Heart – Bad Animals
(Epic Records 4607021)
Matrix No’s: A1/B2 – UK Pressing
Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
– some slight wear to edges
Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
Heart is an American rock band that first found success in Canada and later in the United States and worldwide. Over the group’s four-decade history, it has had three primary lineups, with the constant center of the group since 1973 being sisters Ann Wilson (lead singer) and Nancy Wilson (guitarist). Heart rose to fame in the mid-1970s with music influenced by hard rock and heavy metal, as well as folk music. Their popularity declined in the early 1980s, but the band enjoyed a comeback starting in 1985 and experienced even greater success with album-oriented rock hits and hard-rock ballads into the 1990s. With Jupiters Darling (2004), Red Velvet Car (2010), Fanatic (2012), and Beautiful Broken (2016) Heart made a return to its hard rock and acoustic folk roots.
To date, Heart has sold over 35 million records worldwide, including over 22.5 million in album sales in the U.S. The group was ranked number 57 on VH1’s “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock”. With Top 10 albums on the Billboard Album Chart in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2010s, Heart is among the most commercially enduring hard rock bands in history. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.
Since 2002, the band has had six members.
Private Audition is the sixth studio album, released by hard rock band Heart, released in 1982. The album was on the U.S. Billboard 200 for fourteen weeks, peaking at number twenty-five. It contained the hit single “This Man Is Mine”. It is the last Heart album to feature longtime members Mike DeRosier and Steve Fossen, who left after the recording of the album and were replaced by Denny Carmassi and Mark Andes. The album has sold around 400,000 copies in the United States.
Track listing
| Side one | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
| 1. | “City’s Burning” | Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Sue Ennis | 4:25 |
| 2. | “Bright Light Girl” | A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis | 3:22 |
| 3. | “Perfect Stranger” | A. Wilson, Ennis | 3:52 |
| 4. | “Private Audition” | A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis | 3:21 |
| 5. | “Angels” | A. Wilson, Ennis | 2:59 |
| 6. | “This Man Is Mine” | A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis | 3:02 |
| Side two | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
| 7. | “The Situation” | N. Wilson, Michael DeRosier | 4:17 |
| 8. | “Hey Darlin’ Darlin'” | A. Wilson, Ennis | 4:00 |
| 9. | “One Word” | N. Wilson | 4:32 |
| 10. | “Fast Times” | A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Ennis | 4:03 |
| 11. | “America” | A. Wilson, Ennis | 2:34 |
Personnel
Heart
- Ann Wilson – lead and backing vocals, piano on track 3, producer
- Nancy Wilson – guitars (acoustic, electric and pedal steel), blues harp, pianos (electric and acoustic) on tracks 2 and 4, bass on tracks 2 and 6, lead vocals on tracks 7 and 9, backing vocals, producer
- Howard Leese – guitars (electric and acoustic), synthesizer, bass on tracks 7 and 8, Moog bass, Moog drum, clavioline, alto recorder, Hammond organ, bells, cymbal, backing vocals, strings arrangements and conductor, producer
- Steve Fossen – bass guitar
- Michael DeRosier – drums
Additional musicians
- Sue Ennis – piano on track 11, producer
- Lynn Wilson – background vocals
Production
- Shelly Yakus – engineer
- Dave Thoener – engineer, mixing at Record Plant NY, mastering assistant
- Rob Perkins – assistant engineer
- Brian Foraker – assistant engineer and mixing
- Steve Marcantonio – mixing
- Greg Calbi – mastering at Sterling Sound
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