Songoftheday 11/1/14 - I would walk home every evening through the pyramids of light, I would feed myself on silence wash it down with empty nights...

Heart - "Nothin' At All"
from the album Heart (1985)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #10 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 10

Today's Song of the Day is brought to us by the northwest rock band Heart, who were one of two big rock acts of the 70s that retooled their lineup and ended up with the biggest commercial success of their career (see: Starship). Their self-titled 1985 album had already spun off three top-10 pop hits with "What About Love", "Never", and the #1 ballad "These Dreams". The fourth single from the project, "Nothin' At All", was a midtempo lite-rock song written by Mark Muller (who would go on to write Amy Grant's top-10 hit "That's What Love Is For"), and was a good counterpoint from the sweetness of "These Dreams"...

"Nothin' At All" became the band's fourth top-10 pop hit from the Heart album in June of 1986. The single also crossed over to the Mainstream Rock (#6) and Adult Contemporary (#40) radio chart. Internationally, while the song made the top-40 in Canada (#29) and Ireland (#18), it initially stalled out at the bottom of the chart in the UK at #76, only to be re-released in 1988 and reach the top-40 at #38.

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...and here's the band performing "Nothin' At All" along with "These Dreams" in concert in 1986..

Up tomorrow: half of a made-big duo goes somewhere else.