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Love And Rockets + Swing EP (Remaster) (CD)

By: Love & Rockets (Artist)

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Love & Rockets Artist Snapshot:

Many a sad goth mourned the loss of Bauhaus in the early 1980s, but guitarist Daniel Ash and the Haskins brothers carried on without Peter Murphy, first in the short-lived Tones on Tail, and then, in 1985, with Love and Rockets. More pop-leaning than their earlier bands, they were still considered part of the burgeoning "alternative rock" movement that was gathering steam thanks to new mainstream outlets. A pair of charting hits in the U.S. and U.K. resulted in unprecedented fame for Ash and Co. After a five-year break, the band was dropped from their label, but returned in the mid '90s and released three more albums that featured a new electronic/dance bent. They quietly broke up in 1999.

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DISC 1 for Love And Rockets + Swing EP (Remaster) (CD) Album By Love & Rockets (Artist)
1   **** (Jungle Law)
2   No Big Deal
3   Purest Blue, The
4   Motorcycle
5   I Feel Speed
6   Bound For Hell
7   Teardrop Collector, The
8   So Alive
9   Rock And Roll Babylon
10   No Words No More
11   Bike
12   Bikedance
13   No Big Deal - (remix)
14   Dreamtime
 
DISC 2 for Love And Rockets + Swing EP (Remaster) (CD) Album By Love & Rockets (Artist)
1   Wake Up
2   Cuckoo Land
3   Early Worm, The
4   1000 Watts Of Your Love
5   Bad Monkey
6   Introduction
7   1000 Watts Of Your Love
8   No Words No More
9   Interview
 

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CMJ (1/5/04, p.26) - Ranked #3 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1989"

Title Note

Disc One of the 2002 remastered edition of LOVE AND ROCKETS includes the original album plus four unreleased tracks. Disc Two includes the SWING EP, a bonus radio interview and additional live tracks.

The bleep heard during the first track is not record company censorship, it was done intentionally by the band.

Love And Rockets: Daniel Ash (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, saxophone, keyboards, bass); David J (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, harmonica, bass); Kevin Haskins (piano, keyboards, vibraphone, drums, percussion, samples).

Additional personnel includes: John Fryer (string synthesizer); Lorna Wright, Sylvia Mason James (background vocals).

Principally recorded at Blackwing Studio, London, England in 1989.

LOVE AND ROCKETS proves that the lowest common denominator still offers the quickest path to the American public's hearts and wallets. "So Alive" and "Motorcycle" are so unbearably catchy that even Anglophobes found themselves buying ten copies of this album. After years of low-key success, Love and Rockets certainly deserved a little pocket money. But the hits are actually the weaker numbers on this strong set.

Don't overlook the crunchy and loopy "**** (Jungle Law), the Woody Guthrie-on-acid blues stomp of "Bound for Hell," or the Love and Rockets-by-numbers "No Big Deal." The band brings in strings for "Rock and Roll Babylon," a tribute of sorts to dearly departed rock heroes, while Daniel Ash blows saxophone to demonstrate his versatility as an artiste. LOVE AND ROCKETS is a little confusing, but it works. After this album, the band went on a five-year hiatus.

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