Heart first showed up on my radar when I was about 11 or 12 and they released their big 1985 album, simply titled Heart. I had the 45s of the singles "What about love" and "These dreams." I remember that a few years later, my Mom's boyfriend's brother, Terry, had a poster of the Heart cover on his wall. I coveted it!
When their follow-up, Bad Animals came out in 1987, Mom got the cassette and we would listen to it on the ride to work at the swimming pool when I wasn't listening to Debbie Gibson or Martika. My favorite song was "Alone" but I also really loved "Who will you run to?" I think it may be one of the first cases of my mom and I really loving the same music. I'm not sure how crazy she was about all the hair metal and bubblegum pop. During the 80s, she listened to a lot of Kenny Rogers & Lionel Richie and stuff I liked, but wasn't in love with. But we both loved Heart a lot.
So much so that when Brigade came out we listened to it all the time, too. I still think that one of my all-time favorite Heart songs is "Stranded." When the band toured for Brigade, Mom and I went to see them play at the Miami Arena. Well, we sort of saw them- our seats were up in the top section and our view was obscured by some kind of column or something. Whatever, Heart rocked, even if at the time I didn't know that this band had such an amazing history behind them, that they had been recording for more than a decade before I had even heard them. I had no clue that these fierce women had rocked since the 70s. "Barracuda"? "Magic Man"? "Crazy on you"?? These were all lost on me at the time, because I only knew the 80s Heart. And I'm sure it's not cool to admit, but the truth is... I still like their 80s stuff better.
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