Life in a Day (album)
Life in a Day is the first studio album by the Scottish rock band Simple Minds.
Formation
After the band had signed a recording contract with the small label Zoom Records in November 1978 and thus gained access to distribution by Arista, Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill began working on the debut album. In February 1979, the album under the direction of John Leckie was recorded at Abbey Road Studios and Townhouse Studios in London.
Publications
The album was released in April 1979 in the UK and Canada from Zoom Records and distributed in Germany by Arista. It was re-released after the onset of commercial success of the band in 1982 on Virgin Records. Virgin brought the unchanged CD albums in 1986 and 2002 as a digital remaster on the market. 2012, the album was in the X5 box set of Virgin Records with 2 bonus tracks released again.
Title list
Bonus Tracks
Occupation
- Jim Kerr ( vocals)
- Charlie Burchill (guitar, violin, background vocals)
- Derek Forbes (bass, background vocals )
- Brian McGee (drums, percussion, background vocals)
- Michael MacNeil (keyboards, background vocals )
Chart success
A national tour supporting Magazine in April and May 1979, the album was presented. Life in a Day in May 1979 reached number 30 in the UK album charts. The coupled- Singles Life in a Day and Chelsea Girl could not place in the UK Top 40 there.
Reception
Published as part of the New Wave and post- punk wave, Life in a Day already showed influences from pop music. Music journalist Christian Graf describes the span of the music of the album in his rock music lexicon "of brisk beat on brave hippie colors, and Punk adaptations to syntetisierten New Wave "
Dave Thompson recognizes influences of Sparks, Velvets and Eno and evaluates: "perfectly poised in between art rock extremism and sonic pop accessibility " ( " perfectly balanced between art rock and sonic extremism Popzugänglichkeit ").