Track Listing
1. New World, The
2. We're Having Much More Fun
3. True Love
4. Poor Girl
5. Make the Music Go Bang
6. Breathless
7. I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
8. Devil Doll
9. Painting the Town Blue
10. Hot House
11. Drunk in My Past
12. I See Red
13. True Love Pt. 2
| Details | | Producer: | Ray Manzarek | | Distributor: | Alternative Dis. Alliance | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
X: John Doe (vocals, bass); Exene Cervenka (vocals); Billy Zoom (guitar); D.J. Bonebrake (drums, percussion).
Producer: Ray Manzarek.
Reissue producers: Gary Stewart, John Doe.
Recorded at Cherokee, Dreamship Studios, Los Angeles, California in 1983. Originally released on Elektra (60283). Includes liner notes by Kristine McKenna.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
X: John Doe (vocals, bass); Exene Cervenka (vocals); Billy Zoom (guitar); D.J. Bonebrake (drums, percussion).
Recorded at Cherokee, Dreamship Studios, Los Angeles, California in 1983.
The gradual incorporation of extra elements into X's sound and songwriting over the course of their first four releases (all of which were produced by ex-Door keyboardist Ray Manzarek) marked a subtle but unmistakable progression. By the time of this album's appearance the band had already outlasted most of their Los Angeles contemporaries, and with good reason--they had somewhere to go; there was room to grow and develop. "True Love," "I Must Not Think Bad thoughts," and "New World" all have a sound reminiscent of LOS ANGELES.
"Breathless" appeared in a concurrent movie of the same name. It was an audacious move to release a single forever tied to Jerry Lee Lewis, but they made it their own, substituting guitar for piano and Exene Cervenka's irony-tinged take for the Killer's hopped-up vocals. Alas, success on a large and national scale still eluded them and changes were afoot by the time of their next, AIN'T LOVE GRAND.
The gradual incorporation of extra elements into X's sound and songwriting over the course of their first four releases (all of which were produced by ex-Door keyboardist Ray Manzarek) marked a subtle but unmistakable progression. By the time of this album's appearance the band had already outlasted most of their Los Angeles contemporaries, and with good reason--they had somewhere to go; there was room to grow and develop. "True Love," "I Must Not Think Bad thoughts," and "New World" all have a sound reminiscent of LOS ANGELES.
"Breathless" appeared in a concurrent movie of the same name. It was an audacious move to release a single forever tied to Jerry Lee Lewis, but they made it their own, substituting guitar for piano and Exene Cervenka's irony-tinged take for the Killer's hopped-up vocals. Alas, success on a large and national scale still eluded them and changes were afoot by the time of their next, AIN'T LOVE GRAND.
Editorial Reviews
...theirs is a sound of American rock 'n' roll wired to the point of turmoil and claustrophobia...the songs are informed by a sense of drifting unease and quiet horror.
Mojo (09/01/2002)
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