Halfway through the song and leading towards the middle eight of “You and me, so Excited”, the revellers start to jump into the pool one by one and continue to have fun. The band are all seen performing at an indoor LA Pool party from the side of the pool, meanwhile party revellers are dancing round the pool’s edge. Paul Heard plays keyboards and Mike Pickering on saxophone.
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It features all members of the band, including Bizarre Fruit musicians: Andy Gangadeen on drums, backing vocalists Paul Johnson and Lynieve Austin and Percussionist Shovel, who at this point had become full member. In the US video, filmed in the summer of 1994, in between the 2nd and 3rd albums ( Elegant Slumming and Bizarre Fruit). Throughout the video there are shots and silhouettes of Mike Pickering and Paul Heard all getting photographed together Heather is seen performing separately. Primarily she wears a grey trouser suit over a black vest, the other scenes she sings from a red chaise longue, wearing a purple suede figure-hugging gown, surrounded by flowers, and her face is decorated with small white beads around her eyes. And features Heather with her hair tied up, for the first time in two different poses. The UK video was filmed in the summer of 1992, once the band had been in the studio to record Man Smart and Excited. There are two music videos for the single, one for the UK and one for the US. For the final two weeks the single slid down to 53 and then, finally, to 74. The song stayed in the Top 40 for three weeks, climbing from its entry position of 30 up to 29 and back down to 35 in its third week. When the single was released it sold in excess of 27,000 copies in its first week to enter the chart at 30, after their second Top of the Pops appearance the single sold slightly more (29,000 copies) to climb one place to its peak position of 29, equalling the peak position of the parent album's first single: " How Can I Love You More?" became their fourth consecutive Top 40 hit and second top thirty hit. Meanwhile, dancefloor enthusiasts will subscribe to the bass intensity and percolating breaks." A reviewer from Lennox Herald described it as a "very open and spacious dance track with classy vocal." Alan Jones from Music Week commented that M People are "operating at the more sophisticated end of the dance music spectrum." John Kilgo from The Network Forty viewed the song as "an uptempo jammer". Programmers with a savvy musical ear will feast on the cut's brassy horn flourishes and rollicking piano lines. On its third, top 40 offering, singer Heather Small bounces over a lively, Philly soul-influenced groove with a performance that is, by turns, giddy and hearty. Larry Flick from Billboard wrote that "few dance/ pop albums are as consistently potent as this band's U.S. They were looking for a track that would take them from the underground to a more widespread and populist audience as the 1991 version of the album had only charted in the lower echelons of the chart.
The band planned to release a revised track listing as well, and the track "Excited" was to be the opener, with its fresher, more fun sound. Two tracks, "Excited" and "Man Smart", were chosen to replace the outgoing "Life" and "Platini". 2005 re-release (remastered) No.After three Top 40 hits, where each single had charted lower than the one before, M People went back into the studio to record some new tracks for a 1992 re-release of their debut album. Note: The track list is absent from the rear of the 1992 re-release cover, only being displayed on the actual disc and liner notes. " Colour My Life" ((Part Two) (Original Mix) " Colour My Life" (Part Two) (Original Mix) ContentsĪll songs written by Mike Pickering and Paul Heard except where noted. Following the success of the band's later albums, Elegant Slumming and Bizarre Fruit, this second version was re-issued in October 1995 and charted at number 26. After the release of the single "Excited", a new song not originally included on the album, it was re-released with an updated track listing in late 1992, reaching number 53 on the UK albums chart.
It was originally released on 4 November 1991. Northern Soul is the debut album by the British dance band M People. " Colour My Life" Released: 24 February 1992." How Can I Love You More?" Released: 14 October 1991.