Love Is... | |
Type: | single |
Artist: | King Missile |
Album: | King Missile |
Released: | 1994 |
Genre: | Avant-garde, doom metal |
Length: | 3:38 |
Label: | Atlantic |
Producer: | Daniel Rey |
Prev Title: | Martin Scorsese |
Prev Year: | 1993 |
Next Title: | America Kicks Ass |
Next Year: | 2004 |
"Love Is..." is a song by avant-garde band King Missile. It was the only single from the band's 1994 album King Missile.
In "Love Is...," a dirge-like track with elements of doom metal, frontman John S. Hall dryly recites several examples of what love is ("beautiful / Like birds that sing") and is not ("ugly / Like rats / In a puddle of vomit"). The chorus consists of Hall ominously chanting, "Love is beautiful."[1]
The "Love Is..." maxi-single was intended for promotional use only, and not supposed to be sold; nonetheless, copies are sometimes available in "used" sections of record stores, because some people who received the maxi-single sold it anyway.[2]
All lyrics by Hall. All music by Roger Murdock, Dave Rick, and Chris Xefos.
The video for "Love Is..." was directed by Richard Kern.[4] The video contrasts shots of the band performing in a white room with shots of a dark, sordid party at which attendees engage in heterosexual, homosexual, interracial and zoophilic partnerships.[5]
MTV refused to air the video. Hall believes this rejection was motivated by the shots of multi-instrumentalist Xefos kissing another man.