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Seconds of Pleasure
Studio album by Rockpile
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

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Christgau's Record Guide	A−
Entertainment Weekly	A−
Record Mirror
Rolling Stone
Smash Hits	8/10
Spin Alternative Record Guide	7/10

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.

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.

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.

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 Rockpile, unless otherwise indicated.

Side one

1. "Teacher, Teacher" (K. Pickett, E. Phillips) – 2:36 lead vocal: Lowe
2. "If Sugar Was As Sweet As You" (J. Tex) – 2:35 lead vocal: Edmunds
3. "Heart" – 2:38 lead vocal: Bremner
4. "Now and Always" – 1:58 lead vocal: Lowe and Edmunds
5. "A Knife and a Fork" (K. Anderson, Isaiah Hennie, Charles Derrick) – 3:18 lead vocal: Edmunds
6. "Play That Fast Thing (One More Time)" (N. Lowe) – 4:13 lead vocal: Lowe

Side two

1. "Wrong Again (Let's Face It)" (C. Difford, G. Tilbrook) – 2:23 lead vocal: Edmunds
2. "Pet You and Hold You" – 3:13 lead vocal: Lowe
3. "Oh What a Thrill" (C. Berry) – 3:06 lead vocal: Edmunds
4. "When I Write the Book" – 3:17 lead vocal: Lowe
5. "Fool Too Long" – 2:51 lead vocal: Edmunds
6. "You Ain't Nothin' But Fine" (F. Simien, F. Soileau) – 2:54 lead vocal: Bremner

Bonus EP tracks (Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds Sing The Everly Brothers)

produced by Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds

1. "Take a Message to Mary" (F. Bryant, B. Bryant) – 2:28
2. "Crying in the Rain" (H. Greenfield, C. King) – 2:04
3. "Poor Jenny" (F. Bryant, B. Bryant) – 2:28
4. "When Will I Be Loved" (P. Everly) – 2:14

CD reissue bonus tracks (2004)

1. "Back to Schooldays" (G. Parker) – 3:31 produced by Jeff Griffin
2. "They Called It Rock" – 3:20 produced by Jeff Griffin
3. "Crawling from the Wreckage" (G. 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

Charts

Album

Single

References

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

• Albums produced by Nick Lowe
• Albums produced by Dave Edmunds
• 1980 debut albums
• Rockpile albums
• Columbia Records albums