Love and Rockets - Sweet F.A. (2LP)

Rick Rubin guided Love and Rockets to a return to more guitar-based songs for 1996’s Sweet F.A. While the band were living and working at Rubin’s studio mansion, a fire broke out, which resulted in the band losing all of their gear, some of their demo recordings, and nearly their lives as well. A burnt guitar plucked from the debris is on the album’s cover. The resulting album was inspired by some of their earliest influences – The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Can. It spins tales of passion and loss, carried on a fluid, moody throb. Undulating, hypnotic rhythms twine around melancholy lyrics which examine life at a primal level, as ethereal electronic effects play counterpoint to earthquake reverberating guitars. The reissue features four previously unreleased tracks.

1. Sweet F.A.

2. Judgement Day

3. Use Me

4. Fever

5. Sweet Lover Hangover

6. Pearl

7. Shelf Life

8. Sad And Beautiful World

9. Natacha

10. Words Of A Fool

11. Clean

12. Here Comes The Comedown

13. Spiked

14. Sweet F.A. Reprise

15. My Dark Twin *

16. Venus Child *

17. Butterfly *

18. Pick Yourself Up *

* Previously unreleased