Other People's Lives

This article is about the Ray Davies album. For the 1997 song by Modest Mouse, see Other People's Lives (Modest Mouse song).

Other People's Lives
Studio album by Ray Davies
Released	7 February 2006[1]
Studio	Konk Studios, Hornsey, London
Genre	Rock
Length	61:23
Label	V2
Producer	Ray Davies
Ray Davies chronology
The Storyteller (1998) Other People's Lives (2006) Working Man's Café (2007)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Pitchfork Media	(6.7/10)[2]
Rolling Stone	[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]

Other People's Lives is the third studio album by the English singer-songwriter Ray Davies. It reached the top 40 in the UK Albums Chart in February 2006^{[citation needed]} and 122 in the US Billboard 200.^{[citation needed]} Released on V2 Records, it was Davies' third solo album, but his first straightforward studio release.

Release and reception

Promotional singles were distributed to radio for the tracks "Things Are Gonna Change (The Morning After)" and "Over My Head". No singles were commercially released.^{[citation needed]}

The title song appeared in the radio program This American Life, episode 344: "The Competition".^[5]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ray Davies

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Things Are Gonna Change (The Morning After)"	4:21
2.	"After the Fall"	4:36
3.	"Next Door Neighbour"	3:52
4.	"All She Wrote"	4:10
5.	"Creatures of Little Faith"	3:13
6.	"Run Away from Time"	3:47
7.	"The Tourist"	4:45
8.	"Is There Life After Breakfast?"	4:31
9.	"The Getaway (Lonesome Train)"	6:31
10.	"Other People's Lives"	4:53
11.	"Stand Up Comic"	4:31
12.	"Over My Head"	5:58
13.	"Thanksgiving Day"	6:15
Total length:		61:23

Personnel

• Ray Davies - guitar, piano, Mellotron, Hammond organ, Vox organ, bass guitar, vocals
• Mark Johns - guitar, dobro, slide guitar, E-bow
• Steve Bolton - guitar
• Dick Nolan, Norman Watt-Roy, David Swift - bass guitar
• Dylan Howe, Toby Baron - drums
• John Beecham, Mike Cotton, Nick Payn - horn section on "Next Door Neighbor"
• Phil Veacock - saxophone on "Stand Up Comic"
• Matt Winch - trumpet on "Thanksgiving Day"
• Milton McDonald - guitar on "Thanksgiving Day"
• Serge Krebs - SFX effects and loops on "The Tourist"
• Isabel Fructuoso - vocals on "Other People's Lives"
• Alida Giusti, Dick Nolan, Linda McBride, Martin Davies, Martin Rex, Serge Krebs - Konk choir on "Stand Up Comic"

Technical

• Laurie Latham, Graham Dominy - engineer

References

1. Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "Other People's Lives - Ray Davies". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
2. Marc Hogan (14 March 2006). "Ray Davies: Other People's Lives". Pitchfork. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
3. David Fricke (15 February 2006). "Ray Davies - Other People's Lives". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 7 January 2008. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
4. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
5. "Episode Archive - 344: The Competition". This American Life. Archived from the original on 21 April 2009. Retrieved 29 December 2023.

External links

• Official Ray Davies website