Off Centre (album)

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Off Centre
Off centre Gilbert O'Sullivan.png
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1980
RecordedMoonlight Studios, Cookham, England
Genre Pop
Length46:31 (49:08 with the bonus track)
Label CBS
Producer Gus Dudgeon
Gilbert O'Sullivan chronology
Southpaw
(1977)
Off Centre
(1980)
Life & Rhymes
(1982)

Off Centre is the sixth studio album by Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan. It was produced by Gus Dudgeon and originally released in October 1980. Union Square Music re-released it August 2012 on Salvo label in part of the Gilbert O'Sullivan - A Singer & His Songs collection.

Contents

The lead single from the album, "What's In a Kiss", was O'Sullivan's first top 20 hit in the UK in over five years, peaking at number 19. The song proved to be his final top 20 single in the UK.

Track listing

All songs written by Gilbert O'Sullivan.

  1. "I Love It But" - 3:33
  2. "What's In a Kiss" - 2:36
  3. "Hello It's Goodbye" - 3:08
  4. "Why Pretend" - 3:58
  5. "I'm Not Getting Any Younger" - 4:32
  6. "Things That Go Bump in the Night" - 4:51
  7. "Help Is On the Way" - 3:43
  8. "For What It's Worth" - 4:05
  9. "The Niceness of It All" - 5:26
  10. "Can't Get Enough of You" - 3:27
  11. "Break It To Me Gently" - 3:20
  12. "Or So They Say" - 3:50

Bonus track on the 2012 remaster

  1. "Down, Down, Down" (b-side of "What's In a Kiss", August 1980) - 2:38

Charts

Chart (1981)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [1] 98

Personnel

Additional personnel

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References

  1. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 227. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.

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