Life in a Day
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| Studio album from Simple Minds | ||||
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Publication |
April 1, 1979 |
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admission |
February 1979 |
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| Label (s) | Zoom Records (UK), Arista, Virgin Records | |||
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Format (s) |
CD, record |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
43:04 |
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Studio (s) |
Abbey Road (London), Townhouse (London), Rolling Stone Mobile |
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Life in a Day is the first studio album by the Scottish rock band Simple Minds .
Emergence
After the band had signed a recording contract with the small label Zoom Records in November 1978 and thus gained access to distribution through Arista, Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill began work on the debut album. In February 1979 the album was recorded under the direction of John Leckie at Abbey Road Studios and Townhouse Studios in London.
Publications
The album was released in the UK and Canada in April 1979 by Zoom Records and distributed in Germany by Arista. It was re-released on Virgin Records in 1982 after the band's commercial success began. Virgin released the unchanged CD format album in 1986 and 2002 as a digital remaster . In 2012 the album was re-released in the X5 box set from Virgin Records with 2 bonus tracks.
Track list
- Someone (3:40)
- Life in a Day (4:00)
- Sad Affair (2:45)
- All for you (2:50)
- Pleasantly disturbed (8:00)
- No Cure (3:38)
- Chelsea Girl (4:33)
- Wasteland (3:44)
- Destiny (3:36)
- Murder Story (6:18)
Bonus tracks
- 11. Special View (4:17)
- 12. Garden of Hate (4:28)
occupation
- Jim Kerr (vocals)
- Charlie Burchill (guitar, violin, background vocals)
- Derek Forbes (bass, background vocals)
- Brian McGee (drums, percussion, backing vocals)
- Michael MacNeil (keyboards, background vocals)
Chart success
The album was presented by a national tour in support of Magazine in April and May 1979. Life in a Day reached number 30 on the British album charts in May 1979. The decoupled singles Life in a Day and Chelsea Girl could not place in the UK Top 40 .
reception
Released in the course of the new wave and post-punk wave, Life in a Day already showed influences from pop music. Music journalist Christian Graf describes the range of the album's music in his rock music lexicon "from the brisk beat to brave hippie colors and punk adaptations to synthesized new wave"
Dave Thompson recognizes the influences of the Sparks , Velvets and Eno and evaluates: “perfectly poised between art rock extremism and sonic pop accessibility”.
Web links
- Life in a Day at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life in a Day in the Official UK Charts (English)
- ^ Christian Graf: Rock Music Lexicon . Europe / Vol. 2, L – Z. Taurus Press, Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-922542-22-0 (pp. 435-866). , P. 661
- ↑ Dave Thompson: Alternative Rock . Miller Freeman, San Francisco 2000, ISBN 0-87930-607-6 . , P. 789