For my taste, Colin Hay’s recording career has been something of a
rollercoaster. One album will really impress me, while another
will leave me wondering what the heck he was thinking recording
it. Within albums, my reaction is much the same way, and that’s
unfortunate. His voice and sense of humor are excellent, and I’d
really like to love everything he records, but I don’t.
Surprisingly, “Company of Strangers” is one of his best and
most consistent albums (at least of those I’ve heard). The
songwriting is generally great, his vocals are on the mark, and I have
at most minor nits with the instrumentals.
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Release Date: July 22, 2003
Label: Compass Records
ASIN:
B00009Y3OF
Approximate Price as of 8/3/2005: $14
new, $13 used
All right, I admit it. I am a child of
the 80’s and 20 years later I still have a soft spot for the music of
the group “Men at Work”. It should come as no surprise,
then, that I seized the opportunity to listen to Men at Work’s former
front-man Colin Hay performing his album “Man at Work”.
I wasn’t sure I was going to like it, though. All too often I’ve
found that when a member of a popular band goes off on his or her own to
record an album, you realize that what you liked about that band wasn’t
the lead singer, but the combination of the singer and the rest of the
band.
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Released: June 1, 1999
ASIN:
B00004TLWM
Having just reviewed Colin Hay’s “Man at
Work” album from 2002, I decided to give another of his albums,
“Transcendental Highway” a listen. Unlike “Man at
Work”, this album contains nothing from his “Men at Work”
days of the 80’s. It is entirely new music of his own. After
a few spins, here’s what I think of the album…
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