Life on the Line


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.
Life on the Line reached number 27 on the UK Albums Chart. The album featured three singles: "Do Anything You Wanna Do", which peaked at number 9 on the UK Singles Chart, "Life on the Line", and "Quit This Town", which reached number 36.
The song "Do Anything You Wanna Do" was covered by Manfred Mann's Earth Band for their Criminal Tango album.

Critical reception

The Globe and Mail concluded: "This band is so topical, so accurate on contemporary street feeling, that Life on the Line qualifies as more than a collection of tunes; it's a document that pegs 1977 as it hasn't yet been pegged."

Track listing

  1. "Do Anything You Wanna Do" – 4:19
  2. "Quit This Town" – 2:27
  3. "Telephone Girl" – 2:28
  4. "What's Really Going On" – 2:17
  5. "Ignore Them " – 4:43
  6. "Life on the Line" – 4:04
  7. " Don't Believe Your Eyes" – 3:35
  8. "We Sing... The Cross" – 2:48
  9. "Beginning of the End" – 8:17
;2000 reissue bonus tracks
  1. "I Might Be Lying" – 5:16
  2. "Ignore Them " – 3:34
  3. "Schoolgirl Love" – 3:21
  4. "Till the Night Is Gone " – 3:13
  5. "Flipside Rock" – 2:39
  6. "Do Anything You Wanna Do" – 4:05
  7. "What's Really Going On" – 2:17
  8. "Why Can't It Be" – 2:39
  9. "Distortion May Be Expected" – 5:07

Personnel

;Eddie and the Hot Rods
;Technical

Charts

;Singles
YearSingleChartPosition
1977"Do Anything You Wanna Do"UK Singles Chart9
1977"Quit This Town"UK Singles Chart36
1978"Life on the Line"UK Singles Chart-