"Luv Your Life" is the third single by Australian rock band Silverchair

Silverchair

Silverchair were an Australian rock band, which formed in 1992 as Innocent Criminals in Merewether, Newcastle with the line-up of Ben Gillies on drums, Chris Joannou on bass guitar and Daniel Johns on vocals and guitars. The group got their big break in mid-1994 when they won a national demo...

 from their fourth album Diorama

Diorama (album)

Diorama is the fourth studio album by Australian alternative rock band Silverchair. Released on 31 March 2002 by record label Eleven, the album was co-produced by Daniel Johns and David Bottrill...

, which was released in 2002

2002 in music

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. The song was released as a single and a video was made in which the band was portrayed as animated

Animation

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 characters. This is mostly because Daniel Johns was incapacitated by his reactive arthritis, and the band needed to release another song to prevent commercial momentum for the album to come to a complete halt.

When watching the video, one can see that Chris and Ben's animated characters seem to be more fluid and realistic than Daniel's. This may be due to Chris and Ben doing some sort of motion capture

Motion capture

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 for the making of the video. Chris stated that this song is his favourite off the album. "Luv Your Life" was dedicated by Johns to "all my ladies", and was written on piano and featured an orchestral arrangement by Van Dyke Parks. The single peaked at number 20 on the Australian Recording Industry Association Singles Chart

ARIA Charts

The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...

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Track listings

Australian CD single (ELEVENCD10)

1. "Luv Your Life"
2. "The Greatest View" (on Rove Live)
3. "Without You" (on Rove Live)
4. Rove Live interview with Daniel Johns (audio)
5. Rove Live interview with Daniel Johns (video)

• Tracks 2, 3, 4, and 5 were recorded live on 2 April 2002 on Rove Live.

Australian 7" promo vinyl (ltd 500 copies, now deleted) (ELEVENV10)

1. "Luv Your Life"
2. "Luv Your Life" (Van Dyke Parks
   Van Dyke Parks
   Van Dyke Parks is an American composer, arranger, producer, musician, singer, author and actor. Parks is perhaps best known for his contributions as a lyricist on the Beach Boys album Smile....
   
    Premix)

UK CD Single (7567853812)

1. "Luv Your Life"
2. "Asylum"
3. "Hollywood"
4. "Ramble"

Charts

Chart (2002)	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...	20
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	187