Reload (album)

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Reload is the title of an album, released in 1999 by Welsh singer Tom Jones.

After a lengthy career, and a notable absence from the music charts for several years, Jones resurrected his career with this album of 15 cover versions and 2 original tracks ("Sexbomb", "Looking Out My Window") recorded as duets with current artists. To ensure that the finished product retained the sound of these artists, he also recorded the tracks in the same studios these artists used, and also used their record producers.

The album became the highest seller of Jones' career, reaching number one on the British charts in 1999 and again in 2000. The biggest single from the album was the collaboration with Mousse T, "Sex Bomb", which reached #3 in the UK charts, and was later used in an episode of The Simpsons (a show Jones had guest starred on in 1992). The album has sold more than 6 million copies worldwide. The album was not released immediately in the US with Jones' US record company stating that many of the artists were not known outside of the UK. Jones announced plans to record additional tracks with well known US artists to prepare the album for US release. This did not occur.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Burning Down the House" (with The Cardigans, written by David Byrne / Tina Weymouth / Chris Frantz / Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads)
2. "Mama Told Me Not to Come" (with Stereophonics, written by Randy Newman made popular by Three Dog Night)
3. "Are You Gonna Go My Way" (with Robbie Williams, written by Lenny Kravitz / Craig Ross)
4. "All Mine" (with The Divine Comedy, written by Geoff Barrow / Beth Gibbons / Adrian Utley of Portishead)
5. "Sunny Afternoon" (with Space, written by Ray Davies of The Kinks)
6. "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" (with James Dean Bradfield, written by Stan Kesler / William E. Taylor)
7. "Sexbomb" (with Mousse T, written by Mousse T / Errol Rennalls)
8. "You Need Love Like I Do" (with Heather Small, written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, originally a single for Gladys Knight & the Pips)
9. "Looking Out My Window" (with James Taylor Quartet, written by Tom Jones)
10. "Sometimes We Cry" (with Van Morrison from the album The Healing Game)
11. "Lust for Life" (with The Pretenders, lyrics by Iggy Pop / music by David Bowie)
12. "Little Green Bag" (with Barenaked Ladies, original by George Baker Selection)
13. "Ain't That a Lot of Love" (with Simply Red, written by Willa Dean Parker and Homer Banks)
14. "She Drives Me Crazy" (with Zucchero, original by Fine Young Cannibals)
15. "Never Tear Us Apart" (with Natalie Imbruglia, original by INXS)
16. "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (with Cerys Matthews from Catatonia, by Frank Loesser)
17. "Motherless Child" (with Portishead, traditional)

A 'special edition' release of the album also includes remixes of "Sexbomb" and "You Need Love Like I Do" as bonus tracks.

[edit] External links

• Official Website