"You Need Love Like I Do" Released: 6 November 2000[6]
Reload is the 34th studio album by Tom Jones, released in 1999. It contains 15 duets with a range of artists including Van Morrison, Cerys Matthews, Stereophonics, Robbie Williams, and Portishead, mostly recorded with each of the featured artists' usual record producers and in their usual studios. The tracks are mainly cover versions, with a new version of one of Jones' own songs, "Looking Out My Window" (1968), and one original track, "Sex Bomb".
Reload became the highest seller of Jones's career, reaching number one on the UK Albums Chart in 1999 and again in 2000. Its biggest single was the collaboration with Mousse T., "Sex Bomb", which reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart and was later used in a 2003 episode of The Simpsons (a show Jones had guest starred on in 1992). The album has sold more than four million copies worldwide.[7] It was not released in the US; instead the compilation Reloaded: Greatest Hits was issued there in 2003 and featured highlights from Reload.
In a review for AllMusic, Carlo Wolff described the album as "Ultra-modern and topical", and that "Reload suggests you can easily ignore Jones' "What's New Pussycat?" past." He went on to opine that "Not only does Jones deliver one of the more invigorating workings of modern pop here, his selection of material and choice of mates prove that in addition to his routinely extraordinary performances, he's still recording quite potently, thank you." Wolff described the featured artists as "a motley, and very talented, crew", and that "Jones more than holds his own, turning the [covered] tunes into unusually personal and expressive vehicles.[8]
Commercial performance
Reload became the highest seller of Jones' career, reaching number one on the UK Albums Chart in 1999 and again in 2000. As of April 2021, it has sold nearly 1.5 million copies in the UK,[9] and more than four million copies worldwide.[7]
A "special edition" release of the album also includes the single remixes of "Sex Bomb" (Peppermint Disco Radio Mix) and "You Need Love Like I Do" (7th District Radio Mix or Double Click Remix, depending on version) as bonus tracks.
Gavyn Wright, Perry Montague-Mason, Rebecca Hirsch, Pat Kiernan, Boguslav Kostecki, Jim McLeod, Dermot Crehan, Dave Woodcock, Chris Tombling, Jackie Shave, Vaughan Armon, Mark Berrow, Ben Cruft, Everton Nelson – violins
Peter Lale, Katie Wilkinson, Garfield Jackson, Bruce White – violas
Ann Morfee, Ian Humphries, Anna Hemery, Bev Davison, Chris Tombling, Iain King, Andrew Roberts, Rachel Byrt, R. George, Helen Hathorn, Richard Milone – violins
Nick Barr, Steve Tees, Andrew Byrt – violas
Sophie Harris, Nicholas Roberts, Nick Cooper, Adrian Bradbury – cellos
Gavyn Wright, Perry Montague-Mason, Pat Kiernan, Boguslav Kostecki, Vaughan Armon, Cathy Thompson, Warren Zielinski, Peter Lale, Rachel Bolt, Bruce White, Dave Daniels, Martin Loveday – string players
Simon Gardner, Guy Barker, Tony Fischer, Neil Sidwell, Mark Nightingale, Sarah Williams – brass players
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
Notes
↑ First released in certain European countries in 1999 and early 2000.[5]
References
↑ "New Releases – For Week Starting 13 September, 1999". Music Week. 11 September 1999. p.27.
↑ "New Releases – For Week Starting 6 December, 1999". Music Week. 4 December 1999. p.25.
↑ "Reviews – For Records Released on March 6, 2000". Music Week. 26 February 2000. p.23.
↑ "New Releases – For Week Starting May 8, 2000: Singles". Music Week. 6 May 2000. p.23.
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