''Laser Love'' is the second album released by UK band

After the Fire After the Fire (or ATF) were a British rock band that evolved from playing progressive rock to new wave over ten years, while having only one hit in the United States (" Der Kommissar") and one hit in the United Kingdom (" One Rule for You") ...

. Released in 1979, the album showcased more of a new wave approach, including much shorter songs than had been featured on the band's more

progressive rock Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...

-oriented debut album, ''

Signs of Change ''Signs of Change'' is a progressive rock album by After the Fire. Released 1978, after attempting to get a record contract, the band got this made themselves at a time when this was all but unheard of. What was more of interest as that it sold o ...

''. The band's biggest hit in the UK, "

One Rule For You {{Infobox song , name = One Rule for You , cover = , alt = , type = single , artist = After the Fire , album = Laser Love , B-side = Joy , released = 2 March 1979 , recorded = , studio = , ven ...

" is featured on this album.

Track listing

Side one #"Laser Love" (

Andy Piercy Andy Piercy is a British singer-songwriter who came to prominence in the gospel beat acoustic duo Ishmael and Andy, together with Ian Smale (Ishmael). In 1974, Piercy replaced John Leach as guitarist and lead vocalist in After the Fire. He s ...

, Peter "Memory" Banks) (3:28) #"Joy" (Banks, Piercy, John Russell, Ivor Twiddell) (3:17) #"Take Me Higher" (Piercy, Banks) (4:31) #"Life in the City" (Piercy, Banks) (4:13) #"Suspended Animation" (Piercy, Banks) (4:52) Side two #"Like the Power of a Jet" (Piercy, Banks) (3:07) #"

" (Piercy, Banks) (3:24) #"Time to Think" (Piercy, Banks) (3:28) #"Timestar" (Banks) (4:36) #"Check It Out" (Piercy, Banks) (3:21)

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* http://www.afterthefire.co.uk/original/discography.htm After the Fire albums 1979 albums Albums produced by Rupert Hine Albums produced by John Leckie Albums produced by Muff Winwood Albums produced by Rhett Davies CBS Records albums {{1970s-rock-album-stub