Love Monster (EP)

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Love Monster
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Released2001
Recorded1988
Label Wrong Way Records
Producer Monster Magnet
Monster Magnet chronology
God Says No
(2001)
Love Monster
(2001)
Greatest Hits
(2003)

Love Monster is an EP released by American rock band Monster Magnet, although all songs on the album were recorded by lead singer Dave Wyndorf in 1988, a year before the band was formed. Only 3,000 copies of Love Monster were released, making it Monster Magnet's rarest material. [1]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by Dave Wyndorf except where cited.

  1. "Love Monster"
  2. "War Hippie"
  3. "Poster"
  4. "Atom Age Vampire"
  5. "Brighter Than the Sun"
  6. "I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time" (The Third Bardo cover)
  7. "Snoopy"

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References

  1. "Love Monster". discogs.com. Retrieved on October 27, 2013.
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