Daize Shayne – Live Your Dreams (CD)
Sound:
B Music: C+
Yet
another lady rocker trying for solo success is Daize Shayne. The name is something in itself, but how does
she sound? Well, she wants to be up
there with Tina Turner, Bonnie Raitt and Pat Benatar, but too often, the lyrics
are more like Kristy MacNicol in their safeness and with little to say, are
leaning too much towards pop for their own good.
I was not
expecting some political diatribe, but at least some insight into something
deeper. The biggest trip up is a really
bland, flat, emotionally limited cover of the 1972 Bread hit Everything I Own. She just sounds like she is going through the
motions and the backing instruments do not help, including trying to make the
Soft Rock classic sound more like Rock.
That sort of defines most of the album, which is very mixed and
ultimately forgettable.
The PCM
2.0 16Bit/44.1kHz Stereo is well recorded enough, though there are some sonic
limits that give away that it is a digital recording with some limits. There is a paper foldout with limited
information and we’ll see where this album goes commercially. You can go to www.daize.com
to learn more, like who wrote which songs.
The liner notes say they wrote al the songs except where noted with a *,
but then have no * next to any of the songs they did not. I wonder what David Gates would think?
- Nicholas Sheffo
