Heart-Bebe Le Strange (1980)
Artist: Heart
Title: Bebe Le Strange
Label: Epic
Sell Price: $3.42
Sell Date: 6/10/26
Condition: VG/G untested, has bubbling, spine has some tearing
Discogs Last Sold: 3/1/24 VG/no cover $4.00
Low: $3.00
Median: $3.50
Average: $3.58
High: $4.00
Current low price: $3.00 VG/no cover
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 6
Have/Want: 32/18
Where Sold: Fort Worth, TX
Time It Took To Sell: 3 years
Where and When Bought Ebay 8 track lot
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+
Sad To See It Go: No
With their syrupy mid-80's MOR hits, you'd forget that Heart earlier 80's records were still firmly rooted in Led Zeppelin inspired territory. Bebe Le Strange was a big hit in it's day with the hit "Even It Up" but the rest of the album also seems very good overall. The title track sounds like a Led Zeppelin live instrumental break of "Rock and Roll" (I think---this has been driving me nuts all week what is that "Oh no c'mon c'mon baby part from that Heart nicks?). I thought that song might be about obsessing about Jimmy Page but it turns out Nancy Wilson and co-writer Sue Ennis had some sort of deep concept about a new form feminine rocker.
The rest of the album doesn't hold up to that song, but "Even It Up" was a much bigger hit in much more of a rocking format that the prior cover ballad hit "Tell It Like It Is" wasn't. The 8-track reprises "Down On Me" to fill space on the end of the second track. "Strange Nights" was another stand out track. It sounds like drummer Michael DeRossier threw in some tablas on the outro. For all intensive purposes, I just assume everything is about or influenced directly by Led Zeppelin, like "Raised On You."
This makes the record consistantly rooted in something good.
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