The only other serious drawback on Desireless is the rhyme schemes Cherry uses. The limitations of the guitar come through with shocking clarity in that the opening chords of "Falling In Love Again" sound too much like "Save Tonight." Cherry writes diverse music for other instruments, but apparently not so much for the standard ones! Ironically, it is the guitar that causes the most musical problems for Eagle-Eye Cherry on Desireless. The result is less experimental than one might suspect from a young musical artist the instruments fit the songs, so they work well and it feels like more a diverse musical experience than an experiment with different instruments.
Cherry's music combines the traditional guitar, bass, piano and drums that make the mainstream sound with the sounds of the Didgeridoo, a Gnawan guitar, the cello and the trumpet. What Eagle-Eye Cherry does very well from the beginning involves playing around with different instruments than the standard pop-rock artist. The point here is that stylistically, if one enjoys the song "Save Tonight," they will find the same clear articulation of poetry to music on Desireless. Some of the tracks are slower, like "Worried Eyes," which is a good slow dance number, and few of the tracks are faster than Cherry's signature hit. We are sharing in his articulation of a too-common experience.Īnd for those who were hooked by "Save Tonight," the rest of the album shares much the same sound, though with variations in tempo.
" Set to the soft guitars and organs, Cherry's smooth voice creates a concept worthy of empathy, not disdain or depression of one's own. On "Comatose (In The Arms Of Slumber)," Cherry articulates, "With pride and disdain I'm going to ignore this pain / When someone falls you're supposed to get up again / I try to oblige but I can't tonight. In fact, he writes a surprisingly listenable track about depression that is one of the few articulate expressions of feeling down that one may listen to over and over again without feeling the urge to take their own life. This is HIS album, not someone else's, not something he is merely performing on.Īnd the thing is, this album illustrates that Cherry is talented. In short, this is a well-rounded musical artist, in every sense. Eagle-Eye wrote all of the lyrics and he plays piano, keyboards, and acoustic guitar on various tracks. All of the songs are written or co-written by Eagle-Eye, save the final track which was written by Eagle-Eye's father, Don Cherry. But, to be fair to Eagle-Eye, he put the album together. This does not have the feeling of being a cohesive album, rather an assembly of works Eagle-Eye put together. In that way, Desireless comes across well as a collection of singles. hit comes a song about debating whether or not to shoot a guy in the face ("Indecision"). Immediately following Cherry's most popular U.S. For those only familiar with the romantic ballad, "Save Tonight," they might be thrown listening to Desireless. Listening to the album, it's hard to see why.Įagle-Eye Cherry creates a pop-rock that is best described as an articulate, light rock poetry that oscillates between Rob Thomas and Lenny Kravitz for sound. Best known for the single "Save Tonight," Desireless produced the one hit and Cherry evaporated from the mainstream commercial recording scene. well, people with taste.ĭesireless is a twelve-track disc that marks the auspicious debut of singer-songwriter Eagle-Eye Cherry. I blame the lame society that prioritizes the buying habits of 15 - 23 year old males over. I mention this because, having listened to Desireless by Eagle-Eye Cherry three times now, I fail to understand how talented artists who manage to get work Out There fail. It's a huge circle of damnation being an artist in a capitalist society. The irony is that this is the reason for the existence of agents, who an artist needs to sell themself to in order to get representation. Artists are often not experts at self promotion. Often I find I am not alone as an artist whose talent is to create art, but is generally lousy on the business end. Our loss.Īs a novelist who has written seven books, but only published teo, I certainly understand the difference between being successful as an artist and successful in a commercial sense.
The Basics: More than a one-hit wonder, Eagle-Eye Cherry's debut illustrates the birth of a true artist, who just never took the American mainstream. The Good: Good lyrics, Decent voice, Memorable music
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