Customer Reviews:
 Ride a Rock Horse September 16, 2009
R. Petres (UK)
This is an excellent album, that I should have had in my collection many years ago.
br /Daltrey's vocals on many of the tracks are powerful, emotive and show clear signs of the balls out rock singer he most definitely is, having learnt his trade with the magnificent Who. It is hard to believe that this album was first recorded in 1975, such is the quality of production shown on this album.
br /From the raw power of "Get Your Love", where you could almost literally see the guys on the mixing desk, pulling the sliders down, to save their ear drums from being blown, to the gentle, beautiful and emotive "Oceans Away".
br /Do yourself a favour go and order it now and get some Daltrey in your life.
 I wanted to sing like Roger Daltrey (for a few months). August 17, 2007
Stuart Monk (Manchester, UK)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
In the mid-70s, I was a Punk Rocker waiting to happen, the only difference between Lydon and me being a few years in age (I'm younger) and the fact that I lived in Bury, Lancs.
br /Disappointed to hear the glory that was my contemporaries' rock music collection and with next to no money to spend on anything, never mind LPs, I'd explore sale boxes and record stalls on Bury Market, picking up music on the cheap, recorded in the slightly forgotten 60s or just never selling at the time.
br /Ride A Rock Horse was one of these - lead singer with The Who, weird sleeve with his body grafted onto that of a white horse (not too subtle) - I knew all about the Centaurs from Greek mythology, but I didn't try to explain it to anyone! - and very cheap, probably in early 1976.
br /Got it home and found it was full of great sing-along music, which'd probably fit right into Radio 2, nowadays.
br /At this time, Roger was still working with Adam Faith and they assembled an entertaining and (most importantly) non-pretentious collection; no interminable guitar or drum solos.
br /I recently listened to the original record via MP3 and still knew virtually all the words and inflections!
br /What we have here is the original set, remastered (I know this predominantly means 'made louder', but I miss my own vinyl clicks) and with two extra tracks, at the end, thankfully, so they don't spoil my original order: an alternate version of 'Oceans Away' which may be the demo and is fine, together with a song I've not heard by Roger before, called 'Dear John', very much in the vein of the other tracks.
br /I'll probably never learn to love this last track, just because it wasn't on my original copy, but that's not a problem.
br /Note to young people: this is a damn fine example of what we in the sticks were listening to in the mid-70s, not just what John Walters called 'Yelpesis' bands.
br /Course, it didn't last too long, as I was also exploring old RnB tracks on cheapo compilations and finding out about Northern Soul, not to mention pricking up my ears at what was going on at the Lesser Free Trade Hall...
Hope I Die Before I Get Old-fashioned October 8, 2009
J. J. McDONALD (Coatbridge, Scotland)
I'm not sure that this album will go down well with the bulk of Who fans. No guitars were harmed in the making of this record. Rog is definitely in gentler mode for many of these tracks but once or twice the raw-throated screams make an appearance. And if you're able to leave Heavy Rock biases aside, you'll find plenty to enjoy in the ballads, on which he does a good job, 'Oceans Away' being particularly impressive. Warning: Avoid the aberration of 'Milk Train'. I feel the skip button will be used often!
br /JJMcD
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