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HINDU LOVE GODS

BILL BERRY, PETER BUCK, MIKE MILLS, WARREN ZEVON
Hindu Love Gods formed in Athens, GA in 1984, a virtual cult-hero supergroup originally comprising guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and drummer Bill Berry (all three of then-underground icons R.E.M.), pianist Warren Zevon (the famously sardonic singer/composer best known for the classic "Werewolves of London"), and vocalist Bryan Cook (a veteran of local favorites Time Toy and Oh-OK). Their first single, "Narrator," arrived on the IRS label in mid-1985. A year later, Buck, Mills, and Berry rejoined Zevon to collaborate on his Sentimental Hygiene solo effort; minus Cook, the foursome recorded the full-length Hindu Love Gods LP over the course of a single drunken after-hours studio session (Bill Berry: "It took us about as long to do as it takes to listen to"), with Zevon assuming vocal duties for a series of loose-knit electric blues covers capped off by a reading of Prince's "Raspberry Beret." The session remained an underground legend until it was finally issued on the Giant label in 1990; no other Hindu Love Gods recordings were forthcoming.
"HINDU LOVE GODS"
Produced by Andrew Slater and Niko Bolas    
1990     LP     GIANT RECORDS     7599-24406-1 MADE IN GERMANY   ORIGINAL PRESSING SINGLE COVER + INNER SLEEVE
Barcode and Other Identifiers Barcode: 0 7599-24406-1 5 Label Code: LC 0322 Price Code (France): WE 391 Price Code: Ⓤ Other (Embossed on the bottom right of the back cover): Warner [logo]
LABEL: GIANT - ORANGE LABEL - BLACK TEXT Catalog on cover: 7599-24406-1 Catalog on labels: 7599-24406-1 Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): R / S Alsdorf 759 924406-1-A   (Etched): 11 Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): R / S Alsdorf 759 924406-1-B   (Etched): 1
On labels: rim text reads "All rights............A Warner Communications Company" GEMA/BIEM(boxed) Produced by Andrew Slater and Niko Bolas     ℗+© 1990 Giant Records
On inner sleeve: photos and credits On back cover: Giant Records.........Made in Germany GIANT & REPRISE logos
tracklisting Side A: WALKIN' BLUES - TRAVELIN' RIVERSIDE BLUES RASPBERRY BERET - CROSSCUT SAW - JUNKO PARDNER Side B: MANNISH BOY - WANG DANG DOODLE - BATTLESHIP CHAINS I'M A ONE WOMAN MAN - VIGILANTE MAN
grading RECORD EX but (please, read above description) SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
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...(AllMusic)