Straight Freak Ticket

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

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

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

Production

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

Critical reception

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The Albuquerque Journal deemed Straight Freak Ticket "a good, solid, basic rock 'n' roll album." The Seattle Post-Intelligencer called it "a solid, well-produced album of guitar-based rock with catchy hooks and a strong dose of psychedelia." 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."

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." 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."

Track listing

  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

References

  1. ↑ "Popular Uprisings". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. November 12, 1994. Archived from the original on August 30, 2023. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Love Battery". Trouser Press. Archived from the original on August 30, 2023. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Charge It". The Salt Lake Tribune. March 3, 1995. p. D12.
  4. 1 2 Jeter, Jeff (May 5, 1995). "Love Battery, Straight Freak Ticket". Friday Extra!. The Tampa Tribune. p. 21.
  5. ↑ "Quick Scans". Tucson Weekly. Archived from the original on August 30, 2023. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
  6. ↑ "Rock Tracks". Billboard. Vol. 107, no. 10. March 11, 1995. p. 59.
  7. ↑ Sherr, Sara (April 10, 1995). "Troc Rocks with Bettie Serveert". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. D3.
  8. ↑ Ehrbar, Joe (September 6, 1996). "Psychedelic battery". Weekend. The Spokesman-Review. p. 8.
  9. ↑ Gulla, Bob (March 1995). "Reviews". CMJ New Music Monthly. No. 19. p. 37.
  10. ↑ Saiz Holguin, Robert (April 14, 1995). "Battery Included". Entertainment. Toronto Sun. Associated Press. p. 55.
  11. 1 2 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 August 30, 2023. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
  13. 1 2 Gundersen, Edna (April 3, 1995). "Love Battery, Straight Freak Ticket". USA Today. p. 4D.
  14. ↑ Hyatt, Dan (March 17, 1995). "Straight Freak Ticket". Albuquerque Journal. p. E21.
  15. ↑ Stout, Gene (March 19, 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 (March 24, 1995). "Terrell's Tune-Up". Pasatiempo. The Santa Fe New Mexican. p. 9.