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Let Love Rule (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

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If like Lenny Kravitz and you're debating whether to buy this or the original single-CD release, then debate no more, get this deluxe version. The "live" studio version of Cold Turkey and the other live versions on the 80 minute second CD make this the best purchase. I especially like the 11 minute live version of Let Love Rule and the cover of Hendrix's If 6 Was 9. Marketplace sellers make this an attractive purchase with many options less than $5.

I remember when this CD first came out. It was in an era when people that looked like Lenny sounded nothing like him. lol. Anyway, I was over someone's house and they put the Let Love Rule CD on and at first I was trying to figure out what I was listening to. You see, you have to understand that there weren't many Blacks doing Rock and Roll and I was a bit apprehensive at first because I was unwilling to be openminded. After a few minutes of listening to the authenticity of what Lenny was talking about and then his musical abilities, I was sucked in. Before I realized it, we were half way through the CD and I had become a fan. Let Love Rule is a CD that I can listen to from beginning to end without fast-forwarding or skipping to the next song. A real 5-Star Classic...

I am blown away by my recent purchase of the Deluxe Edition Remastered "Let Love Rule." I honestly didn't think this release could have been improved on but the cost is worth the remastered studio cd alone. Everything on the release is crisper and cleaner than the original, especially the vocals. And as an added bonus you get a live cd, that reminds me much of when I saw Lenny live for this album. 13 tracks of unreleased material, linear notes galore that include a personal introduction by Lenny Kravitz, tons of photos, handwritten notes about the tracks, and a much more complete collection of notes than came with the original release. This is a reissue worth the seminal recording that is "Let Love Rule." Don't hesitate to purchase, I know you will be as pleased with it as I am!

While I think this is a nice deluxe 2-CD to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Lenny's debut album LET LOVE RULE, I just don't understand why Virgin didn't see fit to include the amazing, cool JUSTICE REMIX of the title track on the physical CD edition? Sure, if you hunt it down, you can buy the download of the Justice remix, but it would be so much nicer to have it in .WAV/CD sound quality for posterity - and it would have been a nice marketing hook to buy the CD for the fans. Once again major labels fumble the punt.

Let Love Rule: es el Album debut del músico de rock estadounidense Lenny Kravitz, publicado el 19 de septiembre de 1989 por Virgin Records America. Su entonces esposa Lisa Bonet, escribió para este disco la letra de "Fear" y co-escribió la letra de la canción, "Rosemary".

Let Love Rule llego al nē 61 del Billboard 200, mientras que el álbum gráfico alcanzó el nē 56 en el Reino Unido . Inicialmente, el álbum fue un éxito moderado en los Estados Unidos, pero se convirtió en una gran hazaña en todo el mundo, especialmente en Europa, vendiendo más de 2 millones de copias. El se le dio el reconocimiento de disco de oro en los Estados Unidos en 1995. A partir de noviembre de 2002, el álbum ha vendido 860.000 unidades en los EE.UU