''Earth, Sun, Moon'' is the third

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by English

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band Love and Rockets, released in 1987 on Beggars Banquet. The album was remastered, but not expanded (unlike their previous albums), in 2001. Most of the tracks that would have appeared on an expanded edition were included on disc 5 of their 2013 CD box set ''5 Albums''.

Background

While the album continued in a

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vein, the band also experimented with a folkier sound. Vestiges of a

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sound remained, but the band continued to sound less like their previous group,

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. ''Earth, Sun, Moon'' featured Love and Rockets' first hit, "No New Tale to Tell". The song reached number 18 on the US

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chart. A flurry of recording activity bridges ''Earth, Sun, Moon'' to the self-titled album that followed just over a year later. The punched-up 1988 single version of "Mirror People", released as a follow-up to "No New Tale to Tell", can be found on 2003's hits collection ''Sorted! The Best of Love and Rockets'', while the extended "Mirror People ‘88 (Full Length Version)" can be found on disc 5 of 2013's ''5 Albums'' CD box set. The B-side of "Mirror People" ("David Lanfair"), in which a somewhat bumbling fan tapes himself asking a number of one-sided interview questions—mostly about Bauhaus—over which the band themselves play a gentle but characteristic instrumental track, can also be found on ''5 Albums'', as can the contents of the following novelty 12" single by the band's alter ego

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. The live B-sides of "No New Tale to Tell" ("Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven" and "Love Me", recorded live on 6 December 1987) are available on ''5 Albums'' along with several previously unreleased songs from that concert. The newer, cleaner remix of "Dog-End of a Day Gone By" released to promote the 1988 international reissue of ''

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'' and featured as a B-side to the "Lazy" single can also be found as the audio track for the music video which is included on the band's compilation DVD ''Sorted!''. The other B-side from "Lazy", a devolved version of "Waiting For The Flood" called "The Purest Blue", appears on their 1989 self-titled album.

Track listings

"Mirror People (Slow Version)" is only available on the CD releases.

Personnel

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– guitar,

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, and vocals *

David J David John Haskins (born 24 April 1957, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England), better known as David J, is a British alternative rock musician, producer, and writer. He is the bassist for the gothic rock band Bauhaus and for Love and Rock ...

– bass and vocals *

Kevin Haskins Kevin Michael Dompe (born 19 July 1960), born and best-known as Kevin Michael Haskins, is an English drummer, best known from the British rock group Bauhaus. He was also a member of Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets. Early career As a child ...

– drums and

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References

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