Description

Tracklist:

1. Sweet F.A.
2. Judgement Day
3. Use Me
4. Fever
5. Sweet Lover Hangover
6. Pearl
7. Shelf Life
8. Sad and Beautiful World
9. Natacha
10. Words of a Fool
11. Clean
12. Here Comes the Comedown
13. Spiked
14. Sweet F.A. (Reprise)
15. My Dark Twin
16. Venus Child
17. Butterfly
18. Pick Yourself Up

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.