Love and Rockets is the fourth studio album

Studio album

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 by English alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Love and Rockets

Love and Rockets (band)

Love and Rockets were an English alternative rock band formed in 1985 by former Bauhaus members Daniel Ash , David J , and Kevin Haskins . Former Bauhaus vocalist Peter Murphy had embarked on a solo career after Bauhaus split in 1983...

, released in 1989 on Beggar's Banquet.

Background

Love and Rockets dismissed Earth, Sun, Moon

Earth, Sun, Moon

Earth, Sun, Moon is the third studio album by English alternative rock band Love and Rockets, released in 1987 on Beggar's Banquet.The album was remastered, but not expanded , in 2001.- Background :...

's folk

Folk music

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 sound in favour of a stronger rock sound. Hints of the band's former psychedelic

Psychedelic music

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 and gothic rock

Gothic rock

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 sound remains. Chief songwriters Daniel Ash

Daniel Ash

Daniel Gaston Ash is the guitarist for Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets, and solo projects.-Life and work:After going to concerts in his teenage years, Ash made a decision to be on a stage in some way...

 and David J

David J

David John Haskins , better known as David J, is a British alternative rock musician. He was the bassist for the gothic rock band Bauhaus and Love and Rockets....

 had begun concentrating strictly on their own material (rather than writing together) on Earth, Sun, Moon

Earth, Sun, Moon

Earth, Sun, Moon is the third studio album by English alternative rock band Love and Rockets, released in 1987 on Beggar's Banquet.The album was remastered, but not expanded , in 2001.- Background :...

. 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 number 3 hit on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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, and stayed at number 1 for five weeks on the US Modern Rock

Modern Rock Tracks

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 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

Kevin Haskins

Kevin Haskins also known as Kevin Michael Dompe is a drummer best known from the British rock group Bauhaus. He was also a member of Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets...

 working primarily with Ash) before returning as a band to record Hot Trip to Heaven

Hot Trip to Heaven

Hot Trip to Heaven is the fifth studio album by British alternative rock band Love and Rockets, released in 1994 on American, after Beggar's Banquet dropped the band for not creating a successful follow-up single to So Alive.- Background :...

in 1994.

In 2002, the album was remastered and expanded into a double album

Double album

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. 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.

Original release

1. "**** (Jungle Law)" – 4:32
2. "No Big Deal" – 4:56
3. "The Purest Blue" – 3:43
4. "Motorcycle" – 3:31
5. "I Feel Speed" – 3:24
6. "Bound for Hell" – 6:01
7. "The Teardrop Collector" – 4:09
8. "So Alive" – 4:16
9. "Rock and Roll Babylon" – 3:22
10. "No Words No More" – 3:50

2002 reissue

Disc one

1. "**** (Jungle Law)" – 4:32
2. "No Big Deal" – 4:56
3. "The Purest Blue" – 3:43
4. "Motorcycle" – 3:31
5. "I Feel Speed" – 3:24
6. "Bound for Hell" – 6:01
7. "The Teardrop Collector" – 4:09
8. "So Alive" – 4:16
9. "Rock and Roll Babylon" – 3:22
10. "No Words No More" – 3:50
11. "Bike" – 3:54
12. "Bikedance" – 7:07
13. "No Big Deal (Remix)" – 7:11
14. "Dreamtime" – 8:41

Disc two

1. "Wake Up!" – 3:58
2. "Cuckoo Land" – 2:48
3. "The Early Worm" – 2:13
4. "1000 Watts of Your Love" – 2:48
5. "Bad Monkey" – 4:20
6. "Intro" (Radio Session) – 0:58
7. "1000 Watts of Your Love" (Radio Session) – 3:08
8. "No Words No More" (Radio Session) – 4:11
9. "Interview" (Radio Session) – 34:19

Personnel

• Daniel Ash
  Daniel Ash
  Daniel Gaston Ash is the guitarist for Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets, and solo projects.-Life and work:After going to concerts in his teenage years, Ash made a decision to be on a stage in some way...
  
   – guitar, saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  , and vocals
• David J
  David J
  David John Haskins , better known as David J, is a British alternative rock musician. He was the bassist for the gothic rock band Bauhaus and Love and Rockets....
  
   – bass and vocals
• Kevin Haskins
  Kevin Haskins
  Kevin Haskins also known as Kevin Michael Dompe is a drummer best known from the British rock group Bauhaus. He was also a member of Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets...
  
   – drums and synthesizers