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Love Is... (song)

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Maxi-single
Track listing
Music video
References

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| cover =
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = King Missile
| album = King Missile
| released = 1994
| format =
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| genre = Avant-garde, doom metal
| length = 3:38
| label = Atlantic
| writer = John S. Hall, Roger Murdock, Dave Rick, Chris Xefos
| producer = Daniel Rey
| prev_title = Martin Scorsese
| prev_year = 1993
| next_title = America Kicks Ass
| next_year = 2004
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"Love Is..." is a song by avant-garde band King Missile. It was the only single from the band's 1994 album King Missile.

Content

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]

Maxi-single

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]

Track listing

All lyrics by Hall. All music by Roger Murdock, Dave Rick, and Chris Xefos.

"Love Is..." [clean version] – 3:38
- This "clean" version is identical to the album version except for the partial muting of a word that the King Missile liner notes claim is "shipload" but may actually be "shitload." (According to Hall, "on the [King Missile] lyric sheet we [the band] submitted to Atlantic, we changed all the curse words to acceptable words, figuring nobody would listen to the record, and we [would] get away with not having a warning label. This actually worked!")^&91;3&93;
"These People" – 4:26
- This track also appears on King Missile.
"Lost Land" – 4:32
- This track appears exclusively on the maxi-single.
"What If" [alternate version] – 2:24
- This track, which appears exclusively on the maxi-single, differs from the King Missile version of "What If" in that the lyrics are spoken throughout rather than both spoken and sung.
"Love Is..." [album version] – 3:38

Music video

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, 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.^[4]

References

1. ^{{cite web | last = | first = | title = Lyrics: Love Is... | publisher = Farmboy's King Missile | date = | url = http://www.i-mockery.com/kingmissile/loveis.html | accessdate = 2008-05-29 }}
2. ^{{cite web | last = | first = | title = Discography | publisher = Laundry Lists of Nonsense | date = | url = http://www.uptoolate.com/rick/km/discog.html | accessdate = 2008-06-06 }}
3. ^{{cite web | last = | first = | title = Interview w/ John | publisher = Farmboy's King Missile | date = | url = http://www.i-mockery.com/kingmissile | accessdate = 2008-06-06 }}
4. ^¹{{cite web | last = | first = | title = Videography | publisher = Laundry Lists of Nonsense | date = | url = http://www.uptoolate.com/rick/km/video.html | accessdate = 2008-05-29 }}
5. ^{{cite web | last = | first = | title = Video: Love Is... | publisher = YouTube | date = 2006-11-12 | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1HiklY3UWQ | accessdate = 2008-05-29 }}

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