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Music CD - Rockpile: Seconds of Pleasure
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Music CD: Seconds of Pleasure
Artist: Rockpile
List Price: $11.98
Our Price: $6.96
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Manufacturer: Sony
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1. Teacher Teacher - Rockpile, Pickett, Kenny
2. If Sugar Was as Sweet as You - Rockpile, Tex, Joe
3. Heart - Rockpile, Bremner, Billy
4. Now and Always - Rockpile, Lowe, Nick
5. A Knife and a Fork - Rockpile, Anderson, Kip
6. Play That Fast Thing (One More Time) - Rockpile, Lowe, Nick
7. Wrong Again (Let's Face It) - Rockpile, Difford, Chris
8. Pet You and Hold You - Rockpile, Bremner, Billy
9. Oh What a Thrill - Rockpile, Berry, Chuck
10. When I Write the Book - Rockpile, Lowe, Nick
11. Fool Too Long - Rockpile, Bremner, Billy
12. You Ain't Nothin' But Fine - Rockpile, Semien, Sidney
13. Take a Message to Mary - Rockpile, Bryant, Felice
14. Crying in the Rain - Rockpile, Greenfield, Howard
15. Poor Jenny - Rockpile, Bryant, Felice
16. When Will I Be Loved? - Rockpile, Everly, Phil
17. Back to Schooldays - Rockpile, Parker, Graham
18. They Called It Rock - Rockpile, Bremner, Billy
19. Crawling from the Wreckage - Rockpile, Parker, Graham
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074646398326
Format: Extra tracks
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 2004-04-27
Studio: Sony
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Summary: Great great album....could have been better.
Comment: As much as this greatly anticipated album was no letdown,I felt it wasn't "the next step" that everyone waited for. I was working the event and attended the CBS press launch for this album in NYC , and both Edmunds and Lowe did not seem 100% behind the final product. The accompanying two nights at the Ritz were stellar, but in my opinion the album lacks the cohesiveness of earlier efforts (Labour of Lust & Repeat When Necessary)and it always seemed to me that the track selection seemd "forced" for a an album from this band.
Put on Trax on Wax 4 or Repeat When Necessary and you'll feel the cohesiveness I speak of. The tracks all flow.
A great great album, but just shy of better than previous!
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Summary: Decades of Pleasure!
Comment: I first purchased this album back when I was a Jr. in High School (1981), and over the years I about wore out the vinyl on that disk. With Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Billy Bremmer, and Terry Williams all at their best, this collection of songs is a Rock-N-Roll treat.
I recently re-purchased this CD and the memory flood gates of my youth came gushing back to me as I still remembered most every word to each of these upbeat, rockin` collection of songs.
Billy Bremmer and Terry Williams also shine on this one, but if you're a Dave Edmunds or Nick Lowe fan, this is simply a MUST buy. Simply put, this thing is truly a Rockin' Roll classic!
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Summary: GREAT BAND, BAD DRUNK IDIOT
Comment: Loved Edmunds since the beginning; when "I Hear You Knockin'" was a staple on am radio. When Punk/New Wave hit, I was in legendary AZ punk band, THE RED SQUARES. In 1982 we were to open for Rockpile, actually Edmunds and a English pick up band at a place called the Store West in Phoenix, AZ. Right before we opened for them, we went to this big honkin' trailer where the "band" was camped. We asked a large bald roadie/manager if we could speak to Dave and get an autograph. He went in and asked Edmunds, who was busy consuming 16oz glasses of Vodka. Baldy came back and barked "Dave was too busy to deal w/you". Yeah, well F**k you to Dave! I still love the CD and even "Repeat When Necessary", but have a bad taste in my mouth for the guy I wasted hero worship on. What a dick.
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Summary: Rockpile - 'Seconds Of Pleasure' (Sony)
Comment: Originally saw the light of day in October, 1980. I knew a LOT of fans and patrons that practically worshiped this sole Rockpile album. Best described as 'new wave pop'. Tracks here I was most impressed with were "If Sugar Was As Sweet As You", "Knife And A Fork", their Chuck Berry cover "Oh What A Thrill", the inspiring "Fool Too Long" and their Everly Brother's "When Will I Be Loved". It's been so long since I heard this disc in it's entirety. Personnel: Dave Edmunds and Billy Bremner-guitar & vocals, Nick Lowe-bass & vocals and Terry Williams-drums. I also remember that Rockpile gave contenders like Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Graham Parker and the Pretenders a good run for their money.
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Summary: If you can't dance to this...
Comment: A first time in a long time listen to this album revived great memories of the times I put this album on the turntable during the eighties.
Just plain great gut-feel rock and roll, yet almost academic in its precision and depth of knowledge of the core values of this musical genre. Dave and Nick are the curators of the pounding, stripped down rock of their adolescence (and ours, if we were paying attention).
Each song nearly tops the last in terms of intensity and interpretation, and you can feel the inherent joy of the evolved I-IV-V chord progressions, as well as the Everly inspired harmonies that inform most of the songs.
Skip "Knife and Fork", and this CD is as close to perfection as you can get. A brilliant mix of originals and covers, these guys know and love their music. Does anyone remember Chuck Berry? These guys do. A great air guitar album, and a good sing-along to boot. The 1990 remaster includes some gorgeous covers of old Everly brothers tunes. I don't have the latest release but it can only be as good or better than this one.
Twenty seven years later, this recording still smokes. Terry Williams DRUMS DRUMS DRUMS! Crank it up on the freeway or your headphones, it's all good. Ignore this must-have at your rock and roll cultural peril.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Though Rockpile managed only one, nigh-perfect album at the height of the '80s new wave boom, its members--Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Billy Bremner, and Terry Williams--had played together in various incarnations, in some instances for over a decade: Edmunds and drummer Williams had been in the '60s power trio Love Sculpture; all had played on Lowe's '78 album Jesus of Cool and Edmunds's '79 collection Repeat When Necessary. But Seconds of Pleasure became their most complete and satisfying pop statement--if their ironic swan song, as well. This newly remastered collection features the complete original album, as informed and vibrant a tribute to American rockabilly and R&B roots (with an amped-up take of Joe Tex's "If Sugar Was as Sweet as You" and inviting reworkings of Gene Chandler's "Teacher Teacher" and Chuck Berry's obscure "Oh What a Thrill") as any contemporary group has ever managed--especially considering three quarters of the material is either Rockpile originals or contemporary compositions, like "Wrong Again" by Squeeze songwriters/mainstays Difford and Tilbrook. The generous slate of bonus tracks features all four acoustic, live-in-the studio tracks from the Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds Sing the Everly Brothers tribute EP distributed with initial pressings of the LP; two fine live BBC recordings from '77; a cover of Graham Parker's "Back to Schooldays"; a band original, "They Called It Rock"; and a blistering live rendition of Parker's "Crawling from the Wreckage" from one of the band's last appearances together at the Concert for Kampuchea. Though Lowe may now downplay them as "a posh bar band" who "specialized in playing Chuck Berry music four times faster than anyone else," Rockpile was truly one of the great rock bands of their--or any--era. --Jerry McCulley
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