Back in the High Life: Steve Winwood: Amazon.ca: Music

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1. Higher Love

2. Take It As It Comes

3. Freedom Overspill

4. Back In The High Life Again

5. The Finer Things

6. Wake Me Up On Judgement Day

7. Split Decision

8. My Love's Leavin'

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Album Description

Japanese only SHM pressing. The SHM-CD [Super High Material CD] format features enhanced audio quality through the use of a special polycarbonate plastic. Using a process developed by JVC and Universal Music Japan discovered through the joint companies' research into LCD display manufacturing SHM-CDs feature improved transparency on the data side of the disc allowing for more accurate reading of CD data by the CD player laser head. SHM-CD format CDs are fully compatible with standard CD players. Universal. 2009.

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

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4.0 out of 5 stars This album got him "Back In The High Life Again"., Mar 9 2004

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This review is from: Back in the High Life (Audio CD)

There's only 8 tracks on this album, but half of it is some of his biggest hits ever. Included is "The Finer Things", "Freedom Overspill", "Back In The High Life Again", and the huge song "Higher Love". Plus the other tracks are good too. Overall a good listen, but what he needs to do, is release a best of his solo years, including the hits here, the hits from "Roll With It", and then some. Then he could call that collection "The Finer Things". I'd buy it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Back In The High Life, Mar 6 2004

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This review is from: Back in the High Life (Audio CD)

Back In The High Life has to be one of the best songs I have ever heard and I have been following folk and rock and roll since the 50's.

Its just too bad he hasn't kept with this style of song more often.
To me it sounds like Phil Collins, Cat Stevens and John Denver in a song by 0ne Artist Steve Winwood.

Great song but this style should have been done more often.
Listening to some of his other songs, you can't notice the same style.

He doesn't seem to capitalize on the true and great talent that he has.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most impressive albums of the 1980s, Aug 24 2003

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This review is from: Back in the High Life (Audio CD)

Steve Winwood was indeed enjoying the high life after the release of this album in 1986. Back in the High Life is one of the best albums of that musically rich decade, providing Winwood with four huge hit singles. Winwood almost became too popular as a result of these songs; the radio played Higher Love, The Finer Things, Freedom Overspill, and Back in the High Life Again so often that even I eventually began to grow tired of them. As a result, I can say that I enjoy this album even more today than I did at the time of its initial release. Winwood's distinctive, laid-back music never goes out of style, and it soothes the soul while touching the heart with some quite emotional, really meaningful lyrics. I'm afraid I can't really describe the music; all I can say is that it combines drums, guitars, and horns in a way that is all its own.

While the album is remembered primarily for commercial successes such as Higher Love (featuring memorable backup vocals by Chaka Kahn) and Back in the High Life Again (featuring harmony vocals by James Taylor), it features eight songs of incredible quality. I might note that each track exceeds five minutes in length, so this album is not as short as it may appear. Take It As It Comes had real hit potential in my opinion. Wake Me Up on Judgment Day doesn't seem that memorable yet plays itself over and over in your mind after you hear it. Split Decision features some great guitar riffs, proving that Winwood can get down and rock a little when he wants to. The final track, My Love's Leavin', may well be the best song on the album, communicating both loss and hope in a way few artists can equal. You would be hard pressed to find a more impressive album from top to bottom than Steve Winwood's Back in the High Life.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Am I going soft? Nah.
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