Love Is Dead is an album by the Berkeley, California punk rock band The Mr. T Experience, released in 1996 by Lookout! Records.[5] It was the band's second album as a three-piece, and the first with bassist Joel Reader and drummer Jim "Jym" Pittman, replacing Aaron Rubin and Alex Laipeneiks, respectively, who had departed the group the previous year.[6]

Love Is Dead
Studio album by The Mr. T Experience
Released	January 19, 1996
Recorded	1995
Genre	Punk rock, pop punk
Label	Lookout![1]
Producer	Kevin Army[2]
The Mr. T Experience chronology
Our Bodies Our Selves (1993) Love Is Dead (1996) Revenge is Sweet, and So Are You (1997)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide	[2]
Punknews.org	[4]

The song "I Just Wanna Do it With You" was used in the soundtrack to the 1996 movie Glory Daze, and was included on the film's soundtrack album.^{[citation needed]}

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the release "a wonderful album," writing that "Dr. Frank and a half-new rhythm section fill Love Is Dead with nothing but loud, catchy and lovable singalongs, roaringly produced by [Kevin] Army as if he were erecting the sonic safety barrier around a particularly dangerous radioactive dumpsite."[7] Metroactive called it "the year's can't-miss record, an addictive tome about self-loathing."[8]

In an appreciation published in 2004, Stylus Magazine wrote that the album "is easily the finest work of the second wave of US punk, and arguably one of the finest Stateside three-chord racket albums ever dropped on wax."[9]

Track listing

Personnel

• Dr. Frank - vocals, guitar
• Joel Reader - bass
• Jim "Jym" Pittman - drums
• Paige O'Donoghue - triangle on "Can I Do the Thing?"

Album information

• Produced and engineered by Kevin Army
• Mixed by Kevin Army and Bernd Burgdorf at Hyde Street Studios
• Assistant tracking engineer: Jim Ruzicka
• Additional assistant engineer: Marty Main
• Mastered by John Golden at Newbury Park, California on October 31, 1995
• Recorded at Bay Records, Emeryville Recording Company in Emeryville, California, and Smooth Hyde Street Studios
• Artwork by Christopher Appelgren, Dr. Frank, and others
• Back cover photo by Cathy Bauer
• Live photos by Brian Medley and Robyn Draheim

References