Love (Love album) 3181387 225260629 2008-07-12T19:20:18Z J Milburn Bot 7423137 All Music Guide has now been rebranded to Allmusic {{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums --> Name = Love | Type = [[Album]] | Artist = [[Love (band)|Love]] | Cover = Love Album Cover.jpeg | Released = April 1966 | Recorded = | Genre = [[Psychedelic rock]], [[folk rock]], [[baroque pop]]| Length = 33:53 | Label = [[Elektra Records|Elektra]] | Producer = Mark Abramson <br> Tom Brooks <br> Michael Coleman (executive) <br> [[Jac Holzman]] <br> [[Arthur Lee]] <br> Ed Linquist| Reviews = *[[Allmusic]] {{rating-5|4.5}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jbkmu3e5anxk link]| Last album = | This album = '''''Love'''''<br />(1966) | Next album = ''[[Da Capo (Love album)|Da Capo]]''<br />(1967) |}} '''''Love''''' is the eponymous debut by the [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]]-based band [[Love (band)|Love]]. Twelve of the album's fourteen tracks were recorded at [[Sunset Sound Recorders]] in [[Hollywood]] on [[January 24]]-[[January 27|27]], [[1966]]. The remaining two tracks ("A Message To Pretty" and "My Flash On You") come from another, undocumented session. One of the first rock albums issued on then-folk giant [[Elektra Records]], the album was anchored by the group's radical reworking of the [[Burt Bacharach]]-[[Hal David]] song "My Little Red Book" which had guitar riffs that gave [[Syd Barrett]] some inspiration to write the [[Pink Floyd]] song [[Interstellar Overdrive]] which is on [[Pink Floyd]]'s album [[The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn]], the anti-drug anthem "Signed D.C." (allegedly a reference to one-time drummer Conka), and the poignant "A Message to Pretty". The stark instrumental "Emotions" is used uncredited in [[Haskell Wexler]]'s 1969 film [[Medium Cool]] as a recurring theme. ==Track listing== All tracks composed Arthur Lee; except where indicted #"My Little Red Book" ([[Burt Bacharach]], [[Hal David]]) #"Can't Explain" (Lee, John Echols, J. Fleckenstein) #"A Message to Pretty" #"My Flash on You" #"Softly to Me" (Bryan Maclean) #"No Matter What You Do" #"Emotions" (Lee, John Echols) #"You I'll Be Following" #"Gazing" #"[[Hey Joe]]" ([[Billy Roberts|Billy Roberts]]) #"Signed D. C." #"Coloured Balls Falling" #"Mushroom Clouds" (Lee, John Echols, Ken Forssi, Bryan Maclean) #"And More" (Lee, Bryan Maclean) *Note: The 2001 CD issue presents both stereo and monaural mixes and adds as bonus tracks an alternate take of "Signed DC" and "No. Fourteen", the B-side to the "Seven & Seven Is". ==Personal== *[[Arthur Lee (musician)|Arthur Lee]]: lead vocals, percussion, drums, harmonica *[[John Echols]]: lead guitar *[[Bryan Maclean]]: rhythm guitar, vocal *[[Ken Forssi]]: bass *Alban "Snoopy" Pfisterer: drums On "Can't Explain", "No Matter What You Do", "Gazing", "Mushroom Clouds" and "And More", Arthur Lee plays drums. On "Softly to Me" and "Hey Joe", Bryan Maclean sings lead. [[Category:1966 albums]] [[Category:Debut albums]] [[Category:Love albums]] [[Category:Garage rock albums]]