Dan Reed Network

Artist: Dan Reed Network
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 042283430921
EAN: 0042283430921
ASIN: B000001FNV

Release Date: 1994-01-25

Dan Reed Network

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CDs $7 - $10

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Tracks:

World Has A Heart Too
Get To You
Ritual
Forgot To Make Her Mine
Tamin' The Wild Nights
I'm So Sorry
Resurrect
Baby Don't Fade
Human
Halfway Around The World
Rock You All Night Long
Tatiana

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Customer Reviews:

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.......2006-06-23

A record with a lot of open spaces in the arrangements, allowing a sense of space and restraint and an air of musicianship and also letting the vox take centre stage. This, DRN's debut, had the advantages of a good production team - Bruce Fairbairn, Mike Fraser and recorded at Little Mountain Sound, Vancouver. Well it was all set for the band to hit the proverbial home run.

But the music didn't support the team. The whole thing is fairly mellow, more generic rock 'n' roll rather than hard rocker. No problem there really, looking like hard rockers and actually sounding as heavy as a soggy tissue was a fairly standard ploy circa '87.

The numbers like Baby Don't Fade where the band utilise full bodied instrumentation work best. These guys were one of the few soft rockers to effectively mix a funky/groove thing with the hard rocker image. Rock You All Night Long is a nother tune that shows how this formula can work.

The main problem here are is the bands inability to get on with the job at hand. There is very little commitment to anything here. The overt attention paid to the racial mix within the band also gets on my nose. Just get on with it! I'm not gonna like your record just cos you look like a meeting of the UN! But the whole 'happy rainbow' nonsense that pervaded so much of the promo for this band grated. The play for acclaim by allegedly being alternative to the hair metal acts of LA was also kind of [...] So my judgement of the music is perhaps a little tainted by the marketing push we were subjected to at the time.

Alternative - ha - the main alternative thing here compared to other pop rockers is the annoying, overly electronic backbeat emanating from the rhythm section.

Big things were tipped for this mob but this debut needed more get up and go.

Dan Reed Network.......2005-02-16

I stumbled upon this LP again when I was rooting though the records I left behind at my parents' house when I left for university. I couldn't actually remember what it sounded like. I only remembered that I was really into it for a while, and that Ritual was the kind of tune that wouldn't leave me alone.

I was apprehensive when putting it on the record player. Some albums I used to be into have turned out to sound like garbage after listening to them almost two decades later.

Boy, was I ever not disappointed. This entire album rocks (shame the others don't). And surely this band was just a little too ahead of their time -- to funky for the Bon Jovi crowd. Too rock for Prince fans. But it has aged well. A little piece of rock obscurity that you'll never regret owning.

No doubt - this is the finest from Dan Reed.......2003-12-10

The debut album by Dan Reed is a real fine effort. The music is rock with a touch of funk, and it's melodic and catchy most of the time. This album is by far the band's best and I won't be surprised if songs like "Ritual", "Get to you", "Forgot to make her mine", and "I'm so sorry" got stuck in your head. When this album was released it sure felt like a fresh breath. Too bad Dan Reed and the guys kinda lost it along the way.

Take 1 part Journey -- 2 parts Prince -- mash it together.......2003-01-29

WOW!! A band which scorches right out of the CD player onto your lap -- this is one of the great mysteries of the late 80's and early 90's why this band did not become huge.

Don't repeat the mistake. Listen to some of these tracks on your Real Player and then click "Add to Cart".

nightshade94.......2002-09-02

Back in my last years of high school I had the pleasure of seeing this band live in a small collage gym in Mt.Vernon Washington. The weather had been horrid they were advising people not to travel, so even though it was nearly sold out hardly anyone showed. Rather than cancel the show about 50 to 70 people got a private performance. Man they rocked. I was 16 and still remember them talking to us before and after the show, as though we had all known each other for years.

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