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Straight Freak Ticket

Straight Freak Ticket is an album by the American alternative rock band Love Battery.[2][3] The band's first album for a major label, it was released in 1995 on Atlas Records.[4][5] The first single was "Fuzz Factory".[6]

Straight Freak Ticket
Studio album by
Love Battery
ReleasedFebruary 28, 1995[1]
GenreGrunge, psychedelic rock, alternative rock
Length49:01
LabelAtlas
ProducerBruce Calder, Love Battery
Love Battery chronology
Far Gone
(1993) 		Straight Freak Ticket
(1995) 		Confusion Au Go Go
(1999)

The band supported the album with a North American tour that included shows with Bettie Serveert.[7] Straight Freak Ticket was a commercial disappointment.[8]

Track 7 on this album, "Red Onion", was discovered to be the lostwave song, "Words That Try To Resurface", on October 24th, 2024.

Production

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Primarily produced by Bruce Calder, the album was recorded in Seattle in the fall of 1994.[9][10] Kevin Whitworth played slide guitar on some of the album's tracks.[11]

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [12]
The Charlotte Observer    [11]
The Tampa Tribune    [4]
USA Today    [13]

The Albuquerque Journal deemed Straight Freak Ticket "a good, solid, basic rock 'n' roll album."[14] The Seattle Post-Intelligencer called it "a solid, well-produced album of guitar-based rock with catchy hooks and a strong dose of psychedelia."[15] The Arizona Daily Star considered Straight Freak Ticket to be "an excellent album, boasting the spirit of out-of-control rock music focused with the precision of a big-budget recording."[16]

The Santa Fe New Mexican concluded: "If Nirvana was The Beatles of the Seattle Invasion, then Love Battery is somewhere between Gerry & The Pacemakers and Petula Clark."[17] USA Today labeled the album "a psychedelic tour de force and dramatic leap forward," writing that "the antigrunge guitar riff-o-rama of Ron Nine and Kevin Whitworth propels the Seattle quartet's most adventurous and listenable tunes to date."[13]

Track listing

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  1. Fuzz Factory
  2. If It Wasn't Me
  3. Harold's Pink Room
  4. Brazil
  5. Nehru Jacket
  6. Perfect Light
  7. Red Onion
  8. Sunny Jim
  9. Straight Freak Show
  10. Angelhead
  11. Waylaid
  12. Drowning Sun
  13. Silent Treatment

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ "Popular Uprisings". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. November 12, 1994. Archived from the original on August 30, 2023. Retrieved October 28, 2020 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "TrouserPress.com :: Love Battery". www.trouserpress.com. Archived from the original on 2023-08-30. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  3. ^ "CHARGE IT". The Salt Lake Tribune. 3 Mar 1995. p. D12.
  4. ^ a b Jeter, Jeff (May 5, 1995). "LOVE BATTERY, Straight Freak Ticket". FRIDAY EXTRA!. The Tampa Tribune. p. 21.
  5. ^ "Quick Scans (April 6 - April 12, 1995)". www.tucsonweekly.com. Archived from the original on August 30, 2023. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
  6. ^ "Rock Tracks". Billboard. 107 (10): 59. Mar 11, 1995.
  7. ^ Sherr, Sara (10 Apr 1995). "TROC ROCKS WITH BETTIE SERVEERT". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. D3.
  8. ^ Ehrbar, Joe (6 Sep 1996). "Psychedelic battery". Weekend. The Spokesman-Review. p. 8.
  9. ^ Gulla, Bob (Mar 1995). "Reviews". CMJ New Music Monthly (19): 37.
  10. ^ Saiz Holguin, Robert (April 14, 1995). "BATTERY INCLUDED". Entertainment. Toronto Sun. Associated Press. p. 55.
  11. ^ a b Johnson, Kenneth (March 24, 1995). "Rock". The Charlotte Observer. p. 6F.
  12. ^ "Straight Freak Ticket - Love Battery | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 2023-08-30. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  13. ^ a b Gundersen, Edna (3 Apr 1995). "Love Battery, Straight Freak Ticket". USA Today. p. 4D.
  14. ^ Hyatt, Dan (17 Mar 1995). "STRAIGHT FREAK TICKET". Albuquerque Journal. p. E21.
  15. ^ Stout, Gene (19 Mar 1995). "All charged up: Love Battery poised to break out of Seattle scene". The Gazette. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. p. F6.
  16. ^ Armstrong, Gene (March 17, 1995). "It's alternative-rock groups galore to entertain Tucson fans this week". Arizona Daily Star. p. 11E.
  17. ^ Terrell, Steve (24 Mar 1995). "TERRELL'S TUNE-UP". PASATIEMPO. The Santa Fe New Mexican. p. 9.
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