Lifetime

About Lifetime

Lifetime is the third studio album by the Australian band Real Life, released in October 1990 by Curb Records. The album is the first release by the band without co-founder Richard Zatorski's involvement. The tracks "God Tonight" and "Kiss the Ground" reached the Modern Rock and Dance charts in the United States.

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Reception

Tomas Mureika from AllMusic believed the album was "better than much of the pop music out at the time, it feels too much like a commercial product rather than a labor of passion like Heartland or Flame", adding "'Kiss the Ground', 'Push of Love' and 'Let's Start a Fire' are all perfectly solid synth pop songs—but, alas, the era of synth pop was over by 1990 and Sterry had yet to discover the type of music that would ultimately make Real Life great again."

Personnel

Adapted from the album liner notes.

Real Life

David Sterry – vocals, guitar

Steve Williams – keyboards

Allan Johnson – bass

Danny Simcic – drums

Additional musicians

Tracy Ackerman – backing vocals (3, 5, 8)

Susie Ahern – backing vocals (3, 5, 8)

Miquette Giraudy – backing vocals (6)

Technical

Real Life – producer (1–3, 5, 9, 10)

Steve Hillage – producer (4, 6–8)

Nigel Wright – co-producer (1–3, 5, 9, 10)

Doug Brady – engineer

Paul Kosky – engineer

Melita Jagic – engineer

Bruce Johnson – engineer

Robin Sellars – engineer

Tom Baker – mastering

Wilson Design Group – art direction, design

James Widdowson – photography

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Notable quotes

“There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.~~ 1931”
— Logan Pearsall Smith
“Jacob said unto Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years," using the word pilgrimage in reference to life on earth, which the pious regard as a temporary sojourn in alien lands.”
— Louis Ginzberg, in Legends of the Jews (1909)
“Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.”
— Anaïs Nin, as quoted in French Writers of the Past (2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 126.
“Life is something that everyone should try at least once.”
— Henry J. Tillman, as quoted in In Your 60s (2009) by Judy Valon, Wakefield Press; and in Pathological Altruism (2012), edited by Barbara Oakley, Ariel Knafo, Guruprasad Madhavan, and David Sloan Wilson, Oxford University Press
“All that a man hath will he give for his life.”
— Job, II. 4.
“If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden, chapter 6, conclusion (vol. 2 of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau), p. 170 (1906, reprinted 1968). Originally published in 1854.

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