The House Of Love

House Of Love (London) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fontana
• ASIN: B000001FRV
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #58,947 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

UK reissue of the Smiths-like indie act's second self-titled album, originally released in 1990. 12 tracks including, 'The Beatles & The Stones', ' I Don't Know Why I Love You ', 'Blind' & '32nd Floor'. Universal.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kind of Suprised I'm the First to Review this, November 17, 2006

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Tony Ukena "TU" (CA, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The House Of Love (Audio CD)

"I don't why I love you, your face is a hammer in my head; I remember every word you said, I just don't know why I love you..." is the lyric from track #6 on this amazing album.

There are about 6 high quality songs on this album. The music on this album is filled with depth and layers of musical and conceptual ideas. The lyrics are mad and that's what makes the songs so special.

For example, in the song, "The Beatles and the Stones", in the introduction, you hear faintly in the background the intro to "All You Need is Love" and then this is juxtaposed with the lyric: "Look at you, shouting out, loud as thunder out to sea, you want the bomb, and so do we, a bomb from the sky is the perfect crime, shoulder on shoulder in heat...." yet the music to these violent metaphors is pleasantly melancholic and nostalgic in nature.

There are many brilliant musical and lyrical ideas throughout this album. There's an incredible mania in the song "in a room" which lyrically appears to be the depiction of a man gone crazy in his drunken stupor of emotional infatuation. "and I can't slow down, and I can't slow down...."

If you're into deep, sarcastically dry, intelligent, insane, and mature lyrical content and do not mind the post punk new wave and alternative rock sound that's similar to Echo and the Bunnymen, you'll go pleasantly mad listening to these tracks over and over again.

What an album. What songs.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The end, December 3, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The House Of Love (Audio CD)

The "Butterfly Album" is the end of one of the best indie bands of the last decade. After "The House of Love" recorded for Creation Records this was what everyboy wasn't expecting, a better record than the landmark that "The House of Love" was. Guy Chadwick's lyrics are better and more introspective, the guitars became more important in expressing the feelings contained in the lyrics. The band had great live performances, and after a top ten in Britain, they disappeared from the pop scene. This record remains as something unique that should had continued. It's a "candy" but with a bitter taste, because we can't hear some news from them,although candies are always tasteful. I will listen to this record for a long, long time.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It keeps getting better, September 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The House Of Love (Audio CD)

Everyone else may call it the Fontana House of Love album, but I always refer to it as "the Butterfly Album" because of the cover art. This is a thoroughly excellent album of thoughful guitar pop. It ranges from the atmospheric "Hannah", to the introspective "Blind", to the hammering "I Don't Know Why I Love You". The stand out track for me has always been "Se Dest" for the wonderful instrumental part in the middle of the song. While other CD's gather dust from disuse, the "Butterfly Album" stays on steady rotation in my house, and will continue to do so for the rest of my life.