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.
TRACKLISTING:
LP1 – SIDE A
1. Sweet F.A.
2. Judgement Day
3. Use Me
A4. Fever
5. Sweet Lover Hangover
LP1 – SIDE B
1. Pearl
2. Shelf Life
3. Sad And Beautiful World
4. Natacha
LP2 – SIDE C
1. Words Of A Fool
2. Clean
3. Here Comes The Comedown
4. Spiked
5. Sweet F.A. Reprise
LP2 – SIDE D
1. My Dark Twin *
2. Venus Child *
3. Butterfly *
4. Pick Yourself Up *
* Previously unreleased