Album · Peter Murphy
Love Hysteria by Peter Murphy
Love Hysteria is an album by Peter Murphy, released in 1988. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 28 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Indigo Eyes”, on 21 lists with a best position of #31.
Love Hysteria, Peter Murphy's second solo album, came out in 1988, and the former Bauhaus frontman, the man they call the Godfather of Goth, sounds happy to let a little light into the crypt. He wrote most of it with Paul Statham, the one-time B-Movie keyboard player who'd joined his backing band, the Hundred Men, and Simon Rogers, once of the Fall, produced.
That deep, dramatic baritone is still front and center, and his taste for gloomy poetry hasn't gone anywhere, but the songs have shape and swing: "Indigo Eyes" glides in on shimmering guitars and a sly, seductive croon, and "All Night Long" broods beautifully. It set the table for Deep in 1990, the record that finally brought him real commercial success.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Love Hysteria on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Indigo Eyes | 21 | #31 | – | 1988–2014 | |
| 2 | All Night Long | 7 | #55 | – | 1988–1999 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.