Pictures for Pleasure

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Pictures for Pleasure
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Studio album by
Charlie Sexton
Released1985
Studio
  • Conway (Hollywood, California)
  • Oasis (Canoga Park, California)
Genre
Length40:46
Label MCA
Producer Keith Forsey
Charlie Sexton chronology
Pictures for Pleasure
(1985)		 Charlie Sexton
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Pictures for Pleasure is the first studio album released by singer/guitarist Charlie Sexton in 1985. The album was the first solo effort by the then 16-year-old Austin-based musician, who had already secured a reputation as a skilled guitarist. [2]

Contents

Pictures for Pleasure combines Sexton's blues rock roots and the more commercially acceptable new wave genre. The album produced the Billboard Hot 100 #17 hit "Beat's So Lonely".

A poster reproducing the album cover appears on the wall of Ferris Bueller's bedroom in the 1986 John Hughes film Ferris Bueller's Day Off . [3] The song "Beat's So Lonely" was featured in the 1987 film Some Kind of Wonderful , which was written and produced by Hughes.

Critical reception

Cash Box magazine said "With a rich and roaring vocal typical of Forsey's production, as well as some stinging guitar leads, Charlie Sexton is definitely a musician/performer to be reckoned with. Though still in his teens, the sound is fully mature and Sexton is primed for teen star status." [4]

Track listing

  1. "Impressed" (Steve Krikorian, Robert Wilson) – 4:19
  2. "Beat's So Lonely" (Keith Forsey, Sexton) – 5:10
  3. "Restless" (Sexton, Andrew Williams)– 4:57
  4. "Hold Me" (Little Jack Little, David Oppenheim, Ira Schuster) – 4:27
  5. "Pictures for Pleasure" (Nigel Harrison, Sexton) – 4:56
  6. "Tell Me" (Sexton) – 4:11
  7. "Attractions" (Sexton) – 4:27
  8. "You Don't Belong Here" (Steve Krikorian) – 4:52
  9. "Space" (Mike Chapman, Holly Knight) – 3:27

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1986)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [5] 26
US Billboard 200 [6] 15

References

  1. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Charlie Sexton: Pictures for Pleasure". Allmusic . Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ Bart Bull (May 1986). "Go, Charlie, Go". Spin Magazine .
  3. ↑ Ahsan, Sadaf (January 21, 2016). "Toronto's Gladstone Hotel recreates Ferris Bueller's bedroom". National Post . Retrieved June 5, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Album Releases" (PDF). Cash Box . November 9, 1985. p. 10. Retrieved December 8, 2021– via World Radio History.
  5. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 269. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  6. ↑ "Charlie Sexton Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved January 6, 2022.
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