Express (album)

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Express
Express cover
Studio album by Love and Rockets
Released September 15, 1986
Genre Alternative rock
Length 40:08 (original LP), 70:18 (2001 reissue)
Label Beggar's Banquet/Big Time
Producer John A. Rivers, Love and Rockets
Professional reviews
Love and Rockets chronology
Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
(1985)		 Express
(1986)		 Earth, Sun, Moon
(1987)

Express is the second album by the British band Love and Rockets, released in 1986 on Beggar's Banquet.

The band continued in the same musical direction as their first album, Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven, with a strong psychedelic and glam rock sound. Although still retaining a bit of their gothic rock sound, the band continued to distance themselves away from their previous work with Bauhaus.

The album contains two versions of "All in My Mind", one of which is labeled as an acoustic version. Although both feature similar lyrics and chord structures, the songs are clearly distinct from each other.

In 2001, the album was remastered and expanded to include two single remixes and several contemporaneous b-sides, including a cover of Pink Floyd's "Lucifer Sam". Two short experimental pieces that had been found on the studio tape masters labeled as "B Side #1" and "B Side #2" were also added. Note that "Ball of Confusion" was released before Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven, but since the USA mix could not be fit on the reissue of that album, it was appended to the Express reissue.

Contents

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[edit] Original LP Release

  1. "It Could Be Sunshine" – 5:00
  2. "Kundalini Express" – 5:47
  3. "All in My Mind" – 4:45
  4. "Life in Laralay" – 3:35
  5. "Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man)" – 5:56
  6. "Love Me" – 3:54
  7. "All in My Mind (acoustic)" – 5:08
  8. "An American Dream" – 6:04

[edit] US LP Release (Bigtime Records)

  1. "It Could Be Sunshine" – 5:00
  2. "Kundalini Express" – 5:47
  3. "All in My Mind" – 4:45
  4. "Life in Laralay" – 3:35
  5. "Ball Of Confusion" - 6:16
  6. "Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man)" – 5:56
  7. "Love Me" – 3:54
  8. "All in My Mind (acoustic)" – 5:08
  9. "An American Dream" – 6:04

The original CD release also included "Angels and Devils", "Ball of Confusion (USA Mix)", and "Holiday on the Moon".

[edit] 2001 CD Reissue

  1. "It Could Be Sunshine" – 4:59
  2. "Kundalini Express" – 5:52
  3. "All in My Mind" – 4:43
  4. "Life in Laralay" – 3:31
  5. "Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man)" – 5:56
  6. "Love Me" – 3:54
  7. "All in My Mind (acoustic)" – 5:08
  8. "An American Dream" – 6:09
  9. "Angels and Devils" – 6:10
  10. "Holiday on the Moon" – 6:07
  11. "Lucifer Sam" – 3:21
  12. "B Side #1" – 1:16
  13. "B Side #2" – 1:31
  14. "Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man) (Remix)" – 5:29
  15. "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) (USA Mix)" – 6:18

[edit] Personnel