''Senso'' is the debut studio album by Australian singer-songwriter
Stephen Cummings, released in 1984. The album spawned the singles "We All Make Mistakes", "Stuck on Love", "Backstabbers", "Gymnasium", and "Another Kick in the Head". It peaked at number 46 on the Australian
Kent Music Report
The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999. The chart was re-branded the Australian Music Report (AMR) in July ...
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Senso at Australian Charts
/ref> The album was re-released on CD in 1992. In 2007, the album was re-reissued with ''This Wonderful Life''.
Reception
Toby Crewel from '' Rolling Stone Australia'' gave the album 4 1/2 out of 5, saying "''Senso'' is superficially a collection of romance songs slanted towards the slower numbers. However with repeated listenings it becomes much more than that – it's one of those rare records which reveals new depths and new delights with each spin." adding "Lyrically the songs move from melancholic rapture to ecstatic reverie with paranoia, viciousness and quiet determination in there somewhere as well. Cummings delivers them with more confidence than he showed on The Sports
The Sports were an Australian Rock music, rock group which performed and recorded between 1976 and 1981. Mainstay members were Stephen Cummings on lead vocals and Robert Glover on bass guitar, with long-term members such as Paul Hitchins on dru ...
records and he seems especially comfortable with the strong female harmonies and duets. His phrasing has never been better, his voice is more mature and his control more supple. He still loves to twist words out of shape and squeeze nuance from his vocal melody but he rarely mangles the lyric as has happened in the past."
Track listings
1992 reissue
2007 reissue
Charts
Release history
Personnel
* Arranged by (brass arrangements) – Greg Flood
* Joe Creighton - Bass, Additional vocals
* Mark Ferry - Bass
* Vince Jones - Cornet (solo)
* Martin Armiger
John Martin Armiger (10 June 1949 – 27 November 2019) was an Australian musician, record producer and composer. He was one of the singer-songwriters and guitarists with Melbourne-based rock band the Sports from August 1978 to late 1981, which ...
- Drum programming (Drumulator), Guitar, Keyboards
* Peter Luscombe
Peter Luscombe is an Australian drummer and composer.
Career
Luscombe was a member of The Black Sorrows from 1985 to 1993 appearing on the albums ''A Place in the World'' (1986), ''Dear Children'' (1987), ''Hold on to Me'' (1988), ''Harley and ...
- Drums
* Andrew Pendlebury
Andrew Scott Pendlebury (born 1952) is an Australian guitarist-songwriter. From 1977 to 1981 was a member of The Sports and from 1986 to 1988 he joined Slaughtermen. He has undertaken other projects and issued four solo albums. At the ARIA Mus ...
- Guitar
* Robert Goodge - Guitar
* Duncan Veal - Keyboards
* Jantra de Vilda - Keyboards
* Stephen Bigger - Keyboards
* Ricky Fataar - Percussion
* Wilbur Wilde - Saxophone Solo on Walking Out The Door
* Joe Camilleri
Joseph Vincent Camilleri, (born 21 May 1948) aka Jo Jo Zep or Joey Vincent, is a Maltese Australian singer-songwriter and musician. Camilleri has recorded as a solo artist and as a member of Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons and The Black Sorrows. Jo Jo ...
- Saxophone Solo on Another Kick in the Head
* Venetta Fields - Additional vocals
* Nick Smith - Additional vocals
* Linda Nutter - Additional vocals
* Nick Smith - Additional vocals
* Stephanie Sproul - Additional vocals
References
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1984 debut albums
Stephen Cummings albums
Albums produced by Martin Armiger
Regular Records albums
Warner Music Group albums