Straight Freak Ticket

1995 studio album by Love Battery From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Straight Freak Ticket is an album by the American alternative rock band Love Battery.[2][3] The band's first album for a major label, it was released in 1995 on Atlas Records.[4][5] The first single was "Fuzz Factory".[6]

ReleasedFebruary 28, 1995[1]
GenreGrunge, psychedelic rock, alternative rock
Length49:01
LabelAtlas
Quick facts Studio album by Love Battery, Released ...
Straight Freak Ticket
Studio album by
Love Battery
ReleasedFebruary 28, 1995[1]
GenreGrunge, psychedelic rock, alternative rock
Length49:01
LabelAtlas
ProducerBruce Calder, Love Battery
Love Battery chronology
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(1993)		 Straight Freak Ticket
(1995)		 Confusion Au Go Go
(1999)
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The band supported the album with a North American tour that included shows with Bettie Serveert.[7] Straight Freak Ticket was a commercial disappointment.[8]

Production

Primarily produced by Bruce Calder, the album was recorded in Seattle in the fall of 1994.[9][10] Kevin Whitworth played slide guitar on some of the album's tracks.[11]

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStar[12]
The Charlotte ObserverStarStarStarHalf star[11]
The Tampa TribuneStarStarStar[4]
USA TodayStarStarStar[13]
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The Albuquerque Journal deemed Straight Freak Ticket "a good, solid, basic rock 'n' roll album."[14] The Seattle Post-Intelligencer called it "a solid, well-produced album of guitar-based rock with catchy hooks and a strong dose of psychedelia."[15] The Arizona Daily Star considered Straight Freak Ticket to be "an excellent album, boasting the spirit of out-of-control rock music focused with the precision of a big-budget recording."[16]

The Santa Fe New Mexican concluded: "If Nirvana was The Beatles of the Seattle Invasion, then Love Battery is somewhere between Gerry & The Pacemakers and Petula Clark."[17] USA Today labeled the album "a psychedelic tour de force and dramatic leap forward," writing that "the antigrunge guitar riff-o-rama of Ron Nine and Kevin Whitworth propels the Seattle quartet's most adventurous and listenable tunes to date."[13]

Track listing

  1. Fuzz Factory
  2. If It Wasn't Me
  3. Harold's Pink Room
  4. Brazil
  5. Nehru Jacket
  6. Perfect Light
  7. Red Onion
  8. Sunny Jim
  9. Straight Freak Show
  10. Angelhead
  11. Waylaid
  12. Drowning Sun
  13. Silent Treatment

Personnel

References

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