Love And Rockets – Sweet F.A. - 2XLP

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.

A1        Sweet F.A.    4:07
A2        Judgement Day    4:21
A3        Use Me    4:10
A4        Fever    5:01
A5        Sweet Lover Hangover    5:11
B1        Pearl    4:12
B2        Shelf Life    3:23
B3        Sad and Beautiful World    5:57
B4        Natacha    4:53
C1        Words of a Fool    6:34
C2        Clean    5:38
C3        Here Come the Comedown    3:47
C4        Spiked    3:59
C5        Sweet F.A.    1:13
D1        My Dark Twin
D2        Butterfly
D3        Venus Child
D4        Pick Yourself Up