Heart-Greatest Hits/Live (1980)



Artist: Heart

Title: Greatest Hits/Live

Label: Epic

Format: 2LP

Cat #: KE2 36888

Year of Release: 1980

Country and Year of Edition Issue:  US 1980 Promo

Listed Condition: VG+/G+

Sell Date: 12/26/20

Sell Price: $5.99

Discogs Last Sold: 12/10/20 VG+/G+ $6.00

Low: $3.00

Median: $5.50

High:  $11.45 VG+/VG+

Current low price: $3.99

Current Number on Sale at Discogs:  6

Have/Want: 705/39

Where Sold: Bristow, VA

Time it took to sell: 4 years

Where and When Bought: Al Bums, Worcester, used $6.99 range early 80's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-

Sad To See It Go: No


The Greatest Hits portion of this double is an A+ distillation of everything good hitwise about this band.  Proto-Zep in the Epic years, hell even the album after this had "Cities Burning."  My problems with Heart come with the Capitol years where they became a synth power ballad monstrosity.  Some of the most god awful music of that decade to me.

The Live portion is a solid B/B+ getting in their Beatles and Zep live Ya-Ya's out.   Opening with the excellent "Bebe Le Strange" from a fairly underrated album of the same name.  Even the tape wankery of "Hit Single" and "Strange Euphoria" are shocking in the context of days to come.  So shocking, they didn't make the cut for the CD reissue or the Youtube stream above.  Perhaps the lone hit this release produced, Aaron Neville's "Tell It Like It Is" was a harbinger of balladry to come, but you can't deny they had good taste for choosing it.

I hadn't listened to this or any Heart album in 35-40 years start to finish.  It was interesting how I never forgot those hits in almost 40 years since I actively listened to this band.  Sure I've probably heard them in a bar or a cab radio in the background, but never by my own volition.

It's possible I will never actively hear them again.



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