Love Music Cd

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Love      Artist : Love      List Price : $11.98 USD        Your Price : $11.98 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1999-07-15      Studio : Warner Bros UK      Label : Warner Bros UK      Avg. Customer Rating : (20 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Love      One of the greatest debuts and garage rock albums      Rating:      Up there with the early Who, there are not many garage rock albums better than this. The guitars chime and drive strangely and Arthur Lee writes...well..Arthur Lee lyrics, and every song is great. Especially their version of "Hey Joe" which is as good as Hendrix's, but in a completely different way. Check it out as it's a shame this band isn't more well known.     Customer Reviews for Love Cd      "Orange, sugar, chocolate, hot cinnamon and lovely things and you..."      Rating:      If nothing else, Love's debut is probably the group's coolest album. For one thing, its cover is a wonderful addition to the "mid 60s sneering rock star" sweeps (the mid 60s were a great time for sneers). Of course, Dylan and the Stones still have a lock on first and second place, but these guys are still up there. On top of that, the album's aesthetic is just wicked awesome: It's a combination of disaffected garage punk, dreamy proto-psych, Byrds influenced folk rock, and smart, soulful pop. Arthur Lee's vocals are perched somewhere between wildcat and wise man, while John Echols' and Bryan MacLean's guitar runs jangle and scream. Combine that with the suitably loose `n' ready rhythm section of Ken Forssi and Alban Pfisterer (oh, of only I could pick my last name!), and you've got yourself a hipper-than-hip li'l rock outfit. The songs are cool, too. "My Little Red Book" makes the grade by virtue of being a garage punk cover of a Burt Bacharach tune, but authorship and style aside, it's still a great tune. It's got this great throbbing bass/drum/rhythm guitar thing going, and Lee's throaty bellow is just about perfect. Elsewhere, we've got a haunting drug addiction ballad with a melody that's vaguely reminiscent of "House Of The Rising Sun" ("Signed D.C."), as well as the poignant rumination of "A Message to Pretty." There's a suitably rollicking version of "Hey Joe," and a similarly rollicking, suspiciously familiar tune by the name of "My Flash On You." Best of all is Bryan's eerily beautiful "Softly To Me." This probably won't be your favorite Love album- people tend to prefer Forever Changes- but it's still a great debut, and a wonderful rock album in its own right. Editorial Reviews for Love Audio Cd      Album Details      1988 Issue of the 1966 Psychedelic Classic Album from Arthur Lee and Company. The Printed Side of the CD is in the Fabled "Target" Format, as the Master Used for this Issue was Taken Directly from the Two Track Mixdown, Valuable to Many Collectors.