaked at number 22 on Billboard's Heritage Rock chart,[10] and "The Perfect Goodbye".[11] Heart performed "The Perfect Goodbye" with country singer Wynonna Judd on CMT Crossroads on July 9, 2004.[12]

This album continued the move back to Heart's hard rock and folk rock roots. It peaked at number 94 on the US Billboard 200.

The album cover bears an image of the Mandelbrot set, rotated so the main cardioid is oriented the same way a heart would normally be, with the cusp at top. The album cover art is seen briefly in the 2005 film Elizabethtown, for which Nancy Wilson provided soundtrack music; at the time she was married to the film's director and screenwriter, Cameron Crowe.

  1. ^ Jurek, Thom. "Jupiters Darling – Heart". AllMusic. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
  2. ^ Ehret, Michael (February 25, 2009). "Jupiters Darling – Heart". The Daily Vault. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
  3. ^ Blumenfeld, Larry (July 16, 2004). "Jupiters Darling". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved February 27, 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Heart – Jupiters Darling CD Album". CD Universe.
  5. ^ Wild, David (September 16, 2004). "Albums Review: Heart – Jupiter's Darling". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on December 28, 2007. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
  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. ^ Cranna, Ian (April 18, 1990). "Review: LPs". Smash Hits. ISSN 0260-3004.
  8. ^ "The Tangled Web: The Web's Most Intriguing Music-Related Issues & Destinations. This Week: Heart & Morpheus and The Wire's blogs". Billboard. July 27, 2004. Archived from the original on October 2, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2014.
  9. ^ "MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd" (PDF). 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 14, 2006. Retrieved March 5, 2011 – via FindLaw.
  10. ^ "Heart Chart History (Heritage Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved February 27, 2021.
  11. ^ Newman, Melinda (July 3, 2004). "Wilson Sisters Record New Heart Album For The Fans". Billboard. Vol. 116, no. 27. p. 13. ISSN 0006-2510 – via Google Books.
  12. ^ "Wynonna "Perfect Goodbye"". CMT. March 7, 2008. Archived from the original on December 22, 2021. Retrieved June 21, 2014 – via YouTube.