We Love Life [Import]

We Love Life [Import]

Track Listings

1. Ain't Got No-I Got Life

2. I Got You (I Feel Good)

3. Uptight (Everything's Alright)

4. I Can Make You Feel Good

5. All Right Now

6. Mmmbop

7. Lovely Day

8. Summer Breeze

9. California Dreamin'

10. Club Tropicana

11. Summertime

12. Lifted

13. Fantastic

14. Pass It On

15. Movin' On Up

16. Wake Up Boo

17. You're Gorgeous

18. Good Enough

19. Dancing In The Moonlight

20. I See You Baby

See all 40 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
A Collection of Feel Good Anthems for Summer Including Nina Simone's "Ain't Got No (I Got Life)" as Featured in the Muller TV Commercial. Also features Fantastic Up-tempo Happy Songs from the Likes of James Brown, Elvis Presley, Outkast and Groove Armada.

Tracks:

Weeds
Weeds II (The Origin Of The Species)
The Night That Minnie Temperley Died
The Trees
Wickerman
I Love Life
The Birds In Your Garden
Bob Lind (The Only Way Is Down)
Bad Cover Version
Roadkill
Sunrise

Album Description

2001 album from one of the best British pop groups of the 90's. We Love Life was produced by none other than Scott Walker & features 11 tracks including the first double A-side single, 'The Trees' & 'Sunrise'.

Album Details

2001 Album from Jarvis Cocker and Company that Has Met with Outstanding Reviews in all Sectors. It's Not Exactly an Easy Listen, but Wellworth Exploring for Further Pleasures...it's One of Those Albums that Grows on You! Produced by the Ever Elusive Scott Walker and his Unique Wall of Sound.

Customer Reviews:

Don't buy UK version........2004-09-14

Dear Pulp fan... -- and that's what you must be to be willing to buy this. Otherwise, Pulp's 3 preceding albums are considerably better: "His "n Hers" (1994), "Different Class" (the one with "Common People", 1995), and their best, "This Is Hardcore" (1998).

Anyway! Dear Pulp fan, I seriously advise you to not buy this British import, since the songs are exactly the same as on the rest of the world (including Canada) version. If you desperately want the original, green leaves cover, since the rest-of-the-world has an autumn, multicolored-leaves cover, then I'd advise you buy the US import. The US import is not only cheaper, but has 2, albeit below average, bonus tracks found as b-sides on "Bad Cover Version". While they don't constitute a proper ending to the album, and sound under-developed, HEY they're extra tracks. So there's no reason to buy the UK version; the US version has the same cover and 2 bonus tracks.

Maybe my favorite Pulp album.......2003-07-12

I wouldn't compare this to Radiohead's Kid A, like some others reviewers have, but maybe closer to Blur's 13. But We Love Life is much more likable than 13 is at first. This album is less pop than Different Class, less dramatic then a lot of This Is Hardcore, but honestly I've bought dozens of albums recently, and I keep coming back to We Love Life. The songs on here aren't un-pop either, it's just a more relaxed feel with different instrumentation, and arguabley their best lyrics yet. If Pulp do make another album, I'd hope that they continue with this sound instead of trying to be the group they were in the mid-90's. One of my favorite albums.

Sunrise.......2002-08-26

The last track is the key to the understanding of this album.

Whilst the earlier albums, marked with Jarvis' keen perception of reality, were more concerned with the "overfilling of life's ashtray", We Love Life is the manifestation of the artist's present more mature attitude. Call it Zen, whatever.

Bob Lind and Bad Cover Version do not really belong on this album, being more reminiscent of the classic Pulp, but they are not to be missed.

Hope Pulp stays together for a while longer.......2002-04-30

I first saw Pulp on Italian television back in 1995 performing 'Do You Remember the First Time.' First, the band's music and visual style swept me away. Then the intelligent, clever lyrics actually invoked vivid images in my head that stayed with me. The exaggerated, playful emotion in Jarvis' voice rang true and therefore not so exaggerated, just awesome. So therefore, I find "His N' Hers" and "Different Class" to be two of the greatest and enduring pop records ever.

With a significant gap of time, I eagerly anticipated This is Hardcore, but must say I was somewhat disappointed. There are some excellent to perfect songs there (Help the Aged, Like A Friend, I'm a Man, Sylvia). But songs like This is Hardcore, A Little Soul, and Seductive Barry seemed to wallow a bit too much musically. See the thing is Pulp has always written songs about misery, decay, abuse, misfits, etc. but wrapped them in creative, sweeping, upbeat, grandiose, and fun, if somewhat seedy musical landscapes. That was what seriously attracted me to Pulp. This is Hardcore showed a noticeable, if not uniform, reduction of that energy/vitality in their music.

Fast-forward four long years to the not so much anticipated We Love Life and, while Pulp still write excellent lyrics, the music continues to become more introverted. What happened to the supreme rush of Pulp's music? Where have the frenetic, precise, acrobatic nerves in Jarvis' head gone? I read that the band almost split during the recording of this CD because they didn't like the way it sounded. A last minute re-recording saved the day. However, the episode seems to indicate that Pulp haven't been too happy with their output either.

Thankfully, there are some eminently likeable pieces here (musically as well as lyrically), namely: Weeds, Birds in Your Garden, Bob Lind, and Bad Cover Version. But overall, a lack of that old Pulp fizz persists. Lyrically, I believe this record to be an improvement over This is Hardcore, so that makes a BIG difference to me, but still these songs leave me feeling slightly deflated.

"Longtime fans will surely enjoy it.".......2002-04-10

Like Radiohead's O.K Computer was to The Bends, Pulp's follow-up to This Is Hardcore is a progressive rock album that, while isn't in the same vein as the previous album, is just as excellent. Abandoning the revoltingly nauseous feeling of Hardcore for an up-tempo ensemble using various string arrangements and composed tunes, Pulp have created an outstanding album that pulls them back into their His `N' Hers days. Bringing in legendary 60's performer and recluse Scott Walker as producer certainly was an intelligent move for the group, who brings a buoyant feel to the music by adding a background choir to a number of the tracks and uses lead singer Jarvis Cocker's voice in ways he mustn't of thought possible. The album opens with the country-esque "Weeds", using both acoustic and electric guitars to create an experimental feel to the track, heightened by some excellent percussion by drummers John Bank and Alasdair Malloy. The song is followed by the entirely different dark and brooding "Weeds II (the origin of the species)", which hears Cocker reading out lyrics that sound like they were taken from a nature park pamphlet. For fans of their last two albums, the band has included two exceedingly Brit-pop tunes in, firstly "I Love Life" that hears their classic `get your life back together' attitude kicking back in with superb paradoxical guitar riffs, one playing some Hendrix-esque sounds, while the other going for the standard Brit-pop tune. "Bob Lind", on the other hand, sounds straight out of Different Class with it being another wallow in the misery of post-fame existence. One of the most fascinating songs we've heard in a while has to be the eight-minute long, Velvet Underground-inspired "Wickerman", using a Lou Reed-esque voice to tell a normal story with exceptional music backing it, with the track sounding like a tribute to VU's "The Murder Mystery" and "The Gift". With some brilliantly funny pictures in the inlay that show the irony of the world, We Love Life is a marvelous little package. While people who jumped on the Pulp bandwagon within the past four years might find the album to be slow, repetitive and weary, longtime fans will surely enjoy it.

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