Secret (Classix Nouveaux album)

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Secret
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Studio album by
Classix Nouveaux
Released1983 (1983)
StudioMarcus Recording Studios, London; RAK Studios, London
Genre New wave
Label Liberty
Producer Alex Sadkin
Classix Nouveaux chronology
La Verité
(1982)		Secret
(1983)

Secret is the third and final studio album by English new wave band Classix Nouveaux, released in 1983 by record label Liberty. It was the band's only album not to chart in the UK.

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock. New wave moved away from blues and rock and roll sounds to create rock music or pop music (later) that incorporated disco, mod, and electronic music. Initially new wave was similar to punk rock, before becoming a distinct genre. It subsequently engendered subgenres and fusions, including synth-pop.

Classix Nouveaux is an English new wave band. Though experiencing only minor success in their native UK, most notably with their 1982 Top 20 hit "Is It a Dream", the band had number one hits in Poland, Portugal, Yugoslavia, Israel, Iceland, and other countries.

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Trouser Press favourable [2]

Trouser Press wrote: "the impressive variety and sophistication makes Secret the band's best album". [2]

<i>Trouser Press</i> American music magazine

Trouser Press was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow Who fan Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press". Publication of the magazine ceased in 1984; the unexpired portion of mail subscriptions was completed by Rolling Stone sister publication Record, which itself folded in 1985. Trouser Press has continued to exist in various formats.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."All Around the World"Classix Nouveaux4:21
2."Manitou"Classix Nouveaux3:51
3."Heart from the Start"Classix Nouveaux3:31
4."The Fire Inside"Classix Nouveaux3:50
5."Forever and a Day"Solo, Sweeney3:39
6."Never Never Comes"Classix Nouveaux2:58
7."The Unloved"Classix Nouveaux5:19
8."When They All Have Gone"Classix Nouveaux6:00
9."No Other Way"Classix Nouveaux4:48

Personnel

Classix Nouveaux

with:

Adrian Lee is an English musician, known especially for his brass instrumentation work with several well-known acts of the 1980s.

Gary Barnacle musician (Saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, arranger)

Gary Barnacle is an English saxophonist, flautist, brass instrument arranger, composer and producer, primarily noted for session work, live work incl. various Princes Trust Concerts at Wembley Arena, the Royal Albert Hall and the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham, plus the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute at Wembley Stadium in 1988, and television/video appearances, during the 1980s and 1990s, with a large number of popular music acts, including The Clash, The Ruts, Level 42, Visage, Paul Hardcastle, Kim Wilde, Holly Johnson, Marilyn, Derek B, Eternal, Soul II Soul, Jamiroquai, Jimmy Ray, Tina Turner, General Public, Soft Cell, Elvis Costello, Del Amitri, Shed Seven, T'Pau, Roger Daltrey, David Bowie, The Big Dish, The Cross, Pet Shop Boys, Stock Aitken Waterman and Paul McCartney, among others. He was also in an electropop duo called Leisure Process from 1982–83, with ex-Positive Noise singer, Ross Middleton.

Anne Dudley English composer and pop musician

Anne Jennifer Dudley is an English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician. She was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in both the classical and pop genres, but she is perhaps best known as one of the core members of the synthpop band Art of Noise and as a film composer. In 1998 Dudley won an Academy Award for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for The Full Monty. In addition to over twenty other film scores, in 2012 she served as music producer for the film version of Les Misérables, also acting as arranger and composing some new additional music.

Technical

Philip Thornalley is an English songwriter-producer who has worked in the music industry since 1978. He is perhaps best known for co-writing the song "Torn" and the number one hits "Mama Do", "Boys and Girls" and "Cry Me Out" for Pixie Lott. He also produced The Cure's 1982 album Pornography and was later their bass player for eighteen months, producing and performing the distinctive double bass line on their 1983 single "The Love Cats".

Steve Churchyard is an English record producer, recording engineer and mixer who began his career at Sir George Martin’s AIR Studios in London. He currently resides in the United States. He has been nominated for 15 Grammy awards. In 2008 he won a Latin Grammy for Juanes’ album La Vida... Es Un Ratico. In 2010, he won a Latin Grammy for the album Paraíso Express by Alejandro Sanz.

Edward Bell studied art at Brighton College of Art, graphic design at Chelsea School of Art and photography at the Royal College of Art. He worked as a freelance photographer and illustrator for Vogue, Tatler and Elle magazines. He was commissioned for portraits for album covers for David Bowie and Hazel O'Connor. He has exhibited widely on the London art scene and his work covers many genres from life paintings to bronzes, from pop art to landscapes.

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References

  1. ↑ Schnee, Steve "Spaz". "Secret – Classix Nouveaux | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved May 16, 2016.
  2. 1 2 Robbins, Ira. "TrouserPress.com :: Classix Nouveaux". TrouserPress.com . Retrieved May 16, 2016.
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