Just Taste It

Blaike | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 31, 2001)
• Original Release Date: October 31, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: IMS Records
• ASIN: B00005TNSD
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,839,536 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Neverending Thunder

2. Be Careful What You Wish For

3. Sanity

4. Enough Today

5. From The Human Race

6. Within You

7. I Laughed

8. I Can't Hardly Wait

9. I'll Be Gone

10. Everyday

Editorial Reviews

The Global Muse, November 2001

...story like folksy pop songs...very well written...distinctive...something special...(Lyrics are)comforting, yet provide a feeling of sadness.

Product Description

"Just Taste It" is the debut release from Blaike and it features Blaike's warm vocal style, introspective lyrics and layered acoustic guitar arrangements. Audiences are able to connect with Blaike's genuine emotion and often cutting truth. This album evokes a range of feelings from the listener as Blaike takes on politics, apathy, heartbreak, and tragedy. If you're a fan of the acoustic guitar and you are hungry for an intelligence and social conscience not often seen in today's music, Blaike "Just Taste It" will fill your appetite. A throwback to the 70's singer/songwriter with a modern twist, Blaike's audience tends to be fans of James Taylor, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake and more recently, David Gray and Shawn Mullins.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Right Stuff!, January 31, 2002

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Michelle - See all my reviews

This review is from: Just Taste It (Audio CD)

What can possibly be said about Blake that hasn't been said before? He clearly is a remarkable and extraordinary musician that is strong and true and writes and plays from the heart. As you listen and hear Blaike play, you will feel your own heart melt.
Blaike's voice is amazing and unbelievably powerful, as the lyrics are written in Enough Today. I would strongly recommend this album, you will aprreciate and connect to each song written.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Seriously tepid., January 21, 2002

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"konajinx" (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Just Taste It (Audio CD)

Another album to make you ask "Who told this guy he could sing?" Blaike tries to deliver a Cat Stevens-ish vocal style on his disc, but he misses by about 300 miles. Instead, his attempts at sounding "soulful" and "meaningful" by singing his lines in a mush-mouthed style in which he often drops the last letters off of words are not only sad, but also laughable. Blaike also has a way of twisting his words into completely unrecognizable nouns, verbs, and adjectives. More than once was I scratching my head and playing back various lines on this disc trying to decipher what Blaike was singing. If you can call it singing. More often than not, Blaike groans out his words that reminds one of all the bad singers who used to appear on Star Search.

The music is just bland. Blaike likes to dress up his songs in double-tracked smooth guitars that run out of chords during the first song. The other nine tracks repeat the formula. Occasionally, Blaike gets brave and pulls out his tacky drum machine to beef up the tempo, but every time he does, the beats seem to disappear under his lyrical mush and pained singing. Not a great album by any means. Blaike could probably have a killer mall or lounge act nevertheless.