Thursday, November 18, 2010

Stereophonics - Performance and Cocktails (1999)


SOLD! $42.79
Auction Link (ended November 25th)
NM Original UK Limited Edition Pressing

V2 Records: SPC-1 thru SPC-7
Format: 7X10" Singles Box Set, Black Vinyl 45RPM
All Stampers "X-01-1-1"
Includes: 7 Heavy Custom Graphic Inner Sleeves, All NM!
8-Page Photo Booklet, NM!
"all about morfa and performance and cocktails" Bonus CD (SPCD-8), NM!
Box Condition: VG+, Only a very minor ding along top edge (see photo).
Great collectible condition, Always stored vertically in a protective poly sleeve.
Vinyl Condition: NM! All vinyls are pristine, a real keeper copy, plays and looks great! Labels are NM

Release Info:  Performance and Cocktails is Stereophonics' second album. It was released by V2 March 8, 1999. All three members of the band were given equal credit for writing all the songs on this album. The name 'Performance and Cocktails' comes from lyrics in the first song of the album 'Roll Up and Shine'.

The songs were variously recorded at Real World Studios in Bath, Parkgate in Sussex and Rockfield in Monmouth.

The cover photograph was taken by Scarlet Page in autumn 1998 at a football pitch under the Westway in London, and was inspired by an earlier Annie Leibovitz photograph of a couple kissing outside a prison. The British journalist Tony Barrell did extensive research in 2007 to find the female model in the foreground. In the Sunday Times on November 11, 2007, he revealed the previously unknown identity of the model as 23-year-old Lucy Joplin. In an interview with Barrell, Joplin explained that the "faraway look" in her eyes was the result of an evening consuming absinthe and opium, and that she was paid just £75 in cash for the shoot.

Track listing

1."Roll Up and Shine" – 3:58
2."The Bartender and the Thief" – 2:54
3."Hurry Up and Wait" – 4:40
4."Pick a Part That's New" – 3:33
5."Just Looking" – 4:13
6."Half The Lies You Tell Ain't True" – 2:55
7."I Wouldn't Believe Your Radio" – 3:50
8."T-Shirt Sun Tan" – 4:04
9."Is Yesterday, Tomorrow, Today?" – 4:02
10."A Minute Longer" – 3:46
11."She Takes Her Clothes Off" – 3:55
12."Plastic California" – 4:30
13."I Stopped to Fill My Car Up" – 4:29

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