Album · Love and Rockets
Express by Love and Rockets
Express is an album by Love and Rockets, released in 1986. 6 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 72 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Ball of Confusion”, on 41 lists with a best position of #19.
Express, Love and Rockets' second album, came out on Beggars Banquet on 15 September 1986, and it moves the band even further from what its members had done in Bauhaus. This one throws the windows open: underground rock bent into pop shapes and shot through with swirling guitars. Hear it now and it plays like an early sketch of the alternative rock that would take over the mainstream a few years on.
"Ball of Confusion" rattles along on a tough, twitchy groove, "Kundalini Express" chugs like a train with its headlamp blazing, and "All in My Mind" and "It Could Be Sunshine" drift somewhere between daydream and hangover. "Kundalini Express" had a life beyond the album, too, turning up in the Italian horror film Demons 2 that same year and in an episode of Miami Vice.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Express on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ball of Confusion | 41 | #19 | – | 1985–2024 | |
| 2 | Kundalini Express | 12 | #45 | – | 1986–2021 | |
| 3 | All in My Mind | 10 | #32 | – | 1986–2023 | |
| 4 | Yin And Yang The Flower Pot Man | 7 | #896 | – | 1999–2005 | |
| 5 | Ball of Confusion (Extended Version) | 1 | #297 | – | 2003 | |
| 6 | It Could Be Sunshine | 1 | #486 | – | 2024 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.