Whatever Gets You Through the Day [Import]

Lighthouse Family | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 26, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Spectrum Audio UK
• ASIN: B00005S84A
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #333,677 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Run

2. Happy

3. (I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be) Free/One

4. End Of The Sky

5. Life's A Dream

6. It's A Beautiful Day

7. You're A Star

8. You Always Want What You Haven't Got

9. Wish

10. Whatever Gets You Through The Day

11. Wish (Acoustic Version)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Lush, sweeping, painstakingly produced, and often terribly sad, the music of British duo Lighthouse Family is simply gorgeous. Whether one digs the pair's insistence on manicuring every element of their sound, there can be little debate that Paul Tucker and Tunde Baiyewu craft pop melodies that are Bacharachian in their grandeur. Whatever Gets You Through the Day, the pair's third album, carries on the tradition; the musician credits take up half a page in the CD insert, and it sounds like it. The majestic, bigger-than-life "End of the Sky" takes a full orchestral treatment, while "(I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be) Free/One"--borrowing from both Nina Simone and U2--reaches its crescendo with a full-tilt gospel choir. It's impressive but also a tough act to follow, and the disc's second half feels somewhat sluggish. Still, the haunting beauty of comparatively low-key songs like "Run" and "Happy"--which nevertheless feature prominent strings and, like all the other songs, Baiyewu's chocolaty voice--qualify Whatever Gets You Through the Day as a modern suite worth investigating. --Kim Hughes

Product Description

Full title - Whatever Gets You Through The Day. 10 tracks. Universal. 2001.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Music, September 30, 2011

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This review is from: Whatever Gets You Through the Day (Audio CD)

As most of the music The Lighthouse Family has created, this is [over-all] another great listening CD!

The songs titled Happy and It's A Beautiful Day are particularly positive with inspiring tones.
It is really a disappointment that they are not making music together any longer.