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Big City Secrets is the first studio album by American singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur, released by Real World Records on March 11, 1997.

Big City Secrets

Studio album by

Joseph Arthur

Released

March 11, 1997

Studio

Real World, England

Genre

Alternative rock

Length

55:47

Label

Real World Records

Producer

Markus Dravs

Joseph Arthur chronology

Cut and Blind
(1996)

Big City Secrets
(1997)

Vacancy (EP)
(1999)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Joseph Arthur.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Big City Secret"	4:37
2.	"Mercedes"	6:18
3.	"Mikel K"	3:54
4.	"Good About Me"	4:58
5.	"Daddy's on Prozac"	4:05
6.	"Marina"	4:03
7.	"Birthday Card"	5:36
8.	"Crying Like a Man"	6:16
9.	"Porcupine"	4:42
10.	"Dessert"	1:05
11.	"Haunted Eyes"	4:44
12.	"Bottle of You"	5:29

Personnel

Musicians

Joseph Arthur – guitar (1–5, 7–9, 11, 12), vocals, harmonica (2), highly-strung bass (5), paintings, drawings
Roger Beaujolais – vibes (1), Venetian xylophone (2)
Martyn Barker – treated tubular kit (1), drums (2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 11), caxixi (4), bondage snare (8), live drums (9), scaffolphoneum (9), berimbau (11), cow gong (11), percussion (12)
Simon Edwards – bass (1–5, 10, 11), piano (4), bass performance & arrangement (6), coal bass (7), additional guitar (7), string fossil bass (8), maze bass (9), sas (9), berimbau (11), mellotron (11), Persian fretless (11), filter bass (12), harmonic missiles (12)
Markus Dravs – keyboard (1), desert storm & gravel percussion (1), corn horn (2), drum programming (4, 7, 9), lesley accordion (7), low drum & sheet percussion (8), production, mixing
Brian Eno – backing vocals (2)
Peter Gabriel – backing vocals (2)
Nigel Eaton – hurdy gurdy (3)
Ashley Slater – trombone (6, 7)
Ron Aslan – drum loop (7)
Nick Plytas – mellotron (7)

Technical personnel

Ben Findlay – engineering, editing, mixing
Ruadhri Cushnan – additional engineering
Ray Martin – additional engineering
Goetz Botzenhardt – additional engineering
Ibi Tjani – additional engineering
Jacquie Turner – additional engineering
Nick Kirkland – additional engineering
Justin Griffith – assistant engineering
Lee Phillips – assistant engineering
Lee Fitzgerald – assistant engineering
Mark Aubury – assistant engineering
Crispin Murray – additional editing
Paul Morris – additional editing
Tristan Manco – graphic design
Derek Edwards – 2012 Real World Gold reissue repackaged album design
Michele Turriani – front cover and right hand inside panel background photography
Anna Gabriel – CD face and inside left hand panel background photography

References

Cater, Evan. Joseph Arthur: Big City Secrets at AllMusic. Retrieved December 18, 2020.

v t e Joseph Arthur
Studio albums	Big City Secrets Come to Where I'm From Redemption's Son Our Shadows Will Remain Nuclear Daydream Let's Just Be Temporary People The Graduation Ceremony Redemption City The Ballad of Boogie Christ Lou: The Songs of Lou Reed Days of Surrender The Family Come Back World
EPs	Cut and Blind Vacancy Junkyard Hearts I-IV And the Thieves Are Gone Could We Survive Crazy Rain Vagabond Skies Foreign Girls
Other albums	The Invisible Parade
Singles	"Chemical" "In the Sun" "Honey and the Moon" "All of Our Hands" "Can't Exist" "Even Tho" "Devil's Broom" "Enough to Get Away"
Books	We Almost Made It
Related articles	Discography Lonely Astronaut Records The Lonely Astronauts Fistful of Mercy RNDM Holding the Void

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