Anthony Stewart Head: Music for Elevators

For those of us who got our geek/sci-fi/horror fix from the WB in the late 90s and early 00s, the name Anthony Stewart Head conjures images of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Watcher exraoridnaire, Rupert Giles. And now you're thinking "Great, another actor who thinks he can sing."

The good news is, he can sing. The guy's got a great voice. The bad news is, however, this format is not the right venue for him.

Just shy of 70 minutes, Music, Head's vocals and George Sarah's synthetic compositions just don't blend quite right. It's really just a case of the parts being better than the whole.

Owning My Mistakes has some power to it, which gives you an idea of Head's range, but it gets lost in synthesizer hell; We Can Work It Out (a Beatles tune) is actually assembled fairly simple and haunting, but doesn't quite do the original justice; This Town in the Rain has a fun, jazzy beat which helps to make this one of the more enjoyable tunes on the disc; and Staring at the Sun (not a U2 cover) has a nice Moby-like quality which is also enjoyable.

In the End: This isn't something the average person is going to know about, or really, care about. If you're a fan, however, this is worth the purchase, strictly from a completist perspective.

On the Web: I dug up a bootleg from a few years back of Head performing at some convention:
Tony Head @ Motor City Banquet

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