Love and Rockets: OPO/POO

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Picking a song from the 90's will earn you bonus points, because most people never bought those albums.

― paul cox (paul cox), Monday, 17 March 2003 03:34 (twenty-three years ago)

That said, I still vote for "Holiday on the Moon."

― paul cox (paul cox), Monday, 17 March 2003 03:35 (twenty-three years ago)

No New Tale To Tell

yes, it's 80s...

― disco stu (disco stu), Monday, 17 March 2003 03:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Heh. I just finished listening to the reissue of the self-titled album as well! (Bonus tracks nice enough, the Swing tracks the wonderful lost cousins of the Bubblemen single, the interview very wiggy silliness.)

Had to pick only one of all? Jeez Louise. Wrench my arm, hold a gun to my head, force me to pick..."Haunted While the Minutes Drag." But only just, over about twenty other songs equally great.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 March 2003 03:47 (twenty-three years ago)

"Yin and Yang the Flowerpot Man"

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 17 March 2003 03:58 (twenty-three years ago)

... that one that goes... "sweet love of mine..." (the re-mix, of course)

― Citizen Fred (Citizen Fred), Monday, 17 March 2003 04:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Haunted" might be mine as well, but then I think it might be "If There's A Heaven Above".Or maybe Kundalini express but only the 12 inch version cuz it's louder and sounds better and I always hated that amurican label they were on. Bigtime? Express sounds awful on american vinyl.

― Scott Seward, Monday, 17 March 2003 04:01 (twenty-three years ago)

"Dog End of a Day Gone By"

― earlnash, Monday, 17 March 2003 05:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I prefer the earlier stuff but i know of at least a couple tracks from Hot Trip to Heaven; too bad i can't remember the titles.

― christoff (christoff), Monday, 17 March 2003 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I adore both "Kundalini Express" and "Motorcycle," but I have to go with their cover of "Ball of Confusion," which I used to count as an all-time fave.

....their cover of "Lucifer Sam" is pretty great too.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 17 March 2003 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh god, Oh god, Oh god, I can't just pick ONE!!!

But if I had to, it would be _Holiday On The Moon_. No it wouldn't, it would be Express Khundalini. No, it would be Yin and Yang. No, it wouldn't, it would be Haunted When The Minutes Drag. No, it would be the psychedelic version of Mirror People.

Oh, from 90s era, that song that Luscious Jackson sang the backing vocals on was quite nice. Holy Fool, I think?

Oh this is too hard. But I'll go with _Holiday On The Moon_ just for David J's erm... moaning. Yes.

― kate (suzy), Monday, 17 March 2003 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Another vote for "If There's A Heaven Above"

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Monday, 17 March 2003 23:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't resist taking the bonus points by putting in my vote for "Body And Soul", the lead track on Love and Rockets' 1994 album Hot Trip To Heaven. Easily, one of the best albums of the 90s that no one heard.

Every fan of the Orb or Future Sound Of London must hear this record. Ambient-rock is the only way to describe it. You could even say this record was slightly ahead of its time, predating the electronica ChemBros / Prodigy etc. hype of 1997.

I believe its out of print, but probably not too hard to find, and not too expensive when you do. American Recordings put it out.

― Marshall Stax (Marshall Stax), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 07:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I thought the last Love & Rockets story was good in a bittersweet kind of way... Oh! You were talking about the band!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 09:04 (twenty-three years ago)

eight months pass...

"Bound for Hell"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 24 November 2003 07:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"Saudade" is their best track by a mile (and I love a lot of their other stuff).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 24 November 2003 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"All In My Mind", which could have been the best song on "Psychocandy". :)

― d.w., Monday, 24 November 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Haunted When The Minutes Drag

― kephm, Monday, 24 November 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

If I was to buy an album (I have none), which one should I get (Sorted!)?

― Gilles Meloche (Gilles Meloche), Sunday, 25 July 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Express is quite solid.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 25 July 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorted is a fair enough comp and they had many excellent singles, while the inclusion of key album tracks like "Haunted While the Minutes Drag" and "Saudade" makes me very happy as well. So yeah, give that a whirl or download accordingly -- after, if they strike your fancy, in terms of the albums themselves the first four are all peerless in different ways -- Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven as mid-eighties art-psych-atmospherics, Express as a continuation of that plus greater extremes in terms of rocking out and quiet contemplation (I couldn't live without the quiet version of "All in the Mind" and "An American Dream"), Earth Sun Moon as generally stripped down and fragile, the self-titled as all of that and more plus a fluke pop hit to boot. All have been reissued, get those if you can. Hot Trip to Heaven, the first album after their five-year break, is equally fantastic as a specific experiment into calm but entrancing techno waters, and had they continued in that vein the results would have been exquisite -- Sweet FA is more a consolidation of past highs with some good moments, though, while Lift turns back to the techno work not quite as effectively.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 July 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

― remy bean, Monday, 15 September 2008 18:16 (seventeen years ago)

i <3 that, sorry but...

― remy bean, Monday, 15 September 2008 18:16 (seventeen years ago)

What's to apologize for?

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 September 2008 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

Never listened to this stuff at the time, because it wouldn't be Bauhaus. Fifteen minutes on youtube - my instincts were correct. Definitely not. For better or worse, I suppose.

― Soukesian, Monday, 15 September 2008 20:28 (seventeen years ago)

first three albums are fantastic. although I've never understood why they felt compelled to put Ball of Confusion on both the first and second albums.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 15 September 2008 20:32 (seventeen years ago)

You're mad, Shakey. The fourth album is possibly their best.

― ilxor, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 02:03 (seventeen years ago)

never heard it

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 15:32 (seventeen years ago)

No, no, no, the fourth album is definitely the patchiest. (including later albums, yes, even Hot Trip To Heaven.)

― The World's Forgotten Girl (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 16 September 2008 16:40 (seventeen years ago)

***

― henry s, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 17:48 (seventeen years ago)

and another *

― henry s, Tuesday, 16 September 2008 17:52 (seventeen years ago)

Kate, you're crazy too. Fourth album is great almost entirely.

― ilxor, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 04:09 (seventeen years ago)

Fourth albums always are.

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 05:10 (seventeen years ago)

Fourth Bauhaus album was excellent as well. I'm sure no one agrees with me, though.

― ilxor, Wednesday, 17 September 2008 06:05 (seventeen years ago)

mmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee and my motorcycle.

Um, no. Sorry. Not buying it.

(Burning From The Inside was fab, though. But it's really just a Love & Rockets album with Murphy occasionally phoning in a performance from rehab.)

― The World's Forgotten Girl (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 17 September 2008 09:21 (seventeen years ago)

But listen to Ash's guitar on that motorcycle song! Come on!!!

― ilxor, Thursday, 18 September 2008 06:20 (seventeen years ago)

And lyrically, it makes for a nice sequel to "The Living End" by the JAMC.

― ilxor, Thursday, 18 September 2008 06:22 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

Is this really the only L&R thread on ILM?

anyway: now I need to listen to that American-label Love and Rockets CD again. If I can find it.

listening to Hot Trip to Heaven for the first time in over ten years. It is mostly shit, but "Ugly" is still a jam imo. It sounds like some outerspace epic version of the sort of singles Daniel Ash was turning in a couple years prior for his solo albums.

I look at HTTH as being on par with the dancier experiments from Stone Roses' Second Coming. Both bands were coming back from a five-year hiatus & trying to incorporate whatever house/dub/jungle elements of the day and just doing a really embarrassing job of it imo.

― Blazes Boyband (Pillbox), Friday, 14 January 2011 09:07 (fifteen years ago)

I clicked by accident before I saw it was on ILM

― basically just a 2/47 freak out (sic), Friday, 14 January 2011 09:56 (fifteen years ago)

title track from "hot trip" is fantastic imo

― ilxor, Friday, 14 January 2011 18:51 (fifteen years ago)

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