The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers (New Vinyl)

NEW LP

New sealed copy. 2016 reissue on 180 gram black vinyl. 

The Modern Lovers is the debut studio album by American rock band the Modern Lovers. It was released on Beserkley Records in 1976, although the original nine tracks had been recorded in 1972 (or 1971 in the case of "Hospital"). Six of the original tracks were produced by John Cale. In 2003, the album was ranked number 381 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, 382 in 2012, and 288 in 2020.

The Modern Lovers influenced numerous aspiring punk rock musicians on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Sex Pistols, whose early cover of "Roadrunner" was placed on The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle. In the UK, the versions of "Roadrunner" produced by Cale and Kaufman were released as two sides of a single, which became a chart hit in 1977. In a retrospective write-up for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine states that "the combination of musical simplicity, driving rock & roll, and gawky emotional confessions makes The Modern Lovers one of the most startling proto-punk records—it strips rock & roll to its core and establishes the rock tradition of the geeky, awkward social outcast venting his frustrations."

The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

TRACKLIST:

A1 Roadrunner 
A2 Astral Plane 
A3 Old World 
A4 Pablo Picasso 
B1 She Cracked 
B2 Hospital 
B3 Someone I Care About 
B4 Girl Friend 
B5 Modern World