[2022-03-18] Love Tractor "Themes From Venus (Remastered Expanded Edition)" (Propeller)

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Jan 06, 2022 10:43 pm

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Description
Athens, GA greats Love Tractor have been reissuing their classic '80s albums and they've just announced that next up will be their third album, 1988's Themes From Venus.

Originally out on DB Records, Themes from Venus had the band working with the great Mitch Easter of Let's Active (who also co-produced the first two R.E.M. albums). “Mitch is like a member of the band; he knew all of our musical references,” says Love Tractor's Mark Cline. “He knew we wanted to make a unique album different from anything out there. He was not only a producer engineer but acted as a member of the band. We were friends before and even greater friends after.” The record also found the band, who were mostly known for instrumentals, heading further into vocal territory, which they were great at, as can be heard on the album's wonderful single, "Venice."

The album has been remastered, features new cover art, and the track order has been changed slightly to reflect the band's original vision. “Themes was meant to work as a whole, to be listened to as one piece of music,” Cline says. “We were very much digging back into our high school years, where an album communicated much more than bad production and a couple of singles. We really wanted the album to function like Bowie’s Low, with a rock side, and then a more aesthetic side. But one hitch was we couldn’t time the record (vinyl) so that ‘Venice’ was on side A with all the rockers. We’ve fixed that with the CD re-release.”

The Themes from Venus reissue also features new liner notes featuring Peter Buck (R.E.M.), Bob Nastanovich (Pavement, Silver Jews), Mitch Easter (Let’s Active), and Annie Zaleski (author of Duran Duran’s Rio 33 1/3 book).

Tracklist
1. I Broke My Saw
2. Themes From Venus
3. Crash
4. Satan’s New Wave Soul Losers
5. Venice
6. Crystal World
7. Hey Mess
8. Nova Express
9. Fantasy
10. Here Come The Cops
Bonus Tracks:
11. Nighttime Time Zone (Brendan O’Brien Mix)
12. Hey Mess (Brendan O’Brien Mix)
13. Fantasy (Instrumental Mitch Easter Mix)
14. I Broke My Saw (Long Version Mitch Easter Mix)
15. Satan’s New Wave Soul Losers (Instrumental Mitch Easter Mix)
16. Crash (Instrumental Mitch Easter Mix)

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Jan 07, 2022 12:47 pm

"I Broke My Saw (Long Version Mitch Easter Mix)"

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Feb 04, 2022 4:12 pm

"Nighttime Time Zone (Brendan O'Brien Mix)"

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Mar 02, 2022 10:10 am

"Hey Mess (Brendan O'Brien Mix)"

Lawrence Talbot · 31 Jan 2007

Anxious for this one. Never did find it the first time around.

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Mar 10, 2022 11:24 am

Now an official lyric video has been made for that Brendan O'Brien mix of "Hey Mess":

[2022-03-18] Love Tractor "Themes From Venus (Remastered Expanded Edition)" (Propeller)

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