Love & Rockets Be This Perversity?
Love & Rockets spend a lot of time singing about heaven. Their first album was called Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven, and an early single bore the title “If There’s A Heaven Above.” Their new album, Earth Sun Moon, refers to that great fuzzbox in the sky in no less than three songs, one of which is called “Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven.”
Love & Rockets Be This Perversity?
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by Moira McCormick
Love & Rockets spend a lot of time singing about heaven. Their first album was called Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven, and an early single bore the title “If There’s A Heaven Above.” Their new album, Earth Sun Moon, refers to that great fuzzbox in the sky in no less than three songs, one of which is called “Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven.”
Yet ask Daniel Ash, guitarist/vocalist/songwriter for the postnuclear hoppers, if he really thinks there’s a heaven, and he replies, “I haven’t got a clue. None whatsoever.” He does believe there’s a God, though his conception of the big guy isn’t exactly PTL-approved: “I’ve got the notion that maybe God itself is pure science—a consciousness, not pure science out of the computer, but just very connected to nature itself.” As for organized religion, Ash says, “I think basically all religions are bastards of the truth.”