Love & Hate
Studio album by
Section 25
Released1988
Recorded1986
GenreAlternative rock, electronic, techno
Length40:36
LabelFactory
ProducerLarry Cassidy
Section 25 chronology
From the Hip
(1984)		 Love & Hate
(1988)		 Part-Primitiv
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Love & Hate is the fourth studio album by Blackpool band Section 25 which was released in 1988 on Factory Records.

Release

Despite being recorded and finished by 1986, Factory Records didn't release the album until 1988. The label also mishandled the launch of the album's first single:

The single (FAC 157) did not appear until May 1987 and was marred by a further disaster. Priming a joke that misfired badly, Factory's publicists informed trade paper Music Week that the new SXXV single was a cover of a 1965 hit - "Good News Week" - by industry pundit Jonathan King. King's publishers Jonjo wasted no time in claiming that the Section 25 composition was an unauthorized pastiche of the earlier song and that the first five lines of the lyrics infringed the copyright. The dispute was swiftly settled by the MCPS, but not before all copies of FAC 157 had been recalled by the distributor, and Section 25 was obliged to sign over 100% of the publishing to Jonjo Music and Jonathan King.[2]

LTM Recordings reissued the album in 1999 with a digital remaster, liner notes and bonus tracks. It was renamed Love & Hate (In the English Countryside), but the album is still referred to by its original issue name. The reissue came with additional liner notes and was digitally remastered. The sequencing of the album was altered, and "Tim Lick My Knees" was retitled to "Gymnopedies".

The album was reissued again in 2013 on Factory Benelux, returning the track listing to the original 1988 running order and adding bonus tracks.

'17 Alternative Titles'

Angered by Factory for numerous reasons, the band included '17 Alternative Titles' on the album's sleeve (however, there are only 14).

  1. "It'll be ready in two weeks"
  2. "Dance if you can"
  3. "Woodentops go apeshit"
  4. "I'll ring you back"
  5. "Speyn"
  6. "Have you got a problem you want me to iron out"
  7. "Rhythm Chief"
  8. "Spiritual Criminal fights back in Love dilemma"
  9. "Infatuation"
  10. "With sex on their minds....."
  11. "J'accuse"
  12. "I'll let you know"
  13. "Clever Dick"
  14. "Young urban proletariat"

Track listing

1988 UK Factory release

  1. "Sweet Forgiveness" – 6:39
  2. "Conquer Me" – 6:00
  3. "Sprinkling Petals into Hell" – 4:30
  4. "The Last Man in Europe" – 3:12
  5. "Bad News Week" – 5:28
  6. "Tim Lick My Knees" – 2:33
  7. "Shit Creek No Paddle" – 4:44
  8. "Warhead" – 5:08
  9. "Carcrash" – 3:42

1999 LTM reissue

  1. "Sweet Forgiveness" – 6:39
  2. "Bad News Week" – 5:28
  3. "Crazy Wisdom" – 4:33
  4. "The Guitar Waltz" – 3:00
  5. "Sprinkling Petals into Hell" – 4:30
  6. "Warhead" – 5:08
  7. "Gymnopedies" – 2:33
  8. "Shit Creek No Paddle" – 4:44
  9. "Conquer Me" – 6:00
  10. "The Last Man in Europe" – 3:12
  11. "Carcrash" – 3:42
  12. "Bad News Week" (12 inch mix) – 4:54
  13. "Crazy Wisdom" (Demo) – 5:07
  14. "The Guitar Waltz" (Demo) – 3:04
  15. "The Last Man in Europe" (Demo) – 3:27
  16. "Carcrash" (Demo) – 2:09
  17. "Just to Be with You" (Demo) – 3:53

2013 Factory Benelux reissue (FBN-45-CD)

  1. "Sweet Forgiveness" – 6:39
  2. "Conquer Me" – 6:00
  3. "Sprinkling Petals into Hell" – 4:30
  4. "The Last Man in Europe" – 3:12
  5. "Bad News Week" – 5:28
  6. "Tim Lick My Knees" – 2:33
  7. "Shit Creek No Paddle" – 4:44
  8. "Warhead" – 5:08
  9. "Carcrash" – 3:42
  10. "Crazy Wisdom" - 4.33
  11. "The Guitar Waltz" - 3.00
  12. "Bad News Week" (12 inch mix) – 4:54
  13. "Bad News Week" (Cough mix) - 7:39
  14. "Warhead" (Retro mix) - 5.08
  15. "Crazy Wisdom" (demo) - 5.07
  16. "Boogie Beat" (Bad News Week version) (Retro mix) - 3.28

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ "Section 25 | Biography | LTM Recordings". Retrieved 19 December 2023.
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