Donnie Vie - Just Enough (2004)

I'm struggling to understand why I haven't reviewed this album previously, or maybe I have and it's got lost somewhere. So, for those who have had their head up their arses for the last decade, Donnie Vie is the enigmatic frontman for Enuff Z Nuff and 'Just Enough' was his debut record from 2004, a record so sublime, sad, and yet uplifting that it exists on another planet. Donnie Vie, along with his sugary glam rock band should've been massive - often described as the 'heavy metal Beatles,' Enuff Z Nuff (see reviews) have an uncanny ability of creating truly magical songs in the vein of The Beatles yet with a sleazy edge. Vie's solo efforts are more dreamy, softer, more wispy and yet just as great, in fact in the standout song 'Forever' we may well have found one of rock's greatest yet undiscovered gems, a beautiful song that equals, in my opinion, John Lennon's mighty 'Imagine' for its purity. Vie has always boasted a fragile style of pipes, making his skeletal guise all the more endearing, but behind those broken streams of wonder sits one of the greatest artists of our time, a man capable of writing stadium filling ballads and summer time joys, whether in the form of 'That's What Love Is' with its strained, pleading vocal cries, to the upbeat salutations of 'Better Days,','Blowin Kisses In Tne Wind' and 'I'll Go On,' The Beatles have never sounded so great! 9/10