Luxury You Can Afford

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Luxury You Can Afford
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Studio album by
Joe Cocker
ReleasedAugust 1978
Studio
Genre Blues rock, soft rock, pop rock
Label Asylum
Producer Allen Toussaint
Joe Cocker chronology
Joe Cocker's Greatest Hits
(1977)		Luxury You Can Afford
(1978)		 Sheffield Steel
(1982)

Luxury You Can Afford is the seventh studio album by Joe Cocker, released in 1978 on Asylum Records, his only release for that label.

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Christgau's Record Guide C+ [2]
High Fidelity (favourable) [3]

In 1994, The Independent wrote that Cocker "reveals the self-disgust at ['A Whiter Shade of Pale']'s heart ... his rawness is thrown into stark relief by Allen Toussaint's too-slick production." [4]

Track listing

  1. "Fun Time" (Allen Toussaint) – 2:39
  2. "Watching the River Flow" (Bob Dylan) – 3:16
  3. "Boogie Baby" (Phil Driscoll) – 3:51
  4. "A Whiter Shade of Pale" (Gary Brooker, Keith Reid, Matthew Fisher) – 5:27
  5. "I Can't Say No" (John Bettis, Daniel Moore) – 2:51
  6. "Southern Lady" (Phil Driscoll) – 3:16
  7. "I Know (You Don't Want Me No More)" (Barbara George) – 3:08
  8. "What You Did to Me Last Night" (Bettye Crutcher) – 3:28
  9. "Lady Put the Light Out" (Guy Fletcher, Doug Flett) – 4:46
  10. "Wasted Years" (Phil Driscoll) – 4:49
  11. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong) – 4:29

Personnel

Production

Chart performance

YearChartPosition
1978Australia12
New Zealand25
Netherlands47
Canada61
US Billboard76

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References

  1. ↑ Leggett, Steve. Luxury You Can Afford at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: C". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies . Ticknor & Fields. ISBN   089919026X . Retrieved 23 February 2019.
  3. ↑ "Joe Cocker: Luxury You Can Afford" (PDF). Americanradiohistory.com. Vol. 28. High Fidelity Magazine. November 1978. p. 158.
  4. ↑ Butler, Mike (18 September 1994). "Lives of the Great Songs". Sunday Review Page. The Independent.
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