CD: Heart - Magazine
Originally Released April 1978
CD Edition Released June 16, 1995
AMG EXPERT REVIEW: Problems with the Mushroom delayed the release of
Magazine, which eventually went platinum and peaked at number 17 on
the album charts. Only the hard-rocking "Heartless" made it into the
Top 40, and the album didn't really live up to Heart's last few
efforts. 1976's Dreamboat Annie showed stronger songwriting, while
Little Queen had a lot more bite to it. Magazine lacks in energy and,
to a much greater extent, fluency. The songs sound careless and
scrambled together, and while some of the blame can be placed on the
label controversy, it's apparent that the Wilsons seem unconcerned,
for the most part. "Here Song," "Just the Wine," and the predictable
"Without You" all have weak seams in both the writing and the
articulateness of the tracks as a whole. 1978's Dog & Butterfly shows
more interest and rock & roll vitality than its predecessor, making
Magazine an album even the band likes to forget about. -- Mike
DeGagne
AMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW
WHAT IS UP WITH EVERYONE, January 26, 2007
Reviewer: James T. Mott (O'Fallon, MO USA)
Heart are such a classic in every since of the word. Every song they
recorded in the 1970's were simply put, MASTERPIECES!
You had to be there. You had to go into (K-Mart, it was for me) and
buy that album with the disclaimer from the band on it. Only to return
later and buy the album over after the band approved.
Heartless and Devil Delight are perfect! Magazine is almost as good as
Mistral Wind. Just The Wine and Here Song: great ballads with
exceptional playing. Without You does the song justice and the live
tracks are COOL!
AMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW
Band Authorized Version, December 4, 2006
Reviewer: wysewomon "wysewomon" (Paonia, CO United States)
This is a great, often underrated, album by one of my favourite bands
of the mid-to-late 70s. Bluesier than the Jethro-Tull inspired work
"Little Queen," it hearks back to some of the songs on "Dreamboat
Annie" in its mix of ballads and straight out rock. But I feel I need
to put the record straight. A few people here have mentioned that it
doesn't measure up to the "original" release. I have both, and my
opinion is that this band-authorized version is far better. The
"original" was released without Heart's permission--they didn't feel
it was finished and they were right. The song order was not as
effective and some of the tracks, notably "Devil Delight" are little
better than demos. So don't be too disappointed if you can't find the
first Mushroom release. It's a collectors' item and a curiosity. This
is the real thing.
AMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW
The history of this album is folklore, August 12, 2005
Reviewer: P. Lannan (New York, NY United States)
When I was 14 years old in 1978, I was the biggest Heart fan around. I
saw a picture of the cover of Magazine in a small newspaper fanzine
with an accompanying article. I remember the article title clearly:
"Heart album ships One Million and you can't buy it anywhere!". The LP
became as much folklore to a true heart fan as any Beatles album
played backwards.
Heart left Mushroom records in 1977 and quickly joined CBS / Portrait
records. Right before Heart left to record "Little Queen" they were in
the midst of recording "Magazine" for Mushroom. The album was
abandoned but Mushroom took the working tapes, brought in session
musicians (who had nothing to do with Heart)to finish the tracks ,
added 2 live tracks, fleshed it out into a full length album and tried
to release it. Heart quickly got an injuction against Mushroom just as
the records were sitting in a warehouse waiting to be shipped.
After many court dates and depositions, the courts ruled that Heart
had to go back into the studio to finish the album for Mushroom. They
were not allowed to record new songs, just finish the ones they
started and mix / edit the 2 live tracks. There were even guards in
the studio hovering over the master tapes to make sure the band
wouldn't vindictively erase them!
Hence, the band finished the album and it is now the CD that you have
here.
What is really cool about this whole foklore of an album is that some
reviewers on this site don't realize that they own the actual LP that
Mushroom tried to release before Heart stopped them! Read Craig
Burges' review. He complains that the songs are shorter than the LP
and in different sequence - what Craig doesn't realize is that he owns
the true goldmind sought after by all Heart fans who through the years
have searched for - The original MAGAZINE!
"Mother Earth Blues" is over a minute and a half longer on the
original LP. Heart edited Ann's vocal solo for some reason. "Just The
Wine" on the original LP has a choir singing behind Ann on the french
Chorus and the title song Magazine ends with Roger Fishers solo from
Magic man in the background along with a speaker from Elvis Presley's
eulogy. This is all gone on Heart's released version.
All of Ann's vocals on the LP are all different with the exception of
"Here song" and all tracks are noticeably remixed.
Craig, I also am lucky enough to own a copy of the unauthorized
Magazine - If you flip the LP jacket over, you will see a disclaimer
from Mushroom indicating that the LP is released without Heart's
consent but the label wanted to release this great music as a gift to
Heart fans...
So now you can see how this album is the holy grail of all true Heart
fans everywhere including a 14 year old teenager from 1978.
AMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW
Tied with "Dreamboat Annie" for the best HEART album!, October 27,
2004
Reviewer: Infiltrator "J.A." (Matthews, NC)
I am going to try to describe the original recording possibly in the
most detail of all of the previous reviewers. In 1977, Mushroom
released about 50,000 copies of this LP, which had a disclaimer notice
on the back. We do not need to get into why, because you probably
already know the reason from reading the other reviews. Descriptions
of the '77 version. "Heartless" has rough lead vocals but great guitar
work by Fisher and Leese. "Without You" has so-so vocals that were
polished up for the '78 re-release. "Just the Wine" had a mellotron/
Moog synthesizer solo replaced by a flute solo on the '78 version.
"Magazine" had :30 cut out in the '78 version where a radio being
tuned was originally heard and a faint part of the second guitar
bridge in "Magic Man" was heard. "Devil Delight" lacks the echo of
Ann's voice singing "Devil, Devil" as on the '78 version. "Here Song"
remains the same on the '77 and '78 versions. "Mother Earth Blues" has
two guitar solos on the '77 version by Leese and Fisher, the '78
version has only the Leese solo (as noted in the album liner notes),
plus Ann imitating Robert Plant's vocals on "You Shook Me" was
elimintaed on the '78 version. "I've Got The Music In Me" seemed the
same. With all these oddities, both versions are good, however, the
"guitar nucleus" of the band is displayed more prominently on the
original Mushroom 1977 version. Maybe Ann and Nancy were already
pissed at Fisher at this point? Who knows? It doesn't matter, the
music is great. It's sad to think that Fisher and the Wilson sisters
still have not reconciled, due to the knawing fact that the two Wilson
sisters and the two Fisher brothers had their own musical orgies back
in the hey day. Time to bury the hatchet people!
AMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW
The full,correct story of "Magazine", May 24, 2004
Reviewer: Philip A.Cohen (Bay Harbor Islands, Florida United States)
During the making of Heart's second album "Magazine",the group had a
falling out with Mushroom Records over an advertising campaign
celebrating the sales of "Dreamboat Annie" which read "It was only
their first time together",showing a photo of Ann & Nancy Wilson
leaning up against each other semi-topless.CBS/Portrait had offered
the group a lucrative contract,and so the group broke the 2-album
contract with Mushroom.The label retaliated by pressing 5000 L.P.'s of
the first version of "Magazine",combining 5 not-quite-finished studio
tracks plus an early Canada B-side & two live tracks.These copies were
sold mostly in Los Angeles,California & Hollywood,Florida and had a
disclaimer on the back of the album cover which read in part,"Mushroom
Records regrets that a contractual dispute has made it neccessary to
complete this record without the cooperation or endorsement of the
group Heart,who have expressly disclaimed artistic involvement in
completing this record".This first version had the songs in the
following order:Side One "Heartless"*,"Without You"*,"Just The
Wine"*,"Magazine"* Side Two:"Here Song","Devil Delight"*,"Blues Medley-
Mother Earth/You Shook Me","I've Got The Music in Me".The tracks
marked * had rough lead vocals,different,longer running times,and some
different instrumental solos versus the version of the album available
today.In the settlement between Heart & Mushroom Records,Mushroom got
the right to release the album,but the group got the right to complete
the recordings to their satisfaction.A security guard stood by in the
studio to make sure that the group didn't try to erase the multitrack
tapes.The group re-recorded the lead vocals for all the studio tracks
except "Here Song"(a completed early Canada B-side),and the group
edited "You Shook Me",to cut out a part at the end of the song where
Ann Wilson immitated Robert Plant's vocal improvisation from the end
of Led Zeppelin's version.The synthesizer solo on "Just The Wine" was
replaced by a flute solo,and the song "Magazine" was trimmed down more
than a minute shorter,eliminating a somewhat meandering original
ending.Ann & Nancy Wilson have occasionally stated that the best
tracks from "Magazine" & "Little Queen"(their CBS/Portrait debut)
would have originally been released on one album.Take the recordings
with that knowledge in mind.Both albums have some fine tracks,and a
few clunkers.
Half.com Details
Producer: Mike Flicker
Album Notes
Heart: Nancy Wilson (vocals); Ann Wilson, Roger Fisher (guitar);
Howard Leese (keyboards, guitar); Steve Fossen (bass); Michael
Derosier (drums).
Recorded at Mushroom Records Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia in
1976; The Aquarius, Seattle, Washington in 1975; Sea-West Studios,
Seattle, Washington in 1978.
ROLLING STONE REVIEW
Magazine is the lp left half-finished when Heart hit it big two years
ago and split with Mushroom, an independent label. Having battled
royally for the rights to the only four songs recorded at Mushroom
Studios, the small Canadian company has now released the completed
Heart tracks with enough shameless, inferior but authorized padding to
look like an album-length effort: a smidgen of an old Wilson sisters
tune ("Here Song," cut in 1974), a dreadful live "Mother Earth Blues,"
pointless cover versions of "I've Got the Music in Me" and Nilsson's
"Without You." The stench of deception reeks.
Nonetheless, hard-core Heart fans shouldn't be deterred. Though the
title track's portrait of a would-be groupie stiffs, "Heartless" and
"Devil Delight" are prime cuts--the former a guitar-heavy rock &
roller in the "Magic Man"/"Crazy on You" vein, the latter a slow,
steamy rumble sung in Ann Wilson's very best Robert-Plant-meets-Abba,
long-live-acid-rock slice and shriek. And the all-acoustic "Just the
Wine" pleasantly recalls the gentler side of Joan Armatrading. In
other words, Magazine would have made a nice EP. Stretched out over
forty minutes, it doesn't enhance anyone's reputation. (RS 273 - Sep
01. Heartless [0:05:01.17]
02. Devil Delight [0:05:00.40]
03. Just The Wine [0:04:16.23]
04. Without You [0:04:43.00]
05. Magazine [0:06:22.07]
06. Here Song [0:01:34.35]
07. Mother Earth Blues (Live) [0:05:59.33]
08. I've Got The Music In Me (Live) [0:06:17.05]
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