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Powerful Pain Relief is the second album by the American lounge band Love Jones, released in 1995.[2][3] The band was considered part of the mid-1990s "Cocktail Nation" trend of retro cocktail lounge groups.[4]

Powerful Pain Relief
Studio album by Love Jones
Released	1995
Genre	Lounge
Label	Zoo Entertainment[1]
Producer	Paul du Gré, Love Jones
Love Jones chronology
Here's to the Losers (1993) Powerful Pain Relief (1995)

The first single from the album was "The Thing".[5] Love Jones supported Powerful Pain Relief by opening for the Presidents of the United States of America on a North American tour.[6]

Production

The album was produced by Paul du Gré and Love Jones.[7] The conga player and vocalist Ben Daughtrey left the band after the completion of Powerful Pain Relief.[8]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[9]

Trouser Press thought that "better songwriting and fatter arrangements carry the ebullient opener, 'The Thing', into sly cuts like 'Vigilante' and the solipsistic 'Me'."[7] CMJ New Music Monthly wrote that the album "shows the band as determinedly campy as ever, playing the kind of richly instrumental, overly opulent '70s jazz-pop that made the Association so famous."[10] The Austin Chronicle concluded that "fans of pink elephants, shag carpeting, and swizzle sticks will sway their velvet-clad booties quite righteously to Powerful Pain Relief; everyone else will miss the point entirely."[11]

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch declared that "the tacky (not funny enough to be called kitschy) collection includes the title track, a phony-sounding, Dee-Lite-style love song; the insipid Sly Stone-ripoff, 'World of Summer'; and 'Vigilante', a laughable attempt at menacing, blaxploitation-film badness."[12] The Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph deemed the album "a wildly funky brand of lounge music that contains more soul than anything Lawrence Welk ever did."[13]

AllMusic wrote that "the band evolved their loungey sound away from a Combustible Edison bossa nova vibe to more rock but still created a smooth, cocktail mood."[9]

Track listing

References

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