Hindu Love Gods "Hindu Love Gods" LP
(Giant - Reprise) 1990 made in Germany
cat. num. 7599-24406-1
#folk rock #pop rock #alternative #rem
Walkin' Blues | 4:12 |
Travelin' Riverside Blues | 4:02 |
Raspberry Beret | 3:53 |
Crosscut Saw | 3:06 |
Junko Pardner | 2:39 |
Mannish Boy | 6:57 |
Wang Dang Doodle | 3:51 |
Battleship Chains | 3:06 |
I'm A One Woman Man | 2:18 |
Vigilante Man | 2:56 |
The Hindu Love Gods were essentially R.E.M. with Warren Zevon replacing Michael Stipe as front man. Always somewhat of a joke, the quartet did manage to release a self-titled album of cover songs that they had recorded in 1987 with leftover studio time. Loose and spirited, the group tackles a range of off-the-cuff covers that could be throwaways but for the sheer talent and charm of the players. Indeed, their spirited rendition of Prince’s “Rasberry Beret” even made the charts in 1990. A pair of Robert Johnson-penned blues classics and Muddy Waters’s “Mannish Boy” are attempted with similar aplomb. HINDU LOVE GODS is a rare kind of supergroup album: good-natured, unpretentious, irreverent, inebriated, and ultimately essential.