Love (Love album)
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{{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]]