Album info

• Title Life Thru a Lens
• Artist Robbie Williams
• Year 1997
• Genre Pop

Tracklist

1. Lazy Days
2. Life Thru a Lens
3. Ego A Go Go
4. Angels
5. South of the Border
6. Old Before I Die
7. One of God’s Better People
8. Let Me Entertain You
9. Killing Me
10. Clean
11. Baby Girl Window
12. Hello Sir (Hidden Track)

Thoughts

I don’t know why I’ve listened to one Robbie Williams before and it was the second one rather than his first solo effort - but hey, I’m righting that wrong now. This is such an interesting album to listen to knowing its place in time - leaving a globally successful band to go it alone is such a risk, but it’s clear Robbie wanted to spread his wings and get a bit more Britpop, a bit less traditional pop. That’s clear right from the start and carries all the way through the album (Angels, oddly, doesn’t really seem to fit on here despite being such a classic). The only thing I didn’t like about it is the hidden track - the poem itself is good and a real fingers up to rubbish teachers - but hidden tracks just don’t work in this day and age.

Rating: 4 / 5