Seconds of Pleasure by Rockpile

Seconds of Pleasure, Rockpile's one and only album under their own name, finally arrived on Columbia in 1980, after years of the same four men moonlighting as the band on Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe solo records. Edmunds produced, trading guitar and vocals with Billy Bremner while Lowe plays bass and sings and Terry Williams hammers away on drums, and the result is pure pub-rock joy: rockabilly twang, power-pop snap and not an ounce of fat.

It kicks off with "Teacher, Teacher", written by Kenny Pickett and Eddie Phillips of The Creation, which slipped into the lower reaches of the Billboard Hot 100, and there's a cover of Squeeze's "(Wrong Again) Let's Face It" for good measure. Early copies came with a bonus four-song EP of Lowe and Edmunds singing Everly Brothers songs, and the cover painting is by Barney Bubbles, signed with the alias "Dag".

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