Classic Rock's GREATEST Intros! PT 15 #shorts #classicrock #heart

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Classic Rock's GREATEST Intros! PT 15 #shorts #classicrock #heart

"Barracuda" is a song by American rock band Heart, released in 1977 on their third studio album, Little Queen, and was released as the album's lead single. The song peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2009, "Barracuda" was named the 34th-best hard rock song of all time by VH1.[2]

The song was included on the compilation albums Greatest Hits/Live (1980), These Dreams: Greatest Hits (1997), Greatest Hits (1998), The Essential Heart (2002), Love Alive (2005), Playlist: The Very Best of Heart (2008) and Strange Euphoria (2012), and on the live albums Rock the House Live! (1991), The Road Home (1995), Alive in Seattle (2003) and Live in Atlantic City (2019).

Origin
Lyrics
Ann Wilson revealed in interviews that the song was about Heart's anger towards Mushroom Records, who as a publicity stunt released a made-up story of an incestuous affair involving Ann and her sister Nancy Wilson. The song particularly focuses on Ann's rage towards a male radio promoter 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 outraged, went back to her hotel room, and wrote the original lyrics of the song.[3] When she relayed the incident to Nancy, she, too, was infuriated. Nancy joined Ann and contributed a melody and bridge.[4]

Producer Mike Flicker added that Mushroom Records was so obtuse in the contract negotiations that Heart decided to discard the album they were working on, Magazine—which the label still released in an unfinished form—and instead sign with the newly formed Portrait Records to make another record, Little Queen. As Flicker put it, "'Barracuda' was created conceptually out of a lot of this record business bullshit. Barracuda could be anyone from the local promotion man to the president of a record company. That is the barracuda. It was born out of that whole experience."[5]

Music
In a March 2019 interview with Gear Factor, Nancy Wilson revealed that the guitar riff for "Barracuda" was inspired by the riff from Nazareth's cover of the Joni Mitchell song "This Flight Tonight". Wilson said: We've been opening for a band called Nazareth in Europe and also for Queen. And Nazareth had a hit with a Joni Mitchell song that they covered [in 1973] called "This Flight Tonight" that had kind of that riff.

So we kind of borrowed that. And we made it into "Barracuda". And we saw the guys from Nazareth later and they were pissed. "You took our riff!"

But that's kind of what everybody—you borrow from what you love and then you make it your own. It's one of those sounds too, it's one of those guitar tones that I'm still trying to figure out what we did. [Laughs] It's hard to re-create.

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One of the best.Grew up with Ann and Nancy❤😊

danielgould

GREAT Intro. Can't mistake it for anything else 👍👍

petersenn

For sure!!Heart is incredible!! You have the best music on your channel, TY!

Angela-fpch

One of my favorite songs & bands love heart

dannymullen

Can’t forget whole lotta love and highway to hell too. They’re so simple, yet they still sound great all these years later

LIRRFAN

"HEART" TOPx OF MY LIST. ANN & NANC, YOU ROCK!

RichardRowdy-urvw

Great riff.... unbelievably great vocals 🖤

markchapman

I saw them in concert . What an amazing show !!!

WayneCribb

Long live Anne and Nancy Wilson, truly one of the greatest bands of all time.

JamesHarris

At one show in 1977 I fell in love with two sisters in a matter of minutes. One while she was playing my favorite intro riff, and one who started singing my favorite Heart song. Been in love since.

rickallen