This Year's Love, Pt. 1 [Single, Import]

David Gray | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 8, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single, Import
• Label: Wea International
• ASIN: B00005A7PL
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #303,617 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. This Year's Love [strings remix]

2. Flame Turns Blue

3. The Lights of London

Editorial Reviews

3rd UK CD single lifted from his Platinum selling 4th album, 'White Ladder'. The first part of this UK pressing includesall non-LP tracks, 'This Year's Love (Strings Remix)', 'Flame Turns Blue (Radio Edit)' lifted from his 'Lost Songs' album + a non-LP tr

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Is Not A Love Song, April 2, 2001

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This review is from: This Year's Love, Pt. 1 (Audio CD)

The Sinatra piano ballad from "White Ladder" finally gets released as a single. It's not the most obvious single choice, that would be "Babylon", which makes it all the more welcome. Too often, artists design songs specifically as singles. It's a heartfelt meditation on being in love and the underlying fear of losing that love.

Gray's opus is beautifully put together, the piano line perfectly underscoring his slow, world-weary voice. Why didn't he give it more of a chance and release it when the film it was written for appeared? It would have fitted easily on to Faithless's recent "All Back To Mine" compilation, a perfect 2 in the morning chill-out track, for when you're ruminating on what should have happened in your life.

And the hopes and fears of tomorrow are poured in as well. To hold a lighter aloft when this song is played live would be to do it a gross sentimental injustice. Just think about it instead.