USED LP
Original 1966 stereo US pressing on Elektra Records.
Vinyl Condition: VG+
Sleeve Condition: VG+
Love is the eponymous debut album by the Los Angeles-based rock band Love; released in March 1966 by Elektra Records. Ten of the album's fourteen tracks were recorded at Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood on January 24–27, 1966. The remaining four tracks ("A Message to Pretty", "My Flash on You", "Emotions", and "Mushroom Clouds") come from another, undocumented session during that period.
Love features a mixture of folk rock genre, garage rock, and psychedelic rock. 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" and also features "Signed D.C." (allegedly a reference to one-time Love drummer Don Conka), along with the poignant "A Message to Pretty".
In a retrospective review of the album, Richie Unterberger for AllMusic called it "their hardest-rocking early album and their most Byrds-influenced." He also stated, "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."
TRACKLIST:
A1 My Little Red Book
A2 Can't Explain
A3 A Message To Pretty
A4 My Flash On You
A5 Softly To Me
A6 No Matter What You Do
A7 Emotions
B1 You I'll Be Following
B2 Gazing
B3 Hey Joe
B4 Signed D.C.
B5 Colored Balls Falling
B6 Mushroom Clouds
B7 And More
