More Songs About Love & Hate by The Godfathers

More Songs About Love & Hate was the Godfathers' third album, out on Epic in May 1989, and it finds the London band still swinging the same blunt instrument: punk sneer welded to old R&B muscle. Vic Maile, the producer who'd been with them since their independent singles, was back behind the desk, and founders Peter and Chris Coyne still ran the show on vocals and bass.

It was the last Godfathers record with guitarist Kris Dollimore, who gave way to Chris Burrows before 1991's Unreal World. The British sleeve borrowed a shot of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, a fitting pair for an album with love and hate in its title. It reached number 49 in the UK. The Washington Post's Mark Jenkins found it steadier than Birth, School, Work, Death but short on a real knockout, singling out the country-tinged "Walking Talking Johnny Cash Blues" as a highlight.

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