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. This reissue features four previously unreleased tracks.
Track Listing:
1. Sweet F.A. - Love and Rockets
2. Judgement Day - Love and Rockets
3. Use Me - Love and Rockets
4. Fever - Love and Rockets
5. Sweet Lover Hangover - Love and Rockets
6. Pearl - Love and Rockets
7. Shelf Life - Love and Rockets
8. Sad and Beautiful World - Love and Rockets
9. Natacha - Love and Rockets
1. Words of a Fool - Love and Rockets
2. Clean - Love and Rockets
3. Here Comes the Comedown - Love and Rockets
4. Spiked - Love and Rockets
5. Sweet F.A. (Reprise) - Love and Rockets
6. My Dark Twin (Bonus Track) - Love and Rockets
7. Venus Child (Bonus Track) - Love and Rockets
8. Butterfly (Bonus Track) - Love and Rockets
9. Pick Yourself Up (Bonus Track) - Love and Rockets
Year of Production: 1996
