With prior members, Derosier and Fossen, out, and new members Denny Carmassi, and Mark Andes in, Heart began work on 1983's Passionworks. It would be a shift from their traditional hard rock and folk style, cutting back on acoustic guitars, and adopting a more mainstream sound. Though it was steps in the right direction, and would ultimately lead to their 1985 self titled opus, this album failed to provide the impact needed for the band. Despite this, Heart was able to achieve a number one single with How Can I Refuse on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Charts.
Diving straight in, it delivers a solid start with Sleep Alone, and keeps this momentum up a bit with Language Of Love, the latter which could easily have been a song by Olivia Newton-John. In fact, typing that out, I'd like to have heard that.Because of their poor performance, Heart's Private Audition and Passionworks would be among the few in their catalog to go out of print, and remained so until being released together as a duel CD in 2009 by BGO Records. Though this too is now out of print, they have both since been re-released a few times.
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THIS WEEK ON THE CHARTS July 10, 1982 |
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