Love's debut is both their hardest-rocking early album and their most Byrds-influenced. Arthur Lee's songwriting muse hadn't fully developed at this stage, and in comparison with their second and third efforts, this is the least striking of the LPs featuring their classic lineup, with some similar-sounding folk-rock compositions and stock riffs. A few of the tracks are great, though: their punky rendition of Bacharach/David's "My Little Red Book" was a minor hit, "Signed D.C." and "Mushroom Clouds" were superbly moody allads, and Bryan Maclean's "Softly to Me" served notice that Lee wasn't the only songwriter of note in the band.
This post is for "The Doorman" at Lupos Heartbreak Hotel (aka: Lupos at the Strand)Everybody knows a doorman; he's the one that tightens you up when you forgot to purchase tickets, introduces you to the band, and has a rock n' roll story for every occasion.Diggin' deep through "the doorman's" huge selection of vinyl yesterday, (my buddy Jim was searching for a Moby Grape), he shared this littl...
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| Title | Lyrics | Buy |
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| 1 My Little Red Book |
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| 2 Can't Explain |
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| 3 A Message To Pretty |
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| 4 My Flash On You |
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| 5 Softly To Me |
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| 6 No Matter What You Do |
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| 7 Emotions |
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| 8 You I'll Be Following |
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| 9 Gazing |
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| 10 Hey Joe |
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| 11 Signed D.C. |
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| 12 Coloured Balls Falling |
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| 13 Mushroom Clouds |
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| 14 And More |
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| 15 Number 14 |
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| 16 Signed D.C. (Alternate Stereo) |
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