Search - La Bouche :: In Your Life

This is a posthumous single

Lesley Aeschliman | Enumclaw, WA | 11/14/2007

(3 out of 5 stars)

""In Your Life" is a previously unreleased track that was released as a single in memory of La Bouche's vocalist Melanie Thornton, who died in a plane crash in late 2001. The song itself sounds like a "typical" La Bouche track (in some ways, it's reminiscent of "Be My Lover" and "Sweet Dreams").



In the U.S., two different pressings of the single were issued. The first pressing was a maxi-single with four remixes; the one drawback to this single was that the original version (or a radio edit of the original) wasn't included - you only get an extended mix, which is an extended version of the original song.



Next is the "DezroK Club Mix" (the longest mix on the single), which incorporates a harder bass line, and echo effects are occasionally used on the vocals. The mix itself isn't bad, but it's a little long. The mix should have been shorter to begin with; or, at the very least, a radio edit should have been included here.



The next mix is the "Shane 54 Vocal Mix," which has a harder bassline than the original; it's also a faster tempo. There is a lot of echo on the vocals, which are also occasionally distorted. The main problem with this mix is its length; if the ending was cut down by about a minute, the mix would be stronger.



The final track is "The Xquizit DJ X Remix," which has the vocals processed and pushed to the back of the mix in the intro; during the mix, the processing done to the vocals during the chorus become annoying rather quickly, and the ending went on too long. This is a more "synth-based" mix than the others; however, this is easily the weakest mix on the single.



A second single was issued in the U.S. about three months later, and it contains edits of three of the mixes that appeared on the original maxi-single. The first track is the "DezroK Edit," and this edit solved the major problem with the original mix (which was the fact that the original mix was too long). I really enjoyed the mix a lot more after hearing this edit.



The second track on the disc is the "Original Edit." It's good to see that the version of the song that was promoted to radio was finally made available commercially in the United States. However, it's puzzling why it wasn't the first track on the single.



"The Xquizit DJ X Edit" makes the original mix sound tolerable, but it's still the weakest remix that I've heard for "In Your Life." However, it appears that the processing done to the vocals on the original mix isn't as prevalent on the edit that's included on this pressing."