Rockpile - Seconds of Pleasure (Columbia Records, 1980)

Rockpile - Seconds of Pleasure (Columbia Records, 1980)
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If self-deprecation was as sweet as Rockpile, we'd all be buried under mountains of pure pop perfection. This explains why the Astro Crag that is Seconds of Pleasure keeps weighing me down. Rockpile is a super group (not dissimilar to a supergroup in this instance), featuring Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds, both manhandling songwriting duties. "When I Write the Book" is obviously the "hit" here, but if we're being real (we're being real), EVERY GODDAMN SONG on this album is SOLID FUCKING GOLD. There are amphetamine-addled R&B stompers, gut-busting, self-loathing poppers AND a bonus single of choice Everly Brothers cuts all to be found here.

In short, head to the record store (probably any record store in America (seriously)), grab this record, pull out a five spot and wait for the clerk to put two or three one dollar bills back in your hand.
Take the record home, play the record cover-to-cover, lose your shit (mentally and gastrointernally), then send me an email thanking me for delivering the world's most simple instructions for attaining perfect, personal bliss.
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