Life on Other Planets is the fourth studio album by English alternative rock band Supergrass. It is the first album that includes Rob Coombes as an official member of the band, and originally went under the working title of Get Lost. It peaked at number 9 on the UK Albums Chart.

Background

The band hired an outside producer, Tony Hoffer, for the record, having felt that their last release, Supergrass, lacked some of the urgency of their previous albums: "He helped us keep the takes quite short and sweet", says Danny Goffey. "We really didn't mess around because he kept us moving. If we had done it on our own again, we'd just get really analytical and start crying and trying to mend things that weren't broken."

Composition and lyrics

The naming of the album was influenced by this excursion, but also by a telescope which qualified astrophysicist and keyboard player Rob Coombes, would bring with him to the recording studio in order to see the planets; "...we got fascinated on everything above us and came up with the title," in the Côte d'Azur, Southern France together, listening to the French radio station Nostalgie and watching Carl Sagan documentaries on the cosmos. Carl Sagan and Douglas Adams are in fact mentioned on the reverse of Life on Other Planets under a list of people Supergrass would like to thank.

Musically, the sound of the album has been described as power pop,

Reception

Life on Other Planets was met with generally favourable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 74, based on 21 reviews.: Live Forms

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  2. Rush Hour Soul Live at Elysée Montmartre
  3. Seen The Light Live at Elysée Montmartre
  4. Brecon Beacons Live at Elysée Montmartre
  5. Can’t Get Up Live at Heineken Music Hall
  6. Evening Of The Day Live at Wembley Arena
  7. Never Done Nothing Like That Before Live at Elysée Montmartre
  8. Funniest Thing Live at Wembley Arena
  9. Grace Live at Wembley Arena
  10. La Song Live at Wembley Arena
  11. Prophet 15 Live At V2002
  12. The Loner Live at Elysée Montmartre
  13. Run Live at Elysée Montmartre
  14. Rush Hour Soul Live Acoustic NYC
  15. Seen The Light Live Acoustic XFM
  16. Evening Of The Day Live Acoustic BBC Pebble Mill
  17. Can’t Get Up Live Acoustic XFM

Note: CD2 + CD3 track details obtained from superdeluxeedition.com article.

Link= https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/supergrass-life-on-other-planets-reissue/

More details: CD packaging folds out to 4 panels, housing the 24-page booklet, and the 3 CDs.

Personnel

  • Gaz Coombes – lead vocals, guitar, bass guitar on track 6
  • Mick Quinn – bass guitar, backing vocals, guitar on track 6, lead vocals on tracks 6, 7 & 10
  • Rob Coombes – keyboards
  • Danny Goffey – drums, backing vocals, lead vocals on track 4

Charts

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References

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  • Life on Other Planets at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)