Want That Life
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Want That Life is the ninth studio album by British
new wave
band The Fixx
, released in 2003.
, Rupert Greenall, Jami West-Oram, and Adam Woods, except where noted.
Additional personnel
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
new wave
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
band The Fixx
The Fixx
The Fixx is an English rock band formed in London in 1979. Their hits include "One Thing Leads to Another," "Red Skies," "Stand or Fall," "Saved by Zero," "Sign of Fire," "Are We Ourselves?," "Secret Separation," "Driven Out," "How Much Is Enough?," and "Deeper and Deeper," which was featured on...
, released in 2003.
Track listing
All songs are written by Cy CurninCy Curnin
Cy Curnin is a singer/songwriter and musician. He is the lead vocalist for the new wave music group, The Fixx. The band became famous with the song "One Thing Leads to Another" in 1983, and remained popular in the United States throughout the 1980s...
, Rupert Greenall, Jami West-Oram, and Adam Woods, except where noted.
- "Touch" – 4:41
- "You Don't Have to Prove Yourself" – 4:11
- "Are You Satisfied?" – 5:49
- "Want That Life" – 3:49
- "We Don't Own the World" – 3:55
- "No Hollywood Ending" – 3:53
- "Straight 'Round the Bend" – 4:31
- "Roger and Out" – 5:07
- "Taking the Long Way Home" – 4:14
- "Brave" – 3:56
Personnel
- Cy CurninCy CurninCy Curnin is a singer/songwriter and musician. He is the lead vocalist for the new wave music group, The Fixx. The band became famous with the song "One Thing Leads to Another" in 1983, and remained popular in the United States throughout the 1980s...
- lead vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments... - Rupert Greenall - keyboardKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
- Jamie West-Oram - guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
- Adam Woods - drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
Additional personnel
- Erika Rundberg - backing vocals
- Jeff Scantlebury - percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
- Gary TibbsGary TibbsGary Tibbs is a bass guitarist and actor, who appeared in the film Breaking Glass, alongside Hazel O'Connor....
- bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
Production
- Producer: Martin Rex
- Engineer: Martin Rex
- Mixing: Martin Rex
- Mastering: Tim Young
- Assistant: Albert Pinheiro
- Programming: Martin Rex
- Art direction: Ed Spyra
- Design: Ed Spyra
- Photography: Lee Chambers, Jana Hendler, Ed Spyra