Cross Talk

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Cross Talk
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Studio album by
Pretty Things
ReleasedAugust 1980
Recorded1979
StudioMatrix Studios, London
Genre
Length36:15 (original release) 46:47 (CD reissue)
Label Warner Bros. Records
Producer Jon Astley, Phil Chapman
Pretty Things chronology
Savage Eye
(1976)		Cross Talk
(1980)		Live at Heartbreak Hotel
(1984)
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Cross Talk, released in 1980, is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Pretty Things.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "I'm Calling" (Phil May, Pete Tolson) – 4:06
  2. "Edge of the Night" (May, Wally Waller) – 3:19
  3. "Sea of Blue" (May, Tolson) – 3:13
  4. "Lost That Girl" (May) – 2:50
  5. "Bitter End" (May, Jon Povey) – 3:16
  6. "Office Love" (May, Tolson) – 4:12
  7. "Falling Again" (May, Waller) – 3:20
  8. "It's So Hard" (May, Tolson) – 3:14
  9. "She Don't" (Tolson, May) – 4:08
  10. "No Future" (May, Tolson) – 4:28

Bonus tracks on 2000 reissue

  1. "Wish Fulfillment" (May, Tolson) – 3:05
  2. "Sea About Me" (May, Waller) – 3:22
  3. "The Young Pretenders" (May, Povey) – 4:05

Personnel

Pretty Things

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References

  1. ↑ Watts, Peter (5 May 2023). "The Pretty Things – Complete Studio Albums 1965-2020". Uncut. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  2. ↑ Cross Talk at AllMusic
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