Not So Much to Be Loved as to Love

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ReleasedJune 22, 2004
RecordedMobius Studio, San Francisco
Length38:35
Label Vapor Records [1]
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Not So Much to Be Loved as to Love is an album by Jonathan Richman, released in 2004. [5] The title is excerpted from Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace, "O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek ... to be loved, as to love."

Contents

The album contains two unlisted bonus tracks: "The Sea Was Calling Me Home" and an alternate version of the title track.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Jonathan Richman

  1. "Not So Much to Be Loved as to Love" Version 1 – 2:53
  2. "Sunday Afternoon" – 1:18
  3. "Vincent Van Gogh" – 3:05
  4. "Cosi Veloce" – 3:31
  5. "He Gave Us the Wine to Taste" – 2:41
  6. "Salvador Dali" – 2:22
  7. "My Baby Love Love Loves Me" – 3:11
  8. "In che mondo viviamo" – 2:26
  9. "Behold the Lilies of the Field" – 3:07
  10. "Les etoiles" – 2:14
  11. "The World Is Showing Its Hand" – 2:24
  12. "Abu Jamal" – 2:18
  13. "On a du soleil" – 2:13
  14. "The Sea Was Calling Me Home" – 2:06
  15. "Not So Much to Be Loved as to Love" Version 2 – 2:46

Personnel

Technical

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