The debut album from Love and Rockets — 1985’s Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven — will receive a vinyl reissue later this month via the Drastic Plastic label, which will press the seven-song album on both opaque blue vinyl and 200-gram black vinyl.
The album was the first of seven records released by the hard-to-classify band — featuring Daniel Ash, David J and Kevin Haskins of Bauhaus — up through 1998’s Lift.
The new pressing of Seventh Dream is due out Aug. 26 and is available now for pre-order.
Tracklist: Love and Rockets, Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
A1. “If There’s a Heaven Above”
A2. “A Private Future”
A3. “The Dog-End of a Day Gone By”
A4. “The Game”
B1. “Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven”
B2. “Haunted When the Minutes Drag”
B3. “Saudade”
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- David J pens ‘Who Killed Mister Moonlight?’ memoir — read excerpt on Ian Curtis
- Hear Daniel Ash’s super-mellow remake of Love and Rockets’ ‘All In My Mind’
- Daniel Ash box set, expanded reissue of David J debut due from Cherry Red next month
- Vintage Video: Love and Rockets in London, 1987 — watch full 70-minute concert
Goodness, how the years pass. I actually had this on vinyl when it first came out. Should have kept it!
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I saw this concert in Long Beach on my 1969 Triumph Tr6-c. It was rad!
I was 16
The vinyl doesn’t have the CD extra Inside the Outside, a b-side which is one of their better live songs.
I still have two copies of this–one that I play, and one that I keep “mint” for the gorgeous gatefold art cover. And yeah, I sure do love “Inside the Outside.” I really liked their odd little b-sides, like “God and Mr. Smith” and stuff. I think Daniel got bored of L&R songs because they stopped being odd and started doing loop techno, which wasn’t exactly innovative.
This is one of several excellent comment here. The longer they went on, the less interesting they got with the dumb techno stuff, whatever it was supposed to be about. These first two or three albums were really where it was at for them, and some moments of the fourth (self-titled) album that actually sounded more like Tones On Tail at points.
If they got back together and got their old, original sound back, they could still rock it.
They were really on a roll with this, Express and Earth, Sun, Moon. Top shelf stuff
Love & Rockets remains one of my favorite bands. This and “Express” are extradonary. I saw them twice in the late 80s in the Bay Area and would love to see them again.
Cool pic of L&R!
Love and Rockets is great. From Express to Earth Sun Moon to Self-Titled to Hot Trip to Heaven to Sweet FA. It is not just the first few records that are excellent. Okay, Lift is iffy, but the rest are wonderful.
You’d be surprised, Daniel loves techno and all that experimenting in the studio. He is one of the reasons those last few albums were as funky as they were musically. Just look at his 3rd solo record.
Anyhow, the first few love and rockets albums rule. It is a shame they never got the attention they deserved while they were around.
It is hard to believe how long ago it was. But I remember hearing Haunted When the Minutes Drag and thinking, this is the coolest thing I have ever heard or will ever hear. To this day, when the song comes on my iphone, I can’t help but feeling that I have an undefinable edge on the rest of the fools of the world because they never got into to this. Silly coming from a man in his forties and a father of two, but that feeling is irresistible — and ultimately as true now as it was when I was 16. I saw them in ’88 at the former Universal Amphitheater in LA. Just Amazing. My life since has been as fulfilling as I could have hoped — and more so. But still, I’d give anything to go back just for a few moments.