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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 | |
|---|---|
| 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] |
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]
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".
- ^ a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Seconds of Pleasure – Rockpile". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (1990). "Rockpile: Seconds of Pleasure". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- ^ Brunner, Rob (4 June 2004). "Seconds of Pleasure". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
- ^ Russell, Rosalind (1 November 1980). "Rockpile: Seconds of Pleasure". Record Mirror. p. 22.
- ^ Scoppa, Bud (5 August 2004). "Rockpile: Seconds of Pleasure". Rolling Stone. No. 954. p. 116.
- ^ Hepworth, David (16–29 October 1980). "Rockpile: Seconds of Pleasure". Smash Hits. Vol. 2, no. 21. p. 29.
- ^ Sheffield, Rob (1995). "Nick Lowe". In Weisbard, Eric; Marks, Craig (eds.). Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. p. 232. ISBN 0-679-75574-8.
- ^ Tyrone. "Squeeze Covered – (Wrong Again) Let's Face It". Packet of Three. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
- ^ "SECONDS OF PLEASURE". Connollyco.com. Retrieved 10 October 2017.