Too Late The Hero

Too Late The Hero Artist: John Entwistle
Label: Repertoire
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4009910463420
ASIN: B00000013K


Release Date: 1997-06-10

Too Late The Hero


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Tracks:

  1. Try Me
  2. Talk Dirty
  3. Lovebird
  4. Sleeping Man
  5. I'm Coming Back
  6. Dancing Master
  7. Fallen Angel
  8. Love Is A Heart Attack
  9. Too Late The Hero

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Album Description

1997 Repetoire reissue of The Who bassist's 1981 solo album featuring drummer Joe Vitale & the signature guitar work of Joe Walsh all over the album. The album's nine tracks focus on themes of love, disco and passion. Includes 'Dancing Master', 'Fallen Angel', 'Talk Dirty' & 'Too Late The Hero'.

Album Details

Remaster of CD Recorded in 1981 featuring J. vitale and Joe Walsh.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Get your Ox fix here.......2007-01-31

Who knew. This gem, which I ignored for 25 years, except for "Fallen Angel" and the title track which are on "Thunderfingers", showcases great music, John's distinctive voice, and a dose of good time rock and roll.

My particular favorite is "Sleeping Man", with great vocal melodies, bass licks, and Joe Walsh's distinctive guitar work. All of the other tracks are solid, and the CD includes the usual detailed liner notes with John's thoughts behind the songs. If you are a fan of his, you won't be disappointed.

5 out of 5 stars Solid recording that allows Entwistle to feature his bass style........2006-09-22

Great solo effort that will grow on you - 4.5 stars. Holds up very well after 25 years.

Top songs on here - Try Me, Love Bird, I'm Coming Back & Love is a Heart Attack.

Love is a Heart Attack proved to be prophetic for John Entwistle. He actually met his end under the same circumstances the song describes. Maybe he knew his vices would eventually get him? He played it live everytime I saw him on a solo tour, so figure it was always on his mind.

Joe Walsh plays some great guitar solos adding a nice dynamic.

4 out of 5 stars Not bad at all for the ox!.......2006-03-19

OK his albums are not as good as Townshend's...but at least they are better than Daltre'y or Moon's...This record was done very much in a hard-rock vein and is not bad at all even if it lacks the punch of the Who.

4 out of 5 stars Joe Walsh and Joe Vitale add some serious bite to album.......2005-08-21

I have always been a big Who fan.
Too late the hero has always been a favorite of mine among John's cannon of music. The album has it's fair share of classic John Entwistle humourous lyrics and topics.
I consider it one of John's best solo ventures.
I am also a big fan of Mr Joe Walsh and Joe's playing is all over the album. It would have been great to have seen them collaborate even further.
John's awesome bass work is well displayed throughout especially on "Dancing Master".

Favorite tracks are "Try me" which starts off the album in stellar fashion, "Sleeping Man", "Fallen Angel", and the epic "Too late the hero" title track. This song should have been a hit back in the day.
Probably Entwistle's best chance at a commercial solo hit.
The album has it's small spots of cliched rock tendancies, but you can tell the guys were having a great time making this album. It's still played in the car and house after all these years with enthusiasm.
If your a Who nut or ardent admirer, I would highly recommend this album.
Rest in peace John.

4 out of 5 stars The proper end to John's solo career..........2003-05-25

...yeah, sure, "The Rock" and "Vanpires" came after this album, but I prefer to see this as the proper end to John's solo career. In fact, it sounds quite fitting as a tasteful swan song, after the questionable nature of his two previous solo albums (Rigor Mortis, The Ox) and compared with the seriously-uneven territory of the upcoming two JEB albums (The Rock and Vanpires). Somewhat sadly, though, "Too Late the Hero" also sounds like a fitting end due to the retro-morbidity of the entire affair; despite the fact that the album is far less doused in black humor than, say, "The Ox," the specific nature of some of the songs sounds somewhat odd in the light of John's untimely death.

So what do we have here? Well, we're definitely into eighties territory, but surprisingly enough, the production isn't too terribly sterile (although the opening "Try Me" telegraphs its eighties-ness a bit much in its first minute) and the material is surprisingly inspired. This is John's "Cloud Nine," where he realized that coasting simply wasn't working; consequently, one feels a real sense of effort here, even in some of the less successful experiments.

The material? I think it's almost uniformly excellent. "Try Me" is a goofy sendup of eighties romance songs (the idea seems to be "Try me! I'm better than cocaine!"...see what I mean about the hindsight morbidity?), "Talk Dirty" is a...well, I'm not sure what sort of genre I can pin on it, but it's damn catchy. "Lovebird" marks a surprising detour into sincerity, which makes the Cloud 9 comparison even more fitting; there's a *very* Harrison-esque slide part on it. "Sleeping Man" and "I'm Coming Back" are excellent songs, but are in my opinion the closest the album gets to real filler.

"Dancing Master" is absolutely fantastic, though. It's a disco song, to be sure, but part of what made disco so truly irritating was its lack of self-awareness (i.e. it didn't know how absurd it is), and "Dancing Master" has self-awareness in spades. It's catchy, it's immaculately recorded, and it has an utterly jaw-dropping bass solo in the middle. *Yes*. "Fallen Angel" is great as well.

"Love is a Heart Attack" brings us back to hindsight morbidity territory, but screw it, I really like the song (an opinion not universally shared, apparently). It's a catchy, reggae-esque bit of wonderment. That is all.

"Too Late the Hero" is, of course, the big track from the album, and is on both of his hits comps, and is really, really touching...god, I wish John's voice hadn't be so shot near the end of his life, as he had a hard time sounding like this from this point on. That said, despite the fact that parts of it sound like a cooldown from a Jane Fonda workout tape (the eighties striking again, y'see) it's an utterly great song, and a wondrous way to conclude the album.

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