Seconds of Pleasure

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Seconds of Pleasure
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Studio album by
Rockpile
ReleasedOctober 1980
Recorded1980
Studio Eden Studios, Chiswick
Genre Pub rock, power pop, rockabilly, new wave
Length43:32
Label Columbia
Producer Nick Lowe and Rockpile
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [1]
Christgau's Record Guide A− [2]
Entertainment Weekly A− [3]
Record Mirror Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Smash Hits 8/10 [6]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 7/10 [7]

Seconds of Pleasure is a 1980 album by Rockpile, a band consisting of guitarists/vocalists Dave Edmunds and Billy Bremner, bassist/vocalist Nick Lowe, and drummer Terry Williams. The band had played together on various solo albums by Edmunds and Lowe in previous years, but Seconds of Pleasure would be the first (and only) album released under the Rockpile name. [1]

Contents

The album's opening track, "Teacher, Teacher", became a minor hit on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was written by Kenny Pickett and Eddie Phillips, both of whom were former members of the 1960s British rock band The Creation. The song appears in the opening credits of the 2011 film, Bad Teacher .

"(Wrong Again) Let’s Face It” is a cover of the Squeeze song that was given away as a flexi-disc on the cover of the 4th October 1979 edition of Smash Hits . [8]

A four-song EP, Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds Sing the Everly Brothers, was included in the first pressings of the LP; the songs were later included on the album's various CD versions. [9]

The front cover is a painting by the designer Barney Bubbles, who used pseudonyms and rarely signed his work. This is signed "Dag".

LP track listing

All songs written by Rockpile, unless otherwise indicated.

Side one

  1. "Teacher, Teacher" (K. Pickett, E. Phillips) – 2:36 lead vocal: Lowe
  2. "If Sugar Was As Sweet As You" (J. Tex) – 2:35 lead vocal: Edmunds
  3. "Heart" – 2:38 lead vocal: Bremner
  4. "Now and Always" – 1:58 lead vocal: Lowe and Edmunds
  5. "A Knife and a Fork" (K. Anderson, Isaiah Hennie, Charles Derrick) – 3:18 lead vocal: Edmunds
  6. "Play That Fast Thing (One More Time)" (N. Lowe) – 4:13 lead vocal: Lowe

Side two

  1. "Wrong Again (Let's Face It)" (C. Difford, G. Tilbrook) – 2:23 lead vocal: Edmunds
  2. "Pet You and Hold You" – 3:13 lead vocal: Lowe
  3. "Oh What a Thrill" (C. Berry) – 3:06 lead vocal: Edmunds
  4. "When I Write the Book" – 3:17 lead vocal: Lowe
  5. "Fool Too Long" – 2:51 lead vocal: Edmunds
  6. "You Ain't Nothin' But Fine" (F. Simien, F. Soileau) – 2:54 lead vocal: Bremner

Bonus EP tracks (Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds Sing The Everly Brothers)

produced by Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds

  1. "Take a Message to Mary" (F. Bryant, B. Bryant) – 2:28
  2. "Crying in the Rain" (H. Greenfield, C. King) – 2:04
  3. "Poor Jenny" (F. Bryant, B. Bryant) – 2:28
  4. "When Will I Be Loved" (P. Everly) – 2:14

CD reissue bonus tracks (2004)

  1. "Back to Schooldays" [Live] (G. Parker) – 3:31 produced by Jeff Griffin
  2. "They Called It Rock" [Live] – 3:20 produced by Jeff Griffin
  3. "Crawling from the Wreckage" [Live] (G. Parker) – 3:07 produced by Chris Thomas

Personnel

Charts

Album

YearChartPosition
1980 Billboard 200 27

Single

YearSongChartPosition
1981"Teacher Teacher" Billboard Hot 100 51

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References

  1. 1 2 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Seconds of Pleasure – Rockpile". AllMusic . Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  2. ↑ Christgau, Robert (1990). "Rockpile: Seconds of Pleasure". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN   0-679-73015-X . Retrieved 3 February 2018.
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  5. ↑ Scoppa, Bud (5 August 2004). "Rockpile: Seconds of Pleasure". Rolling Stone . No. 954. p. 116.
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