Tracklist
1. Just A Dream Away
2. Way Of Love
3. Let Me Know
4. Fair Weather Friends
5. Land Of The Lost
6. Nothing Left To Lose
7. The Search
8. Different Ways
9. Just Say
Credits
Bass – Brad Davidson
Drums – Steve Plouf
Guitar, Vocals, Written-By – Greg Sage
Producer, Recorded By – Greg Sage
Label: Hybrid Records Catalog#: HYBRID 2 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released: 1985 Genre: Rock Style: Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Indie Rock
Tracklist A1. The Wayward Souls - Unknown Journey [4:07] Written By Ahlen A2. Jon Wayne - Mr. Egyptian [2:36] Written By Jon Wayne A3. Multicoloured Shades - (The Ballad Of) The Voodoo Ranger [3:56] Written By Bizer, Wagner, Heimes, Doering, Barany A4. The Volcanoes - Into The Psyche [3:14] Written By The Volcanoes A5. Honolulu Mountain Daffodils - Electrified Sons Of Randy Alvey [3:10] Written By Honolulus B1. The Volcanoes - Wild [2:43] Written By The Volcanoes B2. Multicoloured Shades - Heartbeat [3:00] Written By Bizer, Wagner, Heimes, Doering, Barany B3. Honolulu Mountain Daffodils - The Sinners Club [4:35] Written By Honolulus B4. The Wayward Souls - Now [4:08] Written By Ahlen B5. Jon Wayne - Texas Polka [1:48] Written By Jon Wayne
Album info (Discogs) Label: Hybrid Records Catalog#: HYBRID 1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: UK Released: 1985 Genre: Rock Style: Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Indie Rock
Tracklist A1. The Lime Spiders - Slave Girl [2:48] Producer - The Lime Spiders , Tom Misner Written-By - Blood* , Jakimyszyn* A2. The Beasts Of Bourbon - Evil Ruby [3:12] Engineer - Tony Cohen Executive Producer - Roger Grierson Written-By - Jones* , Perkins* A3. The Vandals - Mohawk Town [2:47] Producer - Thom Wilson Written-By - The Vandals A4. Spikes* - Flashback To Acid Beach [5:30] Producer - Bob Allan , Spikes* Written-By - Thomas* , Spikes* A5. Guadalcanal Diary - Watusi Rodeo [2:38] Producer - Don Dixon Written-By - Kordecki* , Walls* , Attaway* B1. The Vandals - Ladykiller [3:42] Producer - Thom Wilson Written-By - The Vandals B2. The Lime Spiders - Beyond The Fringe [2:33] Producer - Lime Spiders, The , Tom Misner Written-By - Blood* , Jakimyszyn* B3. Spikes* - Ain't No Friend Of Mine [2:44] Producer - Bob Allan , Spikes* Written-By - Turnbow* , Parks* B4. The Beasts Of Bourbon - Drop Out [3:04] Engineer - Tony Cohen Executive Producer - Roger Grierson Written-By - Baker* , Salmon* B5. Guadalcanal Diary - Trail Of Tears [2:27] Producer - Don Dixon Written-By - Walls* , Attaway*
Love and Rockets dismissed Earth, Sun, Moon's folk sound in favour of a stronger rock & roll sound. Hints of the band's former psychedelic and gothic rock sound remained. Chief songwriters Daniel Ash and David J had begun concentrating strictly on their own material (rather than writing together) on Earth, Sun, Moon. By the time of Love and Rockets, their creative partnership had clearly all but dried up, as the album lurches back and forth between Ash's tech-savvy modern pop and J's bluesier, grittier experiments.
The album featured Love and Rockets' biggest hit, the Ash-penned "So Alive". The song was a surprising #3 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, and stayed at #1 for five weeks on the US Mainstream Rock chart. Because of the popularity of the single in the US, Love and Rockets became the band's best-selling album in America.
After the release of the album, the band embarked on a long worldwide tour. Afterwards, instead of recording a new album and a follow-up single to "So Alive", J and Ash both focused on their solo careers, continuing in the directions represented on this album. They each released two solo albums in the break (with drummer Kevin Haskins working primarily with Ash) before returning as a band to record Hot Trip to Heaven in 1994.
In 2002, the album was remastered and expanded into a double album. The bonus tracks featured a single remix, three b-sides, all five songs from the aborted Swing! EP, and a radio session. The Swing! project was to be an outlet for some of the band's stranger output, but the material was never released, except for "Bad Monkey", which ended up on the Glittering Darkness EP in 1996.
"The Purest Blue" is a radical reworking of "Waiting for the Flood" from Earth, Sun, Moon, and "**** (Jungle Law)" was later reworked as "Bad Monkey", recorded as part of the Swing! project.
Music: Love And Rockets;
Words: David J (1, 3, 6, 9), Daniel Ash (2, 4, 5, 7, 8) and Daniel Ash/Gary Ash (10).
Love and Rockets: David J, Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins.
Recorded at Blackwing Studios, London except track 3 engineered by Whispering Angus at Far Heath Studios, Northamptonshire.
Tracklist
1
**** (Jungle Law) (4:34)
2
No Big Deal (4:56)
3
The Purest Blue (3:43)
4
Motorcycle (3:31)
5
I Feel Speed (3:23)
6
Bound For Hell (6:02)
7
The Teardrop Collector (4:09)
8
So Alive (4:17)
9
Rock And Roll Babylon (3:24)
10
No Words No More (3:49)
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------------------------------ Original post This is a "Global Entropy" release.
Few words from me
1000% original sound, 1000% special music approach, definately unique and prototypes in the underground and all this from the most exceptional and outstanding Australian group.
The group were thrown together by vocalist Tex Perkins to fulfill a booking his previous band, Tex Deadly and the Dum-Dums, could no longer make. The band began playing together in small venues in Sydney. The initial version of the group included Spencer P. Jones of The Johnnys, Boris Sudjovic and Kim Salmon of The Scientists and James Baker of Hoodoo Gurus. Recruited in large part because they were often found in the Southern Cross, an inner-city Sydney bar, these members form what is considered by some[who?] to be the 'classic'[neutrality is disputed] line-up. This lineup was featured on the band's first album, The Axeman's Jazz, recorded in 1984 in a single afternoon for one hundred dollars by Tony Cohen. The album was an excursion into deranged Gothic country and western,[citation needed] with a strong sense of irony and irreverence toward country music's clichés.[citation needed] A cover of "Psycho" was a hit on alternative radio.[citation needed] Although the album became an underground success, the band continued, for the time being, to be a side project for its members until 1988.
