A Scruff at Heart [Import]

Gilbert O'Sullivan | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 6, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Japanese Victor Co.
• ASIN: B000HXE35I
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #714,681 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Take Your Foot off My Toe

2. A Proper Fool

3. My Place or Yours

4. Don't Let It Get It to You

5. You Can't Con-Crete

6. Taking Sides

7. I'm in Love with Love (Again)

8. Force of Habit

9. One Door Closes

10. Just So You Know

11. Let's Not Go There

12. Can't Say Fairer Than That

13. Love You out of Trouble

14. I Know What I Would Do

Editorial Reviews

A recording artist since the late 60s, Gilbert O'Sullivan accumulated no less than fourteen top-forty hits during the 70s, including "Clair", "Alone Again (Naturally)", "Get Down" and "Nothing Rhymed", with number one singles on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as four top-five UK albums. The past few years have seen him returning to the limelight with his Best Of album "The Berry Vest Of" going Top 20 in the UK Album charts March 2004. In 2007 all the classic O’Sullivan ingredients are here: wry lyrical humour and bittersweet melody, with Gilbert’s trademark piano playing to the fore. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars sheer musical delight, May 21, 2008

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Francisco P. Neto (Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scruff at Heart (Audio CD)

I'd just like to express my feelings about good old Sullivan's music. I am definitely not a reviewer, but what's the point anyway? When you listen to something, there are only two options: either you like it, or you don't. I've been listening to Gilbert's songs for quite a long time now, since I was a teen, and it seems to me that he has always stuck to his musical principles, whatever label they may pin on him. He sings to the heart in a way that only he can. Besides, It's always nice that feeling of good times when I hear his voice and his piano . No need for FX. The man is good with his talent alone.

5.0 out of 5 stars Take it for what it is., January 23, 2011

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M. Pestonji (Chatsworth, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Scruff at Heart (Audio CD)

It's a good collection of lush and wonderful songs. Is it a Gilbert O' Sullivan classic or is it going to be? NO, not by any means. Now, with that said, I do take it for what it is and not make comparisons to his classic songs of the 70's, yet his today's upfront piano playing and joyous melodies still makes me smile every time I listen to it.

2.0 out of 5 stars Deliberate Unpolished, Rough, Raw, but Unconvincing, January 9, 2011

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AsiancCharm "AC" (Frisco, Texas, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scruff at Heart (Audio CD)

I am a fan of Gilbert O'Sullivan. But this record is extremely difficult to swallow. Not only did Gilbert turned the volume of the piano, a beat-up upright piano, so loud that you couldn't hear his voice or words clearly, he also repeated and pounded the same accompaniment pattern (Um-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa) songs after songs. Occasionally, strings or other wind instruments were introduced, but they ended up equalizing and soothing the raw and unpolished piano sound. I guess after making more than twenty records, Gilbert O'Sullivan wanted to introduce a new sound that also matched the "SCRUFF" in the title of this CD.