Rick Rubin guided Love and Rockets to a return to more guitar-based songs for 1996s Sweet F.A.

While the band were living and working at Rubins studio mansion, a fire broke out, which resulted in the band losing all of their gear, some of their demo recordings, and nearly their lives as well. A burnt guitar plucked from the debris is on the albums cover. The resulting album was inspired by some of their earliest influences The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Can. It spins tales of passion and loss, carried on a fluid, moody throb. Undulating, hypnotic rhythms twine around melancholy lyrics which examine life at a primal level, as ethereal electronic effects play counterpoint to earthquake reverberating guitars. The reissue features four previously unreleased tracks.

TRACKLISTING:

LP1 – SIDE A

1. Sweet F.A.

2. Judgement Day

3. Use Me

A4. Fever

5. Sweet Lover Hangover

LP1 – SIDE B

1. Pearl

2. Shelf Life

3. Sad And Beautiful World

4. Natacha

LP2 – SIDE C

1. Words Of A Fool

2. Clean

3. Here Comes The Comedown

4. Spiked

5. Sweet F.A. Reprise

LP2 – SIDE D

1. My Dark Twin *

2. Venus Child *

3. Butterfly *

4. Pick Yourself Up *

* Previously unreleased