Gary Torborg: One of the several reasons why 1977 was the best year for rock music, ever. It gets regular spins and is one of my faves. Their 80’s output didn’t do it for me too much, but this album is an absolute gem. Steve Ballinger: I came to this album only in recent years. Not one of the better Album of the Week choices, similar to last week's Alice offering. Barracuda is a good rock song but rest is just ordinary. I did buy this album but only played it a couple of times. Tom Dee: Liked Dreamboat Annie but lost interest after that. Blimey, when I first heard Barracuda I thought it was a new one from Budgie. Turgid and formulaic music for the FM masses. Last week Alice Cooper and now this! For me, this sort of album is one of the reasons I (as a 17 year old) got into punk and new wave. Jim Linning: I obviously never got on with mid-late 70s American rock. And if anyone is not convinced about Heart, look for the footage of them doing Stairway to Heaven for Robert Plant and Jimmy Page. For me this album is now on my playlist, filed in the same section as Pat Travers, and I will definitely be listening to more of their albums after this one. In my opinion the best is Elkie Brooks, although Maggie Bell could also be a contender. Kick it out heart full#Listening to it now with a less biased ear, it is a very good album full of very good songs, and in Heart they have the second best female rock vocalist ever in Ann Wilson. To be honest, if I had I would probably have written it off as yet another fairly soft rock album compared to my usual fare, which would have been very unfair. Robert Dunn: Confession - I had never listened to this album before it was suggested here. The Mike Flicker production brings lavish colors to the string-picking and synthesizer virtuosity of this brilliant group." ( Billboard) The Wilson ladies are complete rockers without putting on any fake pseudo-macho butchiness. Kick it out heart mac#"Heart's switch to the small-roster CBS Portrait label finds the Northwestern sextet proving irrefutably that sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson can sing, write and play rock with all the hard drive and mystically lush overtones Fleetwood Mac is renowned for. While there's little doubt that Little Queen will do well financially, Heart needs to realize the potential of its obvious talents if it seeks to gain a lasting audience." ( Rolling Stone) "Dreamboat Annie proved that, in lean times, a few good songs can go a long way commercially, but three songs still don't qualify an LP as a good one. "The album loses a bit of steam through its closing mini-suite, the acoustic ballad Cry to Me and the long, repetitive sequences of Go On Cry, which feels mainly like filler to end this otherwise fine album." ( Classic Rock Review (opens in new tab)) In fact, much of Little Queen consists of such folk-influenced, acoustic-oriented fare as Treat Me Well and Cry to Me." ( AllMusic (opens in new tab)) But while Barracuda and Kick It Out are the type of sweaty rockers one thought of first when Heart's name was mentioned, hard rock by no means dominates this album. Once again, loud-and-proud, Led Zeppelin-influenced hard rock was the thing that brought Heart the most attention. "After acquiring a substantial following with Dreamboat Annie, Heart solidified its niche in the hard rock and arena rock worlds with the equally impressive Little Queen.
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