''Points on the Curve'' is the second studio album by English new wave band Wang Chung, released in July 1983 by

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Background

''Points on the Curve'' is Wang Chung's first studio album since changing their name from Huang Chung and switching from Arista to the

. It reached No. 34 on the UK album charts on 21 April 1984 and No. 30 on the ''Billboard'' 200 album charts on 14 July 1984. The album features the No. 1 dance single "

Dance Hall Days "Dance Hall Days" is a song by English new wave band Wang Chung. It was originally released as a single in 1982 when the band was called Huang Chung, then it was re-recorded and re-released a year later in 1983 for the studio album ''Points on ...

" and includes the hit singles: " Don't Let Go", " Don't Be My Enemy" and "

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". The album cover was designed, and featured art direction by Barney Bubbles, who would kill himself three months after this album was released in the UK.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by

Jack Hues Jeremy Allan Ryder, better known as Jack Hues, (born 10 December 1954) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician, who is best known for forming and fronting the 1980s English new wave band, Wang Chung. Hues was also a member of the one-o ...

; co-writers are noted.

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the ''Points on the Curve'' liner notes. Musicians *

— lead vocals;

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

; keyboards *

Nick Feldman Nicholas Laurence Feldman (born 1 May 1955) is an English musician best known for forming the British new wave band Wang Chung in 1980. Feldman was half of the duo Promised Land, which also featured Jon Moss of Culture Club. He was a founding ...

—

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

; additional

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

; guitar; keyboards * Darren Costin — drums; additional vocals;

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

; keyboards *

Mel Collins Melvyn Desmond Collins (born 5 September 1947, Isle of Man) is a British saxophonist, flautist and session musician. Collins has played in several progressive rock groups, having been a member of King Crimson on two occasions (the first from ...

—

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

Production and artwork *

Chris Hughes Chris Hughes (born November 26, 1983) is an American entrepreneur and author who co-founded and served as spokesman for the online social directory and networking site Facebook until 2007. He was the publisher and editor-in-chief of ''The New R ...

– producer *

Ross Cullum Ross Cullum (born 1957 in Fulham, London, England) is an English composer, record producer, songwriter, mixer, A&R and music industry consultant. Career Cullum became an assistant at George Martin's AIR Studios, where he worked on recordings by ...

— producer * Mark McGuire — assistant

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limit ...

* Chris Hughes — rhythm; sequencer and computer programming * Paul Ridout — MC4 programming *

Greg Fulginiti Gregory Fulginiti (born February 13, 1951 in Cape May Court House section of Middle Township, New Jersey) is an American recording and mastering engineer. Fulginiti grew up in Wildwood, New Jersey and graduated from Wildwood High School in 1969 ...

— original LP mastering * WCI Record Group — CDD pre-mastering * Barney Bubbles — LP

design A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb ''to design' ...

and art director * Brian Griffin — front cover photograph * Paul Cox — back cover photograph * Ronn Specer — hand tinting

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Points on the Curve 1984 albums Geffen Records albums Wang Chung (band) albums Albums produced by Chris Hughes (musician)