Seconds of Pleasure

Seconds of Pleasure
Studio album by Rockpile
Released October 1980
Recorded 1980
Studio Eden Studios, Chiswick
Genre Rock, power pop, rockabilly
Length 43:32
Label Columbia
Producer Nick Lowe and Rockpile
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Record GuideA−[2]
Entertainment WeeklyA−[3]
Rolling Stone[4]
Spin Alternative Record Guide7/10[5]

Seconds of Pleasure was 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]

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, former members of the 1960s British rock band The Creation.

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.[6]

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 Nick Lowe and Rockpile, unless otherwise indicated.

Side one

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

Side two

  1. "Wrong Again (Let's Face It)" (Chris Difford, Glenn Tilbrook) – 2:23
  2. "Pet You and Hold You" – 3:13
  3. "Oh What a Thrill" (Chuck Berry) – 3:06
  4. "When I Write the Book" – 3:17
  5. "Fool Too Long" – 2:51
  6. "You Ain't Nothin' But Fine" (Sidney Semien, Floyd Soileau) – 2:54

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

produced by Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds

  1. "Take a Message to Mary" (Felice Bryant, Boudleaux Bryant) – 2:28
  2. "Crying in the Rain" (Howard Greenfield, Carole King) – 2:04
  3. "Poor Jenny" (Felice Bryant, Boudleaux Bryant) – 2:28
  4. "When Will I Be Loved" (Phil Everly) – 2:14

CD reissue bonus tracks (2004)

  1. "Back to Schooldays" [Live] (Graham 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] (Parker) – 3:07 produced by Chris Thomas

Personnel

(note: Bremner sings lead on "Heart" and "You Ain't Nothin' But Fine". Edmunds and Lowe take turns on lead vocals for the rest of the album; amongst the non-Bremner songs, Edmunds sings all the covers except "Teacher Teacher", while Lowe sings all the originals except "Fool Too Long").

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1980 Billboard 200 27

Single

Year Song Chart Position
1981 "Teacher Teacher" Billboard Hot 100 51

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.
  3. ↑ Brunner, Rob (4 June 2004). "Seconds of Pleasure". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  4. ↑ Scoppa, Bud (5 August 2004). "Rockpile: Seconds of Pleasure". Rolling Stone: 116.
  5. ↑ Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig, eds. (1995). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
  6. ↑ "SECONDS OF PLEASURE". Connollyco.com. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
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