Love Is... (song)
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| “Love Is...” | |||||
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| Single by King Missile from the album King Missile |
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| Released | 1994 | ||||
| Genre | Avant-garde, doom metal | ||||
| Length | 3:38 | ||||
| Label | Atlantic Records | ||||
| Writer(s) | John S. Hall, Roger Murdock, Dave Rick, Chris Xefos | ||||
| Producer | Daniel Rey | ||||
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"Love Is..." is a song by American avant-garde band King Missile. It was the only single from the band's 1994 album King Missile.
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[edit] Content
In "Love Is...," a dirge-like track with elements of doom metal, frontman John S. Hall dryly recites several examples of what love is ("beautiful / Like birds that sing") and is not ("ugly / Like rats / In a puddle of vomit"). The chorus consists of Hall ominously chanting, "Love is beautiful."[1]
[edit] Maxi-single
The "Love Is..." maxi-single was intended for promotional use only, and not supposed to be sold; nonetheless, copies are sometimes available in "used" sections of record stores because some people who received the maxi-single sold it anyway.[2]
[edit] Track listing
All lyrics by Hall. All music by Roger Murdock, Dave Rick, and Chris Xefos.
- "Love Is..." [clean version] – 3:38
- This "clean" version is identical to the album version except for the partial muting of a word that the King Missile liner notes claim is "shipload" but may actually be "shitload." (According to Hall, "on the [King Missile] lyric sheet we [the band] submitted to Atlantic, we changed all the curse words to acceptable words, figuring nobody would listen to the record, and we [would] get away with not having a warning label. This actually worked!"[3])
- "These People" – 4:26
- This track also appears on King Missile.
- "Lost Land" – 4:32
- This track appears exclusively on the maxi-single.
- "What If" [alternate version] – 2:24
- This track, which appears exclusively on the maxi-single, differs from the King Missile version of "What If" in that the lyrics are spoken throughout rather than both spoken and sung.
- "Love Is..." [album version] – 3:38
[edit] Music video
The video for "Love Is..." was directed by Richard Kern.[4] The video contrasts shots of the band performing in a white room with shots of a dark, sordid party at which attendees engage in heterosexual, homosexual, and zoophilic partnerships.[5]
MTV refused to air the video. Hall believes this rejection was motivated by the shots of multi-instrumentalist Xefos kissing another man.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Lyrics: Love Is.... Farmboy's King Missile. Retrieved on 2008-05-29.
- ^ Discography. Laundry Lists of Nonsense. Retrieved on 2008-06-06.
- ^ Interview w/ John. Farmboy's King Missile. Retrieved on 2008-06-06.
- ^ a b Videography. Laundry Lists of Nonsense. Retrieved on 2008-05-29.
- ^ Video: Love Is.... YouTube (2006-11-12). Retrieved on 2008-05-29.
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