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Dreamboat Annie (Heart) | Extended Play Lounge - Episode 40 (Patreon)

Published:
2023-03-23 01:20:06
Imported:
2023-05

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In Episode 40, we're listening to Heart's debut album, released in September of 1975. As I say in the video, I had only heard Magic Man and Crazy On You...and I'm really glad that I finally gave this album my full attention.

While it's not a concept album, most of the songs are on the topic of love and relationships. The guitar work is superb, and Ann's vocals are sublime. I hope you enjoy!

Note: I updated the original post with a correction to the song listing during side 2.

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Comments

Bill Coonley

I forgot just how dynamic this album is, simply beautiful!

Bill Brinkmoeller

Thanks, Doug, for giving this truly excellent album your finely-tuned ear. These are all very well-crafted songs. As the saying goes, you have your whole life to write your first album. They showed they were more than two-hit wonders with later songs like "Barracuda" and "Straight On". I think it's no accident that Anne would be singing about someone named "Annie" as a theme tying the album together. "Dreamboat" is a term that has a couple of meanings. Around the turn of the 20th Century, it meant someone with, as you said, "their head in the clouds." Later on, it came to be used as a term for a beautiful woman. I think those lyrics are a reflection on when she was a girl, when some older person called her a dreamboat, as little Annie dreamed of playing in a rock n roll someday. Later on, as a beautiful young woman with an astonishing voice that kicked her whole band into another stratosphere, she probably heard herself referred to more than a few times as a dreamboat. The little dreamboat, suddenly getting more well-known indulges in a tumultuous lifestyle which, though it may destroy some relationships, makes for an album of killer songs. A couple of notes: "White Lightning" is another name for moonshine--usually very strong moonshine. It got its name because some people went temporarily blind, with their vision "whiting out," after over-imbibing it. Also, during the song "Sing Child" the upper-left title reads "How Deep It Goes" and vice-versa. Thanks again, Dr. Doug!

Anonymous

Excellent live rendition of Sing Child, with Ann at the flute: https://youtu.be/QQk867izt4M

DJ Marquis Marc Rambeau du Tacoma

Ann Wilson built a recording studio near Seattle with all the money she made from Heart. The grunge bands from Seattle, BEFORE THEY BECAME FAMOUS, would visit and record at Ann's studio. Chris Cornell, RIP, of Soundgarden, for example, told the Wilson sister that they liked Heart from the 1970s, and NOT AFTER! I bought Dreamboat Annie soon after its release. One of my favorite albums. I then bought all subsequent albums up to 1980's Bebe Le Strange, when, just as Chris said, Heart changed... Heart went from Renaissance to 80s's Glitter - and MADE A TON MORE MONEY with a LOT WORSE MUSIC... "How Deep It Goes" is on my LOVE SONGS medley. It's a beautiful love song, don't you agree?

Willow B Tatus

Yes, all that cool stuff was in the radio version of Magic Man. It's just easy to forget details when you're driving in the car and not really paying attention. :)

Anonymous

This has always been one of my top 10 all-time albums, up there with Dark Side of the Moon and Days of Future Past and The Joshua Tree and Boston and Songs from the Wood and... this re-listen hasn't changed my mind.

Gary Thobaben

Heart to me has always been one of those bands like Zep which incorporates just enough color and surprise to separate themselves from the stock. Plus that voice, holy moly one of the best ever in rock.

Nick

Finally got around to listening to this one. A lovely, lovely album. I'd forgotten how subtle and sophisticated their sound was back then - a far cry from the big hair and power ballads of later years.

Richard Rathbun
>>106012385

70's Heart always beats 80's Heart. Always. Bebe LeStrange was good but that was the first 80's record in like 1980/81 so "the 80s" as we think of it hadn't quite started yet :-).

Robert McGrath

Doug, I'm catching up on past EPL albums (and having a great time). I had to laugh out loud when you were talking about White Lightning and Wine. You're such a northerner. White lightning is is another name for moonshine or Tennessee distilled corn mash whiskey. She was drunk on that and wine and looking for some "companionship" for the evening.