Easy Pieces was the second album by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions were a British pop band that formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1982. Between 1984 and 1989, the band scored four Top 20 albums and five Top 40 singles in the UK...

. It was released in 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).

Track listing

All songs were written by Lloyd Cole

Lloyd Cole

Lloyd Cole is an English singer and songwriter, known for his role as lead singer of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions from 1984 to 1989, and for his subsequent solo work.-Early life:...

, except where noted.

1. "Rich" – 4:23
2. "Why I Love Country Music" (Cole/Cowan) – 3:00
3. "Pretty Gone" (Clark/Cole) – 3:32
4. "Grace" – 4:05
5. "Cut Me Down" – 4:29
6. "Brand New Friend" (Cole/Cowan) – 4:52
7. "Lost Weekend" (Clark/Cole/Donegan) – 3:14
8. "James" – 3:53
9. "Minor Character" (Clark/Cole) – 3:46
10. "Perfect Blue " – 4:30

Many versions of the album include 3 additional songs originally released as b-sides.

• Her Last Fling

Produced by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

• Big World
• Nevers End

Produced by Mark Saunders and the Commotions

Performance

• Neil Clark
  Neil Clark (guitarist)
  Neil Clark is a Scottish guitarist, known for his work with Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. He has regularly worked and toured with Lloyd Cole post-Commotions including playing on and touring in support of Cole's 2006 album, Antidepressant...
  
   – guitar
• Lloyd Cole
  Lloyd Cole
  Lloyd Cole is an English singer and songwriter, known for his role as lead singer of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions from 1984 to 1989, and for his subsequent solo work.-Early life:...
  
   – vocal, guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Blair Cowan
  Blair Cowan
  Blair Cowan is a Scottish musician, formerly a member of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. Following the breakup of that band, he continued to collaborate with Lloyd Cole early in the singer's solo career, playing and co-writing on 1990's Lloyd Cole and 1991's Don't Get Weird on Me Babe.He has since...
  
   – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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• Lawrence Donegan
  Lawrence Donegan
  Lawrence Donegan , is a musician and journalist, currently Golf Correspondent at The Guardian.Donegan was educated at St Modan's High School and the University of Glasgow, where his musical career began. He was the bassist in The Bluebells, whose biggest hit was "Young at Heart," and Lloyd Cole and...
  
   – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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  , guitar
• Stephen Irvine – drums
  Drum kit
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  , tambourine
  Tambourine
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• Jimmy Thomas, Jimmy Helms, Lance Ellington, Jimmy Chambers, Tony Jackson, Lynda Hayes – Additional vocals

Production

• Clive Langer
  Clive Langer
  Clive Langer is a British record producer active from the mid 1970s onwards. He usually works with Alan Winstanley. He composed the music for the films Still Crazy and Brothers of the Head. Prior to his record producing career he was a guitarist with the British cult band Deaf SchoolLanger...
  
   – producer
• Alan Winstanley
  Alan Winstanley
  Alan Kenneth Winstanley is a British record producer active from the mid-1970s onwards. He usually works with Clive Langer.-Notable studio albums produced by Alan Winstanley and Clive Langer:* One Step Beyond... – Madness...
  
   – producer
• Anne Dudley
  Anne Dudley
  Anne Dudley is an English composer and pop musician, and was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in both the classical and pop genres. She is perhaps best known, however, as one of the core members of the synthpop band Art of Noise and also as a film...
  
   – string arrangements
• Gary Barnacle
  Gary Barnacle
  Gary Barnacle is a saxophonist/flautist, brass instrument arranger, composer and producer, primarily noted for session work, live work Gary Barnacle (born 1959, Dover, England) is a saxophonist/flautist, brass instrument arranger, composer and producer, primarily noted for session work, live work...
  
  – Brass arrangements