(PRESALE - SHIPS OR PICKUP 10-16-26)

ROCKTOBER - TRANSPARENT RED VINYL

Love's debut is both their hardest-rocking early album and their most Byrds-influenced. 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. A few of the tracks are great, though: their punky rendition of Bacharach/David's "My Little Red Book" was a minor hit, "Signed D.C." and "Mushroom Clouds" were superbly moody ballads, and Bryan Maclean's "Softly to Me" served notice that Lee wasn't the only songwriter of note in the band.

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