Big City Secrets

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

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