Track Listing

1. You Make Me Believe
2. So Many People
3. Lives And Loves
4. Fairground
5. Never Never Love
6. So Beautiful
7. Hillside Avenue
8. Remembering The First Time
9. Out On The Range
10. We're In This Together

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50449 in Music
• Released on: 1995-10-09
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

This Is "Life"
Hello

Simply Red changed after the Stars album, not rapidly but they did change. Life is an album with so many different music genres, bit of R+B bit of Soul bit of Pop Bit Of Rock, And alot of Good Reggae.

You CANNOT class Simply Red into a genre its impossible, you cannot label them one genre.

Right back to Life, Life had to be a good album to follow Stars and it was. Pure class.

My favourite song is Hillside Avenue you can’t deny how good that song is. Simply Red only has one number 1 in this country. Just goes to show you, how rubbish the music industry is at this time.

It’s so easy to listen to, you can sort of relate to each song. Mick is clearly not just righting perky 3 minute love songs.

This is proper music. Go Buy.

Regards
Sam Kitching

Simply Red - Life
I have to say that although this may not be Simply Red's best work (I think the end of the 90's era with Blue and Love and the Russian Winter is their best stuff with Home coming close behind) it is extremely likeable and I find it easy to listen to. In my opinion, Fairgground probably is the strongest song on the albumn and did bring them their first and only UK no.1 to date but the other songs shouldn't be discounted. I particularly like the softeness of Never Never Love and I never get bored of hearing Hillside Avenue. The Stars albumn was always going to be a hard act to follow and this may have not been the best to follow it (maybe Blue was more of a better follow up) but still, I am glad I own it and often listen to it without getting bored. Nice background music.

Worst album in my collection
Avoid this album at all costs. It's an unbelievably appalling set of bland, embarassing MOR. Every track is the same - boring keyboard riff, drum beat, saxophone and a few guitars here and there. The worst culprit of all is Out On The Range which is overlong while being bland. His croonings about "the first time we made love" on Remembering the First Time are so embarassing. Hillside Avenue is hideous - he tries to do reggae with apalling results. Never Never Love, Lives and Loves and So Many People are just bland.

There is one classic track, however - Fairground. For once it isn't MOR. The beat and keyboards are really upbeat and danceable unlike the rest of the album. The chorus soars like Stars.

Overall, this is a one song album. It is unbelievable that this is the follow up to Stars - the third best selling album in Britain ever. Stars is a classic but this is just apalling.