Shopping > Music > Love and Rockets > Love and Rockets

Love and Rockets - Love and Rockets (CD)

Love and Rockets
$4.99 - $14.99
4 out of 5.0 stars 2 Ratings (2 Reviews)

Album Details: Love and Rockets

Release Date:04/01/1989
Label:Rca
UPC:078635971521

Track List: Love and Rockets

  1. **** (Jungle Law)
  2. No Big Deal
  3. The Purest Blue
  4. Motorcycle
  5. I Feel Speed
  1. Bound For Hell
  2. The Teardrop Collector
  3. So Alive
  4. Rock And Roll Babylon
  5. No Words No More

Other Available Formats: Love and Rockets

User Reviews: Love and Rockets

  • Overall:

    love and rockets

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Mar 9, 2001

    this is a classic 80's band, with a slightly darker side than most of the new wave/pop stuff. i find this album to be a nice trip back to the days when music was actually original and worth listening to.

  • Overall:

    love and rockets do not suck

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Feb 28, 2000

    This CD is not the best I've heard. However, if you like upbeat 80's songs "so alive" cannot be beat. Take a listen and if you don't think it kicks ass then you better go check into a clinic.

Pro Reviews: Love and Rockets

  • All Music Guide

    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, thr...ashy 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, All Music Guide Read more Less

Compare Prices: Love and Rockets

Store Store Rating Price Notes/Coupons

Amazon.com Marketplace

48 Ratings

(29 Reviews)

Write a review

$14.99Total Price N/A New Item fantastic prices with ease & comfort of amazon Go to Store

SecondSpin.com

Write a review

$4.99Total Price N/A New Item

3 Coupons & Deals

Go to Store

Rate & Write a Review: Love and Rockets

All fields marked with * are required
0 out of 5.0 stars
0 out of 5.0 stars
0 out of 5.0 stars
Maximum of 4,000 characters
Cancel

Rate & Write a Review: Love and Rockets

Thank You. Your review has been posted.
View your postClose

Biography

Love and Rockets

Love and Rockets comprised guitarist/vocalist Daniel Ash, bassist/vocalist David J, and drummer Kevin Haskins, all former members of the pioneering goth band Bauhaus. However, the group didn't sound very similar to their first group. Instead, Love and Rockets emphasized the strains of psychedelia and glam rock that appeared underneath Bauhaus' gloomy drone, adding eleme... Read more