Pulp - We Love Life (2001)

Pulp - We Love Life (2001)

Tracklist front / back album covers

1. "Weeds"   3:42

2. "Weeds II (The Origin of the Species)"   3:58

3. "The Night That Minnie Timperley Died"   4:38

4. "The Trees" (samples "Tell Her You Love Her" written by Stanley Myers and Hal Shaper)   4:49

5. "Wickerman" (samples "Willow's Song" composed by Paul Giovanni, from the British Lion film The Wicker Man)   8:17

6. "I Love Life"   5:31

7. "The Birds in Your Garden"   4:11

8. "Bob Lind (The Only Way Is Down)"   4:16

9. "Bad Cover Version"   4:16

10. "Roadkill"   4:16

11. "Sunrise"   6:02

Total length:   53:55

United States CD bonus tracks

No. Title Length

12. "Yesterday" 3:52

13. "Forever in My Dreams" 4:23

Total length:   62:10

Pulp Band Members / Musicians

Alasdair Malloy – percussion (1), glass harmonica (5)

Luís Jardim – percussion (2)

Danny Cummings – percussion (3)

Julian Poole – percussion (9, 11)

Steve Hilton – programming (1, 5)

Howie B – programming (2)

Richard Hawley – lap steel guitar (1, 11), twelve-string guitar (8)

The Swingle Singers – backing vocals (1, 2, 5)

Joanna Forbes – musical direction, vocal arrangements

Beverly Skeete – backing vocals (9)

Sylvia James – backing vocals (9)

Claudia Fontaine – backing vocals (9)

Jeremy Shaw – keyboards (2)

Scott Walker – additional keyboards and tree effects (4), baritone guitar (6)

Andy Findon – ocarinas and flutes (7)

Caspar Cronk – musical saw (7)

Timos Papadopoulos at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, Southampton University under supervision of Professor Phil Nelson – birdsong (7)

Philip Sheppard – five string electric cello (10)

Metro Voices – choir

Scott Walker – production, mixing

Peter Walsh – co-production, engineering, mixing; choir engineering (11)

Matt Lawrence – assistant engineering; additional choir engineering (11)

Chris Blair – mastering

Clive Goddard – choir engineering (11)

Geoff Foster – strings recording

Gavyn Wright – strings leading

Isobel Griffiths – orchestral contracting

Jenny O'Grady – choral co-ordination

Steve Price – choir recording

Arrangement

Scott Walker – strings (5, 9), ten double basses (6, 8)

Brian Gascoigne – strings (1, 5, 9), ten double basses (8), choir (11)

Candida Doyle – strings (1, 5, 9)

Artwork

Jarvis Cocker – art direction

Peter Saville – art direction

Howard Wakefield – design

Marcus Werner Hed – design

We Love Life is the 7th and most recent studio album by English rock band Pulp, released on 22 October 2001 by Island Records. It reached number six on the UK Albums Chart, with a total chart stay of only three weeks. Written and recorded after the tumultuous sessions for This Is Hardcore, We Love Life saw the band move toward a more relaxed and natural sound, shepherded by producer and famed singer-songwriter Scott Walker. Walker had replaced original producer Chris Thomas, whom the band had worked with on previous albums.

We Love Life saw positive critical reception and charted at number 6 on the UK album charts.