First Love / Last Rites

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First Love / Last Rites
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 30, 1989 [1]
Recorded1989
Genre Rock
Label CBS 465943 2 (Europe)
Producer Rhett Davies
Cock Robin chronology
After Here Through Midland
(1987)
First Love / Last Rites
(1989)
I Don't Want to Save the World
(2006)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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First Love / Last Rites is the third album by Cock Robin and was released in 1989 in Europe and 1990 in the USA.

Contents

Track listing

  1. Stumble and Fall
  2. Straighter Line
  3. Win or Lose
  4. One Joy Bang
  5. For Experience Sake
  6. Hunting Down a Killer
  7. Any More Than I Could Understand
  8. My First Confession
  9. Manzanar
  10. Worlds Apart

All songs by Peter Kingsbery except "For Experience Sake" (Peter Kingsbery/Anna LaCazio)

The US version includes a cover of Conway Twitty's "It's Only Make Believe", added as track #6 (after "For Experience Sake" and before "Hunting Down a Killer").

It was the band's final album before their (temporary) split, which lasted from 1990 to 2006. It proved to be their least successful album of the first half of their career.

Musicians

Cock Robin

Additional musicians

Miscellaneous

Produced by Rhett Davies

Singles:

The CD sleeve features the poem It's Ours by Charles Bukowski, an excerpt from You Get So Alone at Times It Just Makes Sense (1986).

Charts

References

  1. "Music and Media" (PDF). p. 26.
  2. Allmusic