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Difficult Shapes and Passive Rhythms, Some People Think It's Fun to Entertain

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Released
  
1982 (1982)

Artist
  
China Crisis

Label
  
Virgin Records

Length
  
39:30

Release date
  
1982

Genres
  
New wave, Synthpop

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Recorded
  
Amazon Studios, Liverpool, Strawberry South, Stockport and Red Bus studios, London, 1980 - 1982

Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms Some People Think It's Fun to Entertain (1982)
  
Working with Fire and Steel – Possible Pop Songs Volume Two (1983)

Producers
  
Peter Walsh, Steve Levine, Gil Norton, Jeremy J. Lewis

Similar
  
China Crisis albums, New wave albums

Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms Some People Think It's Fun to Entertain is the debut album by English new wave group China Crisis released in 1982. It spent 17 weeks on the UK Albums Chart and peaked at number 21 in February 1983.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Daly/Lundon/Reilly.

  1. "Seven Sports for All" – 3:18
  2. "No More Blue Horizons (Fool, Fool, Fool)" – 3:48
  3. "Feel to Be Driven Away" – 2:55
  4. "Some People I Know to Lead Fantastic Lives" – 3:33
  5. "Christian" – 5:37
  6. "African and White" – 3:46
  7. "Are We a Worker" – 3:30
  8. "Red Sails" – 4:43
  9. "You Never See It" – 2:57
  10. "Temptation's Big Blue Eyes" – 3:25
  11. "Jean Walks in Fresh Fields" – 1:53

Personnel

China Crisis
  • Gary Daly – vocals, synthesizer + bass on tracks 6, 10
  • Eddie Lundon – guitar, vocals + synthesizer on tracks 1, 9 and percussion on tracks 2, 8
  • Dave Reilly – drums, percussion + synthesizer on tracks 1, 9
    • Other personnel
  • George McFarlane – bass on track 1
  • Pete Walsh – synthesizer (solo) on track 2, electric piano (chord organ) on track 5
  • Frank Walsh – trumpet on track 2
  • Andy Pask – fretless bass on track 5
  • Mike Timoney – synthesizer on track 7
  • Jean – vocals on track 7, 10
    • Producers
  • Steve Levine – Tracks 1, 3
  • Peter Walsh – Tracks 2, 4, 5
  • Jeremy Lewis – Track 6
  • Gil Norton & China Crisis – Tracks 7-11

    • Songs

    1Seven Sports for All3:18
    2No More Blue Horizons3:49
    3Feel to Be Driven Away2:56

    References

    Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms, Some People Think It's Fun to Entertain Wikipedia
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