Song · The Chameleons
“Pleasure and Pain” by The Chameleons
From the album Script of the Bridge (1983)
“Pleasure and Pain” by The Chameleons appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2003. It was first released in 1983 on the album Script of the Bridge. Its best result is #1829 on the Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #7,061 alternative song of all time.
The Chameleons put "Pleasure and Pain" on Script of the Bridge, their debut album, which came out on the Statik label on 8 August 1983. The writing is shared by frontman Mark Burgess, guitarist Dave Fielding, drummer John Lever and Reg Smithies, and the band produced it with Colin Richardson, who also engineered.
The album has been filed under gothic rock, but Burgess has pushed back, insisting goth didn't even exist yet and the band were post-punk through and through. Andrew Welsh of the Daily Record heard Cure-like guitars with a quiet psychedelic streak over martial, Joy Division-style drumming, and the tastes inside the band ran wider still: Fielding was a Joni Mitchell and Mike Oldfield fan, while Lever leaned toward Peter Gabriel and Genesis.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 1829 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
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