Lift

Love & Rockets | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 13, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Red Ant / Bmg
• ASIN: B00000DFDM
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #142,221 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lift [Malibu Mix]

2. R.I.P. 20 C.

3. Holy Fool

4. Too Much Choice

5. Pink Flamingo

6. Delicious Ocean

7. Ghosts of the Multiple Feature

8. Bad for You

9. Resurrection Hex

10. My Drug

11. Deep Deep Down

12. Party's Not Over

13. Lift

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, December 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Lift (Audio CD)

Anyone who wants the good-old goth stuff will be slightly disappointed, but anyone who appreciated good music will enjoy it. It is a new direction in music combining good lyrics, techno, electronica, ambient, gothic, (insert cool word here). In an age when everything is starting to sound the same this album breathes life back into multiple genres.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars YESYESYES!!!!, December 19, 2003

By 

oompah_loompah "art student chick" (PA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lift (Audio CD)

As sacreligious as it may seem, this may quite possibly be my favorite L&R cd. Then again, I loved Hot Trip To Heaven, so feel free to ignore the rest of this review if that's the kinda person you are. Still reading? Sweet. Okay, now, I LOVE LOVE LOVE all my other L&R cds, and I can't get enough of Danny's fuzzy/crunchy guitars, but I listen to this one the most. It's some of the sweetest, juiciest most delicious triphoppytechno-ness there is. On top of that, killer lyrics. I'll warn you, though, there's no happy, whimsically trippy Bubblemen-ness, here. However, there is a gratuitous amount of icky old porno theaters, c*m shots, oral sex and the like. Fun fun for everyone!! Who knew David J was such a perv? :) Yes, well, incase that just alienated you, there's the wholesome, oaty goodness of...oh, wait, nevermind. They're all like that, with the exception of "Ressurection Hex", which doesn't really have lyrics (but DOES sample Bauhaus and...yes...ADAM ANT!!), and probably a few others, I can't really remember...but yeah, the music is totally eargasmic techno, and I can say from experience that I've been playing it almost nonstop for a loooong time now and I'm still not tired of it. Unfortunately, this was their last studio album. (Sniff). Well, at least Peter Murphy's making his groovy Turkish industrial world beat goth music....I think. Jeepers, why haven't either of these guys put out any new stuff lately...?

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From Bauhaus to Acid house . . ., December 6, 1998

By 

J. Eric Smith (Upstate New York, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lift (Audio CD)

Love and Rockets' Daniel Ash, David J and Kevin Haskins recently rejoined goth god Peter Murphy for a pointless (although no doubt lucrative) Bauhaus reunion tour-so listeners could have been forgiven for expecting the trio to be equally backwards-looking (and pointless) on their newest album, "Lift". Surprise, surprise, surprise: the Love and Rockets guys must have gotten all of nostalgia (and pointlessness) out of their systems during their on-the-road love-in with Murphy, as "Lift" is easily the best record in the group's erratic, but always irritatingly promising, fourteen-year long career.

Love and Rockets have often dabbled with electronics (most obviously on their Orb-influenced 1994 album, "Hot Trip to Heaven"), but with their latest release, the nominal bass-drum-guitar trio have tackled techno with a vengeance. "Lift" truly lives up to its name as a dance album for the ages, not only for its big beats and hot hooks but also for deftly capturing the aggressive hedonism that permeates dance culture. It's somehow refreshing to hear a group throwing such nasty, drug- and sex-friendly songs in the face of the scary, up-tight times in which we live.

Vocalists Ash and J both possess whispery, hashed-out voices that perfectly complement their subject material, while drummer Haskins and producer Doug Deangelis concoct the sorts of killer bottoms that make your hips want to do all the ugly things your ears are hearing about. Toss in a guest appearance by three-quarters of the divine Luscious Jackson on the better-be-a-hit "Holy Fool" and you've got a disc that evokes a palpable physical response of decadence and desire, even when it's heard in the safety of your own living room. I just shudder to think what "Lift" can do to a crowded dance floor.