Power 96 Cool One Recap: Love/Hate

Last Friday's Power 96 Cool One was the title track from Love/Hate's 1990 debut release Blackout in the Red Room. The single didn't fare well on the charts and the album didn't do much better, coming in at No. 154 on the Billboard 200. Despite their lack of luck on the charts, this is still a great album. A fellow announcer turned me onto this band and their album, whose music style, at the time, was unlike anything I'd heard before.

The band was headed up by Jizzy Pearl. Pearl has also fronted L.A. Guns, Ratt, Quiet Riot and others over his career. He was also arrested after being part of a publicity stunt to promote Love/Hate's 1992 followup release, Wasted in America, involving the famous Hollywood sign, that failed when he was left hanging from the sign itself in a mock crucifixion but wasn't noticed by the news media for hours.

Your Power 96 Cool One, brought to you by Kelly's Auto Parts in Faribault, comes from a band whose beginnings lie in Boulder, Colo., in 1974. If you want to know who it is, then make sure you're listening at 4:35 this afternoon to find out.