First Love / Last Rites

First Love / Last Rites
First Love / Last Rites
Studio album by Cock Robin
Released	October 30, 1989
Recorded	1989
Genre	Rock
Label	CBS 465943 2 (Europe)
Producer	Rhett Davies
Cock Robin chronology

First Love / Last Rites is the third album by Cock Robin and was released in 1989 in Europe and 1990 in the USA.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]

Track listing

Stumble and Fall
Straighter Line
Win or Lose
One Joy Bang
For Experience Sake
Hunting Down a Killer
Any More Than I Could Understand
My First Confession
Manzanar
Worlds Apart

All songs by Peter Kingsbery except "For Experience Sake" (Peter Kingsbery/Anna LaCazio)

The US version includes a cover of Conway Twitty's "It's Only Make Believe", added as track #6 (after "For Experience Sake" and before "Hunting Down a Killer").

It was the band's final album before their (temporary) split, which lasted from 1990 to 2006. It proved to be their least successful album of the first half of their career.

Musicians

Cock Robin

Peter Kingsbery: vocals, keyboards
Anna LaCazio: vocals

Additional musicians

Pat Mastelotto: drums
Luis Conte: percussion
Corky James: guitar
John Pierce: bass
Ramon Flores, Samuel Nolasco and Xavier Serrano: mariachi horns
David Faragher: bass on Stumble And Fall, Any More Than I Could Understand and Manzanar
Paul Mitchell: additional drumming on Manzanar

Miscellaneous

Produced by Rhett Davies

Singles:

Worlds Apart
Straighter Line
Manzanar. It's the name of a Japanese American internment camp located in California during World War II.
It's Only Make Believe (US)

The CD sleeve features the poem It's Ours by Charles Bukowski, an excerpt from You Get So Alone at Times It Just Makes Sense (1986).

Charts

#11 France (2x Gold album)

References

^ "Music and Media" (PDF). p. 26.
^ Allmusic

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[1] "Music and Media" (PDF). p. 26.

[2] Allmusic

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