Love Is Dead (The Mr. T Experience album)

Love Is Dead
Studio album by The Mr. T Experience
Released	January 19, 1996
Recorded	1995
Genre	Punk rock, pop punk
Label	Lookout![1]
Producer	Kevin Army[2]
The Mr. T Experience chronology
Our Bodies Our Selves (1993) Love Is Dead (1996) Revenge is Sweet, and So Are You (1997)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide	[2]
Punknews.org	[4]

Love Is Dead is an album by the Berkeley, California punk rock band The Mr. T Experience, released in 1996 by Lookout! Records.^[5] It was the band's second album as a three-piece, and the first with bassist Joel Reader and drummer Jim "Jym" Pittman, replacing Aaron Rubin and Alex Laipeneiks, respectively, who had departed the group the previous year.^[6]

The song "I Just Wanna Do it With You" was used in the soundtrack to the 1996 movie Glory Daze, and was included on the film's soundtrack album.^{[citation needed]}

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the release "a wonderful album," writing that "Dr. Frank and a half-new rhythm section fill Love Is Dead with nothing but loud, catchy and lovable singalongs, roaringly produced by [Kevin] Army as if he were erecting the sonic safety barrier around a particularly dangerous radioactive dumpsite."^[7] Metroactive called it "the year's can't-miss record, an addictive tome about self-loathing."^[8]

In an appreciation published in 2004, Stylus Magazine wrote that the album "is easily the finest work of the second wave of US punk, and arguably one of the finest Stateside three-chord racket albums ever dropped on wax."^[9]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dr. Frank except where noted

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Sackcloth and Ashes"
2.	"Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba"
3.	"I Just Wanna Do it With You"
4.	"Somebody's Song" (lyrics by Dorothy Parker)
5.	"Thank You (For Not Being One of Them)"
6.	"Dumb Little Band"
7.	"Hangin' on to You"
8.	"The Future Ain't What it Used to Be"
9.	"I Fell for You"
10.	"Deep Deep Down"
11.	"Can I Do the Thing?"
12.	"I'd Do Anything for You"
13.	"Semi-OK"
14.	"I'm Like Yeah, But She's All No"
15.	"That Prozac Moment"
16.	"You're The Only One"

Personnel

• Dr. Frank - vocals, guitar
• Joel Reader - bass
• Jim "Jym" Pittman - drums
• Paige O'Donoghue - triangle on "Can I Do the Thing?"

Album information

• Produced and engineered by Kevin Army
• Mixed by Kevin Army and Bernd Burgdorf at Hyde Street Studios
• Assistant tracking engineer: Jim Ruzicka
• Additional assistant engineer: Marty Main
• Mastered by John Golden at Newbury Park, California on October 31, 1995
• Recorded at Bay Records, Emeryville Recording Company in Emeryville, California, and Smooth Hyde Street Studios
• Artwork by Christopher Appelgren, Dr. Frank, and others
• Back cover photo by Cathy Bauer
• Live photos by Brian Medley and Robyn Draheim

References

1. Prested, Kevin (November 28, 2014). Punk USA: The Rise and Fall of Lookout Records. Microcosm Publishing. p. 103. ISBN 9781621069201 – via Google Books.
2. MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 768.
3. "Love Is Dead - The Mr. T Experience | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
4. "The Mr. T Experience - Love is Dead". www.punknews.org.
5. "The Mr. T Experience | Biography & History". AllMusic.
6. "Perfect Sound Forever: Mr. T Experience". www.furious.com.
7. "Mr. T Experience". Trouser Press. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
8. "Metroactive Music | Mr. T Experience". www.metroactive.com.
9. "Mr T. Experience - Love Is Dead - On Second Thought - Stylus Magazine". stylusmagazine.com.