Songs 1997-98, by Oliver Shaw

Songs 1997-98

by Oliver Shaw

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	1.	Sweet Victory 04:57
	2.	Found Out 03:20
	3.	You'll Never Know 03:52
	4.	The Bitterest Pill 03:55
	5.	Armchair 04:12
	6.	Your Curse 04:14
	7.	Swollen Sea 03:52
	8.	Nature To Beg 04:02
	9.	Show Me The Way 03:24
	10.	Pulling Your Strings 03:52
	11.	Just Not Close Enough 04:08
	12.	Above And Beyond 04:07
	13.	Black Waves 03:48
	14.	Walk This World 04:09
	15.	Long To Belong 03:29
	16.	Stung 03:20
	17.	Made It To The Top 03:40
	18.	Can't Find My Way 04:09
	19.	The New Crusaders 03:04
	20.	Lay It All On Me 04:03

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This compilation documents Oliver's early period as a prolific young bedroom artist producing stylistically varied and outward looking rock/pop songs which are more akin to his current Worldview project than the acoustic-flavoured introspective singer-songwriter fare that followed. Here are tracks which first turned the heads of some music industry A&R types, notably the Beatlesque harmonies and Brian Wilson-influenced kitchen sink arrangement of "You'll Never Know" and the R&B flavoured, Sly Stone-indebted "Armchair". Other highlights include a clutch of songs inspired by travel - on the arrival of capitalism in Eastern Europe ("Sweet Victory"), on the allure of the US and the American way ("Made It To The Top"), and a Dylan-influenced Dublin-set romantic tale, "Just Not Close Enough". The angst of the solitary struggling artist is expressed in "Black Waves", "Walk This World" and "Can't Find My Way". And meanwhile, if Stevie Wonder were to pen a finger-wagging missive to misguided BNP activists it might sound like "Pulling Your Strings", and if Prince were to read Pilger and get incensed about Western economic imperialism, he might knock out something along the lines of "The New Crusaders". All produced between the ages of 19 and 20, and ordered chronologically, these tracks represent something of an early peak in in Oliver's output.

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released October 1, 2010

Written, performed and recorded by Oliver Shaw.

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Worldview is the alias of Oliver Shaw, an Oxford UK-based songwriter, performer and producer mingling rock, pop, dance and folk with insightful lyrics and an overarching melodic sensibility.

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