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Love & Rockets

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: September 15, 1986
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bigtime
• ASIN: B0000038RZ
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #43,912 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Angels and Devils

2. It Could Be Sunshine

3. Kundalini Express

4. All in My Mind

5. Life in Laralay

6. Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) [US Mix]

7. Holiday on the Moon

8. Yin and Yang and the Flower Pot Man [Remix][Mix]

9. Love Me

10. All in My Mind [Acoustic Version]

11. American Dream

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Skip this - buy the UK remastered version, November 20, 2001

By	Winthrop Harrison "winharrison" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a wonderful record, probably the best Love & Rockets album ever. But this CD edition was mastered around 1987, and sounds thin and faded - it has no bass punch. Spend the extra cash and buy the UK remastered import. You'll get all of these tracks plus a great cover of Syd Barrett's "Lucifer Sam." The UK version sounds much sharper, revealing bass lines you'll never notice with this thin edition. Still, if you're on a budget, this is a marvelous album regardless.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars No Ball of Confusion, March 28, 2002

By	Scott Lindholm (Davenport, IA USA) - See all my reviews

Peter Murphy, Bauhaus, Tones on Tails, whatever, these guys recorded alot under different names. Easily the strongest lineup was the Love and Rockets lineup, and this CD is about as good a CD as one could ever hope to buy.

Try to find a bad song--not possible. My wife loves this album, and she listens to total crap. I remember the day I bought it (Sept. 1986)--I was looking for their first album ("Seventh Dream..." but was totally blown away when I first heard it, and it still stands up 15 years later. None of their later albums even remotely holds a candle to this, and this CD adds two tracks not found on the album release.

If you have even the remotest love for music, this is great stuff. Other bands may have been better over their careers (The Clash, Husker Du, Sonic Youth, The Jam, etc.), but few albums are strong from the first to last cut. This is one of the rare ones--get it NOW!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love and Rockets Best album by far, June 21, 2000

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

This is a classic in every sense of the word. An 80s version of pyschedelic pop from 3/4 of the Goth band Bauhaus. Best known for the remake of "Ball of Confusion", the album also contains the bouncy and bouyant "All in my Mind", the rhythmic like a locamotive "Kundalini Express", the lite ballad "Love Me". Introspective lyrics such as "but if you look in the mirror/you'll see that nobody/has ever ripped you off/It's all in your mind" give us cause to reflect on our own personal demons. "Holiday on the Moon", a bonus cut on the CD version only, is another example: "you can't get a suntan on the moon/but I wouldn't mind a holiday there", showing the band has a sense of humour. "It could be Sunshine" and "Ying and Yang the Flower Pot Man" are out and out rockers with drum and bass that kick. "Life in Laralay" sneers at the LA scene of phony and shallow plastic people. A better mid 80s album of psychedelia is hard to find.