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Elegant Slumming

 
Album Review: Elegant Slumming

  • Artist: M People
  • Rating: StarStarStarStarHalf Star
  • Release Date: 1994
  • Total Time: 55:04
  • Type: Lyrics are included with the album
  • Genre: Electronica

Review

Including no less than five British Top Ten singles and several other chart entries stretching back to 1992, Elegant Slumming is easily M People's best album. From the driving British house of "One Night in Heaven" and the nu-disco slant of "Moving on Up" to more downtempo soul on "Melody of Life," vocalist Heather Small is confident and aggressive while the production by Mike Pickering and Paul Heard backs her up with an exquisite touch. ~ Keith Farley, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
One Night in Heaven (Lyrics) Mike Pickering, Paul Heard M People (6:29)
Moving on Up (Lyrics) Paul Heard, Mike Pickering M People (5:30)
Renaissance (Lyrics) Mike Pickering, Paul Heard M People (5:23)
You Just Have to Be There (Lyrics) Paul Heard, Mike Pickering M People (5:28)
Love Is in My Soul (Lyrics) Paul Heard, Mike Pickering M People (6:17)
Don't Look Any Further (Lyrics) Dennis Lambert M People (5:31)
Natural Thing (Lyrics) Mike Pickering, Paul Heard M People (5:07)
Little Packet (Lyrics) Paul Heard, Mike Pickering M People (5:22)
La Vida Loca Paul Heard, Mike Pickering M People (4:34)
Melody of Life (Lyrics) Paul Heard, Mike Pickering M People (4:45)

Credits

Carol Thompson (Vocals (Background)), Heather Small (?), Snake Davis (Saxophone), Andy Gangadeen (Drums), Snake Davis (Flute), James Reynolds (Engineer), Roddy Lorimer (Trumpet), Mark Bell (Vocals), Vladimir Meller (Mastering), M People (Producer), Gaeten Schurrer (Programming), Giovanni Parricelli (Guitar), Mike Pickering (?), Paul Heard (?), Beverley Skeete (Vocals (Background)), Gareth Tasker (Bass), Robin Jones (Percussion), P. Jervier (Programming), M People (Mixing), Paul "Tubbs" Williams (Vocals (Background)), Nu Colours (Vocals (Background)), Chris Kibble (Piano), Carroll Thompson (Vocals (Background)), Mark Mattock (Photography), Juliet Roberts (Vocals (Background)), Jim Williams (Guitar), Allister Gavin (Piano)
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Elegant Slumming
Studio album by M People
Released 4 October 1993
Genre House
Length 55:04
Label Deconstruction
Producer M People
Professional reviews
M People chronology
Northern Soul
(1992)
Elegant Slumming
(1993)
Bizarre Fruit
(1994)

Elegant Slumming is the second album by British house music band M People.

It features the two U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play #1 hits "One Night in Heaven" and "Moving on Up", as well as a cover of the Dennis Edwards and Siedah Garrett song "Don't Look Any Further", which reached #9 in the UK. A fourth hit, "Renaissance", went as high as #5 in the same chart.

The album won the 1994 Mercury Music Prize.

Contents

Track listing

UK

  1. "One Night in Heaven"
  2. "Moving on Up"
  3. "Renaissance"
  4. "You Just Have to Be There"
  5. "Love Is in My Soul"
  6. "Don't Look Any Further"
  7. "Natural Thing"
  8. "Little Packet"
  9. "La Vida Loca"
  10. "Melody of Life"

U.S.

  1. "One Night in Heaven"
  2. "Moving on Up"
  3. "Excited"
  4. "Renaissance"
  5. "Colour My Life"
  6. "How Can I Love You More?"
  7. "Don't Look Any Further"
  8. "You Just Have to Be There"
  9. "Little Packet"
  10. "Love Is in My Soul"

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