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Track Listings
1 | Higher Love |
2 | Take It As It Comes |
3 | Freedom Overspill |
4 | Back in the High Life Again |
5 | The Finer Things |
6 | Wake Me Up on Judgement Day |
7 | Split Decision |
8 | My Love's Leavin' |
Editorial Reviews
In a career full of triumphs, this 1986 LP might have been the pinnacle for Winwood; it sold three million copies and gave him his first #1, the Grammy-winning Higher Love. It joins the infectious title tune; the hit Freedom Overspill; Split Decision, and more pop gems with guests Joe Walsh, James Taylor and others!
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 4.92 x 5.63 x 0.39 inches; 3.53 ounces
- Manufacturer : Island
- Item model number : 2001997
- Original Release Date : 1990
- Date First Available : October 21, 2006
- Label : Island
- ASIN : B000001FKA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #7,620 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #19 in Blue-Eyed Soul
- #62 in Rock Singer-Songwriters
- #188 in Adult Contemporary (CDs & Vinyl)
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Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2024
Very pleased with this purchase. Would buy from this seller again!!!
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2020
I was watching T.V. as usual, I saw an ad for a certain car brand, & I heard the distinct voice of Whitney Houston. No one else in this world sounds like her....🎙🎵
The song she was singing was in the background, it was "Higher Love" by Steve Winwood...😍
I had no idea that she recorded it before she passed away, but to my surprise, she most certainly did. I checked on it, & it seems that it was remastered digitally in 2019. A very good posthumous idea.
I also recalled that I purchased the album by Steve Winwood, yet didn't have it in my MP3 player.
I checked here in the music department, & lo and behold... There it 'tis!
Hearing it through ear buds is almost an indescribable joy! I used to clean my apartment when my sons were young to this album, in awe of Chaka Khan's vocals, music that takes you to the United Kingdom...🇬🇧 Beautifully recorded, written & performed. Just as I recall, a nice album to listen to, it takes me back to the days of no pandemic, enjoying friends and family.
Love it. ❤
The song she was singing was in the background, it was "Higher Love" by Steve Winwood...😍
I had no idea that she recorded it before she passed away, but to my surprise, she most certainly did. I checked on it, & it seems that it was remastered digitally in 2019. A very good posthumous idea.
I also recalled that I purchased the album by Steve Winwood, yet didn't have it in my MP3 player.
I checked here in the music department, & lo and behold... There it 'tis!
Hearing it through ear buds is almost an indescribable joy! I used to clean my apartment when my sons were young to this album, in awe of Chaka Khan's vocals, music that takes you to the United Kingdom...🇬🇧 Beautifully recorded, written & performed. Just as I recall, a nice album to listen to, it takes me back to the days of no pandemic, enjoying friends and family.
Love it. ❤
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2017
"Back in the High Life" is an essential album for anyone who wants to truly know musical talent at its greatest height. Winwood's amazing vocals and unparalleled skills with the organ and piano are alone reasons to buy every Steve Winwood album, but this album is especially notable for his blend of accessible, yet complex song arrangements. There are literally no weak points to this fantastic work. The truly great artists are more than the sum of their hit singles. You get mega hits like "Higher Love" and "Back in the High Life Again", however there are also gems like "Freedom Overspill" and the heartfelt, "My Love's Leavin", that are no less great. In the interests of brevity I could go on and on, but I will stop. Buy it now, you will be happy that you did.
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2023
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Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2023
Excellent album!
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2019
Another huge album in the '80s is Steve Winwood's "Back In the High Life" and it is superb in every way on 24K GOLD
Ultradisc II.
There is no analog hiss whatsoever here and I played this back in the BMW 535i audio system with those lovely speakers.
I am a fan of Steve Winwood and his music. His original debut came in 1977, however, I first heard of him on 1980's "Arc Of The Diver", which is another great album.
I highly recommend getting THIS edition, but look around for a good price and condition as these discs can be extremely pricey, brand new.
Ultradisc II.
There is no analog hiss whatsoever here and I played this back in the BMW 535i audio system with those lovely speakers.
I am a fan of Steve Winwood and his music. His original debut came in 1977, however, I first heard of him on 1980's "Arc Of The Diver", which is another great album.
I highly recommend getting THIS edition, but look around for a good price and condition as these discs can be extremely pricey, brand new.
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2014
Having left Stevie behind after Traffic's "All Join In" and Blind Faith, I missed the original release of Back In The Highlife. In a very bad time in my working life, I happened to hear the title song as I was lamenting my fate to myself in a hotel bar in L.A. - a city that is not my home. It knocked me out, totally and literally turned my head around(the bar combo was playing the song behind me), but imagine my chagrin when I returned home and found that due to some contract dispute that Winwood was involved in, the album was nowhere available! A sympathetic colleague saved me with a copied cassette and I have cherished every song on this album ever since. Now I am delighted to own what appear to be copies of the original masters on CD.
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2021
Always liked this album but for some reason never got remastered. The original analog recording was not up to snuff quality wise. This Japanese SHM cd of it is a 24 bit remaster and the sound is terrific.
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Reviewed in Sweden on November 13, 2023
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5.0 out of 5 stars
SHM-CD hat einen Super-Klang!!
Reviewed in Germany on November 9, 2023
Ich habe dieses kultige Pop-Soul-Album der 80er Jahre als Original-Ausgabe und die war klanglich "ok". Die hier angebotene SHM-CD aus Japan bietet aber definitiv eine klangliche Verbesserung. Etwas mehr Lautstärke aber v.a. auch mehr Klarheit und Dynamik!
PGB
5.0 out of 5 stars
This album has some of the best CD sound you'll ever hear!
Reviewed in Canada on June 21, 2019
'Back In The High Life' was probably the high point in Steve Winwood's solo career, for which he was prepared with long experience, starting with the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith and various side projects, before embarking on his solo career with 1975's (criminally underrated) 'Steve Winwood' (see my separate review on that one) and three classic albums in the '80s:'Arc Of A Diver', 'Talking Back To The Night' (also criminally underrated), and this one.
The album has some of the best CD sound you'll ever hear; it's been cited as having very wide dynamic range (difference between soft and loud sounds), the antithesis to the "loudness wars" embarked upon by remastering engineers during the early days of trying to improve the sound of CDs. Granted, some really needed to be remastered, as mastering engineers were just learning that a LP master was not good enough for the CD equivalent, and there are many fine examples of this. However, BITHL is definitely NOT one of them; the record company has wisely chosen to leave the original Ted Jensen mastering alone.
Several hits emerged from this album: the classic semi-acoustic title track (with SW tearing it up on mandolin and with James Taylor assisting on vocals); 'Higher Love' with Chaka Khan (!) on backing vocals which really make the tune, like Merry Clayton's did on the Stones' 'Gimme Shelter'; 'Freedom Overspill'; 'The Finer Things'. Winwood surrounded himself with some fine musicians such as Nile Rodgers and Joe Walsh - two of the better guitarists you'll ever hear. It should be mentioned that Steve himself no slouch as a guitarist, among many other instruments.
But it's the Voice: he's possibly the best of the several great British soul singers (Gary Brooker of Procol Harum also comes to mind). He was a sensation as the 15 year old singer for the Spencer Davis Group in the mid-60s, and really hit his stride with the innovative psychedelic soul of Traffic.
This is a can't-miss album.
The album has some of the best CD sound you'll ever hear; it's been cited as having very wide dynamic range (difference between soft and loud sounds), the antithesis to the "loudness wars" embarked upon by remastering engineers during the early days of trying to improve the sound of CDs. Granted, some really needed to be remastered, as mastering engineers were just learning that a LP master was not good enough for the CD equivalent, and there are many fine examples of this. However, BITHL is definitely NOT one of them; the record company has wisely chosen to leave the original Ted Jensen mastering alone.
Several hits emerged from this album: the classic semi-acoustic title track (with SW tearing it up on mandolin and with James Taylor assisting on vocals); 'Higher Love' with Chaka Khan (!) on backing vocals which really make the tune, like Merry Clayton's did on the Stones' 'Gimme Shelter'; 'Freedom Overspill'; 'The Finer Things'. Winwood surrounded himself with some fine musicians such as Nile Rodgers and Joe Walsh - two of the better guitarists you'll ever hear. It should be mentioned that Steve himself no slouch as a guitarist, among many other instruments.
But it's the Voice: he's possibly the best of the several great British soul singers (Gary Brooker of Procol Harum also comes to mind). He was a sensation as the 15 year old singer for the Spencer Davis Group in the mid-60s, and really hit his stride with the innovative psychedelic soul of Traffic.
This is a can't-miss album.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Winwood Breaks Out
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 26, 2019
Steve Winwood had enjoyed a very successful career for over twenty years by the time this album came out. His first taste of fame came as a teenager with the Spencer Davis group and hits such as Keep On Running and Gimme Some Lovin' songs that showed off Winwood's exceptionally soulful vocals. After Spencer Davis he would enjoy further success with the psychedelic prog rock of Traffic with a brief detour into the supergroup Blind Faith with Eric Clapton and the volatile drummer Ginger Baker. By the late seventies Traffic had run out of steam and Winwood had embarked on a solo career producing 3 solo albums with himself playing most of the instruments these albums [ Steve Winwood, Arc Of A Diver and Talking Back To The Night] had been quite successful but it was to this album Back In The High Life that would send Winwood's fame stratospheric.
Like Peter Gabriel's album So released in the same year Back In The High Life would mark a change in the way the artist worked. For the first time in awhile Winwood worked with a band using people like Joe Walsh and Nile Rodgers with singers such as James Taylor and most notably Chaka Khan on the hit single Higher Love. The album is awash with fine tracks including Higher Love, The Finer Things, Freedom Overspill and the title track, the album does have a very slick 80's production that has dated some tracks but at its best it is a fine example of Winwoods exceptional musical and vocal talents. This album would be followed up by the equally successful Roll With It but by the mid nineties either he or the public lost interest in this high gloss soul sound and Winwood took a break from music before returning with the more eclectic sounding albums About Time and Nine Lives there was also a live album and tour with his old Blind Faith bandmate Eric Clapton as well as helping out Paul Weller on his album Stanley Road. Winwood has seemed to enjoy the less high profile success of his recent music and nothing since Roll With It has reached the same success as Back In The High Life yet this album is one of the eighties music treasures.
Like Peter Gabriel's album So released in the same year Back In The High Life would mark a change in the way the artist worked. For the first time in awhile Winwood worked with a band using people like Joe Walsh and Nile Rodgers with singers such as James Taylor and most notably Chaka Khan on the hit single Higher Love. The album is awash with fine tracks including Higher Love, The Finer Things, Freedom Overspill and the title track, the album does have a very slick 80's production that has dated some tracks but at its best it is a fine example of Winwoods exceptional musical and vocal talents. This album would be followed up by the equally successful Roll With It but by the mid nineties either he or the public lost interest in this high gloss soul sound and Winwood took a break from music before returning with the more eclectic sounding albums About Time and Nine Lives there was also a live album and tour with his old Blind Faith bandmate Eric Clapton as well as helping out Paul Weller on his album Stanley Road. Winwood has seemed to enjoy the less high profile success of his recent music and nothing since Roll With It has reached the same success as Back In The High Life yet this album is one of the eighties music treasures.
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Casanova Claude
5.0 out of 5 stars
Le grand retour .
Reviewed in France on December 30, 2019
J'avoue avoir été longtemps réticent devant la carrière solo de Stevie Winwood qui m'avait paru ne devoir être que le "feu de paille" d'un gamin surdoué (comme le fut le chanteur des "Box Tops" en son temps) . Après les brillants débuts avec Spencer Davis et le moins brillant "Blind faith" malgré un réel talent d'écriture ("Can't find my way home"), la période "Traffic" m'avait peu convaincu . Et ce n'était pas l'usage massif des "synthés" qui allait changer la donne ...
Mais je dois admettre que cet album reste aujourd'hui parfait à mon goût : sur les 8 titres, rien à jeter . D'excellentes compositions, un chant "au cordeau", un usage pertinent des synthétiseurs, programmateurs et autres séquenceurs
(comme seuls Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles et Manfred Mann y parviendront), des parties de cuivres très "écrites" et des invités brillants (Joe Walsh remarquable, Chaka Khan sur le titre vedette) .
Tout cela fleure bon la "soul music" de grande qualité grâce au "feeling" incroyable des participants et du maître d'oeuvre dont l'importance n'a jamais été vraiment reconnue dans l'histoire de cette musique . Chapeau, Mr Winwood !
Mais je dois admettre que cet album reste aujourd'hui parfait à mon goût : sur les 8 titres, rien à jeter . D'excellentes compositions, un chant "au cordeau", un usage pertinent des synthétiseurs, programmateurs et autres séquenceurs
(comme seuls Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles et Manfred Mann y parviendront), des parties de cuivres très "écrites" et des invités brillants (Joe Walsh remarquable, Chaka Khan sur le titre vedette) .
Tout cela fleure bon la "soul music" de grande qualité grâce au "feeling" incroyable des participants et du maître d'oeuvre dont l'importance n'a jamais été vraiment reconnue dans l'histoire de cette musique . Chapeau, Mr Winwood !