Private Revolution

Private Revolution is the debut album by the Welsh-British rock band World Party. At this point, singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Karl Wallinger was the only member of World Party, and the only person pictured on the cover.

Private Revolution
Studio album by World Party
Released	3 March 1987
Recorded	January–March 1986
Studio	Baby'O Recorders (Hollywood)
Label	Chrysalis
Producer	Karl Wallinger
World Party chronology
Private Revolution (1987) Goodbye Jumbo (1990)
Singles from Private Revolution
"Private Revolution" Released: 1986 "Ship of Fools" Released: 1987 "All Come True" Released: 1987

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Q	[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]
The Village Voice	C[4]

Wallinger is assisted on this album by several session musicians, including Anthony Thistlethwaite, Steve Wickham and Sinéad O'Connor. Several other musicians listed in the credits are actually whimsically named pseudonyms for Wallinger himself.^[5]

Track listing

All songs written by Karl Wallinger except "Dance of the Hoppy Lads", written by Wallinger with Stephen Wickham, and "All I Really Want to Do", written by Bob Dylan.

1. "Private Revolution" – 4:01
2. "Making Love (To the World)" – 2:30
3. "Ship of Fools" – 4:27
4. "All Come True" – 5:52
5. "Dance of the Hoppy Lads" – 0:44
6. "It Can Be Beautiful (Sometimes)" – 3:00
7. "The Ballad of the Little Man" – 5:02
8. "Hawaiian Island World" – 4:20
9. "All I Really Want to Do" – 4:43
10. "World Party" – 4:36
11. "It's All Mine" – 5:33

Personnel

World Party

• Karl Wallinger — vocals, guitars, bass, sampling keyboards, drum programming

with:

• Rufus Dove — guitars (probably a pseudonym for Wallinger - pun on "rufous dove")
• Will Towyn — sampling keyboards (probably a pseudonym for Wallinger - pun on "will to win")
• Delahaye — drums, percussion (possibly a pseudonym for Wallinger, or for Mike Scott - this is an alias also used on several Waterboys albums)
• Millennium Mills — piano (probably a pseudonym for Wallinger - name taken from Millennium Mills building in London Docklands)
• Ahmed Gottlieb — sitar and tabla (probably a pseudonym for Wallinger)

Additional personnel

• Sinéad O'Connor — backing vocals on "Hawaiian Island World"
• Steve Wickham — violin on "All Come True" and "Dance of the Hoppy Lads"
• Martin Finnucane — harp on "Dance of the Hoppy Lads" (probably a pseudonym for Wallinger - this is the name of a character in the Flann O'Brien novel The Third Policeman)
• Anthony Thistlethwaite — saxophone on "Ship of Fools"

• Rear cover monoprint – Edward Durdey
• Cover photographs – Steve Wallace assisted by Mathew Stevens
• Design – Stephanie Nash and Josh Riley

Charts

Chart (1986–1987)	Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[6]	13
Canadian Albums Chart[7]	60
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[8]	18
UK Albums (OCC)[9]	56
US (Billboard 200)[10]	27