Love & Rockets / Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven
Artist Love & Rockets
Album Title: Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven
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Primary Genre Rock: Goth Rock
Format CD
Released 10/11/1985
Label Beggars Banquet Records
Catalog No BEGA 66 CD
Bar Code No 5 012093 006628
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. If There's A Heaven Above (Canada Mix) (4:30)
2. A Private Future (5:08)
3. The Dog-End Of Day Gone By (7:42)
4. The Game (5:07)
5. Ball Of Confusion (USA Mix) (6:19)
6. Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven (6:37)
7. Haunted When The Minutes Drag (8:07)
8. Saudade (4:58)
9. God And Mr. SMith (Mars Mix) (4:49)
Date Acquired 06/06/1988
Personal Rating
Acquired from Roadrunner Records
Purchase Price 15.00

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Review by Dave Thompson
Though the years have deadened its impact somewhat, there is still a visceral thrill to be drawn from replaying the first Love and Rockets album, a sense of the first step taken towards a brave new world, and a miasmic whirl of psychedelic intent that masks intents even darker than the preceding Bauhaus ever envisioned. Recorded and released in 1985, riding to club acclaim on the back of the "Ball of Confusion" remake, and aligning its makers with a destiny and fame that no one could ever have predicted, Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven ranks among the most deceptive debut albums of the 1980s. The keys to the album remain the same, of course -- the churning guitar soup of "The Dog-End of a Day Gone By," the sibilant glam sexuality of the title track, the chilling nursery rhyme pendulum of "The Game." But the opiate atmosphere that chokes the wide open spaces leavened within every song only thickens by the time you hit the closing acoustics of "Saudade," and Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven emerges as profound an experience as any of the lauded trips of the original psychedelic era. It rounds out the experience with dramatic flair, pinpointing the sheer creativity that was sparking around Love and Rockets at the dawn of their decade-long career -- and reminding you that that decade was over all too quickly.
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