Heart

Released: November 16, 1993

Songwriter: Sue Ennis Nancy Wilson (Heart) Ann Wilson

Producer: John Purdell Duane Baron

Hands on the wheel, grid lock and steel
Dogs are barkin out in the street
It's a neighborhood war
Better lock that door
Flesh and blood and cold concrete
Baby can't make it
Baby can't make it

Standing in line at the tabloid shrine
In the middle of the public night
Addict consumers consumin the rumours
With a killer killer appetite
Livin on plastic baby
Livin on plastic now

Rage! Rage
Rage! Rage

Amphetamine vapor on glass and in paper
Underneath flourescent light
In the catacombs of styrofoam
Out of mind and out of sight
Baby can't make it, no
Baby can't make it

Rage! Rage
Rage! Rage

Where is the heartbeat
Not up elite street
Beating down the little guy
The madness mounts
The judge lost count
Lost inside a technical lie

Rage! Rage
Rage! Rage
Rage! Rage
Rage! Rage
Rage! Rage

Heart, lead by Ann and Nancy Wilson, is considered a — or the — Grand Dame of hard rock and heavy metal.

Not only do they have more hit singles and AOR tracks than most other bands (songs we’d go over in detail but they’re listed on this very page in order of popularity) but in some ways deeper respect than many, both for their own groundbreaking talent and appeal and some unusual recognition thereof, including having been picked to perform Stairway to Heaven for Led Zeppelin themselves at the Kennedy Center Honors in 2012, making Robert Plant and company actually cry. Not Rush, not Aerosmith, nor any of the other bands beloved rock/metal that — along with Ann and Nancy’s band — followed Zeppelin by one generation. Just Heart.

Starting in the mid seventies, Heart forged a unique and powerful sound outstanding in their field, and was unusual in topping the charts well into their own second decade in the late eighties, becoming a staple of MTV’s rotation, albeit sometimes crammed by the industry into music videos that the bandmates despised and comment on to this day.

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Desire Walks On

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Desire Walks On (1993)

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