Roger Daltrey - Daltrey
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Artist: Roger DaltreyEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-08-29
Music Label: Hip-O Records
Soundtracks:
- One Man Band
- The Way Of The World
- You Are Yourself
- Thinking
- You And Me
- It's A Hard Life
- Giving It All Away
- The Story So Far
- When The Music Stops
- Reasons
- One Man Band
- There Is Love
Free Music Notes for Daltrey
Free Music Review: A fun guilty pleasure
Hit: 4 Stars
I admit that the only reason I got this album at my favorite used record store back in my college town was because it was only three dollars and Roger looks so beautiful on the cover, but I ended up finding the music not bad at all. It's not something I listen to on a regular basis (nor does it sound anything like The Who), but it is a fun guilty pleasure to listen to every so often. Not all music is meant to be deep, serious, timeless, great, and classic. If one isn't hung up on musical snobbery, it just might grow on one and come to seem fun, cute, and charming.
At first listen, it is obvious that these songs seem incredibly out of character for Roger, with a couple of notable exceptions (foremost among them the two-song suite "It's a Hard Life" and "Giving It All Away"). My other favorite songs are "You and Me" (though I wish it weren't so terribly short!), "You Are Yourself," "When the Music Stops," and "Thinking." How could anyone not love a song like "Thinking" when it has the line "Thinkin' about the love we made on the floor" as part of the refrain? It does seem a really bizarre choice that Roger teamed up with Leo Sayer of all people for his first solo album, but somehow it just seems to work. The time stamp of the early Seventies kind of adds to the charm and fun of this album. I don't have all of his solo albums yet, but I think my final verdict on his solo work will be that it's really not as awful as its reputation. Roger always seemed to do the best he could with uncharacteristic, weak, or below-par material. It is a shame that he wasted his amazing voice on so much less-than-stellar material, but I can kind of get past a lesser song just because he's the one singing it. And while this album is so far from most of what he did with The Who after they got really good and came into their own in the late Sixties, that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's not fair to pigeonhole an artist and hold it against him or her for trying a new style.
Though it's not an album I'd recommend to someone just getting into Roger's solo work (hands-down I'd recommend most strongly 'McVicar,' 'Under a Raging Moon,' and perhaps 'One of the Boys'), it isn't something I'd recommend be avoided till very last either. Sometimes it's fun to step out and try something a little different, and to hear what Roger might have sounded like had there been no Who, or had the band broken up much earlier and compelled him to only sing as a soloist.
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