Hindu Love Gods (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Hindu Love Gods
Type = Cover
Artist = Hindu Love Gods


Released = October 5, 1990
Recorded = Record One, Sherman Oaks, California and A&M Studios, Los Angeles in 1987
Genre = Blues rock
Length = 36:58
Label = Giant
Producer = Niko Bolas and Andrew Slater
Reviews = * Allmusic rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:rq6jtrp9kl2x link]
Last album =
This album = "Hindu Love Gods"
(1990)
Next album =

"Hindu Love Gods" is the only album by American band Hindu Love Gods, released in 1990. The album was recorded around the same time as Warren Zevon's album "Sentimental Hygiene", for which Zevon had enlisted Bill Berry, Peter Buck, and Mike Mills of R.E.M. as players. The musicians also recorded this set of cover versions, reputedly during a late night drunken recording sessionFact|date=July 2008. The recordings were not originally intended for releaseFact|date=July 2008.

Track listing

#"Walkin' Blues" (Robert Johnson) – 4:12
#"Travelin' Riverside Blues" (Robert Johnson) – 4:02
#"Raspberry Beret" (Prince) – 3:53
#"Crosscut Saw" (Fred Ingrahm, Bill Sanders) – 3:06
#"Junko Pardner" (Bob Shad) – 2:39
#"Mannish Boy" (Bo Diddley, Melvin London, Muddy Waters) – 6:57
#"Wang Dang Doodle" (Willie Dixon) – 3:51
#"Battleship Chains" (Terry Anderson) – 3:06
#"I'm a One Woman Man" (Tillman Franks, Johnny Horton) – 2:16
#"Vigilante Man" (Woody Guthrie) – 2:56

Personnel

*Bill Berry - Drum kit
*Peter Buck - Guitar
*Mike Mills - Bass guitar
*Warren Zevon - Vocals, guitar

Production

*Producers: Niko Bolas, Andrew Slater
*Engineers: Niko Bolas, Richard Landers, Rail Jon Rogut, Bob Vogt

Charts

Album

;Singles