Love Explosion (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Love Explosion
Type = Album
Artist = Tina Turner


Released = 1979
Recorded = 1979
Genre = Pop, Disco, Rock, Soul
Length = 36:05
Label = EMI Music/Ariola Records/United Artists
Producer = Alec R. Costandinos
Reviews =
Last album = "Rough"
(1978)
This album = Love Explosion
(1979)
Next album = "Private Dancer"
(1984)

"Love Explosion" is Tina Turner's fourth solo album, released in 1979 on the EMI Music label in the UK, Ariola Records in West Germany and United Artists in the U.S. It was her second solo album to be released after she left husband Ike Turner and the Ike & Tina Turner Revue.

"Love Explosion" was recorded in Europe and produced by one of the leading characters in French disco at the time, Alec R. Costandinos, who had worked with bands like Love And Kisses and Cerrone and also appeared on the soundtrack to the 1978 movie "Thank God It's Friday". Unfortunately "Love Explosion" which was even more influenced by funk and disco than 1978's "Rough" was released in the year of the so called "anti-disco backlash" which meant that both the album and its three single releases, "Love Explosion" and "Music Keeps Me Dancin'" - both disco-oriented - and a mid-tempo cover version of The O'Jays' 1972 soul classic "Back Stabbers", were largely overlooked by the audiences both in Europe and the States. The album also includes two soulful ballads, "I See Home" and "Just A Little Lovin'", the latter originally recorded by Dusty Springfield on her 1969 album "Dusty in Memphis". "Love Explosion" was to be Turner's last studio album until her triumphant return to the music scene with the multiplatinum selling "Private Dancer" some five years later.

"Love Explosion" just like the preceding "Rough" was re-issued on CD by EMI Music in the early 1990's but is currently out of print.

Track listing

Side A:
#"Love Explosion" - 5:55
#"Fool For Your Love" - 3:24
#"Sunset on Sunset" - 3:35
#"Music Keeps Me Dancin'" - 3:49

Side B:
#"I See Home" - 5:19
#"Back Stabbers" - 3:34
#"Just A Little Lovin'" - 3:12
#"You Got What I'm Gonna Get" - 3:08
#"On the Radio" - 3:49

Production

* Produced by Alec R. Costandinos
* Arranged and conducted by Raymond T. Knehnestky
* Remixed at Trident Studios, London by Peter R. Kelsey
* "Love Explosion" and "Sunset on Sunset" recorded at Trident Studios, London
* "On the Radio" remixed at Red Bus Studios, London
* Design: RIA Images
* Photography: Calude Mougin