Heart "Desire Walks On (Japan, Capitol Records, TOCP-7915)"

Desire Walks On is the eleventh studio album by American rock band Heart, released on November 16, 1993, by Capitol Records. The majority of the album was co-written by lead members Ann and Nancy Wilson. It is Heart's final studio album to feature longtime members Howard Leese, who joined in 1975 and, aside from the Wilson sisters, is the band's longest-serving member, and Denny Carmassi, who had been its drummer since 1982. Layne Staley, lead vocalist of the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains, sings with the Wilson sisters on the cover of Bob Dylan's "Ring Them Bells".

The album peaked at number 48 on the US Billboard 200, and on August 24, 1995, it was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting shipments in excess of 500,000 copies in the United States. Desire Walks On spawned three charting singles: "Will You Be There (In the Morning)", which reached number 39 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, "Black on Black II" (a cover of a Dalbello song originally recorded for the 9½ Weeks film soundtrack), which peaked at number four on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, and "The Woman in Me", which peaked at number 24 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart.

The original 1993 European release and the 2001 US re-release were expanded to add Spanish-language versions of "The Woman in Me" and "Will You Be There (In the Morning)", the latter in a remixed format.

Tracklist:

1. Desire 0:18
2. Back On Black II 3:51
3. Back To Avalon 3:40
4. The Woman In Me   4:00
5. Rage 5:01
6. In Walks The Night 6:00
7. My Crazy Head 4:30
8. Ring Them Bells  3:49
9. Will You Be There (In The Morning)   4:29
10. Voodoo Doll 4:52
11. Anything Is Possible 5:00
12. Avalon (Reprise) 0:31
13. Desire Walks On 5:04
14. La Mujer Que Hay En Mi 4:01
15. The Quedaras (En La Manana) 4:40

Time:  59:51

Front cover folds out including colour pictures and lyrics to tracks 2 to 13 in English. Also includes a black and white foldout with liner notes in Japanese dated 1993.9 and lyrics to tracks 2 to 13 in Japanese.

Recording information:

John Purdell – production, mixing

Duane Barron – production, engineering, mixing

Mick Guzauski – mixing (tracks 1–8, 10–13)

Mike Shipley – mixing (track 9)

Ed Brooks, Gregor Visconty, Tom McGurk, Todd Lehmkuhl – engineering assistance

Don Grierson – executive production

George Marino – mastering at Sterling Sound (New York City)

Tommy Steele – art direction

Jeff Fey – design

Scott Morgan – photography

Heart "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You (Single & Video)"

"All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You" is a song by American rock band Heart. It was composed by veteran songwriter and producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange and released as the lead single from the band's tenth studio album, Brigade, in March 1990. The song was first recorded as "All I Want to Do Is Make Love to You" by Dobie Gray in 1979, though with different lyrics. The Heart version tells the story of a woman who sets out to seduce a hitchhiker in order to become pregnant because although there is a man in her life, he is infertile.

"All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You" was a success, spending two weeks at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number eight on the UK Singles Chart (becoming their last top ten in the US and UK), and reaching number one in Canada and Australia. At the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards, the song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group, and is the only one of Heart's singles to have been certified gold by the RIAA. On the Adult Contemporary chart, the song climbed to number six, becoming the third of Heart's four top-ten AC hits (after "These Dreams" and "Alone").

The single was Heart's last pop chart top ten hit in the US to date. The band had one more top ten Adult Contemporary chart hit with the follow-up "Stranded"; "Stranded" and two singles from 1994's Desire Walks On ("Black on Black II" and "Will You Be There (In the Morning)") were also top 10 Album Rock chart hits.

In the liner notes of Heart's album The Road Home, Ann Wilson commented on the band's dislike for the song, stating, "Actually we had sworn off it because it kind of stood for everything we wanted to get away from. It was a song by 'Mutt' Lange, who we liked, and it was originally written for Don Henley, but there was a lot of pressure on us to do the song at the time." Ann Wilson has made a number of comments on her dislike for the song, calling the song's message "hideous" in an interview with Dan Rather. In that same interview, Ann mentions that she is surprised at how many of their fans, especially in Australia and New Zealand, want to hear the song to this day when Heart plays live. Although Heart does not perform this song due to Ann's dislike of it, Ann did eventually perform this song on her 2017 tour, though her version of the song had a few changes.

The 7-inch single features an edited 4:29 version of the album track (5:10). The 12-inch and CD versions featured the non-LP track "Cruel Tears". In the UK, a very limited "tour edition" 12-inch single was released, on clear vinyl.

The original song as recorded by Dobie Gray in 1979 was a love song without a storyline, unlike the later version by Heart.

In the Heart version of the song, which is also played out in the accompanying music video, interspersed with sequences of the band performing the song, singer Ann Wilson sings of a one-night stand with a handsome young male hitchhiker. They make their way to a hotel room to have sex. The lyrics suggest that this may not be the first time the female protagonist has engaged in such behaviors, noting her familiarity with this particular hotel. The song explicitly highlights the sexual prowess of the young man, and his ability to easily and repeatedly bring the female protagonist to orgasm. She leaves a note with instructions for the man to make no attempt to contact her or track her down. It is subsequently revealed that her intent all along was to use the encounter as a way to become pregnant. The lyrics explain later, when she accidentally crosses paths with the one-time lover, that her baby is the result of their tryst and she did it only because the man she is in love with is not able to father children.

Heart "Bad Animals (1990 Reissue, Sample CD, Japan, Capitol Records, TOCP-6532)"

Bad Animals is the ninth studio album by American rock band Heart, released on May 15, 1987, by Capitol Records. The album continues the mainstream hard rock style from the band's 1985 self-titled release, all while enjoying similar success. It peaked at number two on the US Billboard 200 in August 1987 and was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on June 4, 1992. Internationally, Bad Animals charted within the top five in Canada, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland, and the top 10 in the United Kingdom.

The album spawned the US number-one single "Alone", while "Who Will You Run To" reached number seven, "There's the Girl" reached number 12, and "I Want You So Bad" reached number 49. Bad Animals received a nomination for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal at the 30th Annual Grammy Awards in 1988.

The album features a few cover songs: "Alone" was originally recorded by the duo i-Ten on their 1983 album Taking a Cold Look, while "Wait for an Answer" was originally recorded by Dalbello on her 1984 album Whomanfoursays.

The album's title refers to the band members themselves: they would call themselves the bad animals due to the way they looked in hotel lobbies, disheveled with sunglasses, exhausted from touring.

Track listing:

1. "Who Will You Run To" Diane Warren 4:06
2. "Alone"  Tom Kelly/Billy Steinberg   3:38
3. "There's the Girl"   Nancy Wilson/Holly Knight    3:50
4. "I Want You So Bad"  Kelly/Steinberg   4:21
5. "Wait for an Answer" Lisa Dal Bello 4:31
6. "Bad Animals"  Ann Wilson/N. Wilson/Denny Carmassi/Mark Andes/Howard Leese  4:54
7. "You Ain't So Tough" Steve Kipner/Peter Beckett  4:05
8. "Strangers of the Heart" Duane Hitchings/Sue Shifrin/Andes   3:41
9. "Easy Target"   A. Wilson/N. Wilson/Sue Ennis   3:58
10. "RSVP"  A. Wilson/N. Wilson/Ennis  3:39

Total length: 40:43

Recording Information:

Ron Nevison – production, engineering

Toby Wright – engineering assistance

Stan "Sly" Katayama – engineering assistance

Julian Stoll – engineering assistance

Mike Christopher – engineering assistance

Jeffrey Poe – engineering assistance

Studios:

One on One, North Hollywood, California

Power Station, New York, N.Y.

Rumbo Recorders, Canoga Park, California

Can Am, Tarzana, California

Heart "Heart (1990 Reissue, Japan, Capitol Records, TOCP-6531)"

Heart is the eighth studio album by American rock band Heart, released on June 21, 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 were uncertified.

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. At the 28th Annual Grammy Awards, the album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

In a 2022 interview, Ann Wilson stated that the album was self-titled because the band "didn’t write a whole lot of the songs on there, so that aspect of closeness with the work was gone and it was much harder for us to come up with a title that was real."

Tracklist:

1. If Looks Could Kill 3:42
2. What About Love? 3:40
3. Never 4:05
4. These Dreams 4:14
5. The Wolf 4:03
6. All Eyes 3:54
7. Nobody Home 4:07
8. Nothin' At All 4:13
9. What He Don't Know 3:40
10. Shell Shock 3:42

Time:  39:28

Japanese CD reissue in Supermasters series

Recording information:

Ron Nevison – production, engineering

Mike Clink – engineering assistance

Brian Foraker – second assistant engineer

Mike Reese – mastering at The Mastering Lab (Hollywood, California)