Girls At Our Best! - Pleasure

Original Release Date

1981

Release Information

UK LP 1981 (Happy Birthday - RULP1)

1 Pleasure
2 Too Big For Your Boots
3 I'm Beautiful Now
4 Waterbed Babies
5 Fun-City Teenagers
6 £600,000
7 Heaven
8 China Blue
9 Fast Boyfriends
10 She Flipped
11 Goodbye To That Jazz

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UK CD 2009 (Cherry Red - CDMRED 346)

1 Getting Nowhere Fast 2:01
2 Warm Girls 4:04
3 Politics 3:17
4 It's Fashion 2:25
5 Go For Gold 3:23
6 Pleasure 2:49
7 Too Big For Your Boots 2:49
8 I'm Beautiful Now 3:33
9 Waterbed Babies 3:24
10 Fun-City Teenagers 2:51
11 £600,000 2:49
12 Heaven 3:47
13 China Blue 3:06
14 Fast Boyfriends 2:50
15 She Flipped 3:27
16 Goodbye To That Jazz 3:43
17 This Train 3:00
Plus Richard Skinner BBC Session
18 Fast Boyfriends 2:50
19 £600,000 3:01
20 I'm Beautiful Now 3:14
21 Pleasure 2:49
Plus Unreleased Demo
22 Boys At Their Best (Demo) 2:33

Chart Placings

UK Indie Hit: 2, 11 wks
UK Chart Hit: 60, 3 wks

Credits

LP:

Judy 'Jo' Evans - lead vocals
James Alan - guitar, backing vocals
Gerard Swift - bass, backing vocals
D. Carl Harper - drums (1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9)
Rod Johnson - drums (2, 5, 7, 10, 11)
WIth:
Alan Wakeman - clarinet
Dave Fishel - piano, harpsichord
Thomas Dolby - synthesiser

Produced by Laurence Diana
Recorded at Marcus Music Studios, London in the Summer of 1981
Engineered by Flood

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CD:

18-21: Recorded for the Richard Skinner show on BBC Radio One. Produced by Dale Griffin. Engineer: Peter Watts. First transmission date: 23rd February 1981.

Remastering by Russ Hepwirth-Sawyer

Additional Credits

1-2: Getting Nowhere Fast 7", released April 1980
3-4: Politics! 7", released November 1980
6-16: Pleasure LP, released November 1981
17: B-Side of Fast Boyfriends 7", released November 1981
22: Demo from final recording session, previously unreleased

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