Real Life (Magazine album)

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Real Life
Real Life cover
Studio album by Magazine
Released April 1978
Recorded March-April 1978 on the Virgin Mobile and at Abbey Road
Genre Post punk
Length 41:24
Label Virgin Records
Producer John Leckie; bonus tracks produced by Magazine & Mick Glossop
Professional reviews
Magazine chronology
Real Life
(1978)		 Secondhand Daylight
(1979)

Real Life is the debut album by post-punk pioneers Magazine. The album is cited, along with Public Image Ltd.'s debut album, Public Image, as being one of the first post-punk albums.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Howard Devoto and John McGeoch unless otherwise indicated.

  1. "Definitive Gaze" – 4:25
  2. "My Tulpa" – 4:47
  3. "Shot By Both Sides" (Devoto, Pete Shelley) – 4:01
  4. "Recoil" – 2:50
  5. "Burst" (Devoto) – 5:00
  6. "Motorcade" (Devoto, Bob Dickinson) – 5:41
  7. "The Great Beautician in the Sky" – 4:56
  8. "The Light Pours Out of Me" (Devoto, McGeoch, Shelley) – 4:36
  9. "Parade" (Devoto, Barry Adamson, Dave Formula) – 5:08

Bonus Tracks:

  1. "Shot By Both Sides" (4:01)
  2. "My Mind Ain't So Open" - (2:18)
  3. "Touch And Go" - (2:58)
  4. "Goldfinger" (John Barry, Leslie Bricusse) - (3:50)

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