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

Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms Some People Think It's Fun to Entertain
Studio album by China Crisis
Released	1982
Recorded	Amazon Studios, Liverpool, Strawberry South, Stockport and Red Bus studios, London, 1980 - 1982
Genre	New wave
Length	39:30
Label	Virgin Records
Producer	Peter Walsh, Steve Levine, China Crisis, Gil Norton, Jeremy Lewis
China Crisis chronology
Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms Some People Think It's Fun to Entertain (1982) Working with Fire and Steel – Possible Pop Songs Volume Two (1983)
Singles from Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms Some People Think It's Fun to Entertain
"African and White" Released: 1981 "No More Blue Horizons" Released: 1982 "Christian" Released: December 1982

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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.^[2]

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 personell

• 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^[3]

References

1. Steve "Spaz" Schnee. "Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms Some People Think It's Fun to Entertain - China Crisis | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
2. China Crisis Official Charts
3. Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms, Some People Think It's Fun to Entertain Discogs.com