Love Battery

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Love Battery is an American psychedelic rock/grunge band from Seattle, Washington.

For the most part Love Battery was an unusual group in the early 90’s Seattle music scene. Blending intense swirling psychedelic guitar work, pulsating rhythms, driving beats and heartfelt vocals derived from ’60s garage/psych, ’70s punk rock, ’80s post punk and ’90s grunge, their music was significantly more complex than most of the music associated with that era.

Although they never achieved the commercial success of many of their contemporaries, they nonetheless retained a fervent cult following that continues to this day.

Love Battery was formed in 1989 by former Room Nine leader Ron Nine (b. Ron Rudzitis), guitarist Kevin Whitworth (ex-Crisis Party), bassist Tommy “Bonehead” Simpson (also ex-Crisis Party) and Mudhoney drummer Dan Peters. Their name came from a song of the same name by British punk band the Buzzcocks.

Before releasing their first single Peters left the group and was replaced by ex-Skin Yard drummer Jason Finn. With this lineup the band released their debut single Between The Eyes for seminal Seattle record label Sub Pop. By 1990 Simpson had been replaced by ex-U-Men bassist Jim Tillman. With this lineup the band released their debut EP Between the Eyes in 1990, again on Sub Pop. This record was later expanded and released as their first full-length album in 1991. Following the Between The Eyes EP were the Foot singles and Out Of Focus EP.

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Top Tracks

1	Corporate Memo full track	20
1	Confusion Au Go Go full track	20
3	Between the Eyes	15
4	Cute One full track	13
4	Out of Focus	13
6	One Small Step full track	12
6	Foot	12
6	Dead Boys full track	12
9	Damaged	11
9	Hollow Body full track	11
11	Snipe Hunt full track	10
11	Monkey Brain full track	10
11	See Your Mind	10
14	Punks Want Rights full track	9
14	Cool School (Trane of Thought)	9

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incessantmace wrote:
last month

seattle's second row geniuses. dayglo still rocks my world. good they're back.

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wizzxx wrote:
June 2008

this band is great. good stuff

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xmeaningsx wrote:
June 2008

Good stuff.

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thesexninja wrote:
May 2008

can anyone put their music on albumhunt.com. I am interested to hear

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plow9 wrote:
February 2008

Dayglo is a masterpiece

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thecrazymen wrote:
November 2007

Love Battery still kicks!!!!

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urinejunkie wrote:
October 2007

<3

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PeWeX21 wrote:
January 2007

quite nice but nothing special.However, worth to listen :)

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KafkianA wrote:
January 2007

I LOVE, lOVE BATTERY!!! pLEase before you Go, the best song!!!

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multiverse wrote:
November 2006

Between the Eyes (the album) is an underground neo-psychedelic masterpiece.

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reggler wrote:
July 2006

Love Battery Motherfucking Rocks! Yeah, reunion show was a blast eh!

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