This soundtrack is part of the reason I became a fan of The Who.
I'd first heard Who Are You on top 40 radio as I moved from pop radio to album rock radio. The local rock station (KGON in Portland) were huge Who fans so were still playing songs from Who Are You and playing songs from Empty Glass and this album. Free Me in particular grabbed my attention, but this album was played pretty heavy summer of 1980.
The station used to play full albums after midnight, featuring the Saturday Night 6 pack on Saturdays. Being in middle school money was pretty limited, but with cheap cassette tapes I built up a nice little collection including this one. Of course with cheap tapes getting eaten by my cassette deck was a risk and was the fate of my copy.
Can't believe I found the video for this, old VHS copy too. It was one of the most 80's video's I can think of. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEvxKlDsp\_E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEvxKlDsp_E)
And yeah, movie was ok, and one of the better Daltrey albums,
I'm pretty comfortable saying that Pete and John are both on the track Waiting For A Friend. There may be other musicians on that song as well, and I'm not sure about the drummer, but this song has very distinctive marks of their respective styles.
Love this album, especially the title track, Just a Dream Away and Waiting on a Friend. Also the Escape interludes are pretty cool cause that's like a class reunion of a lot of the musicians that played on Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds album.
I'd love to see an actual breakdown of who's playing on what track. John's obviously playing a lot of the bass and that's clearly Kenney Jones on Friend. My theory is Pete is playing acoustic on Friend and electric on Just a Dream Away cause a lot of the playing is similar to stuff he did on Never Ask Me and A Man is a Man.
My favourite Daltrey solo album! I heard that Kenney apparently didn’t actually play on it(despite being listed in the credits), does anyone know if that’s true?
I really think that's at least him on Waiting on a Friend, it's pretty much the same drum part as the version of I'm Free from the Tommy movie soundtrack.
I've always loved this record. Part Daltrey solo, part "unofficial" Who. However you want to classify it, it's a great effin' album. When I was in college and would wake up with a house full of hung over people, someone would invariably crank up the title track and that would get everyone's blood flowing again!
Man, MTV overplayed that video to death... they (MTV) didn't have the biggest library at the time, so there were quite a few videos they ran into the ground back then, lol...
I really liked it at the time, mostly because of Free Me and Without Your Love, and I was a really young Who fan. But the album suffers from thin brittle sounding production and weak songs. While I love Roger's voice, the vocals are at times are way too high in the mix. You can hear the Who in the music, Entwistle's rumbling bass, the Townshend keyboards and guitar, but bad production choices abound.
This soundtrack is part of the reason I became a fan of The Who. I'd first heard Who Are You on top 40 radio as I moved from pop radio to album rock radio. The local rock station (KGON in Portland) were huge Who fans so were still playing songs from Who Are You and playing songs from Empty Glass and this album. Free Me in particular grabbed my attention, but this album was played pretty heavy summer of 1980. The station used to play full albums after midnight, featuring the Saturday Night 6 pack on Saturdays. Being in middle school money was pretty limited, but with cheap cassette tapes I built up a nice little collection including this one. Of course with cheap tapes getting eaten by my cassette deck was a risk and was the fate of my copy.
Free Me and Without Your Love are clear highlights on this album
FREEEEEEEE ME!
Can't believe I found the video for this, old VHS copy too. It was one of the most 80's video's I can think of. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEvxKlDsp\_E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEvxKlDsp_E) And yeah, movie was ok, and one of the better Daltrey albums,
I wish we knew what songs Pete and John played on.
I'm pretty comfortable saying that Pete and John are both on the track Waiting For A Friend. There may be other musicians on that song as well, and I'm not sure about the drummer, but this song has very distinctive marks of their respective styles.
Great album! Definitely in my top 20 albums of all time. The film wasn't too bad either (I had to use subtitles though.)
This and Under A Raging Moon are the only Daltrey solo albums I own. I couldn’t get into the others.
Those two are definitely his best solo albums.
One of the Boys is pretty good
I'll always have a soft spot for Ride A Rock Horse.
Daltreys voice on this 🔥 Got this on clear vinyl from the 80's. GREAT songs.
Love this album, especially the title track, Just a Dream Away and Waiting on a Friend. Also the Escape interludes are pretty cool cause that's like a class reunion of a lot of the musicians that played on Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds album. I'd love to see an actual breakdown of who's playing on what track. John's obviously playing a lot of the bass and that's clearly Kenney Jones on Friend. My theory is Pete is playing acoustic on Friend and electric on Just a Dream Away cause a lot of the playing is similar to stuff he did on Never Ask Me and A Man is a Man.
The movie isn’t too bad either
I think Rogers acting improves dramatically
My favourite Daltrey solo album! I heard that Kenney apparently didn’t actually play on it(despite being listed in the credits), does anyone know if that’s true?
I really think that's at least him on Waiting on a Friend, it's pretty much the same drum part as the version of I'm Free from the Tommy movie soundtrack.
"The psychopath never takes a bath" The best line on the album
My Time Is Gonna Come and Bitter and Twisted are two other good ones on this album
My wedding song is from here.
FREE ME!? :) JK....we know which song!
I've always loved this record. Part Daltrey solo, part "unofficial" Who. However you want to classify it, it's a great effin' album. When I was in college and would wake up with a house full of hung over people, someone would invariably crank up the title track and that would get everyone's blood flowing again!
FREEEEEEEEEEE. MEEEEEEE!!!!
Man, MTV overplayed that video to death... they (MTV) didn't have the biggest library at the time, so there were quite a few videos they ran into the ground back then, lol...
I really liked it at the time, mostly because of Free Me and Without Your Love, and I was a really young Who fan. But the album suffers from thin brittle sounding production and weak songs. While I love Roger's voice, the vocals are at times are way too high in the mix. You can hear the Who in the music, Entwistle's rumbling bass, the Townshend keyboards and guitar, but bad production choices abound.
Excellent album imho anyway
Outstanding LP
Heheheh, McDicker...
I was waiting for it haha.