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We Love Life

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Released
  
22 October 2001

Length
  
53:55

Artist
  
Pulp

Producer
  
Scott Walker

Genres
  
Britpop, Alternative rock

Recorded
  
2001

We Love Life (2001)
  
Hits (2002)

Release date
  
22 October 2001

Label
  
Island Records

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Similar
  
Pulp albums, Britpop albums, Other albums

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We Love Life is the seventh and final studio album by Pulp, released in the UK on 22 October 2001. It reached number 6 in the UK album charts, with a total chart stay of only three weeks.

Contents

It is notable for being produced by Scott Walker, whose own album 'Til The Band Comes In is mocked in the lyrics of the song "Bad Cover Version". Cocker claims the lyric was written long before Walker became involved in the album's production.

Background

The minimal cover art (by Peter Saville) shows a set of initial capitals held in the collection of St. Bride Printing Library in London. They were engraved in wood by or for Louis Pouchée around the 1820s.

In October 2011 a petition was started at PulpWiki.net to have a deluxe version of the album released.

Reception

Initial critical response to We Love Life was very positive. The album received an average score of 84 at Metacritic, based on 20 reviews. The music review online magazine Pitchfork Media placed We Love Life at number 194 on their list of the top 200 albums of the 2000s.

Track listing

All songs written by Cocker, Banks, Doyle, Mackey, Webber, except where indicated.

  1. "Weeds" – 3:42
  2. "Weeds II (The Origin of the Species)" – 3:58
  3. "The Night That Minnie Timperley Died" – 4:38
  4. "The Trees" – 4:49
  5. "Wickerman" – 8:17
  6. "I Love Life" – 5:31
  7. "The Birds in Your Garden" – 4:11
  8. "Bob Lind (The Only Way Is Down)" – 4:16
  9. "Bad Cover Version" – 4:16
  10. "Roadkill" – 4:16
  11. "Sunrise" (Cocker, Banks, Doyle, Mackey, Webber, Mansell) – 6:02
Bonus tracks

Personnel

Personnel adapted from album liner notes

Pulp
  • Jarvis Cocker – vocals
  • Mark Webber – guitars
  • Candida Doyle – keyboards
  • Steve Mackey – bass
  • Nick Banks – drums
    • Additional personnel
  • Scott Walker – keyboards, effects, baritone guitar, string arrangements
  • Richard Hawley – lap steel guitar on "Weeds" and "Sunrise," twelve-string guitar on "Bob Lind (The Only Way Is Down)"
  • Luis Jardim – percussion on "Weeds II (The Origin of the Species)"
  • Alasdair Malloy – percussion on "Weeds," glass harmonica on "Wickerman"
  • Danny Cummings – percussion on "The Night That Minnie Timperley Died"
  • Julian Poole – percussion on "Bad Cover Version" and "Sunrise"
  • Steve Hilton – programming on "Weeds" and "Wickerman"
  • Andy Findon – flute and ocarina on "The Birds In Your Garden"
  • Caspar Cronk – saw on "The Birds In Your Garden"

    • Songs

    1Weeds3:42
    2Weeds II (The Origin Of The Species)4:00
    3The Night That Minnie Timperley Died4:41

    References

    We Love Life Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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