''Music for Pleasure'' is the debut studio album by rock band
Monaco
Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig ...
, a side project of
New Order bassist
Peter Hook. It was released in 1997 and reached No. 11 in the UK. The album sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide, with its first single, "
What Do You Want from Me?", often mistaken for a New Order song. The band recorded one more album before dissolving in 2000.
"What Do You Want from Me?" was one of two hit singles in the UK. It reached No. 11 in March 1997, while "Sweet Lips" hit No. 18, in May.
The cover is designed by
Peter Saville and the cover photograph was taken by
Sam Taylor-Wood
Samantha Louise Taylor-Johnson OBE ( née Taylor-Wood; 4 March 1967) is a British filmmaker and photographer. Her directorial feature film debut was 2009's '' Nowhere Boy'', a film based on the childhood experiences of The Beatles songwriter ...
.
Track listing
(All songs by
Peter Hook and David Potts)
# "
What Do You Want from Me?" – 4:09
# "Shine" – 5:32
# "Sweet Lips" – 4:11
# "Buzz Gum" – 6:05
# "Blue" – 2:40
# "Junk" – 9:14
# "Billy Bones" – 4:59
# "Happy Jack" – 4:12
# "Tender" – 4:34
# "Under the Stars" - 3:52 (not on UK release)
# "Sedona" – 6:54
("Sedona" ends at 5:50. After one minute of silence, a brief spoken message by Hook - "Oi! You can turn it off now." - plays.)
Personnel
*
Peter Hook – bass guitar, vocals
* David Potts – drums, guitar, keyboards, vocals, bass
Charts
References
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Monaco (band) albums
1997 debut albums