Product Description

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Track Listing

1. It's Not Over
2. Used To
3. Home
4. Over You
5. Crashed
6. Feels Like Tonight
7. What I Want (featuring Slash)
8. Breakdown
9. Gone
10. There And Back Again
11. All These Lives
12. What About Now

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #74 in Music
• Brand: DAUGHTRY
• Released on: 2006-11-21
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Chris Daughtry starts his first post-American Idol disc with a song whose title reviewers coast to coast will be grateful for: "It's Not Over." What an understatement. For the Idol-watching rock fan's money, nobody--not even Southern-fried heartthrob Bo Bice in season four--stormed the stage with more raw talent. That it translates so well to a solo disc (Daughtry was recorded with studio musicians; future discs will include a Daughtry-assembled band) proves all he needed was a little prodding, the kind the tube has gotten so good at. Here are a dozen songs that'll flick your rock & roll switch, whether you're a Creed fan, a club kid, or a mambo king: "Used To" and "Over You," a couple of early tracks, ought to arrive bundled with a road map they're so highway sing-along-ready, and "Feels Like Tonight" screws the lid on the premise that Daughtry can deliver a punchy pop-rock song without flinching. Elsewhere, the North Carolina family man lets his inner (and outer, actually) goatee- and eyeliner-type guy rip: his built-for-the-hard-stuff voice bites down appealingly on "Breakdown," a dark serenade to mental health, and also on "What I Want," an '80s-style fist-pumper featuring Slash. The loud mad dash of those songs leads to a midtempo wind-down ("All These Lives," "What About Now"), but as a mix, it works. Daughtry is a man of many moods--contemplative, explosive, insistent, humble. No matter which pokes through on a given song, he steadies it to a place as honest as it is accessible. Rare is the rocker who lays out so broad an on-ramp. --Tammy La Gorce

Customer Reviews

Every song is a winner!
I've been wanting to get this CD for so long and I finally got it! I love every song-it's got such a great beat to the whole album. His voice is amazing!

This band should evolve to extraordinary...but not quite there yet.
If one were to rate this band solely on vocals and musicality without question they would earn five stars. But there are other factors that mark a success in the music industry. One of the primary factors of importance for this reviewer is something that can be termed "believablity"...does the vocalist convey the feeling of the lyric? Another factor, primarily for the visual performance, but to some degree also for the audio, is the ability to engross the audience. Those who are highly successful (legends like Sinatra, Garland, Elvis, even Garth Brooks) had or have all of these elements, each combined with his or her singular strength (vocal charisma, showmanship, sexuality, exceptional performance ability). There is no question in this reviewer's mind that Daughtry has all the elements to make them a large and lasting success. They just need to hone some of them, and put their own unique stamp on it.

The latter is what this offering lacks. Not to advocate distinctiveness that becomes monotony, of course. But most of the songs on Daughtry have that polished commercial sound that could be...anyone. "Crashed" sounds like something by Default. "Breakdown" sounds a little like the Ginblossoms. "It's Not Over" could be Nickelback on an exceptionally good day. "All These Lives" could be any of the slickly-packaged Top 40 Country studs in current popularity.

Anyway, you get the point. Is this CD a good listen? You bet. Is it stand-alone memorable? Not quite. It's when Daughtry comes out of the box that the songs stand out, like "What I Want" and "There and Back Again". And you sit back in amazement and say "Wow!"

Anxiously awaiting the next "Wow!" from Daughtry!!

Eighties-Style Party Rock
Since I can't stand even two minutes of American Idol and the musical fecal matter the show generally promotes, I would never have heard of Daughtry if the wife of a friend had not lent it to me and urged me to listen. Well, I admit that I am slightly surprised that while the style doesn't really appeal to me, its not the pure garbage I expected.
Plainly put, if you liked the corporate-style of arena rock prevalent on the airwaves in the eighties, you will like this. Its actually better than many of the popular acts who played in that style then.
When I listened to Daughtry several times, I didn't hear anything memorable but neither did I hear anything that made me want to smash my sound system. Since this CD is bursting with youthful bombast, this would be great as background music at an outdoor party where the majority of the guests are under thirty and a high-energy groove is imperative.
If you are an Idol-ater, you probably have an opinion about this CD coming in. I'm not going to buy this myself, but if you haven't heard this and are a fan of the type of music I described, by all means go for it.