Search - Dan Tyler :: I Hope

I honestly thought this was a parody album

T. B. Gross | 09/01/2004

(1 out of 5 stars)

"You remember that guy you knew in college? He soemtimes hung out with the hippie kids because they were a good source of pot, but stopped doing this because he kept laughing at them every time he got high. Remember when he started singing parodies of their stupid folk songs one night in the cafeteria and they were so funny that you shot root beer out of your nose?



A lot of this album sounds like those hysterical parodies of godawful protest-folk songs that your friend used to make you snarf carbonated beverages.



But it would seem that Dan Tyler isn't joking. And that is really sad. But still mockable.



There's a song about Costa Rica not having an army.

HOLY MOLY THAT IS PROFOUND.



There's a song about how politicians lie.

DUDE I DID NOT KNOW THAT THANK YOU MR. TYLER MY EYES ARE NOW OPEN.



There's a song he sings from the point of view of a river.

OH WOW MAN THAT REALLY OPENS MY EYES I AM SORRY I DUMPED USED MOTOR OIL IN YOU AND THEN PEED IN YOU SIR.



This review is based on repeatedly being assaulted with clips from this album in ads broadcast on Air America. The fact that the boneheads at Air America think that just because I lean left in my politics I want to listen to either crap activist folk-tunes or Janeane Garofalo's shrill sniveling makes me understand why conservatives mock liberals.





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Tyler's "I Hope" Gives Hope

Robert Devine | 09/16/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I have actually received and listened to Dan Tyler's album in it's entirety and I have to say it is definitely worth listening to. Dan Tyler weaves a web of hope with positive and uplifting lyrics and a story telling style reminiscent of Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, and the like.



"Costa Rica" sends one back to a time when the world wasn't full of stories about war and bombings to a place where life is simpler and people are nicer and the times they aren't a changing. I Am The River winds through a tale of a boy who comes toward "awakening" to realize that life is a gift and our environment is something to be protected. I Hope, the title track, is a great song of a man's reflection on truth, love, and faith as hopefully being the qualities that one will be judged by when we come to the end of our life. When Will I is a treatise on finding peace, acceptance and freedom from fear in our lives. The Light in Your Eyes, I recognized as being sung by LeAnn Rimes, several years ago. It's nice to hear the songwriter put his heart into the song and release his own version. Love Remains simply recognizes when all things come and go, what is left is the Love we give and receive... and on and on and on...



One can just get lost on a weekend afternoon listening to Dan Tyler's musical stories, such that at the end you'll probably just have to start over again. Give it a try. You won't be disappointed."