| 释义 |
- Track listing
- Album credits
- External links
{{For|the German film|Big City Secret (film)}}{{Unreferenced|date=April 2018}}{{Infobox album
| name = Big City Secrets
| type = Album
| artist = Joseph Arthur
| cover = Joseph Arthur - Big City Secrets.jpg
| alt =
| released = March 11, 1997 (US)
June 23, 1997 (UK)
| recorded = Real World Studios, England
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Alternative rock
| length = 55:47
| label = Real World Records
| producer = Markus Dravs
| prev_title = Cut and Blind
| prev_year = 1996
| next_title = Vacancy (EP)
| next_year = 1999
}}{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}} [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r256370|pure_url=yes}} link]}}Big City Secrets is the first studio album by Joseph Arthur, released by Real World Records on March 11, 1997. Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno contribute backing vocals on the song "Mercedes." Track listing{{tracklist
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| all_writing = Joseph Arthur
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| title1 = Big City Secret
| length1 = 4:37
| title2 = Mercedes
| length2 = 6:18
| title3 = Mikel K
| length3 = 3:54
| title4 = Good About Me
| length4 = 4:58
| title5 = Daddy's on Prozac
| length5 = 4:05
| title6 = Marina
| length6 = 4:03
| title7 = Birthday Card
| length7 = 5:36
| title8 = Crying Like a Man
| length8 = 6:16
| title9 = Porcupine
| length9 = 4:42
| title10 = Dessert
| length10 = 1:05
| title11 = Haunted Eyes
| length11 = 4:44
| title12 = Bottle of You
| length12 = 5:29
}}Album credits- "Big City Secret"
- Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
- Martyn Barker: treated tubular kit
- Markus Dravs: keyboards, desert storm & gravel percussion
- "Mercedes"
- Joseph Arthur: harmonica, guitar and vocals
- Roger Beaujolais: Venetian xylophone
- Peter Gabriel: backing vocals
- Brian Eno: backing vocals
- "Mikel K"
- Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
- "Good About Me"
- Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
- Simon Edwards: piano, bass
- Markus Dravs: drum programming
- "Daddy's on Prozac"
- Joseph Arthur: vocals, highly-strung bass, guitar
- "Marina"
- Simon Edwards: bass performance and arrangement
- "Birthday Card"
- Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
- Markus Dravs: lesley accordion and drum programming
- Martyn Barker: military snare
- Simon Edwards: coal bass, additional guitars
- "Crying Like a Man"
- Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
- Martyn Barker: bondage snare
- Markus Dravs: low drum and sheet percussion
- Simon Edwards: string fossil bass
- "Porcupine"
- Joseph Arthur: guitars and vocals
- Martyn Barker: live drums and scaffolphoneum
- Simon Edwards: maze bass, sas
- Markus Dravs: drum programming
- "Dessert"
- "Haunted Eyes"
- Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
- Martyn Barker: drums, birimbau, cow gong
- Simon Edwards: bass, birimbau, melotron and Persian fretless
- "Bottle of You"
- Joseph Arthur: guitar and vocals
- Martyn Barker: percussion
- Simon Edwards: filter bass, harmonic missiles
- Produced by Markus Dravs (c/o Fundamental Music).
- Engineered and digitally edited by Ben Findlay.
- Mixed by Markus Dravs with Ben Findlay.
- Additional engineers: Justin Griffith, Lee Phillips, Lee Fitzgerald and Mark Aubury.
- Additional editors: Crispin Murray and Paul Morris
- Recorded and mixed at Real World Studios, England.
- Additional venues: Swanyard Studios, Eascote Studios, Berwick Street Studios in England; Shelter Island Studios in New York.
- A Real World design; graphic design by Tristan Manco.
- Photography by Michele Turriani (front and back of booklet); Anna Gabriel (inlay and CD label).
- Paintings and drawings by Joseph Arthur.
External links- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927002220/http://realworldrecords.com/catalogue/titles/title.lasso?section_id=f&product_id=CDRW64%2F Official Album Page].
- [{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r256370|pure_url=yes}} Big City Secrets at Allmusic].
- [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000000HPS/ Big City Secrets at amazon.com].
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