- power pop
- 35 min
- 9 tracks
- Island
Life on the Line is the second studio album by English rock band Eddie and the Hot Rods. The album was mixed by Ed Hollis and Steve Nicol, produced by Ed Hollis, and engineered by Steve Lillywhite.
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Character
Classical in form, spare, grave and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Christgau's Record GuideB−
- Record Mirror5/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Do Anything You Wanna Do4:17
- 2Quit This Town2:25
- 3Telephone Girl2:25
- 4What’s Really Going On2:16
- 5Ignore Them (Still Life)4:26
- 6Life on the Line4:00
- 7(And) Don’t Believe Your Eyes3:31
- 8We Sing… The Cross3:12
- 9Beginning of the End8:09
9 tracks, 35 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Eddie & the Hot Rods
- Label
- Island
- Released
- 1977
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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