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{{Infobox album
| name       = Party of One
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Nick Lowe]]
| cover      = nick-lowe-party-of-one.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1990
| recorded   = March 1988 – October 1989
| venue      =
| studio     = Oceanway Studios, Los Angeles<br /> Record One Studios, Sherman Oaks, California
| genre      = [[Rock and roll]]
| length     =
| label      = [[Reprise Records|Reprise]]
| producer   = [[Dave Edmunds]]
| prev_title = [[Pinker and Prouder than Previous]]
| prev_year  = 1988
| next_title = [[The Impossible Bird]]
| next_year  = 1994
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/party-of-one-mw0000203501|title=Party of One - Nick Lowe &#124; Album|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=1 April 2024}}</ref>
| rev2 = [[Robert Christgau]]
| rev2Score = A−<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Nick+Lowe|title=Robert Christgau: CG: Nick Lowe|website=Robertchristgau.com}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/nicklowe/albums/album/104329/review/5940633/party_of_one|title=Nick Lowe: Party Of One : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=22 February 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080222155429/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/nicklowe/albums/album/104329/review/5940633/party_of_one |archive-date=22 February 2008 }}</ref>
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'''''Party of One''''' is an album by English singer-songwriter [[Nick Lowe]]. Produced by [[Dave Edmunds]], it was released in 1990 by [[Reprise Records]] and reissued with altered cover art and two bonus tracks in 1995 by Upstart Records.

''Party of One'' is one of only two Nick Lowe solo albums with no cover songs, as it is made up entirely of songs written or co-written by Lowe (the other album is 1982's ''[[Nick the Knife]]''). One of the songs on ''Party of One'', "All Men Are Liars," features a playful jab at [[Rick Astley]] and quotes from his 1987 song "[[Never Gonna Give You Up]]."

==Track listing==
All songs written by [[Nick Lowe]] except as noted.

===Side one===
#"You Got the Look I Like"
#"(I Want to Build a) Jumbo Ark"
#"Gai-Gin Man"
#"Who Was That Man?"
#"What's Shakin' on the Hill"

===Side two===
#"Shting-Shtang"
#"All Men Are Liars"
#"Rocky Road" <small>(Lowe, [[Simon Kirke]])</small>
#"Refrigerator White"
#"I Don't Know Why You Keep Me On"
#"Honeygun"

===CD reissue bonus tracks===
#"You Stabbed Me in the Front"
#"Rocket Coast"

==Personnel==
*[[Nick Lowe]] – bass guitar, lead vocals
*[[Jim Keltner]] – drums
*[[Bill Kirchen]] – electric guitar
*[[Paul Carrack]] – [[organ (instrument)|organ]], piano
*[[Austin de Lone]] – piano, acoustic guitar
*[[Ry Cooder]] – electric guitar, [[mandolin]]
*[[Dave Edmunds]] – electric guitar
*[[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]] – [[string bass]] on "What's Shakin' on the Hill"
*Most of the above – backing vocals

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links==
* {{Discogs master|type=album|304944|name=Party of One}}

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[[Category:1990 albums]]
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