Hot Trip to Heaven

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Hot Trip to Heaven
Hot Trip to Heaven cover
Studio album by Love and Rockets
Released 26 September 1994
Genre Alternative rock, Electronic
Length 64:03
Label American
Producer Love and Rockets
Professional reviews
Love and Rockets chronology
Love and Rockets
(1989)		 Hot Trip to Heaven
(1994)		 Sweet F.A.
(1996)

Hot Trip to Heaven is the fifth album by the British 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".

Hot Trip to Heaven exchanged much of the band's former gothic rock & roll sound in favor of a hi-tech electronic, ambient direction. The incorporation of dancier elements—especially evident in the lead single "This Heaven"—largely worked against the band commercially, despite their ever-present psychedelic focus. This resulted in the album alienating much of their core college rock audience instead of attracting new listeners, though it can be argued that the band's modernization and creative restlessness gave Love and Rockets a greater shelf life than most bands of their era.

Love and Rockets would return to guitar-based alternative rock on their next album, 1996's Sweet F.A., before further exploring electronic music on their swan song, 1998's Lift.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Body and Soul" – 14:14
  2. "Ugly" – 7:25
  3. "Trip and Glide" – 5:19
  4. "This Heaven" – 7:08
  5. "No Worries" – 7:13
  6. "Hot Trip to Heaven" – 7:34
  7. "Eclipse" – 2:18
  8. "Voodoo Baby" – 3:25
  9. "Be the Revolution" – 6:43
  10. "Set Me Free" – 2:44

[edit] Personnel