Life, Love & Pain

{{Infobox album

| name = Life, Love & Pain

| type = Studio

| artist = Club Nouveau

| cover = Live love & pain.jpg

| alt =

| released = November 17, 1986

| recorded = 1986

| venue =

| studio = Moon Studio, Sacramento, California

| genre = R&B

| length = 37:49

| label = Warner Bros. Records
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| producer = Jay King
Denzil Foster
Thomas McElroy

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| next_title = Listen to the Message

| next_year = 1988

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Life, Love & Pain

| type = studio

| single1 = Jealousy

| single1date = September 19, 1986

| single2 = Situation #9 / Pump it Up (Lean On Me) Reprise

| single2date = December 03, 1986

| single3 = Lean on Me / Pump It Up (Lean on Me) Reprise

| single3date = February 14, 1987

| single4 = Why You Treat Me So Bad

| single4date = May 20, 1987

| single5 = Let Me Go / Promises Promises

| single5date = August 03, 1987

| single6 = Heavy on My Mind

| single6date = September 18, 1987

}}

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 =AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} {{AllMusic |class=album |id=r4183 |tab=review |label=Club Nouveau: Life, Love & Pain > Review |first=Jose F. |last=Promis |accessdate=29 September 2011}}

|rev2 = Robert Christgau

|rev2Score = B−{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=June 2, 1987|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv6-87.php|title=Consumer Guide|newspaper=The Village Voice|location=New York|accessdate=2012-08-11}}

}}

Life, Love & Pain is the debut album by R&B group Club Nouveau. It was released in late 1986 with production by Denzil Foster, Thomas McElroy and Jay King. The album reached number one on the Billboard Top Soul Albums chart and number six on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. Led by the hit single, a cover of the Bill Withers classic "Lean on Me", which went to number one on both Hot 100 and Dance charts and number two on the R&B chart, this was the only album that Denzil Foster and Thomas McElroy would contribute to, as the duo left the group to form its own production team and focus on working with other acts, notably En Vogue and Tony! Toni! Toné!. Twelve-inch singles from the album were handled by then-WB subsidiary Tommy Boy Records.