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Dan Reed Network

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Oh Dan...where are you? The world needs real music in a time of boy/girl bands, two note dance acts and sixty minute remixes of the same song!! Waaaay back in 1988, this album was released and was way ahead of it's time. Now we had a mix of musical styles, all superb, gathered together on one disc...there is a God! Here we have crashing Rock guitars, Progressive keyboards, Rap, Dance, classic piano...all held together by the distinct voice of Dan The Man. From the rap intro of 'World Has A Heart Too' with it's strong message, straight into the Billie Jean style guitar riffs and absolutely superb melodies of 'Get To You', right through to the arena style rock of 'Rock You All Night Long', this album delivers BIG STYLE. It doesn't matter what musical style you like (if you're into pigeonholes!), everything is catered for. Whether you like Toad, Hootie, Journey, the funk of Level 42, the hooks of Michael Jackson (but not the squeeky voice!), Aerosmith, Blue Oyster Cult...they're all here; but they're different. The Dan Reed Network (now sadly split), combined styles effortlessly...if you didn't like rap, just wait a second. There you go - now were into rock mode. Oh no, wait a minute - now funk mode.It's effortless. It's music for the nineties recorded in the eighties. It's intelligent music for people with no bias. It's music for ANY taste. It's The Dan Reed Network.

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".

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.
The music though wow! My favorite song on the collection album is "Rainbow child" But I am quite sure any music by them will be awsome. Twelve years later my 8 year old loves them and is begging me to buy a Cd because the tape is so worn out.....you will NOT be diappionted. They rock!

I had the pleasure to be involved in a Dan Reed Network concert in Bloomington-Normal Illinois in 1988. Their music struck me as very original in style. The "funk-rock" sound of this group is very fresh and it gets under your skin! This, combined with Dan Reed's unique vocal sound results in an album that never gets stale. Check it out!

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.

I have had the tape for 10 years now and I just can't part with it and I wish I could find it in stores. It is very good music and can't wait to get the C.D.

If you aren't familiar with Dan Reed... you are missing out!!!

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.