LOVER'S LOVE RARE 1971 HEAVY French FUZZ psych 45 HEAR

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WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS…

LOVER'S LOVE "Youth Has Gone"/"After Yours"

Original 1971 45 on the French DISQUES VOGUE label

Picture sleeve in VG++ shape

Vinyl:  SUPER CLEAN, plays EXCELLENT!

MAMMOTH long haired whiskey-drinkin’ bar-fightin’ HEAVY RAWK single from the bowels of France – from the very UNtough-sounding and thoroughly redundant band Lover’s Love, “Youth Has Gone” b/w “After Yours”, from 1971 on the French Disques Vogue label.  Hey, but cut ‘em some slack – it’s gotta be easier to get Britney Spears to wear panties in public than getting a French band to sound “tough” – especially when your band name’s Lover’s Love and your single’s on the Disques Vogue label – you’d be justified in expecting some sort of fruity dance music when you hold this pretty little red and blue day-glo single sleeve in your hands.  But fruity it is NOT – just ask Julian Cope, whose Head Heritage website included it amongst a small but elite grouping of French proto-metal obscurities.  Here’s what they said about it:  “With their romantic group name, Lover’s Love offered a singularly odd horizontal ride on the B-side of their first single, “After Yours” that took Steppenwolf riffage ala “Rock Me” or “Sookie Sookie” and played it on a mental repeated locked groove for the song’s duration. The topography here is as linear and driving as Kim Fowley’s “Born To Make You Cry” and is trapped in the holding pattern of rigid rhythmic uniformity. There is organ, but it’s held to the rear of the mix at all times as the depth is coordinated by the unswerving rhythm fuzz guitar that hangs above the never-changing tempo.”  Those are some big fancy words there, Mr. Cope, but all you need to know is that the leader of Brain Donor liked it, and anyone into punishing “riffage” will find plenty to bash and thrash to here.  Lover’s Love is ROCKIN’ rock, big and heavy and French – the kind of song where where EVERYTHING has to be as LOUD as possible – and in this case, that means lots of double-tracking.  Pretty much EVERYTHING is double tracked – the big chuggin’ guitars, the thrashing drums, even the incomprehensible Norse Viking warrior vocals.  Oh yeah, and because this is RAWK music, there’s cowbell here too – and plenty of it – in fact, someone here is banging on the cowbell with more tenacity than Gene Frenkel during a Blue Oyster Cult recording session.  Now, as heavy and punishing as “After Yours” is, remember – it’s the B-SIDE of this single, and even though Sir Julian went on to dismiss the A-side “Youth Has Gone”, it’s actually not bad at all – quite good, in fact – and apparently was kinda popular in France at the time.  If you’ve already listened to the Valhallan war cries of “After Yours”, it’ll sound like a nursery rhyme by comparison, opening right away with a super catchy singalong melody.  From there, it settles back into a slow brooding organ-led song reminiscent of early Procol Harum, seething rather than screaming this time.  The singalong melody returns one more time for the final fade.  Great pop, for sure, it’s the “All Together Now” to the B-side’s “Helter Skelter”.  But light and dark both make for a great single, and if you’ve got a fever, the only prescription is Lover’s Love.

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