I never in my life heard anyone say her vocals weren’t anything short of amazing. Why in the hell would Sori feel embarrassed for the band. I think both sisters have incredible stage presence.
@@acevfx2923 I won't argue how extraordinaire Floor is as a voice in the music world, period, at the present time...But Ann started it all up back then...Still, her voice, as a pure rocker singer has no equal....Plus, heck, I had a crush 😍 for this woman back then (kinda like I still do 😉). Same way I'm aware about the hundreds of men that I know they have a serious crush for Floor now a days! 😆
Regardless of female or female.. fuck that .. Ann is one of the best singers of all time ... so smooth and Angelic and Powerful at the same time ... she can hold a note like no other singer ... Oohh my God .. “Magic Man “ the way her voice gets you in a trance 🥰... love her ❤️
Wilson Sisters, Ann and Nancy were inducted into Rock Hall of Fame few years ago even they performed a cover of Led Zeppelin in front of the surviving members of the band during Kennedy's Honors...there's a video of Heart doing song during ceremony.
absolutely. Ann and Karen Carpenter (although there are other great female singer from that time (Emmylou, linda rondstadt , stevie nicks, joan jett...)) .
I don't know if you'd include metal in that but if you do then Floor Jansen from Nightwish is next level. I think she's among the best female vocalists of any genre since they've been able to record music. I grew up listening to Heart and I love Ann Wilson and have a definite bias in their favor so that's no idle thing for me to say. In general I don't even particularly like metal but that woman can sing.
*Vin was right.* But, there's more: The lead singer, *Ann Wilson,* wrote the song as a furious response to the band's record label (whom they immediately broke with, in the middle of album production) getting a false story into a magazine saying she and her sister, *Nancy Wilson,* on guitar at stage right, were *lovers.* The entire song has metaphorical signficance. The *"barracuda"* is obviously the predatory promotional agent responsible for spreading the false story. *"The porpoise"* refers to Nancy, warning, *"Sell me, sell you... Dive down deep, now, save your head!"* Sori's comments didn't make a word of sense. Would she have preferred contemporary twerking to the tasteful movements we saw? Bizarre comments.
There is an individual involved though as well. "The Wilson sisters revealed in various interviews that the song was about Heart's anger towards an ad Mushroom Records placed in trade publications implying that Ann and Nancy were lesbians having an affair. The song focuses on Ann's rage towards a promoter who came up to her after a concert in Detroit asking how her "lover" was. She initially thought he was talking about her then-boyfriend - band member Michael Fisher. After the promoter revealed he was talking about her sister Nancy Wilson, Ann became angry and went back to her hotel room to write the song."
Sori is such a rookie...... This song has lasted well through the decades...your background has seriously impeded your view of women vocalists and musicians. Ann and Nancy Wilson broke barriers to create a woman lead rock band. Ann is renowned as one of the best vocalists of all time ....female AND male. You will be surprised how many of the bands you like (Tool and Pantera) look up to bands like Heart. Good job Vin.....you nailed it.
Sori will say a bands songs all sound the same,when they are all different or they have their own signature sound.She's nice but totally a knucklehead.
Heart was inducted into the Rock N Roll Hall of fame back in 2013. Ann Wilson did so much to break open the door for female vocalists a true icon, Vin big homie tell your woman to put some respect on my girls name. (I jest, Sori is entitled to her opinion no matter how wrong it may be.)
@@VinAndSori during the Hall of Fame performance they did Barracuda with Chris Cornell Mike McCready from Pearl Jam and Jerry Cantrell from Alice in Chains.... Watch it on the tube. It's fantastic.
Ann Wilson...The Finest female singer ( in her younger years that is ) on this planet as of today....A "dramatic Soprano" voice that can cut through a full orchestra without a microphone. She's simply amazing.
Sori has lost her mind. The Wilson Sisters are amazing. Barracuda's into is a classic riff. Begining guitarists in the 80's learned this along with Smoke on the Water, Stairway to Heaven, Breaking the Law etc.
You're listening to the female version of Robert Plant! Ann Wilson, even now, can hit notes with such power that you just have to say wow! The lyrics tell a story of their 'former' record company who, as a publicity stunt released a mad up story of an incestuous relationship between Ann and her sister Nancy (the one guitar). After a concert, a man came up and asked how her 'lover' was doing, Ann thought it was in reference to her then boyfriend, Mike Fisher (band manager), but after revealing it was about Nancy, Ann in a rage went to he hotel room and wrote the lyrics. I actually love how Ann sings the word Barracuda. I don't think anyone else could pull it off. It's such an angry and rocking hard number. Forever classic from Heart!!
Thanks for telling them anyway..Specially Sori....Vin..I'm sure he knows who Robert Plant is lol But I hope Sori changes her insight on Heart, and particularly this song, when she reads your comment, and realizes what Anne Wilson was all about...
This song is about a reporter who came back stage and asked her how her lover was. Her boyfriend at the time was in the band, so she said ohh he’s fine. The reporter said “no, your sister” and winked. The female guitar player is her sister. The rumor was that they were lesbian lovers. Ann, the singer, got mad and wrote this song.
@@sonny0888 Yeah, it was originally a record label genius that decided to come up with an advertising stun spreading a rumor that Nancy and Anne were lovers...But the way Anne found out was like the commenter here says...
Their album sales went Platinum, 3x Platinum, Platinum, 2x Platinum, Gold, 2x Platinum, #25, #39, 5x Platinum, 3x Platinum, 2x Platinum, Gold, Gold...that's a twenty yr. run from 75-95. Not too shabby (even though I'm only a 70s Heart fan).
fonsecorona I hate Janis 👎 the others are great .. I love Grace too though... she was one of the first to come out with a voice that had so much strength and so powerful... but her and Ann would have an amazing sing off ... Imagine if they had put them both in an epic concert.. having them pick their songs ( not specifically their own ... any song that shows their talent .. and of coarse their own too ) and have them both back and forth trying to top one another... that’s fucken Heaven on Earth ... 🤯
@@douglasmijangos3327 That would've been a one of a kind experience.... But yeah, Janis was a rocker of her own genre...More like into a more r&b oriented kinda rock...But she was at Woodstock. 😃👍
fonsecorona I know a lot of people loved her but I didn’t .. not that she’s female.. I loved Grace Slick .. but I just felt like she was too much .. she was a lot that you would love it or hate it .. I love Zeppelin but Sometimes the singing sounded like Janis and I didn’t like it when Zeppelin sounded that way either.. 🤷🏻♂️
Sori, she was even head banging, for god's sake!...Way long before Floor, way long before Simone, way long before Charlotte, way long before Sharon, way long before Tarja or Anette, way long before Tatiana or Doro....Way long before all these metal monster female voices, there was Anne Wilson... Vin, you nailed it...you recognized imho, THE most impressive female voice in the history of r&r, bro...!
*Pat Benatar* - "Hell is for Children" . Pat is a musical force!! . These 70's women set the standard for Hard Rock. Along with older legends like Janis Joplin and Etta James
I was up close and personal when Ann Wilson sang at a private event for attorneys a few years ago. She was in her 60s and I’m not exaggerating. She sounded EXACTLY the same. I went home and played original recordings and she had sung in the same damn keys. She sings as easily as we breathe
Saw them do this live, way back in 1977 a couple of months after this song hit the radio in a small concert venue in Asbury Park, NJ. It rocked!!! It was during the Little Queen tour this video is from, this wasn't at Convention Hall though it was somewhere else along the way.
Sori is so clueless on any music,It's so weird.There is more than Christian music.I noticed there is exactly no research done on any artist on here. #Ridiculous
I was wondering that myself, most songs that been reacted to on lots of reaction RU-vid channel has been out for quite a while how can someone never ever heard them ??? I mean has they lived in a cave all those year ??
@@iFrancis.G actually yes she was. Raised in a very strict Evangelical home. She was rarely allowed to listen to music... Most of her music experiences were being with her friends and when she got a car.
"All the leaves are brown and the sky is grey..." is from the Mama's & the Papa's "California Dreaming" from the '60s. I request it. This song from Heart was about their being pissed at their manager when they found out he was working for the record company more than them, and that he was saying girls couldn't sing rock songs and had to sing sappy ballads to sell.
She was easily the most dynamic, most powerful female vocalist fronting a rock band in 30 years from 1976 until 2006. You need to contextualize music in order to appreciate it. They shined especially because the music scene was morphing toward Disco at the time. It wasn't weird at all. 7.3? Nuts...!
In the 70's the person who won male rock vocalist every year was Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin. Ann Wilson won for female just about every year as well. Heart idolized Zeppelin and did a lot of cover songs of them and she has the perfect voice for it. You should check out them dong a tribute to Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven at the Kennedy Center. Simply amazing. Heart had two careers. Their 70's career where they wrote their own songs and were a moderate success. Then in the 80's where the record company made them have people write the songs for them and they were maybe the biggest female-led band for about 5 years. The 80's was mostly just the two sisters from the original band.
Try Heart: Magic Man, Dog & Butterfly, Alone, Bad Animals. Anne Wilson was voted the best rock female vocalist of all time. Still singing. Started around 1970. She and her sister are badasses.
Here are some suggestions for classic rock songs; Queen of Spades by Styx; Turn Me Loose by Loverboy(don't be put off by the stupid name, this song rocks);Somebody Save Me by Cinderella(again, don't be put off by the stupid name);Silver, Blue and Gold by Bad Company; It's Late by Queen; Roundabout by Yes; Girls got Rhythm by AC/DC; Beautiful Girls by Van Halen.
That "all the leaves are brown and the sky is gray" lyric is not from the 1970s; it's from the 1960s: "California Dreaming" from 1967 by the Mamas and the Papas.
I can't find it now but there's an Anne Wilson interview on RU-vid in which Anne explains the meaning of "Barracuda". To summarize: at a party or after a show, a record company man pulled Anne over and asked her for the lascivious details of his imagined lesbian love affair between her an her sister Nancy - a thing that was totally the product of his fantasies. She was pissed off because she wanted to be taken seriously as a female rock artist, not treated like a porn star.
40 years later they sound the same or even better. Please comment and watch the Kennedy center live performance of led zeps stairway to heaven. Zeppin was in the crowd a d they gave them a standing ovation. Best version ever
The song you're talking about Vin is California Dream in by the Mamas and the Papas. I think it came out in 1966 though. I did request it last year fyi.
Sori, if this is too old for you, Fergie did a pretty decent cover in Shrek the Third in 2006. Vin, you were dead on, my brother. Heart is amazing. The Wilson sisters are incredible. That's why they're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. BTW, check out Pat Benatar doing "Hell Is For Children." Tough song about child abuse. Very powerful.
The Mamas and the Poppas...California Dreaming is the song you mentioned. "All the leaves are brown, and sky is grey. I went for a walk, on a Summers day." This song is about the music business. "No right, no wrong, selling a song."
Ann Wilson is the best female rock singer ever!!! Heart...the only band that can cover stairway to heaven for led Zeppelin and get a standing ovation! Ck out the led Zeppelin lifetime award show.
Catalyst Ann Wilson revealed in interviews that the song was about Heart's anger towards Mushroom Records' attempted publicity stunt involving her and her sister Nancy Wilson in a made-up incestuous affair. The song particularly focuses on Ann's rage towards a man who came up to her after a concert asking how her "lover" was. She initially thought he was talking about her boyfriend, band manager Michael Fisher. After he revealed he was talking about her sister Nancy, Ann became angry and went back to her hotel room to write the original lyrics of the song.
Ann Wilson has one of the most powerful female voices you can listen to I've lived in seattle all my life and heart is another great example of the talent that has come from seattle
Yo! You diggin’ on The Mamas + Papas “ California Dreamin’ “....”...all the leaves are brown (all the leaves are brown) and the sky is gray ( and the sky is gray-ay), I’ve been for a walk....” great tune/vocal harmony!
Brandon Ramsey I read somewhere that Robert plant is super critical of people covering their songs and especially critical of stairway to heaven covers but that he loved hearts rendition and even had tears in his eyes while they were preforming.
This is very true, and I'm thinking,not only did that put tears in his eyes from the performance, but seeing John Bonham's son play the drums with heart for that show. I don't think that there is another vocalist in the world that could have performed that song as good as Heart did. Truly amazing!
She’s not going to like any Heart song For some reason Sori has a hidden thing against Ann Wilson. We know it can’t possibly be her voice because Ann Wilson is undeniably an incredible singer and it’s not how Ann said Barracuda. She has something up her ass that she won’t say or she doesn’t realize she has something strange against her. Sori really acted strange with this review.
California Dreamin' - Mamas and Papas All the leaves are brown (all the leaves are brown) And the sky is grey (and the sky is grey) I've been for a walk (I've been for a walk) On a winter's day (on a winter's day)...
Ann & Nancy are my hometown girls ! Seattle girls like me. I saw them three times @ the Seattle Center Coliseum where they, of course Rocked the House for their hometown !
Ann Wilson was, the finest female Rock vocalist of her generation, probably any generation in my opinion, the song is about a producer I think, not as most people think, a Lover , not that I think it matters at all really. I love Rock and I love how a great vocalist can make a track, very rarely do you get a great showman and a great voice but when you do , then Wow .
"California Dreamin'" is a masterpiece by The Mamas and the Papas; it's from '65, though. Don't know if you're thinking of the José Feliciano '68 cover; it sounds more '70s, I think. Recently used by Tarantino "Once upon a time in... Hollywood" Consider both of those requested; perhaps in the same video, comparing them?
if i remember, back when it came out they said the song's actually a stab at the record industry. Sori...if you wanna check out an all-female band that rocks, you need look no further than for the tune "I Don't Mind" by a band called Drain STH. all girls, all from Sweden actually, and the lead singer's married to Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath.
This song is about the record label ‘mushroom records’. As a publicity stunt they told the tabloids that Ann was have a sexual relationship with her sister Nancy (also in the band). So they are singing it about the record label.
Heart broke down the barriers for women in rock roll. Before them women were singing r&b blues and country. The amount of hate they got was disgusting. Calling them names their sisters so incest lesbians, women can't play rock n roll. Then the transition into the eighties was even worse. They made music videos but would hide Ann the lead singer because she was over weight. Through all the labels trying to make them look a certain way, trends of the times, labels giving them songs that were purposefully terrible. They did it on their own and kicked ass so don't feel embarrassed be fckn proud🤘
