Blue (Simply Red album)


Blue is the sixth studio album by Simply Red, released on East West Records on 19 May 1998.
The album includes five cover versions: "Mellow My Mind" from the 1975 Neil Young album Tonight's the Night; two versions of the frequently covered "The Air That I Breathe", written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood; the Gregory Isaacs hit "Night Nurse"; and "Ghetto Girl" by Dennis Brown, from whom the band would cover another song in 2003. New versions of previously recorded Simply Red songs also appear here: "Come Get Me Angel" is a rewritten version of the 1996 single "Angel", and "Broken Man" was first released as a B-side in 1987. Mick Hucknall and the production team of Andy Wright and Gota Yashiki are the only musicians featured in the Blue CD booklet's photography; this is a first for a Simply Red album, as all prior albums featured photos of the various band members credited.
"The Air That I Breathe Reprise" samples "Jack and Diane" by John Mellencamp.
"So Jungiful", found on the Japanese edition of the album, is a jungle remix of "So Beautiful" from the band's previous album, Life.

Track listing

2008 Special Edition bonus tracks

  2. "Ghetto Girl"
  3. "To Be Free"
  4. "Love Has Said Goodbye Again"
  5. "So Jungiful"
  6. "Tu Sei Dentro Di Me"

    U.S. 12-track edition

  7. "Mellow My Mind"
  8. "Blue"
  9. "Say You Love Me"
  10. "To Be Free"
  11. "The Air That I Breathe"
  12. "Someday in My Life"
  13. "The Air That I Breathe Reprise"
  14. "Broken Man"
  15. "Come Get Me Angel"
  16. "Night Nurse"
  17. "Love Has Said Goodbye Again"
  18. "High Fives"
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