Released March 1966 (1966-03) Length 36:03 Release date 1 March 1966 | Studio RCA Studios, Hollywood Artist Love Label Elektra Records | |
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Recorded December 1965 - January 1966 Genres Psychedelic rock, Folk rock, Garage rock, Baroque pop Producers Mark Abramson, Jac Holzman Similar Love albums, Psychedelic rock albums |
Love is the eponymous debut album by the Los Angeles-based rock band Love.
Contents
- Roy kim love love love full album
- Recording
- Sales
- Legacy
- Track listing
- 2001 CD reissue
- Personnel
- Singles
- Songs
- References
Roy kim love love love full album
Recording
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.
Love is a folk rock, garage rock and psychedelic rock album. One of the first rock albums issued on then-folk giant Elektra Records, the album begins with the group's radical reworking of the Burt Bacharach-Hal David song "My Little Red Book." It features a guitar line that Syd Barrett altered considerably (although not unrecognizably so) in writing his own "Interstellar Overdrive", released on Pink Floyd's album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. The album also features "Signed D.C." (allegedly a reference to one-time Love drummer Don Conka), and the poignant "A Message to Pretty".
Sales
The album sold about 150,000 copies.
Legacy
The stark instrumental "Emotions" is used uncredited in Haskell Wexler's 1969 film Medium Cool as a recurring theme.
"My Little Red Book" was featured over the final credits of the movie High Fidelity in 2000, and the Beverly Hills, 90210 episode "Alone at the Top" in 1995.
Track listing
All tracks written by Arthur Lee, except where indicated.
2001 CD reissue
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 "7 and 7 Is" single.
Personnel
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According to the box set Love Story, the tracks "A Message To Pretty" and "My Flash On You" may feature John Fleckenstein on bass and Don Conka on drums in place of Forssi and Pfisterer.
Singles
Songs
1My Little Red Book2:33
2Can't Explain2:41
3A Message To Pretty3:14