Earth, Sun, Moon

Infobox Album |
Name = Earth, Sun, Moon
Type = Album
Artist = Love and Rockets


Released = 9 September 1987
Recorded =
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 49:55
Label = Beggar's Banquet/Big Time
Producer = Derek "Guru" Tompkins, Love and Rockets
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:vefm962o3epf link]

Last album = "Express"
(1986)
This album = "Earth, Sun, Moon"
(1987)
Next album = "Love and Rockets"
(1989)

"Earth, Sun, Moon" is the third album by the British band Love and Rockets, released in 1987 on Beggar's Banquet.

While the album continued in a psychedelic vein, the band also experimented with a folkier sound. Vestiges of a gothic rock sound remained, but the band continued to sound less like their previous outfit, Bauhaus.

"Earth, Sun, Moon" featured Love and Rockets' first hit, "No New Tale to Tell". The song reached #18 on the US Mainstream Rock chart.

The album was remastered, but not expanded, in 2001. The only bonus track is the slow version of "Mirror People" (the B-side from the 1987 pre-album single "The Light"), which already features on all previous CD versions of the album.

The flurry of activity that bridges "Earth, Sun, Moon" to the self-titled album that followed just over a year later remains incompletely documented on CD. The punched-up 1988 version of "Mirror People", released as a follow-up to "No New Tale to Tell", can only be found on 2003’s hits collection "Sorted! The Best of Love and Rockets". The B-side of "Mirror People" ("David Lanfair"), in which a somewhat bumbling fan tapes himself asking a number of one-sided interview questions—mostly about Bauhaus—over which the band themselves play a gentle but characteristic instrumental track, remains relegated to an audio-only track on the "Sorted!" DVD. The contents of the following novelty 12” single by the band’s alter ego, the Bubblemen, can also be found on the "Sorted!" DVD, though the complete version of "The Bubblemen Are Coming" is excluded in favor of the video edit that closes the "Haunted Fishtank" part of the program. The live B-sides of "No New Tale to Tell" ("Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven" and "Love Me", recorded live on 6 December 1987) remain unreleased on remastered CD, as does the newer, cleaner remix of "Dog-End of a Day Gone By" released to promote the 1988 international reissue of "Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven" and featured as a B-side to the "Lazy" single. The other B-side from "Lazy", a devolved version of "Waiting for the Flood" called "The Purest Blue", appears on the 1989 self-titled album.

Track listing

# "Mirror People" – 4:05
# "The Light" – 4:16
# "Welcome Tomorrow" – 3:36
# "No New Tale to Tell" – 3:26
# "Here on Earth" – 3:10
# "Lazy" – 3:12
# "Waiting for the Flood" – 3:38
# "Rain Bird" – 3:17
# "The Telephone Is Empty" – 3:59
# "Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven" – 5:13
# "Earth, Sun, Moon" – 3:34
# "Youth" – 4:42
# "Mirror People (slow version)" – 4:26

"Mirror People (slow version)" is only available on the CD releases.

Personnel

*Daniel Ash — guitar, saxophone, and vocals
*David J — bass and vocals
*Kevin Haskins — drums and synthesizers