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Heart: ROCK THE HOUSE LIVE (1991)

Chad DeFeo | Philadelphia, PA USA | 01/05/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"In 1991, Heart released their twelfth album entitled, ROCK THE HOUSE LIVE!. This album is a live album, that takes their Massachutsets concert from THE BRIGADE TOUR and put its it right here for the fans to get a full taste of what Heart sounds like in concert. This album is a great album, even though it is missing some of my favorite songs.



WILD CHILD

From the album BRIGADE (1990). I loved the original recorded version, but this version rocks a lot harder than the original recorded version. The bass in the very beginning sounds better than on the original.



FALLEN FROM GRACE

From the album BRIGADE (1990). Great performance.



CALL OF THE WILD

From the album BRIGADE (1990). Great.



HOW CAN I REFUSE

From the album PASSIONWORKS (1983). The album version is much better, but this is not bad performance.



SHELL SHOCK

From the album HEART (1985). From my favorite Heart album. Great performance.



LOVE ALIVE

From the album LITTLE QUEEN (1977). This song was never one of my favorites.



UNDER THE SKY

From the album BRIGADE (1990). Great.



THE NIGHT

From the album BRIGADE (1990). Awesome.



TALL, DARK HANDSOME STRANGER

From the album BRIGADE (1990). Matches up to the studio recorded version. Great performance.



IF LOOKS COULD KILL

From the album HEART (1985). They decided to put not one, but two songs from my favorite Heart album on this concert. Great song.



WHO WILL YOU RUN TO

From the album BAD ANIMALS (1987). Great performance.



YOU'RE THE VOICE

New song. The first & final single from the album. A great song that the band had written for the American Troops while they were fighting in The Gulf War. Great song.



THE WAY BACK MACHINE

Just a 50-second guitar riff.



BARRACUDA

From the album LITTLE QUEEN (1977). A great way to end their concert. This is a great song. I love how they made it much heavier than the original. Great performance here.



This concert album is one of their absolute best live albums, and it should be added to your Heart collection. I guarantee that you will not be disappointed in this album. Great buy here."

Rock The House? What house? It's been brought down

Daniel J. Hamlow | Narita, Japan | 07/16/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

""Wild Child" and "Fallen From Grace" were two of Brigade's standout tracks and both rise in grace higher live. Basically, Brigade live, with a new song and a few old songs mixed in, performed live at Worcester, MA at the Centrum on 28 November 1990.The two Heart selections are the heaviest ones from that album--"If Looks Could Kill" and "Shell Shock." If they'd included "The Wolf" and "All Eyes", the house would probably be rocked beyond tolerance. "Shell Shock" gets its rightful due live, but the speeded up heavy guitars in fact this version of "If Looks Could Kill" really outstrips its studio counterpart.For a breather, they perform one of their favorite songs from Little Queen, "Love Alive" which becomes a powerhouse with Denny Carmassi's drum power. They keep the acoustic guitars for "Under The Sky", a new favourite of theirs and mine, with the dreamy feeling of "lying on your back, looking at the stars" as Ann says in introducing the song.I described "The Night" with its heavily punctuated power chords. Well, the only way it could be outdone was it to have been done live. With the beginning power chords from Zeppelin's "Good Times Bad Times" introduced, followed by bluesy guitar solo, the song proper begins, and yes, those power chords are pounded.There isn't too much variation in the Bon Jovi-like "Tall Dark Handsome Stranger" or "Call Of The Wild" from Brigade or "Who Will You Run To" from Bad Animals. These are the few weak moments in this album."How Can I Refuse," from Passionworks is really given the rocking treatment with the chugging guitar intro. Given the unjustified roasting Passionworks got from the critics, it's at least gratifying to see at least one of its songs represented live.The new song "You're The Voice" is a power ballad whose guitarwork gives it a Brigade-era sound. The importance of making a difference is the theme here, with peaceful overtones: "We're all someone's daughter/We're all someone's son/How long can we look at each other/Down the barrel of a gun?"Howard Leese's guitar solo, "The Way Back Machine," serves as a prelude to the ferociously done "Barracuda" which makes it more a shark than a Barracuda. The best track here.The song selection here clearly favours the Brigade album, but whether or not one liked Brigade, this live album proves that Heart can still rock and roll and live treatments of studio tracks that were heavy before give them a major rousing makeover. My only question was, after this song, was there a lake or somewhere they the audience could cool off? Great live album, despite its weak spots."