''Just Add Life'' is a 1996 album by Scottish rock band The Almighty; it was the band's fifth studio album and the last released until 2000's self-titled album during which time the band split up. Two singles, "All Sussed Out" and "Do You Understand" were released from the album in multiple parts in the United Kingdom and both were made into music videos. The song "Coalition Star" was co-written with members of punk band

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, of which Warwick was a fan. The album was also issued as a two disc set including the bonus studio track "Misery Guts" and a 17-track live disc known as ''Just Add Live''.

Track listing

All songs written by

Ricky Warwick Ricky Warwick (born 11 July 1966) is a Northern Irish musician and the lead singer of the rock bands Black Star Riders and Thin Lizzy. He is also the frontman for the Scottish hard rock band The Almighty, with whom he achieved chart success in ...

except as indicated: #"Ongoing & Total" – 4:16 #"Do You Understand" – 3:16 #"All Sussed Out" (Ricky Warwick, Pete Friesen) – 3:17 #"How Real is Real for You" – 2:33 #"Dead Happy" – 3:16 #"Some Kind of Anything" – 2:26 #*Floyd London on lead vocals #"Coalition Star" (Warwick, Paul Fox, Dave Ruffy, John "Segs" Jennings) – 4:42 #"8 Day Depression" – 3:05 #"Look What Happened Tomorrow" – 3:07 #"360" – 3:27 #"Feed the Need" – 3:32 #"Afraid of Flying" – 0:43 #"Independent Deterrent" (Warwick, Friesen) -3:28

B-Sides

# "Misery Guts" – 3:12 # "Superpower" – 3:16 # "DSS (Desperately Seeking Something)" – 2:03 # "Tense Nervous Headshake" – 1:42 # "Canned Jesus" (Friesen) – 3:09 # "Everybody's Burning" # "

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(Live)" – 3:18 # "Do You Understand (I.L.R. Radio Session)" – 3:18

Personnel

As listed in liner notes. The Almighty *

– vocals, guitars * Pete Friesen – guitars *Floyd London – bass, vocals *Stump Munroe – drums Additional musicians * Mark Feltham –

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica in ...

on "Independent Deterrent" *James Taylor – Hammond

B3 organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generate ...

on "8 Day Depression" and "Feed the Need" 'Kick Horns' on "All Sussed Out" *Simon Clarke – baritone and alto saxophone *Roddy Lorimer –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standar ...

*Tim Sanders –

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

Production *Pom & Phil Luff – assistant engineers,

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*John Rodd – assistant engineer,

Great Linford Manor Linford Manor, also known as Great Linford Manor, is a seventeenth-century mansion or manor house converted into a recording studio complex in Great Linford, a district in Milton Keynes, England. It is now owned by Pete Winkelman who is chairman ...

Chris Sheldon Chris Sheldon (born 25 September 1962) is an English record producer, particularly of rock music based in London, England. He has produced or mixed records for the Foo Fighters, Garbage, Big Country, Feeder, Therapy?, Biffy Clyro, Oceansize ...

– producer *Mark Warner – mixer and assistant engineer, The Townhouse Mastered by Andy Van Dett at

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, New York

References

{{Authority control 1996 albums The Almighty (band) albums Albums produced by Chris Sheldon Chrysalis Records albums