Description
However, as interesting as 'Nothing Rhymed' was, the public's alertness to Gilbert O'Sullivan was largely due to his image. With his flat cap, pudding-basin haircut and Charlie Chaplin jacket, Gilbert was simply unforgettable. The music press was understandably wary of such blatant publicity-seeking but the public, on the other hand, was amused, intrigued and baffled by this plaintive, piano-thumping Buster Keaton character, but most importantly, it was aware of him.
When Himself finally appeared in August 1971, the public's anticipation and appetite was stoked; the LP reached number 5 and stayed in the UK album charts for 86 weeks. Listening again forty years on to this ambitious, thoughtful, varied and intensely musical record, it's not hard to hear why the Melody Maker's Michael Watts called Gilbert, "the only genuinely interesting and original new talent to appear in the Britain in the seventies."
Product Details
- Artist
- Gilbert O'Sullivan
- Label / Studio
- SALVO
- WOW HD Sales Rank
- #942
- Media Content Format
- Album
- Number of Discs
- 1
- Media Format
- Audio CD
- CD 30days Sales Rank
- #777
Tracklisting
Disc 1:
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Intro
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January Git
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Bye-Bye
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Permissive Twit
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Matrimony
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Independent Air
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Nothing Rhymed
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Too Much Attention
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Susan Van Heusen
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If I Don't Get You Back Again
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Thunder And Lightning
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Houdini Said
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Doing The Best I Can
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Outro
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Disappear - original demo
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What Can I Do - original demo
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Mr Moody s Garden - B side `I Wish I Could Cry
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Everybody Knows - B side `Nothing Rhymed
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Underneath The Blanket Go - Single
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We Will - Single
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I Didn t Know What To Do - B Side `We Will
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No Matter How I Try - Single
