Songs from the Mardi Gras | ||||
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Released | 1991 | |||
Studio | Digital Recorders ( Nashville, Tennessee) | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
Label | Virgin | |||
Producer | Barry Beckett | |||
Feargal Sharkey chronology | ||||
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Songs from the Mardi Gras is the third and last solo album of former Undertones singer Feargal Sharkey and was released in early 1991 on Virgin Records. [1] Despite the somewhat non-commercial character of the music, the single "I've Got News for You" did make it into the UK Top 20. [2]
Speaking of the album and decision to finish his solo career afterwards, Sharkey told The Telegraph in 2013: "It's gonna sound quite kind of pathetic in many ways, but it was what I was feeling at the time; the last album I made emotionally I put a colossal amount into it, and I just felt I could not go on making that kind of intellectual and emotional investment anymore." [3]
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Source | Rating |
Select | [4] |
Smash Hits | [5] |
Q | [1] |
Upon release, Adam Sweeting of The Guardian wrote: "Despite the nostril-assailing whiff of career-calculation, Songs from the Mardi Gras is at least a good deal better than its predecessor, the deplorable Wish." [6] Hi-Fi News & Record Review considered the album to "prove that the days of The Undertones are wiped from [Sharkey's] memory and he is definitely a man of the world - money-minded, star-struck and shallow." They concluded: "Songs from the Mardi Gras is about as intelligent a title as the lyrics on this album deserve." [7] Barry McIlheney of Q described it as "determinedly grown-up and quite frantic in its attempt to be easy listening". [1]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "After the Mardi Gras" | Feargal Sharkey, Greg Barnhill | 4:47 |
2. | "One Night in Hollywood" | Sharkey, Dennis Morgan | 5:32 |
3. | "Miss You Fever" | Sharkey, Morgan | 4:12 |
4. | " Women and I" | Sharkey, Mick Kitson | 4:44 |
5. | "Love Like Blood" | John Hiatt | 4:18 |
6. | " I've Got News for You" | Sharkey, Morgan | 4:52 |
7. | " To Miss Someone" | Maria McKee | 3:41 |
8. | "Sister Rosa" | Sharkey, Phil Ramacon | 4:09 |
9. | "I'll Take It Back" | Sharkey, Bob DiPiero, John Scott Sherrill | 4:15 |
10. | "Cry Like a Rainy Day" | Barnhill, Kenny Greenberg | 5:40 |
11. | " She Moved Through the Fair" | Traditional; arranged by Sharkey | 3:09 |
Chart (1991) | Peak position |
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Swedish Albums Chart [8] | 41 |
UK Albums Chart [2] | 27 |
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