Heart: Magazine CD Track Listing

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Heart Magazine (1978)
Originally Released April 1978\nCD Edition Released June 16, 1995\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Problems with the Mushroom delayed the release of Magazine, which eventually went platinum and peaked at number 17 on the album charts. Only the hard-rocking "Heartless" made it into the Top 40, and the album didn't really live up to Heart's last few efforts. 1976's Dreamboat Annie showed stronger songwriting, while Little Queen had a lot more bite to it. Magazine lacks in energy and, to a much greater extent, fluency. The songs sound careless and scrambled together, and while some of the blame can be placed on the label controversy, it's apparent that the Wilsons seem unconcerned, for the most part. "Here Song," "Just the Wine," and the predictable "Without You" all have weak seams in both the writing and the articulateness of the tracks as a whole. 1978's Dog & Butterfly shows more interest and rock & roll vitality than its predecessor, making Magazine an album even the band likes to forget about. -- Mike DeGagne\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nWHAT IS UP WITH EVERYONE, January 26, 2007\nReviewer: James T. Mott (O'Fallon, MO USA)\nHeart are such a classic in every since of the word. Every song they recorded in the 1970's were simply put, MASTERPIECES! \n\nYou had to be there. You had to go into (K-Mart, it was for me) and buy that album with the disclaimer from the band on it. Only to return later and buy the album over after the band approved. \n\nHeartless and Devil Delight are perfect! Magazine is almost as good as Mistral Wind. Just The Wine and Here Song: great ballads with exceptional playing. Without You does the song justice and the live tracks are COOL! \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nBand Authorized Version, December 4, 2006\nReviewer: wysewomon "wysewomon" (Paonia, CO United States)\nThis is a great, often underrated, album by one of my favourite bands of the mid-to-late 70s. Bluesier than the Jethro-Tull inspired work "Little Queen," it hearks back to some of the songs on "Dreamboat Annie" in its mix of ballads and straight out rock. But I feel I need to put the record straight. A few people here have mentioned that it doesn't measure up to the "original" release. I have both, and my opinion is that this band-authorized version is far better. The "original" was released without Heart's permission--they didn't feel it was finished and they were right. The song order was not as effective and some of the tracks, notably "Devil Delight" are little better than demos. So don't be too disappointed if you can't find the first Mushroom release. It's a collectors' item and a curiosity. This is the real thing.\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nThe history of this album is folklore, August 12, 2005\nReviewer: P. Lannan (New York, NY United States)\nWhen I was 14 years old in 1978, I was the biggest Heart fan around. I saw a picture of the cover of Magazine in a small newspaper fanzine with an accompanying article. I remember the article title clearly: "Heart album ships One Million and you can't buy it anywhere!". The LP became as much folklore to a true heart fan as any Beatles album played backwards. \n\nHeart left Mushroom records in 1977 and quickly joined CBS / Portrait records. Right before Heart left to record "Little Queen" they were in the midst of recording "Magazine" for Mushroom. The album was abandoned but Mushroom took the working tapes, brought in session musicians (who had nothing to do with Heart)to finish the tracks , added 2 live tracks, fleshed it out into a full length album and tried to release it. Heart quickly got an injuction against Mushroom just as the records were sitting in a warehouse waiting to be shipped. \n\nAfter many court dates and depositions, the courts ruled that Heart had to go back into the studio to finish the album for Mushroom. They were not allowed to record new songs, just finish the ones they started and mix / edit the 2 live tracks. There were even guards in the studio hovering over the master tapes to make sure the band wouldn't vindictively erase them! \nHence, the band finished the album and it is now the CD that you have here. \n\nWhat is really cool about this whole foklore of an album is that some reviewers on this site don't realize that they own the actual LP that Mushroom tried to release before Heart stopped them! Read Craig Burges' review. He complains that the songs are shorter than the LP and in different sequence - what Craig doesn't realize is that he owns the true goldmind sought after by all Heart fans who through the years have searched for - The original MAGAZINE! \n\n"Mother Earth Blues" is over a minute and a half longer on the original LP. Heart edited Ann's vocal solo for some reason. "Just The Wine" on the original LP has a choir singing behind Ann on the french Chorus and the title song Magazine ends with Roger Fishers solo from Magic man in the background along with a speaker from Elvis Presley's eulogy. This is all gone on Heart's released version. \n\nAll of Ann's vocals on the LP are all different with the exception of "Here song" and all tracks are noticeably remixed. \n\nCraig, I also am lucky enough to own a copy of the unauthorized Magazine - If you flip the LP jacket over, you will see a disclaimer from Mushroom indicating that the LP is released without Heart's consent but the label wanted to release this great music as a gift to Heart fans... \n\nSo now you can see how this album is the holy grail of all true Heart fans everywhere including a 14 year old teenager from 1978.\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nTied with "Dreamboat Annie" for the best HEART album!, October 27, 2004\nReviewer: Infiltrator "J.A." (Matthews, NC)\nI am going to try to describe the original recording possibly in the most detail of all of the previous reviewers. In 1977, Mushroom released about 50,000 copies of this LP, which had a disclaimer notice on the back. We do not need to get into why, because you probably already know the reason from reading the other reviews. Descriptions of the '77 version. "Heartless" has rough lead vocals but great guitar work by Fisher and Leese. "Without You" has so-so vocals that were polished up for the '78 re-release. "Just the Wine" had a mellotron/Moog synthesizer solo replaced by a flute solo on the '78 version. "Magazine" had :30 cut out in the '78 version where a radio being tuned was originally heard and a faint part of the second guitar bridge in "Magic Man" was heard. "Devil Delight" lacks the echo of Ann's voice singing "Devil, Devil" as on the '78 version. "Here Song" remains the same on the '77 and '78 versions. "Mother Earth Blues" has two guitar solos on the '77 version by Leese and Fisher, the '78 version has only the Leese solo (as noted in the album liner notes), plus Ann imitating Robert Plant's vocals on "You Shook Me" was elimintaed on the '78 version. "I've Got The Music In Me" seemed the same. With all these oddities, both versions are good, however, the "guitar nucleus" of the band is displayed more prominently on the original Mushroom 1977 version. Maybe Ann and Nancy were already pissed at Fisher at this point? Who knows? It doesn't matter, the music is great. It's sad to think that Fisher and the Wilson sisters still have not reconciled, due to the knawing fact that the two Wilson sisters and the two Fisher brothers had their own musical orgies back in the hey day. Time to bury the hatchet people!\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nThe full,correct story of "Magazine", May 24, 2004\nReviewer: Philip A.Cohen (Bay Harbor Islands, Florida United States)\nDuring the making of Heart's second album "Magazine",the group had a falling out with Mushroom Records over an advertising campaign celebrating the sales of "Dreamboat Annie" which read "It was only their first time together",showing a photo of Ann & Nancy Wilson leaning up against each other semi-topless.CBS/Portrait had offered the group a lucrative contract,and so the group broke the 2-album contract with Mushroom.The label retaliated by pressing 5000 L.P.'s of the first version of "Magazine",combining 5 not-quite-finished studio tracks plus an early Canada B-side & two live tracks.These copies were sold mostly in Los Angeles,California & Hollywood,Florida and had a disclaimer on the back of the album cover which read in part,"Mushroom Records regrets that a contractual dispute has made it neccessary to complete this record without the cooperation or endorsement of the group Heart,who have expressly disclaimed artistic involvement in completing this record".This first version had the songs in the following order:Side One "Heartless"*,"Without You"*,"Just The Wine"*,"Magazine"* Side Two:"Here Song","Devil Delight"*,"Blues Medley-Mother Earth/You Shook Me","I've Got The Music in Me".The tracks marked * had rough lead vocals,different,longer running times,and some different instrumental solos versus the version of the album available today.In the settlement between Heart & Mushroom Records,Mushroom got the right to release the album,but the group got the right to complete the recordings to their satisfaction.A security guard stood by in the studio to make sure that the group didn't try to erase the multitrack tapes.The group re-recorded the lead vocals for all the studio tracks except "Here Song"(a completed early Canada B-side),and the group edited "You Shook Me",to cut out a part at the end of the song where Ann Wilson immitated Robert Plant's vocal improvisation from the end of Led Zeppelin's version.The synthesizer solo on "Just The Wine" was replaced by a flute solo,and the song "Magazine" was trimmed down more than a minute shorter,eliminating a somewhat meandering original ending.Ann & Nancy Wilson have occasionally stated that the best tracks from "Magazine" & "Little Queen"(their CBS/Portrait debut) would have originally been released on one album.Take the recordings with that knowledge in mind.Both albums have some fine tracks,and a few clunkers.\n\n\nHalf.com Details \nProducer: Mike Flicker \n\nAlbum Notes\nHeart: Nancy Wilson (vocals); Ann Wilson, Roger Fisher (guitar); Howard Leese (keyboards, guitar); Steve Fossen (bass); Michael Derosier (drums). \n\nRecorded at Mushroom Records Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia in 1976; The Aquarius, Seattle, Washington in 1975; Sea-West Studios, Seattle, Washington in 1978.\n\nROLLING STONE REVIEW\nMagazine is the lp left half-finished when Heart hit it big two years ago and split with Mushroom, an independent label. Having battled royally for the rights to the only four songs recorded at Mushroom Studios, the small Canadian company has now released the completed Heart tracks with enough shameless, inferior but authorized padding to look like an album-length effort: a smidgen of an old Wilson sisters tune ("Here Song," cut in 1974), a dreadful live "Mother Earth Blues," pointless cover versions of "I've Got the Music in Me" and Nilsson's "Without You." The stench of deception reeks.\n\nNonetheless, hard-core Heart fans shouldn't be deterred. Though the title track's portrait of a would-be groupie stiffs, "Heartless" and "Devil Delight" are prime cuts--the former a guitar-heavy rock & roller in the "Magic Man"/"Crazy on You" vein, the latter a slow, steamy rumble sung in Ann Wilson's very best Robert-Plant-meets-Abba, long-live-acid-rock slice and shriek. And the all-acoustic "Just the Wine" pleasantly recalls the gentler side of Joan Armatrading. In other words, Magazine would have made a nice EP. Stretched out over forty minutes, it doesn't enhance anyone's reputation. (RS 273 - Sep 7, 1978) -- DON SHEWEY
This rock cd contains 8 tracks and runs 39min 16sec.
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