No.48 FEARGAL SHARKEY FEARGAL SHARKEY
A Good Heart and You Little Thief were tremendous pop songs that rubberstamped the uniqueness of Feargal Sharkey, who at the time of his first solo album, had a voice and image quite unlike any contemporary.
The listener is prepped for a lavish 35 minutes of adult pop goodness, with third single Someone To Somebody giving Sharkey‘s raucous vocals a pleading quality while he rages like a spotty Derry punk elsewhere on brass-drizzled pieces like Ghost Train.
The highest note from the incomparable Sharkey pipes comes at the beginning of the swing pop beauty Love And Hate, which nods towards R&B standard Fever. Ashes And Diamonds rips through the speakers with joy and confidence, and has some terrific vocal swaps with the backing singers. Bitter Man has a bouncy piano and makes good use of the studio‘s echo effects while a brash harmonica heralds the menacing Don‘t Leave It To Nature. Chrissie Hynde‘s brief blues ballad Made To Measure is out of sync with the remainder of the album and excellent for it, but the album closes with an unnecessary cover of It‘s All Over Now that would not have been missed.
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