Love and Rockets-Sorted! The Best of Love and Rockets (2003)


 

Artist: Love and Rockets

Title: Sorted! The Best of Love and Rockets

Label: Beggars Banquet US

Format: CD

Cat: BBL 2036 CD

Year of Release: 2003

Country and Year of Edition: US 2003

Sell Price: $9.90 VG+/VG+ 7/30/24

Discogs Last Sold: 5/31/24 VG+/NM $8.00

Low: $1.99

Median: $8.00

Average: $8.26

High: $14.99

Current low price: $7.53

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 6

Have/Want: 467/52

Where Sold: Walla Walla, WA

Time it took to sell:  6 months

Where and When Purchased: facebook marketplace used lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-

Sad To See It Go: No

Love and Rockets were one of those bands I never bought anything of in their day yet played on the radio before they blew up commercially at the end of the 80's with "So Alive."  The stuff I liked from the first couple albums are contained on this decent overview that came out in 2003.

Daniel Ash & David J were certainly in my collection with Bauhaus.  If I was to buy one Love and Rockets album it would probably be Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven from 1985 which was still in the new bin right when I started radio in early '86.  At that time they seemed a natural extension of Bauhaus, unlike the later, more commercial records.   My favorite from the first was "Haunted When The Minutes Drag" which made the cut here.  With Express from 1986 I liked "Kundalini Express" as well as "Yin and Yang and the Flowerpot Man."

While "No New Tale To Tell" was inescapable, Earth Sun Moon in 1987 was where I started to not pay much attention just as their popularity was picking up.  That said, I find this comp a fairly familiar listen over 15 tracks.

It could be sunshine.

Subliminal alt-rock that wormed it's way into my consciousness passively.


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