Love and Rockets
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Biography
Love and Rockets comprised guitarist/vocalist Daniel Ash, bassist/vocalist David J, and drummer Kevin Haskins, all former members of the pioneering goth band Bauhaus. However, the group didn't sound very similar to its first incarnation. Instead, Love and Rockets emphasized the strains of psychedelia and rock that appeared underneath Bauhaus' gloomy drone, adding elements of pop songcraft, folk, and r&b, as well as cryptic, self-important lyrics. For most of the late '80s, the group had a devoted cult following, resulting in a surprise Top Ten hit single, "So Alive," in 1989. During the early '90s, the group's audience steadily declined, although they still retained a number of loyal fans.
Read More...After Bauhaus broke up in 1983, David J recorded a solo album and collaborated with The Jazz Butcher, while Daniel Ash concentrated on a side project, Tones On Tail. Haskins soon joined Tones On Tail, but the group folded in 1984. Haskins and Ash then attempted to reunite Bauhaus. David J agreed to the project, but the band's lead vocalist, Peter Murphy, refused. Instead of pursuing an incomplete Bauhaus reunion, Ash, J, and Haskins formed Love and Rockets, taking their name from the underground comic book created by Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez.
Love and Rockets released their first album, Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven, in 1985; it received mixed reviews but it began to build their following. Trans-Europe Express, released the following year, was more successful, charting in both the U.S. and the U.K. On Earth And Sun And Moon (1987) the band retreated to more atmospheric musical territory, with the notable exception of the alternative/college radio hit "No New Tale to Tell," which helped increase the group's fan base. Love and Rockets, released in 1989, broke the band into the mainstream, thanks to the T. Rex-inspired Top Ten single "So Alive." The album was nearly as successful, breaking into the Top 20 and going gold.
After the success of Love and Rockets, the members of the band concentrated on solo projects for nearly a half-decade. Love and Rockets returned to recording in 1994 with Hot Trip to Heaven, which failed to make any inroads on the pop or alternative charts. In 1996, they returned again with Sweet F.A., and Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground followed two years later. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
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So Alive - (4:13) - 14,911 playsLyricsI don't know what color your eyes are, baby
But your hair is long and brown
Your legs are strong and you're so, so long
And you don't come from this town
My head is a full of magic, baby
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No New Tale to Tell - (3:27) - 6,493 playsLyricsYou cannot go against nature
Because when you do
Go against nature
It's part of nature too
Our little lives get complicated
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Kundalini Express - (5:49) - 3,643 playsLyricsThis is an announcement
For the transcendental run
The train now standing
Leaves for higher planes
Due to a derailment
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Mirror People - (3:22) - 2,859 playsLyricsI'm so happy with my feet on the ground
So happy, my head spins around
Quite content to sit on this fence
Quite content now a little bit older
The mirror people one day shall be free
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Haunted When the Minutes Drag - (8:02) - 2,156 playsLyricsThe word that would best describe this feeling would be, 'Haunted'
I touch the clothes you left behind
That still retain your shape and lines, still haunted
I trace the outline of your eyes
We're in the mirror hypnotized and haunted
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