**** (LOVE AND ROCKETS ALBUM POLL)

Christ this is impossible. The first five are all pretty essential to me (or maybe more accurately the constructing-my-aesthetic me of twenty years back). Express is so elegant in its variety but each of those first five albums have that quality in different levels.

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For consistently listenable albums, it's tough to beat L&R. The're as good as anything else from their era and the records still hold up pretty damn well. Express, however, is nearly perfect. They get extra points for having the gall to come up with the Bubblemen - you wish, you wish, you wish.

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And I think Earth Sun Moon for me.

TBH I think I preferred Tones on Tail though.

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j/k "waiting for the flood" was the first song on this awesome mixtape my cousin made me when I was in high school...I see that song is on Earth Sun Moon so I'll probably vote for that...?

(or not vote at all)

first four are all pretty much perfect, fifth waayyy slept on but not quite up to perfect status, haven't heard the last two in a while, really, so can't comment there. when i want to hear just one, i put on Seventh Dream... so that it is.

They're not a band I think about a lot these days, but as I recall Earth*Sun*Moon was pretty much the soundtrack to my sophomore year in college. Also one of the first few CDs that I owned. I apparently never had any interest in finding out anything about them, since even now my knowledge of the band is essentially zip. So a lame vote for ESM.

Express gets my vote. Easy choice, in my opinion.

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I submit, also, in the case of the Bubblemen;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5vDWDUXwlMYin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man)

But wait, 7th Dream is so divine. And ToT is so much more visceral. And ESM is so fucking mellow-folksy-quaint. And L&R is hippy-post modern that I want to shoot a load. And, even, that Hot Trip is so f-ing blissed out - how can one chose?

Love & Rockets, may in fact be, the best band of the 80's.

They rocked harder than Echo & the Bunnymen. The were more angular than R.E.M. They were more emotive than The Church.

Long live Love & Rockets!

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God, they're awful. Loved Express way back then though so....

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Not surprised it was almost a three way tie...

seems about right—the first three are kinda interchangeable for "best" depending on my mood

whoever voted for Hot Trip to Heaven is a jerk.

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been hangin among the lesbians a bit too much iirc

Listening to their 90s albums for the first time ever. Sweet FA is actually pretty good. Very relaxed and self-possessed vibe that I wasn’t expecting. And a massive rebound from Hot Trip which I found pretty irredeemable.

I didn't realize those 90s albums even existed. I've listened to the first 3 so much, but kind of ignored them after.

Hot Trip to Heaven is an attempt at going electronic but Sweet FA is like a more chill Jesus and Mary Chain.

Hot Trip to Heaven is rather underrated, I think. It's not a full electronic album, just them playing with elements as they go, and why not? They'd already genre-hopped eight million times since the Bauhaus days.

Yeah I don't fault them for trying something new but it didn't really work for me. And hearing it fresh in 2019, it sounds very much of its time and def not among the best of the era.