Seconds of Pleasure
1980 studio album by Rockpile / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Seconds of Pleasure is 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]
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Seconds of Pleasure | |
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Studio album by | |
Released | October 1980 |
Recorded | 1980 |
Studio | Eden Studios, Chiswick |
Genre | Pub rock, power pop, rockabilly, new wave |
Length | 43:32 |
Label | Columbia |
Producer | Nick Lowe and Rockpile |
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Christgau's Record Guide | A−[2] |
Entertainment Weekly | A−[3] |
Record Mirror | [4] |
Rolling Stone | [5] |
Smash Hits | 8/10[6] |
Spin Alternative Record Guide | 7/10[7] |
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, both of whom were former members of the 1960s British rock band The Creation. The song appears in the opening credits of the 2011 film, Bad Teacher.
"(Wrong Again) Let’s Face It” is a cover of the Squeeze song that was given away as a flexi-disc on the cover of the 4th October 1979 edition of Smash Hits.[8]
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.[9]
The front cover is a painting by the designer Barney Bubbles, who used pseudonyms and rarely signed his work. This is signed "Dag".