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Easy Pieces is the second studio album by the British rock and pop band Lloyd Cole and the Commotions.It was released on Polydor Records in the UK on 22 November 1985 and included the hit singles "Brand New Friend" (#19 in UK), "Lost Weekend" (#17 in UK) and "Cut Me Down" (#38 in UK).
Rattlesnakes is the debut studio album by the British rock and pop band Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, released on 12 October 1984 by Polydor Records. [3] The album reached number 13 on the UK Albums Chart and included the singles "Perfect Skin" (number 26 in UK), "Forest Fire" (number 41 in UK, number 25 in New Zealand) and "Rattlesnakes" (number 65 in UK, number 31 in the Netherlands).
On the first two Commotions albums, Cole was the band's principal songwriter (though he co-wrote several songs with various bandmembers). The third studio album is credited to the band as a whole. During 2004, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions reunited for a month to celebrate the release of the Rattlesnakes deluxe edition.
Title Album details Peak chart positions Certification UK [1]AUS [2]1984–1989: Released: March 1989; Label: Polydor, Capitol 14 85 BPI: Gold; Lloyd Cole. The Commotions.
1984–1989 is the first compilation album by the British band Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, released on 27 March 1989 through Polydor Records in the UK. It compiles material released by the band on their three studio albums, Rattlesnakes (1984), Easy Pieces (1985), and Mainstream (1987).
Cole's lyrics were largely inspired by the cocaine-addicted narrator of American author Jay McInerney's 1984 novel Bright Lights, Big City. [3] In a 1987 interview with Sounds, he revealed, "I actually thought that in 'My Bag' I'd recovered some of the reckless, careless writing that I used to do in things like 'Perfect Skin'. I wrote it when I ...
In February 2013 a new album of electronic music by Cole and Hans-Joachim Roedelius was released, called Selected Studies Vol. 1. [14] In 2016, Cole went on tour with the Leopards to celebrate the release of the Lloyd Cole and the Commotions Collected Recordings 1983–1988 box set.
"Rattlesnakes" is a song by British band Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, released in 1984 as the third and final single from their debut studio album of the same name. The song was written by Lloyd Cole and produced by Paul Hardiman. It peaked at number 65 in the UK Singles Chart and remained in the top 100 for three weeks.