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Let Love Rule: 20th Anniversary Edition,Lenny Kravitz

- Let Love Rule: 20th Anniversary Edition
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Lenny Kravitz
Released 2009

Let Love Rule (2009 Digital Remaster)
05:42
891 plays

Sitting On Top Of The World (2009 Digital Remaster)
03:16
889 plays

My Precious Love (2009 Digital Remaster)
05:16
523 plays

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songs

- 1
- Sitting On Top Of The World (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 03:16
- 889 plays

- 2
- Let Love Rule (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 05:42
- 891 plays

- 3
- Freedom Train (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 02:51
- 494 plays

- 4
- My Precious Love (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 05:16
- 523 plays

- 5
- I Build This Garden For Us (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 06:17
- 338 plays

- 6
- Fear (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 05:20
- 289 plays

- 7
- Does Anybody Out There Even Care (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 03:43
- 335 plays

- 8
- Mr. Cab Driver (2009 Digital Remaster) (Explicit)
- 03:51
- 364 plays

- 9
- Rosemary (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 05:28
- 323 plays

- 10
- Be (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 03:19
- 298 plays

- 11
- Blues For Sister Someone (2009 Digital Remaster) (Explicit)
- 03:00
- 239 plays

- 12
- Empty Hands (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 04:43
- 238 plays

- 13
- Flower Child (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 02:56
- 208 plays

- 14
- Let Love Rule (Basic Rough Mix)
- 05:42
- 357 plays

- 15
- Cold Turkey (Live) (2009 Digital Remaster) (Explicit)
- 05:25
- 321 plays

- 16
- Light Skin Girl From London
- 02:42
- 184 plays

- 17
- Fear (1987 Demo)
- 03:44
- 221 plays

- 18
- Mr. Cab Driver (Demo)
- 03:01
- 191 plays

- 19
- Let Love Rule (Demo)
- 02:49
- 212 plays

- 20
- Flower Child (Live)
- 05:02
- 175 plays

- 21
- Blues For Sister Someone (Live) (Explicit)
- 05:28
- 194 plays

- 22
- Mr. Cab Driver (Live) (Explicit)
- 04:27
- 188 plays

- 23
- Freedom Train (Live)
- 05:26
- 199 plays

- 24
- Be (Live)
- 05:11
- 218 plays

- 25
- My Precious Love (Live)
- 07:16
- 202 plays

- 26
- Does Anybody Out There Even Care (Live)
- 04:21
- 166 plays

- 27
- Let Love Rule (Live In Boston)
- 11:08
- 263 plays

- 28
- Rosemary (Live)
- 06:49
- 178 plays

- 29
- Fear (Live)
- 13:50
- 183 plays

- 30
- My Flash On You (Live In Amsterdam) (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 03:37
- 157 plays

- 31
- If 6 Were 9 (Live In Amsterdam) (2009 Digital Remaster)
- 07:22
- 381 plays

album review

The title is a tip-off: Lenny Kravitz is a hippie, something that was commonplace 20 years before his debut, Let Love Rule, and was familiar five years later when he scaled the charts with Are You Gonna Go My Way, but was practically unheard of in 1989 when the Grateful Dead were reaping the benefits of hippies turning into establishment. Kravitz had yet to become a classic rock caricature and he could still surprise on this unformed, endearingly unwieldy first record, where he split the difference between John Lennon, Curtis Mayfield, David Bowie, and Prince, sometimes exhibiting too clear of a debt to his idols but more often getting by on a combination of chutzpah and pastiche, something that winds up as an enormously appealing guilty pleasure. Kravitz has a tendency to overreach lyrically, striving to speak deep truths about big themes from world peace to child abuse, but the winning thing about Let Love Rule is how it plays as sheer sound, evoking memories of the paisley-drenched '60s and the lush sounds of '70s soul, all filtered through the multicultural flowering of the late '80s. Remarkably for an album that's essentially the work of a one-man band, Let Love Rule never feels stiff or insular -- it feels roomy and open, testament to Kravitz's talents as a producer -- but the record remains one of his best because it also has one of his greatest collections of songs, chief among them the stately, psychedelic march of "I Build This Garden for Us," the hippie-funk of "Sittin' on Top of the World," the Hendrixian riffs of "Freedom Train," the urban groove of "Mr. Cab Driver," and the surging "Let Love Rule," songs that created Kravitz's sound and persona and remain among his most engaging work. [The 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of Let Love Rule is expanded to a generous two-disc set, containing a remastered version of the proper album plus a bevy of bonus tracks. The first disc has the album along with six bonus tracks: the "basic rough mix" of "Let Love Rule," a cover of John Lennon's "Cold Turkey," "Light Skin Girl from London," the 1987 demo of "Fear," and home demos of "Mr. Cab Driver" and "Let Love Rule." The second disc is devoted to live material, including a full show at the Paradise in Boston, originally broadcast on WBCN-FM on March 28, 1990; there are two bonus cuts from the Paradiso in Amsterdam on December 20, 1989: "My Flash on You" and a cover of Jimi Hendrix's "If 6 Were 9."] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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