I sang all his song as a child, now the songs are more real today, now I am no longer 10 years old. Thank you, Gilbert O Life is beautiful people and brief.
Beautiful music for sure, but it’s such a masterpiece because the majority of us can really relate to it in one way or another…crushing but very real lyrics.
Poignant. Touching. Evocative. Moving. Matters not the color of our skin. Matters not what nation or people group we come from. Draw a blade against the flesh and we ALL bleed the SAME red blood. No difference in our shared humanity. We share the same Human Experience. Every human being can relate to pain and suffering, and the feeling of being "alone" at some point in our path of life. A wise Christian theologian (C.S. Lewis) once wrote: "“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
Wow MP, this evokes early childhood memories for me, elementary school to be exact. Didn't fully understand the total meaning of it then, but of course I do now. Melancholy, but still a beautiful sounding song, solid request and reaction...
This song slaps in 8 bit, I know an anime sounding version and a soft jazz 8 bit version that I play in the car a lot .. masterpiece of a composition for sure
Another memorable classic! Not surprised that it is a MP song request. Created a great song reaction. Funny, if you can't love whoever you are with then you will be lonely, starting with yourself. Love thyself & you may have more love to give those you love.
Great reaction! I’m so glad you took the time to look up the lyrics to this beautiful but sad song, Just Jamming, especially since you mentioned you had heard it before but in bits and pieces. I really admire how well you communicate and are transparent with how the song affects you because we are right there with you!
Sounds exactly like something Paul McCartney would have written. Maybe not the sad lyrics. But definitely how the words and music was arranged musically. It was identical to Paul.
"Alone Again (Naturally)" dropped when I was a kid. I used to get Gilbert O'Sullivan mixed up with Gilbert and Sullivan, the Victorian-era writing partnership that created fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado. As I got older and became interested in rock and roll I used to think the sixties classic tune by Love, "Alone Again Or", was this song, just by titles, not by sound. The Damned covered "Alone Again Or" in 1987 as an homage to the original. Listening along just now, I'm struck by how the sound of the song reminds me of the work John Lennon did at the end of the decade just before his murder.
I remember this being in the charts when I was a kid but never really paid attention to the lyrics until I was older. A really sad song with catchy tune. Weird.
One sentence sums it up: if you're into unrelenting-wordplay plus honky-tonkin', sooner or later you have to delve into Gilbert. He may be a vaudeville-throwback, he may be a misanthrope, but he's a master of his peculiar craft. A few random song-recommendations - Luck Of The Irish, Nobody Wants To Know, You Were The Best `Fun' I Ever Had, Houdini Said and Mr Moody's Garden (both chosen for sheer lunacy), the original 1982 version of If I Know You ('cause it's darker), Not In A Million Years, and of course the mini-hit that everyone tries to overlook, Underneath The Blanket Go.
