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Producers Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, as is their wont, created a shimmering pop surface for Lloyd Cole and the Commotions' second album, Easy Pieces, sweetening the tracks with string and brass countermelodies and emphasizing the chiming highs of the guitar and keyboards for an attractive sound that echoed the earnestness of British bands like the Hollies and Herman's Hermits circa 1966. It was, of course, like sugarcoating cyanide capsules, given Cole's pleasantly sung lyrics, which detailed philosophical disillusionment, romantic discord, and, yes, at least attempted suicide. In the U.K., Easy Pieces was a Top Ten hit. But although the album saw something of a proper release in the U.S., and the Commotions toured extensively, no American breakthrough materialized.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
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CLIVE LANGER, Producer - Alan Winstanley, Producer - Lloyd Cole, ComposerLyricist - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions, MainArtist
℗ 1985 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
CLIVE LANGER, Producer - Alan Winstanley, Producer - Lloyd Cole, ComposerLyricist - Blair Gray Cowan, ComposerLyricist - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions, MainArtist
℗ 1985 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
CLIVE LANGER, Producer - Alan Winstanley, Producer - Lloyd Cole, ComposerLyricist - Neil Robert Clark, ComposerLyricist - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions, MainArtist
℗ 1985 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
CLIVE LANGER, Producer - Alan Winstanley, Producer - Lloyd Cole, ComposerLyricist - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions, MainArtist
℗ 1985 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
CLIVE LANGER, Producer - Alan Winstanley, Producer - Lloyd Cole, ComposerLyricist - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions, MainArtist
℗ 1985 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Neil Clark, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - CLIVE LANGER, Producer - Blair Cowan, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Alan Winstanley, Producer - Lloyd Cole, Guitar, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Lawrence Donegan, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Blair Gray Cowan, ComposerLyricist - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions, MainArtist - Stephen Irvine, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1985 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
CLIVE LANGER, Producer - Alan Winstanley, Producer - Lloyd Cole, Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Neil Robert Clark, ComposerLyricist - Lawrence Donegan, ComposerLyricist - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions, MainArtist
℗ 1985 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
CLIVE LANGER, Producer - Alan Winstanley, Producer - Lloyd Cole, ComposerLyricist - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions, MainArtist
℗ 1985 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
CLIVE LANGER, Producer - Alan Winstanley, Producer - Lloyd Cole, ComposerLyricist - Neil Robert Clark, ComposerLyricist - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions, MainArtist
℗ 1985 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
CLIVE LANGER, Producer - Alan Winstanley, Producer - Lloyd Cole, ComposerLyricist - Lloyd Cole And The Commotions, MainArtist
℗ 1985 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
Albumbeschreibung
Producers Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, as is their wont, created a shimmering pop surface for Lloyd Cole and the Commotions' second album, Easy Pieces, sweetening the tracks with string and brass countermelodies and emphasizing the chiming highs of the guitar and keyboards for an attractive sound that echoed the earnestness of British bands like the Hollies and Herman's Hermits circa 1966. It was, of course, like sugarcoating cyanide capsules, given Cole's pleasantly sung lyrics, which detailed philosophical disillusionment, romantic discord, and, yes, at least attempted suicide. In the U.K., Easy Pieces was a Top Ten hit. But although the album saw something of a proper release in the U.S., and the Commotions toured extensively, no American breakthrough materialized.
© William Ruhlmann /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:39:51
- Main artists: Lloyd Cole And The Commotions
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 1985 Polydor Ltd. (UK) ℗ 2015 Polydor Ltd. (UK)
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