Friday, April 22, 2011

Feargal Sharkey: Loving You (1985)


Perhaps one might have high hopes of a collaboration between Undertones (more HERE) singer-extraordinaire Feargal Sharkey and The Rezillos brilliant song-writer Jo Callis ((more HERE) , that is until one remembers how cold and unforgiving the musical climate of the mid-eighties was. I mean, it is rather baffling how many of the eighties synth-pop artists tried to ape American R & B and soul music by using some of the most soul-less, rythm-less and blues-less instrumentation and production of all time. Sometimes, like say Soft Cell's distortion of "Tainted Love" it clicked but so much of the time it was just painful. 'Twas a weird decade, the eighties...



Here's "Loving You" attached to the 1991 "I've Got News For You" e.p., which also includes the follow-up smash hit, "A Good Heart' making it like a CD-Maxi-single Greatest Hits.


So MRML readers any comments on Feargal's solo work? Is it gonna be brickbats or crickets in the comments section? Awaiting your reply...

Speaking of comments should you want to hear the I've Got News For You e.p, the link is in the comments.


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Posted by jeffen at 8:02 PM
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  1. jeffenApril 22, 2011 at 8:12 PM

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    Give us a word on this meeting of Callis & Sharkey won't you?

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWrLhgiX74

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  2. fervorcouleeApril 22, 2011 at 9:43 PM

    Is it just me or is the link not correct? Smashing site otherwise.

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  3. jeffenApril 23, 2011 at 1:03 AM

    D'oh

    http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?s7xtdu5g0eh5hqb

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  4. Simon KApril 23, 2011 at 2:20 AM

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  5. Simon KApril 23, 2011 at 2:22 AM

    Both of these artists threw their credibility down the toilet with this sort of rubbish.Jo Callis in the Human League was bad enough... At least he reformed the Rezillos a few years later .

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  6. CoopApril 23, 2011 at 3:29 AM

    For a singer who produced some of my favourites songs of all time with the Undertones, Feargal's solo output was absolute drivel. A real pity, apart from his Assembly single with Vince Clarke it was a wste of a really original voice. http://polyvinylcraftsmen.blogspot.com/2011/04/transmission-8.html

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  7. fervorcouleeApril 23, 2011 at 2:39 PM

    I'm not surprised at the lack of love for Feargal's post-Undertones output, but I would argue that a second or third listen is warranted. The first album- 80s production aside- is cracking IMO and while the second was a bit of a sideways step, he finished things nicely with Mardi Gras. Still, "Listen to Your Father", how can anyone argue with that burst of wonderfullness.

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  8. Nazz NomadApril 23, 2011 at 8:46 PM

    Feargal's voice to me was nails ona blackboard... and not in the good way!

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  9. Nazz NomadApril 23, 2011 at 8:50 PM

    On "My Perfect Cousin", Feargal takes a shot at Jo Callis and the Human League.
    But you knew that already.

    "his mother bought him a synthesizer/
    Got the Human League into advise her/
    Now he's making lots of noise/
    Playing along with the art school boys"

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  10. jeffenMay 15, 2011 at 7:51 PM

    Simon K
    Ouch!

    Polyvinyl
    Maybe I'll like Feargal's solo stuff when I'm older...

    fervor
    I wonder If there's any good radio concerts from Feargal. I'd like to hear the material with less production...

    Nazz
    And I love that line (though he's talking about the earlier Human League who have almost nothing i common with the Jo Callis version).

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