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Track Listings
| 1. You're No Good |
| 2. It Doesn't Matter Anymore |
| 3. Faithless Love |
| 4. The Dark End Of The Street |
| 5. Heart Is Like A Wheel |
| 6. When Will I Be Loved |
| 7. Willing |
| 8. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You) |
| 9. Keep Me From Blowing Away |
| 10. You Can Close Your Eyes |
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
a journey through heartbreak,
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This review is from: Heart Like A Wheel (Audio CD)
Linda Ronstadt's 1974 breakthrough hit Heart Like A Wheel represents her greatest musical accomplishment and one of country pop's definitive moments. The album opens with the visceral rock 'n roll of "You're No Good," a No. 1 pop hit. But it is the suite of ballads that follows that make Heart Like A Wheel so memorable. Never again would Ronstadt be able to capture the chillingly fragile heartbreak of the title track, the guilty love of "Dark End of the Street" or the frustration of "When Will I Be Loved?"Ronstadt's voice is well suited for the melodic banjo lines, rolling piano notes and horns of country pop, but she also uses her higher register to good effect. When she sings the line "and my love for you is like a sinking ship," her wavering voice nearly cracks with heartbreak--a sharp contrast to "Dark End of the Street," when she intones "please don't cry / tonight we'll meet / at the dark end of the street." Elsewhere on the album, Ronstadt's voice blends perfectly with the musical arrangements. Her cover of Buddy Holly's "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" rolls along with an insistent drum-line that echoes the song's theme of reluctantly but assuredly moving on after a tedious break-up, while the blaringly loud chorus of "Willing" is as hopeful and the lyrics are determined: "I've been warped by the wind, driven by the snow...But I'm still willin'." Heart Like A Wheel is not a celebration of love but rather, an exploration of the anguish and power of heartbreak. Relationships here are unhealthy or hopeless ("Dark End of the Street," "Faithless Love"), breakups are overwhelmingly sad ("Heart Like A Wheel," "I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You") and prospects for the future are tenuous, at best ("When Will I Be Loved," "Keep Me From Blowing Away"). And yet, Heart Like A Wheel suggests that a failed unhealthy relationship is better than a successful but harmful one ("It Doesn't Matter Anymore," "You're No Good"). The album concludes with a promise of a bright new day ("You Can Close Your Eyes"), suggesting that even when you think everything is lost, time proves to be a great healer of a broken heart. Heart Like A Wheel is a full and complete experience--a lovely set of country-pop gems encompassing the ups and downs of a relationship. Linda Ronstadt's voice carries, unites and embodies these intense emotions with such passion that it is impossible not to be moved. Each song stands beautifully on its own, but it is the stunning cohesiveness of the album as a whole that is most impressive and memorable.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
In need of a remaster,
By Barrett (Washington, D.C. United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Heart Like A Wheel (Audio CD)
The pinnacle of both Ronstadt's country-music phase and of her career as a whole, "Heart Like a Wheel" is one of those albums that does everything right to an almost uncanny degree. Sure, it contains some of her finest vocals, and yes, Peter Asher's production is as supple and modest as his work for James Taylor's "Sweet Baby James" was five years earlier. (After "Heart," Asher would adopt an ever-more rigid, formulaic approach to Ronstadt's releases that seemed to put her on a pedestal, or in a cage.) And it's inarguable that the material Ronstadt and Asher selected for "Heart" is uniformly strong. But there's something else at work here, something greater than the sum of the record's many impressive parts. If I knew what it was, I'd be in the music business; since I don't, I'll settle for calling it "kismet," or simply magic. This stellar album deserves better than the cut-rate, noise-ridden mastering of the original CD release that's still on the market. In the remastering era, it's as overdue for a sonic upgrade as any album in print.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ten stars!,
By SandyWells "sandywells" (Galveston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Heart Like A Wheel (Audio CD)
Oh wow, it's so good to see this classic album (cd) again! I bought this one when I was in the 10th grade and I believe I still have all of Linda's albums and now I'm getting them on cd just so they will last longer. "You're no good" is truly a southern rock and roll song if I've ever heard one. I love Linda and her style and voice and it has been really fun watching her all these years and the interesting projects she's done from Nelsen Riddle to the Mexican projects, to the Pirates of Penzanze, etc. She's one of my childhood idols.
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