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[takealittlepieceoftheirhearts]

Happy birthday, Nancy Wilson! (b. March 16, 1954)

“I started to sing with the guitar because of Nancy. I thought it was Nancy’s voice with the guitar.” - Cyndi Lauper on being inspired by Nancy

“I equally loved bands like Heart as well as jazz artists like Nina Simone and Ella. It was so inspiring to me to see women who were genuine talents – players and songwriters – who were actually doing it right and could project strength and femininity without trading on their sexuality. I think I have spent most of my career trying to be half as cool as Ann and Nancy Wilson.” - Lee Aaron

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Various Artists: Singles Soundtrack (1992)

Funny ... I’d forgotten that this soundtrack was SOOOO LAME!

Between the generally average tunes submitted by the grunge elite and the assorted party crashers, all that’s left of this “generation-defining soundtrack,” a quarter century later, is a blatantly cynical commercial exercise -- which, of course, is precisely what it was (just watch the documentary Hype!).

All this is underscored by director Cameron Crowe’s biased insertion of his buddy Paul Westerberg, then-wife Nancy Wilson and her awful, not-Heart Lovemongers (doing their sub-Zeppelin schtick), and, talk about a stretch, Jimi Hendrix -- just because he was a Seattle native.

What? No Queensrÿche???

Even Pearl Jam (not one, but two dull songs), for all their subsequent self-imposed martyrdom, were happy to milk the Seattle buzz, at this stage of the game, along with Windy City opportunists, the Smashing Pumpkins, and you can tack on maybe my least favorite Alice in Chains song of all time.

Well, shit, is there anything you do like about this LP, you ask?

Why yes: I like Chris Cornell’s emotional “Seasons” and Soundgarden’s brutal Badmotorfinger outtake, “Birth Ritual”; Mother Love Bone’s then relatively unheard “Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns” combo the Screaming Trees’ stellar “Nearly Lost You” (maybe the best song here), and Mudhoney’s supremely ironic and pertinent “Overblown.”

So I should probably admit this 25th anniversary vinyl reissue was a freebie, and the coolest thing about it was a bonus CD of rarities, including Citizen Dick’s Spinal Tap-ish “Touch Me I’m Dick,” assorted live recordings, unused entries from Truly and Blood Circus, and numerous Cornell demos, headlined by the desolate “Nowhere but You.” 

In fact, as I was researching this blog, I found new interviews that Hype! director Doug Pray conducted with many of these Seattle players in July of 2017, shortly after Cornell’s heartbreaking death.

More Soundtracks: 200 Motels, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Chariots of Fire, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Goldfinger, The Harder They Come, Hawk the Slayer, Help!, The Hitch-Hikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, James Bond - 13 Original Themes, Jesus Christ Superstar, Labyrinth, Lawrence of Arabia, Magical Mystery Tour, Mel Brooks’ Greatest Hits, The Muppet Movie, The Pick of Destiny, The Pink Panther, Popeye, Profondo Rosso, Purple Rain, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Star Wars, The Sound of Music, This is Spinal Tap, Thunderball, Yellow Submarine.

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Battle of Evermore

[millerflintstone]

Think I'm heading towards a deep dive of Ann and Nancy Williams music.

[takealittlepieceoftheirhearts]

This is one of my favorite Lovemongers’ songs...just tragically beautiful.

Ann [Wilson] had to say on it: “This is a song that is timeless, in a way, about a friend of ours who had passed away. We did it first with The Lovemongers, and then later we put it on Red Velvet Car. It’s a song that could have been written any year of the band’s history, and you can’t pin it down to any decade. It’s another family song. Our parents would have loved this song, maybe as much as anything in our catalog.”

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The Lovemongers (Heart) - The Battle of Evermore