Track Listing

1. It's Not Over
2. Used To
3. Home
4. Over You
5. Crashed
6. Feels Like Tonight
7. What I Want - Daughtry & Slash
8. Breakdown
9. Gone
10. There And Back Again
11. All These Lives
12. What About Now
13. Breakdown (1)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26296 in Music
• Released on: 2007-08-20
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

CD Description
Debut album from former American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry's band. A departure in style from previous American Idol albums, this album offers up impressively catchy, yet requisitely brooding slices of heavy rock, not unlike Nickelbackand Bon Jovi. Includes the tracks 'Home', 'It's Not Over' and 'Gone'.

Customer Reviews

Rock On
Heard this guy on the radio in America, Listen to the Album in America at Virgin, bought it and has been in my car for the last 4 weeks. Worth every penny. I will buy the U.K. version just for the extra track(Sorry)

Unoriginal but still very good
Daughtry is your typical accessible American rock that's been heard a million times before but it's still a decent little album. This has been huge in America with hits such as It's Not Over and Home. Chris Daughtry has an exceptional singing voice and is really what this album is about. If you like Nickelback, Default or The Calling then this will be right up your street because it sounds very similar to those bands, albeit not quite as rocky as Nickelback's heaviest tracks. The 45 minute album also includes a song called What I Want, easily one of the rockiest numbers on here, which features guitarist Slash (Guns 'n' Roses/Velvet Revolver) noodling, which basically just means he came into the studio at short notice and blasted out a riff/solo pretty much straight off the cuff. And with it we have just about the only guitar solo on the album, which is a real shame. I would have liked the vocals (as good as they undoubtedly are) to have been broken up by a solo or two but in a majority of songs it just doesn't happen - there are one or two exceptions on here but not many. Instead we get a bridge with yet more vocals and it can make the songs feel less varied as a result. This is why the fifth star is missing from my rating. This criticsm aside, I still highly recommend the album. What you don't get is anything original but what you do get is accessible rock that you will find yourself singing along to in no time. And for UK listeners, we get a bonus track not found on the American release - an acoustic version of Breakdown (original version is also included on the album).

Verdict: 4/5

What's this! A rock record from a reality show contestant...
Right then, firstly, hats off to Chris Daughtry.
A talented singer, songwriter and guitarist struggling to break into the music business, decides to try his hand at American Idol.
The result? A mediocre 4th place finish.
You could have forgiven him for giving up on his dreams, but he dusted himself off, sorted out his self titled band and debut album and this is the quite brilliant result.
I've always wondered what an album would sound like without any filler tracks, by that I mean writing an album where every single song could be considered for a single release, well, this is it.
Simply brilliant from start to finish, Chris even manages to hire probably one for best guitarists in the world, Slash, for a guest appearance on the hardest track on the album - "What I Want."
From the opening rocker "It's Not Over" to the moody power Ballad "Home" Chris display fantastic musical maturity, both in his songwriting and guitar playing.
It just goes to show that musical talent will always win through in the end, whether you win an tv reality show or not.