Released on 26 March 1990, "Brigade" ws the tenth studio album by US rock band Heart, also it supposed the end of the band's second part, moving away of their rock classic sound the band performed in the 1970's towards a more commercial sound, this change began with their 1985's Heart", then "Bad Animals" and this same AOR sound intesifies on "Brigade" finishing their succesful trilogy and the band's most brilliant period. The album spawned four singles "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You", "I Didn't What To Need You", "Stranded" & "Secret.
The album's lead single, "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You", reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100. The subsequent singles "I Didn't Want to Need You" and "Stranded" peaked at numbers 23 and 13 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively. The album was followed by a successful world tour. Like its 1987 predecessor Bad Animals, Brigade is notable for having fewer writing contributions from lead members Ann and Nancy Wilson, but would be the last of Heart's albums to prominently feature outside writers.
Heart’s MTV-friendly glam-metal makeover led to chart-topping albums such as 1985’s Heart and 1987’s Bad Animals and sustained mainstream success, but as the next decade dawned, the image was wearing thin. Things needed to change when Heart made its next album, 1990’s Brigade, and the bet play the best for them, just like Wilson sister said: it was the time to get back to real, and Richie Zito help to achieved that. The Brooklyn-born producer also proved ideal for Heart. “Some of the producers we’ve worked with in the past have wanted Heart to sound like what was popular at that moment,” Ann Wilson recalled. “Richie never did that. He was very good to work with.”
Accordingly, some of the Brigade material saw Heart returning to its hard-rocking roots – not least on the smoldering, guitar-heavy tracks such as "Fallen From Grace," "Tall, Dark Handsome Stranger," and the compelling, Led Zeppelin-esque light and shade of "The Night." However, Brigade wasn’t a complete break from the recent past. Its trio of U.S. Top 40 hits, “I Didn’t Want To Need You,” the Nancy Wilson-sung “Stranded,” and the Robert "Mutt" Lange No. 2 smash "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You" were all superior power ballads in the same vein as Bad Animals' chart-topping "Alone." Amazingly, though the latter song is now recognized as one of Heart's signature cuts, the band only happened upon it by chance.
"All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You" was originally written for a man to sing, Ann Wilson remember that, so it got thrown in the pile of stuff that was being pitched to us. The band sounded good on it and when we turned the lyric’s gender around, it became something unique.”
Helped along by the mainstream success of the Grammy-nominated "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You," Brigade also marched purposefully up the charts. It peaked at No. 3 on both the U.S. and U.K. album charts and also rose to No. 2 in Canada on its way to a multi-platinum yield similar to the best-selling Bad Animals.
Furthermore, Brigade’s desire to embrace loud guitars also meant Heart was well-placed at a time when the early 90s grunge explosion was about to put Seattle back on the map."“Brigade came out was when music was turning back to guitars – and away from the huge layer cake production sounds of the 80s, when it was cool to be from Seattle just then!”
The first track "Wild Child" is a rocker catchy hymn, with a incredible force that literally recreate that bad-ass attitude, next is the massive "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You", an AOR power ballad smooth and charged of intesity, talking about the girl who only wanted sex instead the man, "Secret" was a classic ballad, with a hidden love sang it in impossible tones by Ann Wilson, "Tall, Dark Handsome Stranger" retook the hard rock, all-guitar driven and intense drums and vocals, "I Didn't Want To Need You" a melodic one with certain AOR touch, "The Night" is between a rocker tune and a melodic one, with its in crescendo estructure, moving towards a harder sound with 70's sound-a-like solo, "Fall From Grace" turned into classic rock with strong guitars and a slower verse surrounded a sad atmosphere, "Under The Sky" is the shortest one and the most gentle.
With "Cruel Nights" again the typical classic AOR sound, "Stranded" another piece of tune, a brilliant power ballad that catches the audiences, "Call Of The Wild" is a groovy one with certain bluesy riffs and some southy vocals, "I Want Your World To Turn" is a little bit slower with prime keyboards and a light rock melody, and the final "I Love You", another ballad, an slower one and with touchy vocals.
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