Bad Animals by Heart

Bad Animals, Heart's ninth studio album, came out on Capitol on May 15, 1987, and it doubles down on the glossy, arena-sized hard rock that the band had embraced on their self-titled record two years earlier. Ron Nevison produced, with Ann and Nancy Wilson leading a lineup of Howard Leese on guitar and keys, Mark Andes on bass and Denny Carmassi on drums.

The big one is "Alone", a song first cut by the duo i-Ten, which Heart blow up into a full-throated power ballad; it went all the way to number one in the States. "Who Will You Run To" and "There's the Girl" kept the hits coming, and Dalbello's "Wait for an Answer" gets a makeover too. The title is a joke at their own expense: it's what they called themselves when they staggered through hotel lobbies, rumpled, shaded and wiped out from the road. It climbed to number two on the Billboard 200.

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