Heart Songs Ranked

Heart is the eighth studio album by American rock band Heart, released on July 6, 1985, by Capitol Records. 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 remain uncertified—proving that adopting a glam metal direction helped resurrect the band. The album yielded the band’s first number-one single, “These Dreams”, 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. In 1986, the album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

Reminisce the music of Heart. Click below and listen to the songs of this iconic female duo.

10. If Looks Could Kill

“The second single from the album. This is one hell of a hard rocking tune. Don’t ever mess with Ann Wilson. If you have this album on vinyl, you’ll notice that this song is slightly different on the vinyl edition.”

9. Never

“The third single from the album. This is another great song. If you have this album on vinyl, you’ll notice a slightly different version of this song on that edition. The vinyl edition has more a more synthesized sound, where as this version has synethesizers and more guitars.”

8. The Wolf

“The Wolf”, uses primal imagry to put down the unwanted advances of sleazy guys. It’s guitar solo will floor you with a determined and indomitable hopefullness! “The Wolf,” “about a parasite in a good disguise, just another wolf at the door”

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7. Nobody Home

“Nobody Home” is a non-power ballad cousin of “What About Love” exhorting someone not to stray too far. “Don’t dream too high and shoot for the moon/don’t ride your heart like a balloon.”

6. What He Don’t Know

“The illicit affair in mild-to-mid-paced “What He Don’t Know” describes the inevitability of the affair’s discovery despite the fact that “he don’t know.” The whole group maintains a synergy with their new sound, with the sisters and Howard Leese forming the vanguard of classical 80’s pop/hard rock.”

5. What About Love

“What About Love”, is a dynamic ballad that features Grace Slick on backround vocals. Howard Leese lays a fine guitar solo. The power ballad “What About Love” is one song that still tugs at me after all these years. Yeah, it’s those mournful opening synthesizers that gets me there. The mid-section has a searing guitar solo by Howard Leese, and a throbbing bass by Mark Andes.”

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4. These Dreams

“The best song here is the lilting and pardon the cliché, dreamy “These Dreams,” sung by Nancy Wilson. Again, that dreamy synthesizer opening did it for me. This was their first number one song on the Billboard charts and it’s as memorable as “Never”: “These dreams go on when I close my eyes/every second of the night I live another a life/These dreams go on when it’s cold outside/every moment I’m awake, the further I’m away.” The imagery is also stunning, “the full moon that hides over these dreams in the mist, I search for the time on a watch with no hands, walking without a cut through a stain glass wall.””

3. All Eyes

“All Eyes”, scores again with an alternately sexy seductiveness and lovestruck passion. “You don’t have to say a word to get a hold of me/take me…shake me/Burning gravity baby/Look at me, look at me”.

2. Nothin’ at All

The fifth & final single from the album. Another great song. My parents always confuse this song with Air Supply’s “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All”. The version of this song on the vinyl edition is different than on the CD/Single version. The guitar solo is completely different, but still, this is a killer song.”

1. Shell Shock

“This is the album that brought Heart back into the countdown. It may have appealed to a newer audience, instead of Heart’s ’70s audience. But, that’s not the point. They still came back with a vengence. This album prooves it.”