Track Listing

1. Lazy Days
2. Life Thru a Lens
3. Ego A Go Go
4. Angels
5. South of the Border
6. Old Before I Die
7. One of God's Better People
8. Let Me Entertain You
9. Killing Me
10. Clean
11. Baby Girl Window

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2096 in Music
• Released on: 1998-12-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
When Life Thru A Lens came out, Robbie Williams was a swiftly-failing music industry joke--"Blobbie Pill-iams", the ballooning drug-freak, drunk and bleary-eyed at far too many parties for his own good. Although his cover of George Micheal's "Freedom" had gone in at Number 2, "Old Before I Die" and "South Of The Border" sounded too like weak-tea Oasis for any real chart action and people were starting to talk about him as a failure. Then the elegiac "Angels" with its simple black-and-white video hit MTV pay-dirt, and six months later Williams was picking up six BRIT Awards, showing off his post-rehab six-pack and dating an All Saint. And so the rest of Life Thru A Lens is a likeable, hyperactive stream of consciousness--much like Williams himself. "Lazy Days" is an unexpectedly gorgeous psychedelic swoon, and "Let Me Entertain You"--"When I'm Cleaning Windows" for the Hooch generation--is still an irresistible offer. --Caitlin Moran

Customer Reviews

Most Pray for a debut album this good
Being from the states I am a relative nubbie to the whole Robbie Williams craze. Although I remember the song "Back for Good", I didn't remember Take That, let alone the fact that Robbie was in the group. Imagine my surprise, after I became a fan of RW's music. The Ego Has Landed is the first album I've bought in 6 yrs to inspire me get my hands on all the artist had to offer and a far cry from his boyband background. I chose "Life Thru a Lens" first, because I found out it was his debut solo album. And what an album! The song writing and melodies show a maturity that most artist don't accomplish until their sophomore album...if they're lucky. But the brilliant dichotomy of this work of art is the fact that the subject matter and angst in his voice, in his songs, reveal the growing pains of a person in the transition from from boy to man and all the normal turmoil that goes with it - the lost of a first love, difficult decisions, and completed by an ode to ones mother - as well as songs that divulge the underbelly of being an established star by the time you're 18. This is what pop should be.

Robbie's best album
Few took him seriously when he released this, they should have done because everything is right about it.
Great rock tunes on it aswell as the spine chilling classic Angels - lets face it, everybody knows it.
The climax's to the songs are one the album's best points, of course there is Angels, but then the fabulous 'Killing Me' sends shivers down your spine, and the acoustic 'One Of God's Better People' has something in it that you are just able to relate to somebody in your life.

I only hope that Robbie will be given the credibility he deserves throughout his career and in the many years after, his voice and songs are amazing

Robbie williams, Life trhu a lens.
I decided to update all my robbie albums again, I used to have this one (cant remember what happeaned to it) and it is still has much fun to listen to now has it was then, It is a great album and i would highly recommend everyone to have this album amongst there cd collection!