Ordinary Average Guy

Ordinary Average Guy
Studio album by Joe Walsh
Released April 23, 1991
Recorded August, 1990
Genre
Length 47:44
Label Epic
Producer
Joe Walsh chronology
Welcome to the Club
(1988)		 Ordinary Average Guy
(1991)		 Songs for a Dying Planet
(1992)

Ordinary Average Guy is the ninth solo studio album by the American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joe Walsh. The album was released in mid 1991. It was Walsh's first album of entirely new music since Got Any Gum? in 1987, and his first solo album to be issued internationally by Epic following a four-year alliance with Warner Bros. Records in the United States and Canada. The album features Ringo Starr, Survivor's lead vocalist Jimi Jamison, and the drummer Joe Vitale from Walsh's former band Barnstorm. Vitale also sings the lead vocals on the final track of the album, "School Days".

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]

Writing for AllMusic, critic Vincent Jeffries wrote of the album "This collection of nostalgia, decent balladry, and quirky anthems probably reinforced any notions of Joe Walsh's creative decline... this reflective, sometimes half-hearted effort bellies a weariness that's both sad and difficult to appreciate as this master goes through the motions."[1]

Track listing

All songs by Joe Walsh, except where noted.

No. Title Length
1. "Two Sides to Every Story" (Rick Rosas, Walsh) 3:24
2. "Ordinary Average Guy"   4:12
3. "The Gamma Goochee" (John Mangiagli) 2:49
4. "All of a Sudden" (Jimi Jamison, Walsh) 4:56
5. "Alphabetical Order" (Joe Vitale, Walsh) 4:58
6. "Look at Us Now" (Jamison, Walsh) 4:55
7. "I'm Actin' Different"   4:31
8. "Up All Night" (Vitale, Walsh) 3:54
9. "You Might Need Somebody" (Nan O'Byrne, Tom Snow) 4:30
10. "Where I Grew up (Prelude to School Days)"   2:37
11. "School Days" (Vitale) 5:18

Personnel

Others

Production

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
1991 The Billboard 200 112

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year Single Chart Position
1991 "All of a Sudden" Mainstream Rock Tracks 13
"Ordinary Average Guy" Mainstream Rock Tracks 3

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Jeffries, Vincent. "Ordinary Average Guy > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved July 9, 2011.

External links

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