Just Add Life is a 1996 album by Scottish

Scottish people

The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...

 heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band The Almighty

The Almighty (band)

The Almighty are a hard rock/heavy metal band, from Glasgow in Scotland who formed in 1988. They have released seven studio albums, two anthologies and one live album.-1988-1993:...

; 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 The Ruts

The Ruts

The Ruts were a reggae-influenced British punk rock band, notable for the 1979 Top 10 hit "Babylon's Burning", and an earlier single "In a Rut", which was not a hit but was much played and highly regarded by the UK BBC Radio 1 disc jockey, John Peel.-Career:...

, 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

Ricky Warwick is possibly best known as the frontman for the Scottish band The Almighty. Starting out as a rhythm guitarist in New Model Army, Ricky formed The Almighty in 1988. Warwick was the lead vocalist and played guitar in various formats of the band. In 1996 he left The Almighty...

 except as indicated

1. "Ongoing & Total" - 4:16
2. "Do You Understand" - 3:16
3. "All Sussed Out" (Ricky Warwick, Pete Friesen
   Pete Friesen
   Pete Friesen is a guitarist who has toured the world and recorded with such acts as Alice Cooper, The Almighty and Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson.-Biography:...
   
   ) - 3:17
4. "How Real is Real for You" - 2:33
5. "Dead Happy" - 3:16
6. "Some Kind of Anything" - 2:26
   • Floyd London
     Floyd London
     Floyd London is the longtime bassist for the Scottish metal band, The Almighty.London was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in September 2004 and underwent intensive chemotherapy....
     
      on lead vocals
7. "Coalition Star" (Warwick, Paul Fox
   Paul Fox (musician)
   Paul Fox was a British musician and singer, best known from his work with the UK punk band, The Ruts. The Ruts' style combined punk with dub reggae, a sound that owed much to Fox's guitar skills and earned him respect and admiration...
   
   , Dave Ruffy, John "Segs" Jennings) - 4:42
8. "8 Day Depression" - 3:05
9. "Look What Happened Tomorrow" - 3:07
10. "360" - 3:27
11. "Feed the Need" - 3:32
12. "Afraid of Flying" - 0:43
13. "Independent Deterrent" (Warwick, Friesen) -3:28

B-Sides

1. "Misery Guts" - 3:12
2. "Superpower" - 3:16
3. "DSS (Desperately Seeking Something)" - 2:03
4. "Tense Nervous Headshake" - 1:42
5. "Canned Jesus" (Friesen) - 3:09
6. "Everybody's Burning"
7. "I Fought the Law
   I Fought the Law
   "I Fought the Law" is a song written by Sonny Curtis of The Crickets and became popularized by a cover by the Bobby Fuller Four, which went on to become a top-ten hit for the band in 1966 and was also recorded by The Clash in 1979...
   
    (Live)" - 3:18
8. "Do You Understand (I.L.R. Radio Session)" - 3:18

The Almighty

• Pete Friesen
  Pete Friesen
  Pete Friesen is a guitarist who has toured the world and recorded with such acts as Alice Cooper, The Almighty and Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson.-Biography:...
  
   - guitars
• Floyd London
  Floyd London
  Floyd London is the longtime bassist for the Scottish metal band, The Almighty.London was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in September 2004 and underwent intensive chemotherapy....
  
   - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , vocals
• Stump Monroe - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Ricky Warwick
  Ricky Warwick
  Ricky Warwick is possibly best known as the frontman for the Scottish band The Almighty. Starting out as a rhythm guitarist in New Model Army, Ricky formed The Almighty in 1988. Warwick was the lead vocalist and played guitar in various formats of the band. In 1996 he left The Almighty...
  
   - vocals, guitars

Additional musicians

• Mark Feltham - harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
   on "Independent Deterrent"
• James Taylor - Hammond B3 organ on "8 Day Depression" and "Feed the Need"

'Kick Horns' on "All Sussed Out"

• Simon Clarke - baritone
  Baritone saxophone
  The baritone saxophone, often called "bari sax" , is one of the largest and lowest pitched members of the saxophone family. It was invented by Adolphe Sax. The baritone is distinguished from smaller sizes of saxophone by the extra loop near its mouthpiece...
  
   and alto saxophone
  Alto saxophone
  The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in 1841. It is smaller than the tenor but larger than the soprano, and is the type most used in classical compositions...
  
  
• Roddy Lorimer - trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  
• Tim Sanders - tenor saxophone
  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, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...
  
  

Production

• Pom & Phil Luff - assistant engineers, Ridge Farm Studio
  Ridge Farm Studio
  Ridge Farm Studio was one of the very first residential recording studios in the United Kingdom. The studio operated for over twenty five years as a residential recording studio...
  
  , Rusper
  Rusper
  Rusper is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies north of the town of Horsham and west of Crawley. Rusper is the centre of Rusper Parish which covers most of the northern area between Horsham and Crawley. Rusper is governed by the Horsham District...
  
  
• John Rodd - assistant engineer, Great Linford Manor
• Chris Sheldon
  Chris Sheldon
  Chris Sheldon is a record producer, particularly of rock music, based in London, UK. He has produced or mixed records for the Foo Fighters, Garbage, Feeder, Biffy Clyro, Oceansize and Pixies amongst others...
  
   - producer
• Mark Warner - mixer and assistant engineer, The Townhouse

Mastered by Andy Van Dett at Masterdisk

Masterdisk

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