X - Ain't Love Grand!
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Artist: XEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-05-21
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Burning House of Love
- Love Shack
- My Soul Cries Your Name
- My Goodness
- Around My Heart
- What's Wrong with Me
- Watch the Sun Go Down
- I'll Stand Up for You
- Little Honey - X, Alvin, Dave [1]
- Supercharged
- Wild Thing - X, Taylor, Chip
- I Will Dare - X, Westerberg, Paul
- My Goodness
- All or Nothing - X, Lane, Ronnie
Free Music Notes for Ain't Love Grand!
Free Music Review: more inappropriately produced album of all time?
Hit: 3 Stars
After 4 albums of the bare-bone Ray Manzarek production, this one was a real shocker! They got some wussy pop metal producer, and as a result, sounded shockingly different! BIG guitars, echo-chamber drums, lots of reverb on the vocals, layered synths in the background. It's one of the weirdest combinations I've ever heard. I guess that guitarist Billy Zoom threatened to leave if they didn't have a hit, so they got a commercial producer... the album ended up being marginally more successful than their earlier ones, but a lot of the loyal fans didn't like it, so it really wasn't much of a success, and Zoom left anyway. Overall, a real disaster. So, you might ask, why a 3??? Well, it's a breakup album--Exene and John had gotten divorced, and it could have been a bit like a punk-rock "Rumors" if it had been produced properly. Good, emotional songs, basically--song-for-song, not as good as their (classic) earlier albums, but it could have easily gotten a 4 from me if it had been produced properly. My favorite song on it, My Goodness, is a great torch ballad that is barely affected by the production, but the rockers definitely suffer. Still, it's a worthwhile album if you are willing to sit through the production.
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Expanded & remastered reissue of 1985 album with 4 bonus recordings 'Wild Thing' (long version), 'I Will Dare' (demo - previously unissued), 'My Goodness' (demo - previously unissued) & 'All Or Nothing'. Also includes a 20 page booklet with commentary by X.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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