Neil Taylor – "We All Hurt Inside"
5 out of 5
Neil Taylor has been around for a long time. He started his career with Tears Of Fears and toured the world with them, after which he did the same thing with Robbie Williams! Quite a feat by anyone's standards. Did I already mention that Neil has also collaborated with a quite a few other superstars along the way? The list is too long to include here but the ones that really impressed me were Tina Turner and Rod Stewart. In short, if somebody has earned his stripes, it's Neil Taylor.
His song "We All Hurt Inside", featured on his 2019 album Come Out Of The Silence, is a great classic rock track that will do two things. Firstly, it'll remind you that there was an era when main-stream music had ... well, more content than it does today and secondly, classic rock is really fantastic when it's performed by an authentic artist from the era of the genre's heyday.
And the song itself? Well, it's a banger. Taylor's singing is great and his guitar-playing outstanding. The track is well mixed and produced. Any fan of classic rock will love this.
About the lyrics, I do feel Taylor's right. We do all hurt inside. Anyone who has ever read the works of the famous American clinical psychologist/suicidologist Edwin S. Shneidman will know that everyone will react to psychological pain differently: some will hurt others, some will hurt themselves. Either way, the greater the pain, the more dire the consequences.
Check out "We All Hurt Inside" but don't leave it at that, give Taylor's Come Out Of The Silence album a spin. It's more than worth your while. My favourite track is "Unbroken". Which one's yours?
Listen here: "We All Hurt Inside" by Neil Taylor