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Source: Q Writer: Rob Beattie Date:
July 1991
Hit very
firmly with the stick they call "hard luck", it's difficult to
remember that Gilbert O'Sullivan was once hailed by some as the best new
English songwriter since Paul McCartney.
Emerging from a bitter
battle which kept him out of action for most of the 80's Gilbert now
tries to inject some of the old Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day back into his
career with an 18 track retrospective which unfortunately doesn't feature
enough of his better songs, although Clair, Matrimony, Alone Again and We
Will are all included. At it's best as with Nothing Rhymed his work
captured poignant and peculiarly Irish innocence but stereotyping how
easily he slips into utter banality as he just can't tell the difference
and too much is simply naff.
Rating
2 out
of 5
Rob
Beattie
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