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Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) [Explicit Lyrics]

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The title is a tip-off: Lenny Kravitz is a hippie, something that was commonplace 20 years before his debut, Let Love Rule, and was familiar five years later when he scaled the charts with Are You Gonna Go My Way, but was practically unheard of in 1989 when the Grateful Dead were reaping the benefits of hippies turning into establishment. Kravitz had yet to become a classic rock caricature and he could still surprise on this unformed, endearingly unwieldy first record, where he split the difference between John Lennon, Curtis Mayfield, David Bowie, and Prince, sometimes exhibiting too clear of a debt to his idols but more often getting by on a combination of chutzpah and pastiche, something that winds up as an enormously appealing guilty pleasure. Kravitz has a tendency to overreach lyrically, striving to speak deep truths about big themes from world peace to child abuse, but the winning thing about Let Love Rule is how it plays as sheer sound, evoking memories of the paisley-drenched '60s and the lush sounds of '70s soul, all filtered through the multicultural flowering of the late '80s. Remarkably for an album that's essentially the work of a one-man band, Let Love Rule never feels stiff or insular -- it feels roomy and open, testament to Kravitz's talents as a producer -- but the record remains one of his best because it also has one of his greatest collections of songs, chief among them the stately, psychedelic march of "I Build This Garden for Us," the hippie-funk of "Sittin' on Top of the World," the Hendrixian riffs of "Freedom Train," the urban groove of "Mr. Cab Driver," and the surging "Let Love Rule," songs that created Kravitz's sound and persona and remain among his most engaging work. [The 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Let Love Rule is expanded to a generous two-disc set, containing a remastered version of the proper album plus a bevy of bonus tracks. The first disc has the album along with six bonus tracks: the "basic rough mix" of "Let Love Rule," a cover of John Lennon's "Cold Turkey," "Light Skin Girl from London," the 1987 demo of "Fear," and home demos of "Mr. Cab Driver" and "Let Love Rule." The second disc is devoted to live material, including a full show at the Paradise in Boston, originally broadcast on WBCN-FM on March 28, 1990; there are two bonus cuts from the Paradiso in Amsterdam on December 20, 1989: "My Flash on You" and a cover of Jimi Hendrix's "If 6 Were 9."]

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TRACK LISTINGS

Disc 1
1 Sittin' on Top of the World 3:15
2 Let Love Rule 5:42
3 Freedom Train 2:50
4 My Precious Love 5:15
5 I Build This Garden for Us 6:17
6 Fear 5:20
7 Does Anybody Out There Even Care 3:42
8 Mr. Cab Driver 3:50
9 Rosemary 5:28
10 Be 3:18
11 Blues for Sister Someone 3:00
12 Empty Hands 4:44
13 Flower Child 2:59
14 Let Love Rule previously unreleased / Bonus Track / Basic Rough Mix / Mix 5:44
15 Cold Turkey Bonus Track 5:23
16 Light Skin Girl from London Bonus Track 2:42
17 Fear previously unreleased / Bonus Track / 1987 Demo 3:44
18 Mr. Cab Driver previously unreleased / Bonus Track / Home Demo 3:01
19 Let Love Rule previously unreleased / Bonus Track / Home Demo 2:49

Disc 2
1 Flower Child Live / previously unreleased 5:01
2 Blues for Sister Someone Live 5:27
3 Mr. Cab Driver Live / previously unreleased 4:26
4 Freedom Train Live / previously unreleased 5:25
5 Be Live / previously unreleased 5:10
6 My Precious Love Live / previously unreleased 7:15
7 Does Anybody Out There Even Care Live / previously unreleased 4:21
8 Let Love Rule Live / previously unreleased 11:07
9 Rosemary Live / previously unreleased 6:48
10 Fear Live / previously unreleased 13:49
11 My Flash on You Live / Bonus Track 3:37
12 If 6 Were 9 Live / Bonus Track 7:22

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