Love & Rockets / Love And Rockets [Expanded]
Artist Love & Rockets
Album Title: Love And Rockets [Expanded]
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Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: General Alternative
Format CD (2)
Released 09/04/1989
Reissue Date 12/10/2002
Label Beggars Banquet US
Catalog No BEGA 2035 CD
Bar Code No 6 07618 20352 8
Reissue Yes
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
Love And Rockets (2002 Remaster)
1. **** (Jungle Law) (4:32)
(Love And Rockets (words: David J))
2. No Big Deal (4:56)
(Love And Rockets (words: Daniel Ash))
3. The Purest Blue (3:43)
(Love And Rockets (words: David J))
4. Motorcycle (3:31)
(Love And Rockets (words: Daniel Ash))
5. I Feel Speed (3:24)
(Love And Rockets (words: Daniel Ash))
6. Bound For Hell (6:01)
(Love And Rockets (words: Traditional))
7. The Teardrop Collector (4:09)
(Love And Rockets (words: Daniel Ash))
8. So Alive (4:16)
(Love And Rockets (words: Daniel Ash))
9. Rock And Roll Babylon (3:22)
(Love And Rockets (words: David J))
10. No Words No More (3:50)
(Love And Rockets (words: Daniel Ash - Gary Ash))
11. Bike (3:54)
(Love & Rockets)
12. Bikedance (7:07)
(Love & Rockets)
13. No Big Deal (12" Mix) (7:11)
(Love And Rockets (words: Daniel Ash))
14. Dreamtime (8:41)
(Love And Rockets (words: David J - Daniel Ash))
1989 - Swing! EP [plus Radio Session] (2002 Remaster)
1. Wake Up (3:58)
(Love And Rockets (words: Daniel Ash))
2. Cuckoo Land (2:48)
(Love And Rockets (words: David J))
3. The Early Worm (2:13)
(Love And Rockets (words: David J))
4. 1000 Watts Of Your Love (2:48)
(Love And Rockets (words: Daniel Ash))
5. Bad Monkey (4:20)
(Love And Rockets (words: David J))
6. Introduction (Radio Session) (0:58)
7. 1000 Watts Of Your Love (Radio Session) (3:08)
(Love And Rockets (words: Daniel Ash))
8. No Words No More (Radio Session) (4:11)
(Love And Rockets (words: Daniel Ash - Gary Ash))
9. Interview (34:19)
Date Acquired 09/21/2011
Personal Rating
Acquired from Blowitoutahere.Com (Amazon)
Purchase Price 14.50

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Review by Ned Raggett

As the band's breakthrough record in the U.S., riding high on the left-field success of the slinky T. Rex homage "So Alive," this album still divides the band's fans to the present. Charges of sell-out are incredibly curious, because aside from "So Alive," absolutely nothing here sounds like it would have gotten anywhere on the airwaves. While Ash and David J were clearly dividing their songwriting efforts, resulting in a rather schizophrenic album, what they were writing and performing were some of the best songs of their collected careers. David J gets to indulge rock & roll and blues traditionalism on a number of his tracks, beginning with the opening "**** (Jungle Law)," a radical reworking of the old "Signifying Monkey" standard with compressed production and an almost industrial beat from Haskins. Another redone oldie is "Bound for Hell," a tale of the Devil driving a train to down below; David J runs his vocals through crackly distortion, playing harmonica while Ash plays a huge, thrashy guitar line. Perhaps his best number is his most atypical: "Rock and Roll Babylon," a barbed study of fame with Ash's sax and a string quartet fleshing out the sound beautifully. Ash's songs do some roots revisiting as well, in their own ways. "No Big Deal" and especially "Motorcycle" show that the man's been listening to some Jesus and Mary Chain, but his wonderful vocal purr marks them as his own songs. An unexpected addition to everything is "The Purest Blue," a radical reworking of Earth Sun Moon's "Waiting for the Flood" which leaves almost nothing of the original. [A two-disc version of Love and Rockets, released in 2002, added "Motorcycle" remixes, several B-sides, and the contents of a radio show to the original program.]
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