I seem to recall the "hit" being "What's Right."

 


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory Sager <hochsalzburg@yahoo.com>
To: audities@smoe.org
Sent: Thu, Mar 25, 2010 5:34 pm
Subject: David Werner


> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:35:15 -0400
> From: ccdatsme@aol.com
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: I dropped everything to buy album XXX
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> 
> 
> It's 1979. I'm a high school senior who has become a
> full-fledged, skinny-tie 
> New Waver in terms of musical taste. Syracuae's 95X, which
> was far from being 
> the most ambitious rock station in American radio with
> regard to playlist 
> eclecticism, starts playing a turbocharged power pop number
> called "Can't 
> Imagine" by some guy named David Werner. I run out and buy
> his newly-released 
> eponymous album. It turns out to be an amazing disc,
> running a surprising gamut 
> of styles but packed with energy, hooks, and tough guitars
> on just about every 
> song.
> 
> 
> Ah, yes.  I remember writing an (unsold) spec review
> of that album for Creem, commenting that "Can't Imagine"
> sounded so much like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers that
> Werner should break his own hand and file for bankruptcy.
> 
> (I meant that as a compliment.)
> 
> Another fave from that album was "Too Late To Try," which
> woulda been worthy of The Raspberries.


Yep. Fantastic power pop song. The other song that got some airplay was the 
tongue-in-cheek Bowiesque "Every New Romance". Also, Ian Hunter guest-starred on 
the song "High Class Blues". It was a fitting collaboration, since several of 
the songs on Werner's previous two albums had a Mott the Hoople feel to them.


Gregory Sager