What Price Paradise

What Price Paradise
Studio album by China Crisis
Released 1986 (1986)
Recorded Summer 1986, The Manor Studio, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire and Westside Studios, London
Genre New wave
Length 45:36
Label Virgin
Producer Clive Langer, Alan Winstanley
China Crisis chronology
Flaunt the Imperfection
(1985)Flaunt the Imperfection1985		 What Price Paradise
(1986)		 Diary of a Hollow Horse
(1989)Diary of a Hollow Horse1989
Singles from What Price Paradise
  1. "Arizona Sky"
    Released: October 1986
  2. "Best Kept Secret"
    Released: January 1987
  3. "June Bride"
    Released: 1987
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What Price Paradise is the fourth studio album by English new wave group China Crisis. It was released on CD, LP and Cassette in 1986. The CD version featured one bonus track: "Trading in Gold", originally released on the B-side of the "Arizona Sky" single.

Track listing

All tracks written by Daly/Johnson/Lundon/McNeill/Wilkinson, except where stated.

  1. "It's Everything" – 5:09
  2. "Arizona Sky" – 5:24
  3. "Safe as Houses" – 4:26
  4. "Worlds Apart" (Daly, Johnson, Lundon, McNeill, Wilkinson, Kevin Kelly) – 3:35
  5. "Hampton Beach" – 4:47
  6. "The Understudy" – 5:45
  7. "Best Kept Secret" – 4:08
  8. "We Do the Same" – 4:21
  9. "June Bride" – 3:50
  10. "A Day's Work for the Dayo's Done" – 4:17
  11. "Trading in Gold" – 4:27 (Only appears on the CD version)

Personnel

China Crisis

with:

  • Stuart Nisbet - guitar
  • Gary Barnacle - saxophone, flute
  • Luke Tonney - trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Pete Thoms - trombone
  • Martin Ditcham - percussion
  • Davie Dover, John Lewis - backing vocals
  • David Bedford - string arrangements, conductor

References

  1. ↑ Dan LeRoy. "What Price Paradise - China Crisis | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-04-06.


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