Earth Sun Moon

Love & Rockets | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Big Time Records
• ASIN: B0000038S0
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #175,111 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Mirror People

2. The Light

3. Welcome Tomorrow

4. No New Tale to Tell

5. Here on Earth

6. Lazy

7. Waiting for the Flood

8. Rain Bird

9. The Telephone Is Empty

10. Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven

11. Earth, Sun, Moon

12. Youth

13. Mirror People [Slow Version]

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars One of Love and Rockets best, June 21, 2000

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Zepplyn "music fanatic" (Rushville, Illinois USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Earth Sun Moon (Audio CD)

This is one of the band's best albums. While it contains the popular hit "No New Tale to Tell" (a staple of 120 Minutes early years), it also has the Beatlesque "Rain Bird", the light shuffle of "Lazy" (which brings to my mind the "Singin in the Rain" sequence of A Clockwork Orange for some strange reason), the experimental jazz of "The Telephone is Empty". "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" (easily the album's best number) is a catchy pop ballad which examines one's inner spiritual beliefs. "Here on Earth" covers a similar philosophical theme, but neither song preaches, allowing the listener to come to his/her own conclusions. "Mirror People" is a whirling little psychedelic pop dance number, reprised on the last track in a slow version. "waiting for the flood" has one of those catchy, sing along verses. The album flows seemlessly from moody Goth-pop, acoustic aural landscapes, to all-out rockers without sounding forced.

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Revelation, Revolution For Us All, December 15, 2011

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kabalabonga - See all my reviews

This review is from: Earth Sun Moon (Audio CD)

Say what you will and disagree with me if you have to, but "Express" was acknowledged to be Love and Rocket's most universally acclaimed release if considered as their purest distillation of highly-melodic, aggressively-edged, guitar-driven psychedelia, building on many tracks to a sustained, explosive release, whether bringing over-driven, heavy modulation to bear through an effects rack,or blending it with acoustic riffing raised to a naturally elevated volume. You could hear this brought to fruition on "Kundalini Express", "All In My Mind", "Yin and Yang the Flower Pot Man", "It Could Be Sunshine", "Love Me", and "An American Dream".

So when "Earth Sun Moon" was released less than a year later, I was honestly looking forward to the sound crystalized on "Express" being extended and refined. What Love and Rockets wound up releasing was a recording largely dominated by psychedlically-tinged folk with pastoral overtones. "No New Tale To Tell" and "Mirror People" are the only tracks to contain truly explosive riffing, with "The Light" dominated by a heavily processed guitar that howls as it exits the song at its climax. "No New Tale To Tell", the only single that was in widespread release within the US, uses a flute solo to greater effect during its bridge than one of Ash's savory, understated, yet compelling guitar refrains.

Apart from the heavily-processed guitar drones laid down in reversion on "The Telephone Is Empty" and complemented by a psuedo-jazzy saxophone chorus, most of the remaining tracks on the CD base their formative structure around acoustic and organic instrumentation, the highlights including "Welcome Tommorow", 'Waiting For The Flood", the title track, and "Youth".

The lyrical content of "Earth Sun Moon" continues to explore themes from "Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven" and "Express"; significance imparted to the place in the universe that man should actually inhabit, the elevation of spirit, personal enlightenment, the search for transcendence from the human condition, and the importance of connections forged on a personal level.

And while not as cohesive as "Express", "Earth Sun Moon" nevertheless possesses enough in the way of familiar reference points to promote a sense of continuity. Not as lively and energetic as "Express", it imparts a meditative vibe, and is worth getting for the gorgeous melodic arrangments that flow through it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Time goes by, so slow...., May 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Earth Sun Moon (Audio CD)

What a wonderful sonic excursion into psychedelic mindspace. Mr Ash weaves beautiful musical structures that seem to exist in the timeless space inbetween the moments.