Heart "Dreamboat Annie" LP (1976)

"Crazy on You" begins with Nancy Wilson's brisk acoustic guitar, which has almost flamenco accents, before evolving into a thunderous electric track with a dreamy bridge and Ann Wilson's howl. The classic "Magic Man" — which was inspired by Ann Wilson's then-relationship with Mike Fisher — utilizes proggy flourishes and mystical grooves, while "White Lightning & Wine" is a bluesy boogie, and "Sing Child" betrays the band's love of Led Zeppelin.

The way Dreamboat Annie mixes these loud, aggressive moments with more nuanced, stripped-back songs — notably the string-kissed "How Deep It Goes" — is perhaps more impressive, though. (In fact, the title track appears in three separate guises: dreamy '70s soft rock, fantastical folk, and easygoing, banjo-tinged rock.) It's a template and approach Heart would employ on all of their future albums, and signaled the band as a unique, thoughtful entity.

"It was a real first to see two women who were not just the ornaments, but the writers and the singers and the players too," Nancy Wilson told In the Studio With Redbeard. "I think if anything that it did for other women in the biz, it gave them a lot of encouragement and a lot of hope." - Ultimate Classic Rock