Let Love Rule

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艺人: Lenny Kravitz
语种: 英语
厂牌: Virgin Records
发行时间: 1989年09月19日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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Let Love Rule is the debut album of American rock musician Lenny Kravitz, released on September 19, 1989 by Virgin Records America. Then-wife Lisa Bonet wrote the lyrics to &Fear& and co-wrote the lyrics on the song, &Rosemary&.

Let Love Rule reached #61 on the Billboard 200, while it peaked at #56 on the UK Albums Chart. Initially, the album was a moderate success in the United States, but became a hit worldwide, particularly in Europe, selling over 2 million copies. The album was certified gold in the United States in 1995. As of November 2002 the album has sold 860,000 units in the US (based on MTV.com sales numbers from Nielsen SoundScan).

Personnel

■ Lenny Kravitz – vocals, guitar, organ, bass, drums, percussion

■ Alfred Brown – viola

■ Karl Denson – saxophone

■ Alex Van Halen - drums

■ Jim Martin - guitar

■ Billy Gould - Bass

■ Roddy Bottum - Organ

■ Chad Smith - drums

■ Henry Hirsch – piano, organ

■ Adam Widoff – guitar

■ Eric Delente – violin

■ Nancy Ives – cello

■ Lee Jaffe – harmonica

■ Steve Remote - recording engineer, mixing engineer

■ David Domanich - recording engineer

■ Henry Hirsch - recording engineer, mixing engineer

■ Tom &Bone& Edmonds - mixing engineer

■ Greg Calbi - mastering engineer

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by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

The title is a tip-off: Lenny Kravitz is a hippie, something that was commonplace 20 years before his debut, Let Love Rule, and was familiar five years later when he scaled the charts with Are You Gonna Go My Way, but was practically unheard of in 1989 when the Grateful Dead were reaping the benefits of hippies turning into establishment. Kravitz had yet to become a classic rock caricature and he could still surprise on this unformed, endearingly unwieldy first record, where he split the difference between John Lennon, Curtis Mayfield, David Bowie, and Prince, sometimes exhibiting too clear of a debt to his idols but more often getting by on a combination of chutzpah and pastiche, something that winds up as an enormously appealing guilty pleasure. Kravitz has a tendency to overreach lyrically, striving to speak deep truths about big themes from world peace to child abuse, but the winning thing about Let Love Rule is how it plays as sheer sound, evoking memories of the paisley-drenched '60s and the lush sounds of '70s soul, all filtered through the multicultural flowering of the late '80s. Remarkably for an album that's essentially the work of a one-man band, Let Love Rule never feels stiff or insular -- it feels roomy and open, testament to Kravitz's talents as a producer -- but the record remains one of his best because it also has one of his greatest collections of songs, chief among them the stately, psychedelic march of &I Build This Garden for Us,& the hippie-funk of &Sittin' on Top of the World,& the Hendrixian riffs of &Freedom Train,& the urban groove of &Mr. Cab Driver,& and the surging &Let Love Rule,& songs that created Kravitz's sound and persona and remain among his most engaging work.

Let Love Rule

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