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Lullaby by Book of Love
Lullaby is an album by Book of Love, released in 1988. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls”, on 3 lists with a best position of #91.
Lullaby, Book of Love's second album, reached Sire on June 21, 1988, two years after their debut, and the gap had a reason: the New York synth-pop quartet had spent that time promoting the first record and opening for Depeche Mode on the Black Celebration tour. The new songs got written between March and August of 1987, and late that September the band went into D+D Recording and Unique Recording in New York with Flood, fresh from producing Erasure's The Circus.
The result is cool and glassy, Susan Ottaviano's voice floating over banks of keyboards, but its boldest stroke is a medley: the band's own take on Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells", the eerie theme of The Exorcist, sliding into "Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls", one of the first songs to face the AIDS epidemic head on. Cut down to single length, it became their only Hot 100 entry. Candy Carol came next.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Lullaby on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls | 3 | #91 | – | 1988–2003 | |
| 2 | Tubular Bells | 2 | #52 | – | 1988 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.