Love and Rockets were a post-punk band which formed in 1985 in Northampton,… Read Full Bio ↴Love and Rockets were a post-punk band which formed in 1985 in Northampton, England Daniel Ash (guitar/vocals), David J (bass/vocals), and Kevin Haskins (drums) - all former members of English post-punk pioneers Bauhaus. Taking their name from the renowned underground comic book created by Los Bros Hernandez (Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez), their music is a mixture of goth, glam, psychedelia, soul and pop.

The band is best known for their singles "Ball of Confusion" (1985, a Temptations cover), "No New Tale to Tell" (1987), "So Alive" (1989) and "No Big Deal" (1990).

L&R's first album was 1985's trippy Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven; Seventh Dream was followed in quick succession by 1986's Express;which featured a cover of Ball of Confusion, which became a club hit. 1987's Earth * Sun * Moon and 1989's eponymously titled release Love and Rockets (all on Beggar's Banquet). Love & Rockets was met with cries of sellout due to the overly slick So Alive (the band toured stadiums following the hit single) and the group disbanded. Tracks recorded for an abandoned EP Swing were added to a reissue of Love & Rockets in 2002.

After working on solo albums they reformed, recorded material for Hot Trip to Heaven which infused dance/electronica elements into their sound. Fearing the world wasn't prepared for it yet in 1992, they waited until 1994 to release it. A fire destroyed the studio they were working in, and all material was scrapped. The next album, Sweet F.A. features one of Daniel Ash's charred guitars on the front cover. The final album Lift was an epic dance/electronic swan song, owing much to producer Doug DeAngelis, who was given honorary L&R member status. After the Lift tour, they disbanded again in 1999 to work on solo projects, and to reform Bauhaus for a series of tours. L&R reunited in 2007 at Coachella. Plans for a 2009/2010 release fell through as the band went their separate ways again.

On 23 January 2023, Love and Rockets announced a reunion for an appearance at the Cruel World Festival in Pasadena, California on 20 May 2023, the band's first concert in 15 years. They later announced a 2023 U.S. tour in support of their appearance at Cruel World. A Bauhaus reunion was aborted in 2022 after Peter Murphy forced the band to cancel the tour as he entered rehab. Daniel Ash said that the 2023 tour would be the band's final.

FEVER
Love And Rockets Lyrics

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Such a greedy girl
Wants it all
Everything you've got
That's all

You know she needs someone good
But you got the fever
You know she needs someone good

But you got the fever

Using all the tricks in the book, babe
Use from this down to that
She says, "You must read my lips, babe"
You just can't do that

Doesn't get to feeling too low, babe
Want to end it all
Too much fun, babe
And I know you will fall

You know she needs someone good
But you got the fever
You know she needs someone good
But you got the fever

Feeling lower than low, babe
(Feeling lower than low, babe)
When everything is so wild
(When everything is so wild)

Feeling lower than low, babe
(Feeling lower than low, babe)
Now that's all I got
(Now that's all I got)

I know you need someone good

I know you need someone good
But I got the fever, fever, fever

Overall Meaning

The Love And Rockets song, Fever, appears to be about a woman who is insatiable in her desires for everything a man can offer her. Despite the fact that the singer knows the woman needs a good man, they are too caught up in their own feverish desires to be that man. Instead, the woman uses all the tricks in the book to try and get what she wants, and insists that the singer read her lips in order to understand just how much she needs everything. The singer knows that this is all too much for them, that they will eventually fall under the weight of the woman's needs, but they are still caught up in their own feverish state.

Line by Line Meaning

Such a greedy girl
This girl is very selfish, she wants it all

Wants it all
She wants everything that is out there

Everything you've got
She wants all that you have

That's all
That's all she ever wants

You know she needs someone good
You know she needs a good person in her life

But you got the fever
But you're sick with desire for her

Using all the tricks in the book, babe
She is using all the wayward means to get you

Use from this down to that
Using everything in her reach

She says, "You must read my lips, babe"
She is trying to get you to understand her very clearly

You just can't do that
It is impossible to read her mind

Doesn't get to feeling too low, babe
She does not like feeling down or low