Tracklist
| A1 | City's Burning | 4:26 | |
| A2 | Bright Light Girl | 3:19 | |
| A3 | Perfect Stranger | 3:51 | |
| A4 | Private Audition | 3:19 | |
| A5 | Angels | 3:00 | |
| A6 | This Man Is Mine | 3:00 | |
| B1 | The Situation | 4:33 | |
| B2 | Hey Darlin Darlin | 3:43 | |
| B3 | One Word | 4:32 | |
| B4 | Fast Times | 3:51 | |
| B5 | America | 2:45 |
Companies, etc.
- Copyright © – CBS Inc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – CBS Inc.
- Manufactured By – Epic Records
- Manufactured By – CBS Inc.
- Mastered At – Sterling Sound
- Lacquer Cut At – Sterling Sound
- Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Carrollton, GA
Notes
Runouts etched, except "STERLING" which is stamped.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 0 7464-38049-1
- Barcode (Scanned): 074643804912
- Rights Society: ASCAP
- Pressing Plant ID (Runouts): G1
- Matrix / Runout (Side A label): AL 38049
- Matrix / Runout (Side B label): BL 38049
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 1): AL38049-1E C17 G1 STERLING
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 1): BL38049-1F C15 G1 STERLING
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 2): AL38049-1F B8 G1 STERLING
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 2): BL38049-1F A8 G1 STERLING
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 3): AL38049-1F G1 STERLING
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 3): BL38049-1E G1 STERLING
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 4): AL38049-1F F3 G1 STERLING
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 4): BL38049-1F C8 G1 STERLING
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, variant 5): AL38049-1F D24 G1 STERLING
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, variant 5): BL38049-1F C8 G1 STERLING
Other Versions (5 of 45)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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Private Audition (LP, Album, Stereo) | Epic | FE 38049 | Canada | 1982 | ||
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New Submission
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Private Audition (LP, Album) | Epic | EPC 85792 | UK | 1982 | ||
| Private Audition (LP, Album) | Epic | EPC 85792 | Europe | 1982 | |||
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New Submission
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Private Audition (LP, Album) | Epic | 25·3P-361 | Japan | 1982 | ||
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New Submission
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Private Audition (Cassette, Album) | Epic | FE 38049 | Canada | 1982 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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Minority opinion, I’m sure: I think this is the best Heart album.
This album is entirely filler-free and perfectly sequenced, with an evocative mix of rockers and ballads. I even like the dialogue and the cover. The rockers “Cities Burning” and “America” are perfect bookends to the eclectic mix of hard-driving gems and ballads in between.
I played this constantly when it came out and still play it often today. Heart was losing its audience here a few years before reinventing itself in the ‘80s, but it never lost me. -
Terrible album cover, but the music is great! I have some of their classic albums, and even though it is poorly ranked, I found this album to stand out with the production and diversity.
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Edited 5 years agoThis album was released the last week of May 1982 (Billboard Top LPs & Tape, June 12, 1982). Nothing about this album approximates the style of "psychedelic rock" or "prog rock." It's straight-ahead, guitar-driven, classic album rock no different than Little Queen or Dog & Butterfly. If anything, the radio single "This Man Is Mine" is a 50's-style throwback. On whole the album is probably best considered the end of the 70's era Heart, before they gave in to radio-friendly pop ditties and rococo stylings. It stiffed on the charts, which is too bad - I won't say it's as good as their 70s-heyday, but "City's Burning" is as "Barracuda" as one expects Heart to be. Not necessarily underrated, but deserved a bigger audience than it got.
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