Love (Love album)

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Love
Love cover
Studio album by Love
Released April 1966
Genre Psychedelic rock, folk rock, baroque pop
Length 33:53
Label Elektra
Producer Mark Abramson
Tom Brooks
Michael Coleman (executive)
Jac Holzman
Arthur Lee
Ed Linquist
Professional reviews
Love chronology
Love
(1966)		 Da Capo
(1967)

Love is the eponymous debut by the Los Angeles-based band Love. Twelve of the album's fourteen tracks were recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood on January 24-27, 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.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "My Little Red Book" (B. Bacharach/H. David)
  2. "Can't Explain" (A. Lee/J. Echols/J. Fleckenstein)
  3. "A Message to Pretty" (A. Lee)
  4. "My Flash on You" (A. Lee)
  5. "Softly to Me" (B. Maclean)
  6. "No Matter What You Do" (A. Lee)
  7. "Emotions" (A. Lee/J. Echols)
  8. "You I'll Be Following" (A. Lee)
  9. "Gazing" (A. Lee)
  10. "Hey Joe" (B. Roberts)
  11. "Signed D. C." (A. Lee)
  12. "Coloured Balls Falling" (A. Lee)
  13. "Mushroom Clouds" (A. Lee/J. Echols/K. Forssi/B. Maclean)
  14. "And More" (A. Lee/B. 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".

[edit] Personal

    • 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.