Lovehunter (Remastered / Expanded)

Product Details

Artist : Whitesnake
Format : Original recording remastered, Extra tracks
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0094635968620
Label : EMI
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2006-05-08
UPC : 094635968620

ASIN : B000F2C7TU

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Long Way From Home
2. Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues
3. Help Me Thro' The Day
4. Medicine Man
5. You 'n' Me
6. Mean Business
7. Love Hunter
8. Outlaw
9. Rock 'n' Roll Women
10. We Wish You Well
11. Belgian Tom's Hat Trick
12. Love To Keep You Warm
13. Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City
14. Trouble

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Editorial Reviews

Whitesnake was the band formed by vocalist David Coverdale after his acrimonious departure from Deep Purple. Intended as a vehicle for his own brand of bluesy vox-heavy rock (the first album was a set of ballads), the project quickly grew to include the gargantuan keyboards and pyrotechnic percussion of Deep Purple's Jon Lord and Ian Paice, the sound becoming fuller, the lyrics more overtly predatory. Love Hunter, recorded before Paice's arrival, was immediately notorious for a sleeve featuring a buxom woman sitting lasciviously astride an enormous snake. It also revealed Coverdale, who was often dismissed as a mere sexist rocker, to be a master of various forms--dirty, dark-hearted rock ("Mean Business"), incorrigibly sensual R&B ("Rock'n'Roll Women"), and slow, impassioned and soulful anthems ("Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues"). Leading to 10 years of unremitting success, Love Hunter was Whitesnake's purest offering. --Dominic Wills

Customer Reviews

Prelude to the breakthrough (2006-11-09)

After two solo albums, David Coverdale assembled a band of substantial talent and experience that would prove impossible to ignore. Jon Lord's keyboard work in particular promotes a sweeping, expansive sound for the early stages of 'Love Hunter'. The album is a triumph for style rather than substance, as the material is good but not great.'Long Way From Home' is something of a surprise opening. It's hardly rock and roll in nature, more like one of those pop/rock songs designed to appeal to a mass market. Though quite striking, it's no 'Since You Been Gone'. 'Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues' and 'Help Me Thro' The Day' are much more substantial, slow burners given atmosphere by background organ. The quality thereafter is variable. 'You 'n' Me' is an uptempo track, more in keeping with the harder, drivng style of subsequent albums. 'Outlaw' is more lightweight in feel, but is one of the best recordings on the album. 'Rock 'n' Roll Women' opens with a Chuck Berry style riff but doesn't quite live up to its promise. The album ends, as it began, with an uncharacteristic track, the brief 'We Wish You Well'. The acoustic guitars give way to a chorus reminiscent of a Coke advert.'Love Hunter', though a little uneven, is a satisfying album overall. Its successor, 'Ready An' Willing', remains the best place to start listening to Whitesnake, but if you like that, this album is worth visiting later.

A solid rock record (2003-08-27)

"Lovehunter" opens with the groovy blues-rock of "Long Way From Home", and the classic, swaggering "Walking In The Shadow Of The Blues" - perhaps David Coverdale's best composition, and certainly one of his best and most mature lyrics.

Other highlights include the foot-stomping "Rock 'N' Roll Women", which is precisely as clichéd as it sounds, and the supremely funky title track, which features some fiery slide guitar from Mickey Moody. And "You 'N' Me" is a pretty solid rocker as well.

There are a few too many mediocre songs for "Lovehunter" to be a great album, but it's still a pretty good one. A fine purchase for fans of Whitesnake's earlier material...and good enough for some 3½ stars.

Whitesnake on the verge of the big time!! (2002-04-25)

I love this album, it has got so many great things about it, the only thing it lacks is Ian Paice on the drums, but the drummer (one Duck Dowel) makes a very good noise on the round chair. There are several highlights on this album, the first just has to be the sleeve, beautiful art work that sets the tone for this, and many more Whitesnake albums to come. The album then opens with what I belive to be its best track. Long Way From Home, just oozes class, great tune and fantastic words, also serves as a reminder that David Coverdale was not only blessed with one (if not the) greatest rock/blues voices ever, but he was also a very capable songwriter, this song also shows that you can sing about your love for a woman without mentioning things like loveguns, honey pots and so on..... Track 2, is Walking in the Shadow of the Blues, this is a real Whitesnake classic, it says a lot about the band and its future direction, it is also a thouroughly great tune. Help me thro' the day is often refered to as a "filler" I disagree, i think this in one of the stronger tracks on the album, a damn fine slowie! Medicine Man is the usual rock and roll, doctors and nurses, "ive got some medicine for you, would it be too much trouble if I was to inject it into you baby" type of thing, but it really works, also has great backing vocals. side one of the album finishes with You & Me, again great melody and some nice guitar work a worthwhile finish to side one. Side two wastes no time getting up to speed with the intollerably fast, and fantasticly funky Mean Business, I just love the lines "Dont you knock on my door if you dont want an answer, give me a beat if you dont wanna dance aaa!" Just great. The title track, is yet another timeless Whitesnake track, almost sounds like it was written with the big croud sing-along in mind that it was enventually destined for. Outlaw, is I think the weakest song on the album, but it is nice to hear Bernie Marsden sing a whole song to himself, and he has a very good voice. Rock & Roll women is pretty much what you would expect from a song of this title (sounds a bit like Status Quo to me). Just to round the album off there is the one minuite wonder "We wish you well" it is such a shame that the boys never invented a nother verse or two and a piano or guitar break for this song, it is such a great tune, it really deserved another few minuites. All in all I think this album is one of the best individual Whitesnake albums you can buy, it is a big improvement on "Trouble" and a good mood setter for "Ready & Willing" that was to follow. That is the great thing with Whitesnake, all of thier albums seem to pick up where the last one left off, and listented to as a sieries of albums shows that the were one of the most consistent rock bands of our era. If you are thinking of this album as your first Whitesnake, its not a bad introduction, but try "Ready & Willing", "Come & Get it" or "Slide it in" first, then buy this one.

Music for Men! (2000-08-26)

Only kiddin' as this is for anyone with a sense of humour. A lot of filler but even the dross is funny with the lyric sheet in hand. And the surprising thing is that I once met a girl who could recite the words to Lovehunter. Talk about love!

Classic Whitesnake - just look at the cover! (2000-05-29)

Although not the definitive Whitesnake album (Ian Paice still hadn't joined) it is a much more coherent album than it's predecessor 'Trouble'. It does show what this line-up was capable of with classics such as 'Walking in the Shadow of the Blues' and the title-track itself set to become Whitesnake standards for years to come.

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