Deep & Meaningless

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Deep & Meaningless

Studio album by

John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett

Released

10 June 1978

Studio

Bray Sound Studios, Windsor, Berkshire

Genre

Indie folk

Length

35:25

Label

Polydor

Producer

Wild Willy Barrett

John Otway chronology

John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett
(1977)

Deep & Meaningless
(1978)

Where Did I Go Right?
(1979)

Wild Willy Barrett chronology

John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett
(1977)

Deep & Meaningless
(1978)

Call of the Wild
(1979)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

Deep & Meaningless is the second album by English folk singer-songwriter duo John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett.^[2] It was released in 1978.^[3] The album included the song "Beware Of The Flowers ('Cos I'm Sure They're Going To Get You Yeah)", which was voted Britain's seventh most popular song lyric in a 1999 BBC online poll.^[4] The song's strong showing—ahead of The Moody Blues' "Nights in White Satin" and Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust"—was the result of what Otway's website described as a "well orchestrated campaign" by fans.^[5]

AllMusic rates the album as a "triumph" and gives it 4 1/2 out of 5 stars.^[1]

Track listing

All songs written by John Otway except where noted

Side one

"Place Farm Way" - 3:31
"To Anne" - 3:27
"Beware of the Flowers ('Cos I'm Sure They're Going to Get You Yeah)" - 2:30
"The Alamo" (Jane Bowers) - 3:16
"Oh My Body is Making Me" - 4:09

Side two

1. "Josephine" (Otway, Warren Harry) - 7:02

2. "Schnot" - 2:44

3. (a) "Riders in the Sky" (Stan Jones)

(b) "Running From the Law"

4. "I Wouldn't Wish It On You" - 3:11

5. "Can't Complain" - 2:32

Personnel

John Otway - lead vocals, guitar,
Wild Willy Barrett - guitar, violin
Nigel Pegrum - drums
Maggie Ryder - backing vocals
Mark Freeman - drums
Dave Holmes - drums
Yvonne Grech - backing vocals
Simon Hanson

Technical

Adam Francis - engineer
Jill Mumford - sleeve design
Paddy Eckersley - photography

References

^ ^a ^b Thompson, Dave. John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett: Deep & Meaningless > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
^ Birchall, Clifford (29 June 1978). "The Quirks of Pop". Ormskirk Advertiser. p. 8.
^ BBC Music profile
^ Paul McCann, "John Otway 'a better lyricist than Dylan'", The Independent, 9 October 1999.
^ John Otway website

v t e John Otway
The Big Band Adam Batterbee Murray Torkildsen Richard Holgarth Seymour
Solo albums	Where Did I Go Right? All Balls & No Willy Under the Covers and Over the Top Premature Adulation OT-AIR Bunsen Burner - The Album Montserrat
With Wild Willy Barrett	John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett Deep & Meaningless Way & Bar The Wimp & The Wild
With The Big Band	Live Montserrat
Associated pages	Discography "Summer Holiday" (The Young Ones)

v t e Wild Willy Barrett
Solo Albums	Call of the Wild Krazy Kong Album Organic Bondage (w/Stephen Two-Names) Mound of Sound Open Toed and Flapping
With John Otway	John Otway & Wild Willy Barrett Deep & Meaningless Way & Bar The Wimp & The Wild
Associated Pages	Discography Please Don't Throw Me to the Christians (unreleased Eddie Stanton album)

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