“L.O.V.E. Machine” by W.A.S.P.

"L.O.V.E. Machine" comes off W.A.S.P.'s self-titled debut, which hit the racks on August 17, 1984 after a two-and-a-half-week blitz at the Record Plant, and it's Blackie Lawless's show from end to end. He wrote it alone, sings it, plays the bass and co-produced it with Mike Varney, while Chris Holmes and Randy Piper split the guitars and Tony Richards pounds the drums. Duane Baron engineered alongside Steve Fontano and mixed it as well.

The album never quite settled on a name: the spine of the European vinyl read Winged Assassins, and early cassettes splashed "I Wanna Be Somebody" across the cover in bold. Whatever you call it, this is heavy metal with the swagger turned all the way up, straight out of the hairspray years.

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