No Frills (Nik Kershaw album)

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No Frills
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Released1 February 2010 (2010-02-01)
Recorded2010
StudioShorthouse Studios
Genre
Length1:03:00
Label Koch
Shorthouse
Producer Nik Kershaw
Nik Kershaw chronology
You've Got to Laugh
(2006)
No Frills
(2010)
Ei8ht
(2012)

No Frills is the eighth album by Nik Kershaw, recorded live at his own Shorthouse Studios and released on 1 February 2010 under his own record label. Initially, the album was only available for purchase online via Kershaw's web site through his own indie vanity label, Shorthouse Records. [1]

Contents

Kershaw regards his subsequent album Ei8ht as his eighth album as No Frills was "90 per cent old songs, it was just different acoustic versions of those old songs. I didn't really count that as a collection of original work." [2]

Track listing

  1. "Oh You Beautiful Thing" – 3:27
  2. "Have a Nice Life" – 4:06
  3. "Dancing Girls" – 3:48
  4. "Somebody Loves You" – 4:12
  5. "Lost in You" – 3:22
  6. "The Riddle" – 4:07
  7. "Loud, Confident & Wrong" – 3:43
  8. "Fiction" – 3:35
  9. "Don Quixote" – 5:34
  10. "Oxygen" – 4:31
  11. "Wounded" – 3:58
  12. "Wouldn't It Be Good" - 4:33
  13. "Billy" - 4:02
  14. "This Broken Man" - 4:42
  15. "I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" - 5:27

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References

  1. "Nik Kershaw - 'No Frills'". Apple Music. 1 February 2010. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
  2. "NIK KERSHAW INTERVIEW [2012] • THIS IS NOT RETRO – 80s Music. All Grown Up". Thisisnotretro.com. 9 August 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2015.