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Life

Cardigans | Format: Audio CD
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews) |

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Swedish band The Cardigans primary success has been in their homeland and the UK/Europe. Best known in the US for their hits "Love Fool" (First Band on the Moon, 1996), "Erase and Rewind" and "My Favourite Game" (Gran Turismo, 1998), they have released six studio albums in all. Currently The Cardigans are on hiatus while the members work on solo projects.

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Product Details

  • Audio CD (February 20, 1996)
  • Original Release Date: February 20, 1996
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Minty Fresh
  • ASIN: B000003KX0
  • In-Print Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,192 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1. Carnival
2. Daddy's Car
3. Fine
4. Rise And Shine
5. Our Space
6. Celia Inside
7. Over The Water
8. Tomorrow
9. Sick And Tired
10. Beautiful One
11. Gordon's Gardenparty
12. Hey! Get Out Of My Way
13. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
14. Happy Meal (Bonus Track)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
other lives October 19, 2005
A Kid's Review
Format:Audio CD
i can't understand the different song line ups. the first "life" i bought a very long time ago was a cassette that had 11 songs. the flow of the album is so perfect i loved it so much i overplayed it and had my cassette player eat it. so i bought the cd and there's another different song line up (gasp!) and later would i find out that it's the UK Version of "life" which had additional songs from the earlier album "emmerdale" including a different take on Rise & Shine (which is nice) and ommitted Pikebubbles, Sunday Circus Song and Closing Time. and now this - the minty fresh release of "life". it ommitted Traveling with Charley, replaced the new version of Rise & Shine with the old version and added more songs from "emmerdale" (i really don't think that Our Space fits right in "life" kinda wrecks the happy-go-lucky mood) the first version of "life" IMHO is still superior and i'm aware, as well as the band do, that the minty fresh version acts as some kind of a compilation between the cardigans' first two albums, if you really want to experience the real "life" please do check out the one that starts with carnival and ends with closing time, me thinks it's some kind of a concept album, a very happy one. the songs from "emmerdale" wrecked the happy mood, as we all know "emmerdale's" not that happy at all.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By Derek
Format:Audio CD
If I could give an album more than five stars, Life would be the first candidate to receive it.

This CD is just brimming with an innocent joy that is as infectious as it is melodically brilliant. Just try to resist tapping your toes to "Carnival" or "Tomorrow", and it's hard to quell the urge to sing along with the delightful chorus of "Daddy's Car".

This is one of very few great pop albums. The atmosphere of the album is great, but don't take this to mean that the musicians aren't talented: one only needs to hear "Sick & Tired" for some great guitar work. A listen to "Tomorrow" will garner you with some of the best drum work of a band today. And on "Carnival", lead singer Nina's Persson's voice is taken to a whole new level of feeling, apart from her normal whisper.

This album is sheer genius. Credit also goes to the Cardigans for "Our Space" a trippy, and thoughtful song that revels in Nina's minimalist voice. The kitsch of "Gordon's Gardenparty" is wonderfully shameless.

DEFINITELY worth your time and money.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
What an album!! September 20, 2001
Format:Audio CD
As I get older, I'm faced with a dilema I'm sure many aging music fans face-- getting into and finding new music. It's really hard. You just have this urge to stick by your favorites. And as time passes and record labels keep pumping out new acts, I fall more and more in love with The Cardigans. Sure, many people just simply write them off as bubbly Swedish pop, but if you listen carefully past Nina Persson's girlish cute voice, the music is extremely well written, crafted and executed rock-n-roll. This whole album just simply rocks.

In a nutshell, the songs on this album range from bouncy (Carnival, Fine, Rise and Shine, Hey! Get Out of My Way, and Happy Meal) to loungy (Gordon's Garden Party, Daddy's Car, Our Space, Celia Inside, Over the Water) and mix of both (Tomorrow, Sick and Tired, Beautiful One, Sabbeth Bloody Sabbeth). My lack of music terminology really can't do this album justice. So in plain English, this album is really great and... it deserves way more than 5 stars. The Cardigans are just the right combination of everything that works toward making a great band and an album. If you don't own a copy yet, buy it now.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
An all-time favorite
This is one of the best Cardigan albums. I liked it when it first came out, and I still listen to it. It has withstood the test of time (or maybe it's my nostalgia).
Published 13 months ago by C. Pitcher
Cardigans Life-the best Cardigans disc
This is my favorite Cardigans disc, of all of them, including the supergravity and first band on the moon. It is qwirky, melodic and poetic. "Fine" is my favorite track.
Published on March 16, 2007 by Jan Groovy
Wish there were more CDs like this one.
This CD is a classic already. If you compare The Cardigans' sound of today with the music of this album, the resemblances are hard to find. Read more
Published on March 12, 2007 by Croonerd Mayabang
This is a great album
This album is is a treasure chest overstuffed with the rarest of all entities - finely crafted pop songs. I have owned this album since 1997 and I can say it has aged quite well. Read more
Published on March 15, 2006 by jvdi
LIFE and other joys....
This album is so amazingly unique and charming..its a shame they had to go on making albums so completely different from this one. Read more
Published on February 9, 2006 by Darby Carr
candy coated
it doesn't get much sweeter and purely pop than this. legendary (?) album of non stop wonderous songs sung with doe eyed enthusiasm by Nina. Read more
Published on September 19, 2005 by J. Holmes
Sugar-Sweet Poppy Bliss!
My very first Cardigans CD was "First Band On The Moon" and I just love it, although it has a melancholy, tragic feel to it. "Life"'s feeling is practically opposite. Read more
Published on August 22, 2005
Life ~ The Cardigans
After having listened to first band on the moon , I picked up another recording of theirs, life. I like it a bit better. Read more
Published on March 24, 2005 by Bjorn Viberg
New Cardigans fans start here!
If you're a new fan of The Cardigans this is the album to start with. This is The Cardigans with their signature sound in full force. Read more
Published on September 1, 2004 by J. Gosselin
POP MUSIC AT ITS BEST
In Japan there was a BOOM which called "SWEDISH POP BOOM".This band was one of the most famous acts.When the BOOM was over,the PRESS began to forget this band. Read more
Published on July 6, 2004 by Sound Profiler
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