Shot by both sides,
on the run to the outside of everything-
shot by both sides,
they must have come to a secret understanding

Track list: 1.Definitive Gaze 2.My Tulpa 3.Shot By Both Sides 4.Recoil 5.Burst 6.Motorcade 7.The Great Beautician in the Sky 8.The light pours out of me 9.Parade

Iʼm pretty sure most of you around here ignore even the presence of the group- being attracted by cowboys and such but for those interested in new wave, this is a must!

Real Life is the debut album of Magazine, when Devoto left the Buzzcocks to go further than that. It is probably the best album of the group, though others would say The correct use of soap is the one. Anyway, it is the groupʼs most popular and it also includes their best and most known song: Shot By Both Sides. It also features John McGeoch on guitar and saxophone(!), one of the most gifted guitarists of the 80ʼs (who luckily then joined the Banshees for a while).

Punky enough, edgy enough but not obsessive and of unnecessary hate, it has a big touch of the 80ʼs paranoia, typically crazy singing, but it is more than this. Inspiring and quite sophisticated. Outstanding keyboards put together with the playful lyrics to laugh at the face of society- doubt but with passion to go further. Questioning tantalizing matters with bitter fun and irony, followed by powerful guitar riffs, the album creates a positive feeling about real life- gives out high energy.

Apart from Shot By Both Sides (a masterpiece! Well, it is close enough to the Buzzcocks, as it was Devoto and Shelley(ex-Buzzcocks) who wrote the song), highlights of the album would be:
Definitive Gaze ,
The Great Beautician in the Sky (somehow based on a circus melody, thus creating one of the weirdest songs you have ever heard),
The light pours out of me(also covered by Peter Murphy in his first solo album!), and
Parade. So, with this last one, the album ends in a stunning way, with keyboards and saxophone, throwing the last words:

What on earth is the size of my life?