What Price Paradise

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.

What Price Paradise
Studio album by
China Crisis
Released1986 (1986)
RecordedSummer 1986, The Manor Studio, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire and Westside Studios, London
GenreNew wave
Length45:36
LabelVirgin
ProducerClive Langer, Alan Winstanley
China Crisis chronology
Flaunt the Imperfection
(1985)		 What Price Paradise
(1986)		 Diary of a Hollow Horse
(1989)
Singles from What Price Paradise
  1. "Arizona Sky"
    Released: October 1986
  2. "Best Kept Secret"
    Released: January 1987
  3. "June Bride"
    Released: 1987
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

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 Tunney - 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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