Heart

The blueprint chug of the guitars along with Ann Wilson's Plant-ish vocal parrying mark "Barracuda" as one of the all-time great rock/early metal songs. The rest of Little Queen, Heart's second album, finds them cementing their rep as the most Zeppelin-y band of all time, effortlessly moving from rockers to tree-worshipping folk-rock to FM balladry.

Heart's follow-up to their phenomenally successful debut LP continues their curious
marriage of bursting-at-the-seams hard rock and reflective, soft acoustic music.
Understanding their meteoric rise is not that difficult -- lead singer Ann Wilson, with her
urgent, often explosive vocals, is the closest rock has to a female counterpart of Zeppelin's
Robert Plant (and anyway, Lord knows, we need many more women in rock & rol... More >