Fontana Years [Import]

House Of Love (London) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 21, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal I.S.
• ASIN: B00028589I
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #318,223 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Girl With The Loneliest Eyes

2. Someone's Got To Love You

3. Beatles & Stones (Single Version)

4. Crush Me

5. Yer Eyes

6. Hollow

7. You've Got To Feel

8. Never

9. Shine On

10. I Don't Know Why I Love You

11. You Don't Understand

12. Audience With The Mind

13. All Night Long

14. Blind

15. Clothes

16. Phone

17. Last Edition Of Love

18. D Song '89

19. Cut The Fool Down

20. Love 10

See all 33 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

UK two disc compilation for the popular British guitar pop band features 33 tracks recorded for the Fontana label. Universal. 2004.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Shine On, August 10, 2005

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Tezcatlipoca (Espinho,Portugal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fontana Years (Audio CD)

Caught halfway between the Smiths and the Stone Roses, but without reaching the heights of either, the House of Love were(and they've reunited recently) nonetheless a very interesting cusp of the decade band that created darkly romantic tunes that, even though briefly, caught the attention of the british audience with songs as beautiful as "Shine On" or"Beatles and the Stones".

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars House Of Love Fans Rejoice..., May 28, 2007

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K. B. marks (SF Bay Area, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fontana Years (Audio CD)

Most of the stuff here will be review for the hardcore HOL purist, but there are a surprising number of lost tracks, b-sides, and alternate mixes to chew on. Yet another solid collection, and further evidence that The House Of Love is one of the most underrated, underappreciated guitar bands of all time.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best of phase 2 of this nearly forgotten band, August 6, 2005

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John L Murphy "Fionnchú" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fontana Years (Audio CD)

This follows, as the title says, the later period of the band on Fontana records. When Terry Bickers was still in the group, as he was for perhaps half of these non-chronologically ordered recordings, the band crackled well in post-Smiths, pro-glum style. The sound of the layered textures Stephen Hague captured on the "butterfly" album (titled, third in a row, as "The House of Love" unhelpfully--the first two are now paired on the Creation anthology) works magically to stimulate the mind and the body. and remains one of my all-time favorites for its fantastic production; Hague also produced Pere Ubu's "Cloudland" around the same time, another tour-de-force if unexpected match-up.

After Bickers left to found Levitation, the remaining trio stumbled on with "Babe Rainbow" and "Audience with the Mind" less. The best moments from both are found here, and BR especially has many decent moments excerpted here, but AwtM barely registers, even on the selected cuts collected here.

Still, in lieu of hearing the original "Butterfly" Fontana 1990 release, this helpfully gathers the legacy of in my opinion a very-overlooked band that deserved a better fate. Check out, if you want a lively one-disc overview, their Peel Sessions as well.