Love (Love album)

Infobox Album | Name = Love
Type = Album
Artist = Love


Released = April 1966
Recorded =
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
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jbkmu3e5anxk link]
Last album =
This album = "Love"
(1966)
Next album = "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.

Track listing

All tracks composed Arthur Lee; except where indicted

#"My Little Red Book" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
#"Can't Explain" (Lee, John Echols, J. Fleckenstein)
#"A Message to Pretty"
#"My Flash on You"
#"Softly to Me" (Bryan Maclean)
#"No Matter What You Do"
#"Emotions" (Lee, John Echols)
#"You I'll Be Following"
#"Gazing"
#"Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts)
#"Signed D. C."
#"Coloured Balls Falling"
#"Mushroom Clouds" (Lee, John Echols, Ken Forssi, Bryan Maclean)
#"And More" (Lee, Bryan 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".

Personal

*Arthur Lee: lead vocals, percussion, drums, harmonica
*John Echols: lead guitar
*Bryan Maclean: rhythm guitar, vocal
*Ken Forssi: bass
*Alban "Snoopy" Pfisterer: drums

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.