Piano Foreplay [Import]

Gilbert O'Sullivan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 22, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI/Liberty
• ASIN: B0000AOWV9
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #422,457 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. It Never Rains But It Pours

2. Barking Up The Wrong Tree (Such Is Life)

3. Make My Day

4. God Forbid

5. Conversation With The Flying Plates

6. I Gave Mine To You

7. Love So

8. You And Me & The Garden Post

9. Parrish

10. What’S It All Supposed To Mean

11. Answers On A Postcard (Please)

12. Will I Do

13. World Of Work

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars O'Sullivan's most memorable album in decades!, December 16, 2010

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Scriabinmahler (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Piano Foreplay (Audio CD)

The previous album Irlish showed a promising sign that Gilbert O'Sullivan could still write songs of amazing originality and lyricism. When I listened to this album, it immediately brought me back the wonderful memories of when I first encountered O'Sullivan's deeply moving songs in the 70s. Every song in this album has the same striking uniqueness and melodiousness of the songs included in O'Sullivan's great albums released in the 70-80s.

In sharp contrast to 'Irlish', 'Piano Foreplay' has a jam session-like feeling, with some influence of modern jazz which is reminiscent of Paul Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years. O'Sullivan himself mentions the arrangements were done without use of synthesizer and drum machine, but with basic instruments like piano, keyboard, guitar, double bass to achieve live-like feeling. Another feature of this album is that it includes many great love songs of gentle wistfulness like 'Make my day', 'God forbid', 'I gave mine to you', 'You, me and the garden post', and 'What's it all supposed to mean?'

This is no doubt one of the most memorable albums in decades and the one I cherish alonside 5 albums released in the 70s. The source of inspiration for songwriting seems inexhaustible for O'Sullivan, nor his passion for creativity!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Adult Contemporary Disc from a Mature Master, September 21, 2003

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"big-duck" (Tarzana, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Piano Foreplay (Audio CD)

Now here's a great example of an unsung hero: Gilbert O'Sullivan. Despite "Alone Again (Naturally)" and "Clair" this guy was not a CREATIVE one-hit wonder. And though I've kept track of his later efforts (which are mostly very good if not exceptional enough to break back into mainstream) it's "Piano Foreplay" with it's jazz-infused pop that is a first-rate album in every respect.

Great song-writing, incredibly well-produced. Just a shame that it's released in every country but ours. I highly recommend this to ANYONE who enjoyed Elton John's "Songs From The West Coast" back-to-basics approach and wished that McCartney had taken longer than ten minutes to compose each track of "Driving Rain." This album is more than a welcome return from an oft-ignored composer - it's a welcome return to great record making.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic 70s-Style Songwriting, March 13, 2004

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Corduroy Angel (Abby) (Cumbria, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Piano Foreplay (Audio CD)

I was a little apprehensive about buying this album, but I needn't have worried... without sounding out-of-date, Mr O'Sullivan has managed to pull off a great album full of quirky/happy/melancholy, sing-along songs with his own brand of '70s styling.

If you have ever been a fan of his earlier works then you won't be disappointed with this offering. How does he manage to keep up the quality after all this time? I can't wait for his next album, now...