Beautiful Life

Beautiful Life is the second studio album by the American band Vallejo, released in 1998. Production DJ Hurricane contributed to four of the album's tracks. Critical reception The Hartford Courant thought that "although the playing is accomplished and the singing competent, once you get past the spicy rhythms, the songs tend to sag from that sinking derivative feeling." Texas Monthly called the album "a polished and amiable but mostly nondescript blend of hard rock hooks and funky jamming, heavily seasoned with Latin touches and a hippie-meets-hip-hop vibe." The Virginian-Pilot wrote that "the problem with most of Beautiful Life is that Latin rhythms melded with '70s rock sound like '70s rock ... Hard funk mixed with '70s rock also sounds like '70s rock." AllMusic wrote that "while the lyrics leave a little to be desired ... the focus is on catchy hooks and rock punch."