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Love and Rockets
Love and Rockets
Release Date 1989 04 zz
Label Blanco y Negro Records
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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. Ned Raggett, Rovi


Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
1**** (Jungle Law)Love and Rockets, David J4:34
2No Big DealLove and Rockets, Lash4:59
3Purest BlueLove and Rockets, David J3:44
4MotorcycleLove and Rockets, Ash3:30
5I Feel SpeedLove and Rockets, Ash3:24
6Bound for HellLove and Rockets, David J, Traditional6:00
7Teardrop CollectorLove and Rockets, Ash4:09
8So AliveLove and Rockets, Ash4:15
9Rock & Roll BabylonLove and Rockets, David J3:21
10No Words No MoreLove and Rockets, Ash, Ash3:49



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