Jupiter's Darling
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Jupiters Darling is the twelfth studio album released by the band Heart
Heart (band)
Heart is an American rock band who first found success in Canada. Throughout several lineup changes, the only two members remaining constant are sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson. The group rose to fame in the 1970s with their music being influenced by hard rock as well as folk music...

. The album was a minor success, peaking at number ninety-four on the U.S. Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

. Two singles were released simultaneously: "The Oldest Story in the World" and "The Perfect Goodbye".

This album marked a return to Heart's hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 roots; however, it only managed to sell roughly 100,000 copies. Since then the Sovereign record company has filed for bankruptcy, and it has been reported (via band sources on www.heart-music.com) that Sovereign still owes Heart thousands of dollars.

The album cover bears an image of the Mandelbrot set
Mandelbrot set
The Mandelbrot set is a particular mathematical set of points, whose boundary generates a distinctive and easily recognisable two-dimensional fractal shape...

, rotated so the main cardioid
Cardioid
A cardioid is a plane curve traced by a point on the perimeter of a circle that is rolling around a fixed circle of the same radius. It is therefore a type of limaçon and can also be defined as an epicycloid having a single cusp...

 is oriented the same way a heart
Heart (symbol)
The heart has long been used as a symbol to refer to the spiritual, emotional, moral, and in the past, also intellectual core of a human being...

 would normally be, with the cusp at top.

The album cover art is seen briefly in the film Elizabethtown
Elizabethtown (film)
Elizabethtown is a 2005 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Cameron Crowe starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst. Alec Baldwin has a small role as a CEO of an athletic shoe company and Susan Sarandon appears as a grieving widow...

, for which Nancy Wilson did soundtrack music.

Sovereign Artist's Marketing Director, Paul Angles, simultaneously released their album via file sharing networks  which was included in an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court.

Track listing

  1. "Make Me" – 3:57 (N.Wilson, A.Wilson, C. Bartock)
  2. "Oldest Story in the World" – 3:53 (N. Wilson, A. Wilson, C. Bartock)
  3. "Things" – 2:45 (N. Wilson, C. Bartock)
  4. "The Perfect Goodbye" – 3:37 (N. Wilson, A. Wilson, C. Bartock)
  5. "Enough" – 3:25 (A. Wilson, C. Bartock)
  6. "Move On" – 5:00 (N. Wilson, A. Wilson, C. Bartock)
  7. "I Need the Rain" – 4:20 (N. Wilson, C. Bartock)
  8. "I Give Up" – 3:50 (N. Wilson, A. Wilson, C. Bartock, S. Ennis, B. Smith)
  9. "Vainglorious" – 3:57 (N. Wilson, A. Wilson, C. Bartock)
  10. "No Other Love" – 4:02 (C. Prophet)
  11. "Led to One" – 2:56 (N. Wilson, C. Bartock)
  12. "Down the Nile" – 4:49 (N. Wilson, A. Wilson)
  13. "I'm Fine" – 2:59 (N.Wilson, C. Bartock)
  14. "Fallen Ones" – 3:42 (N. Wilson, A. Wilson, C. Bartock)
  15. "Lost Angel" – 6:56 (N. Wilson)
  16. "Hello Moonglow" – 1:56 (N. Wilson, C. Bartock)
  17. "How Deep It Goes" – 3:06 – UK bonus track
  18. "Fallen Ones" (Acoustic) – 3:47 – UK bonus track


  • Upon the album's initial release, an exclusive additional track, "Good Vibrations," was available for a limited time as a digital-only download.

Chart performance

Chart (2004) Peak
position
UK Albums Chart 120
U.S. Billboard 200 94
U.S. Billboard Independent Albums Chart 3

Heart

  • Ann Wilson: Vocals, Spoken Word
    Spoken word
    Spoken word is a form of poetry that often uses alliterated prose or verse and occasionally uses metered verse to express social commentary. Traditionally it is in the first person, is from the poet’s point of view and is themed in current events....

  • Nancy Wilson: Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Dulcimer
    Appalachian dulcimer
    The Appalachian dulcimer is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings. It is native to the Appalachian region of the United States...

    , Mandocello
    Mandocello
    The mandocello is a plucked string instrument of the mandolin family. It has eight strings in four paired courses, tuned in 5ths like a mandolin, but is larger, and tuned CC-GG-dd-aa . It is to the mandolin what the cello is to the violin.-Construction:Mandocello construction is similar to the...

    , Mandolin, Harmonica
    Harmonica
    The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...

    , Megaphone
    Megaphone
    A megaphone, speaking-trumpet, bullhorn, blowhorn, or loud hailer is a portable, usually hand-held, cone-shaped horn used to amplify a person’s voice or other sounds towards a targeted direction. This is accomplished by channelling the sound through the megaphone, which also serves to match the...

    , Piano
  • Gilby Clarke: Vocal Harmony
    Harmony
    In music, harmony is the use of simultaneous pitches , or chords. The study of harmony involves chords and their construction and chord progressions and the principles of connection that govern them. Harmony is often said to refer to the "vertical" aspect of music, as distinguished from melodic...

    , Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Ebow, Mellotron
    Mellotron
    The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...

    , Pump Organ, Marimba
    Marimba
    The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. It consists of a set of wooden keys or bars with resonators. The bars are struck with mallets to produce musical tones. The keys are arranged as those of a piano, with the accidentals raised vertically and overlapping the natural keys ...

  • Darian Sahanaja: Keyboards, Stylophone
  • Mike Inez: Bass, Tambourine
    Tambourine
    The tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....

  • Ben Smith: Drums, Percussion, Cardboard Box

Additional musicians

  • Jerry Cantrell
    Jerry Cantrell
    Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with the grunge/metal band Alice in Chains, as lead guitarist, backing and co-lead vocalist, and co-lyricist. He performs lead vocals on his solo projects, and is part of Alice in Chains' harmonizing...

    : Additional Guitars
  • Terry Davison: Pedal Steel
    Pedal steel guitar
    The pedal steel guitar is a type of electric guitar that uses a metal bar to "fret" or shorten the length of the strings, rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar. Unlike other types of steel guitar, it also uses pedals and knee levers to affect the pitch, hence the name "pedal"...

  • Mike McCready
    Mike McCready
    Michael David McCready is an American musician who serves as the lead guitarist for the American rock band Pearl Jam. Along with Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Dave Krusen, and Eddie Vedder, he is one of the founding members of Pearl Jam...

    : Ebow, Additional Guitars
  • Ravi Jakhotia: Percussion
  • Jami Sieber: Cello
    Cello
    The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...


Production

  • Produced By Nancy Wilson
  • Recorded & Engineered By Kam Dahlin, Dave Dysart & Patrick MacDougall
  • Mixed By Craig Bartock, Patrick MacDougall & Nancy Wilson
  • Mastered By Brian Gardner

Promotion

Heart performed the song "The Perfect Goodbye" with Wynonna Judd
Wynonna Judd
Wynonna Ellen Judd is an American country music singer. Her solo albums and singles are all credited to the singular name Wynonna. Wynonna first rose to fame in the 1980s alongside her mother, Naomi, in the country music duo The Judds...

 on CMT
CMT
- Medicine :* California mastitis test* Certified Massage Therapist* Cervical motion tenderness, a sign of pelvic inflammatory disease* Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease* Chemically modified tetracyclines* Circus Movement Tachycardia...

's Crossroads in the summer of 2004.
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