Seconds of Pleasure

Seconds of Pleasure
Studio album by Rockpile
Released	October 1980
Recorded	1980 at Eden Studios, Chiswick
Genre	Rock, Power pop, Rockabilly
Length	43:32
Label	Columbia
Producer	Nick Lowe and Rockpile

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Robert Christgau	A−[2]
Music Box	[3]

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.

The album's opening track, "Teacher Teacher", became a minor hit on the Billboard charts. 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.^[4]

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" (F. Bryant, B. 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

• Billy Bremner – guitar, vocals
• Dave Edmunds – guitar, vocals, piano, organ
• Nick Lowe – bass, vocals
• Terry Williams – drums
• Aldo Bocca – engineer

(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

Single

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