Some People Can Do What They Like
Titre : Some People Can Do What They Like
Date de publication : 1976
Label : Island
Type : Album
Classement : US#68 / UK#46
Morceaux :
1. One Last Look
2. Keep In Touch
4. Spanish Moon
5. Have Mercy
6. Gotta Get A Grip On You (part II)
7. What Can You Bring Me
8. Hard Head
9. Off The Bone
10. Some People Can Do What They Like
Simples :
- Man Smart, Woman Smarter b/w Keep In Touch (7")
- Man Smart, Woman Smarter b/w From A Whisper To A Scream (UK 7")
- Man Smart, Woman Smarter b/w Have Mercy (NL 7")
- One Last Look - edit b/w Some People Can Do What They Like (US 7")
Critiques / Reviews :
- "Robert Palmer is a unique figure in contemporary pop music because his records evidence myriad influences yet, at the same time, he comes out his own person. This is a much more even album than his last ('Pressure Drop') and it shows great maturation. The material is varied - there’s some dixieland, reggae, and R&B, all, however, unified through classy production and vocal phrasing. Palmer is helped out by Little Feat’s Bill Payne and Paul Barrere, along with some respected sidemen. Should strike at the heart of all progressive markets." (Cash Box)
- "In his third album, Palmer continues to display himself as a fine-quality singer and writer of adult balladry. He performs material from a variety of writers here, including samples of his sophisticated treatment of soul and calypso material. His music has complex and rewarding textures." (Billboard)
- "This is the third album from Robert Palmer, one of the most unusual figures in soul music today. Palmer was born in Yorkshire, England, and raised in Malta, although just by listening to him you would swear he was a black American. After his first two albums he was widely hailed in America as 'the soul singer's soul singer.' Palmer works in the studio with an amazing line-up of session musicians and people from other bands and, when he has his basic tapes, runs the whole lot through a couple of 16-track mixing machines to get his final sound. The result is some of the most sophisticated soul sounds yet on record. You can still pick up bits of people who influenced Palmer like Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder but it is now all his own sound." (Australia's Women Weekly)
- "Palmer continues to defy classification with his engaging blend of an English sensibility and a feel for black American blues. Palmer's rockers are inevitably toe-tapping and intelligent. He also displays his ability to croon a ballad while injecting it with the right note of sarcasm and bite." (The Lawrence Journal)
- "A mediocre Robert Palmer record is still better than 98 percent of the shlock that passes for music." (The Village Voice) Read complete review
- "Palmer doesn't have to sneak through the alleys anymore. With the help of Little Feat's Bill Payne and Richie Hayward on drums, there's sophisticated reggae tunes like 'Man Smart, Woman Smarter' to a Bozish production like 'One Last Look'. Feat's 'Spanish Moon' by Lowell George is redone atypically well." (Lyon County Reporter)
- "Some people are trying to convince us that Palmer is a great white soul singer. These people must have not heard Rod Stewart, Southside Johnny or Van Morrison in a couple of years. Hokum." (The St. Petersburg Times)