The Seahorses - Love Is The Law (video + full album track)

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From the band put together by Stone Roses guitarist John Squire after the Roses broke up. This is from their first album, Do It Yourself.

If I recall the Rolling Stone review correctly from nearly 25 years ago (the review is no longer online), it was something like "Led Zeppelin meets the Beatles," which sounded about right to me.

Full album version with the instrumental outro doubling the length of the track and showing why Squire is considered one of the greatest British guitarists ever.

Check this out starting just over three minutes in:

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1. I don't think I'd heard of them.

Thanks

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2. You're welcome! The album reached #2 on the UK charts, had two top 10 singles and one that

reached #16.

This single reached #3 in the UK.

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3. Another single from that album. This one peaked at #7 in the UK.

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4. Couldn't find the Rolling Stone review with the Zeppelin/Beatles comparison, but from the LA Times,

a review of a Seahorses concert that summer:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-aug-29-ca-26872-story.html

Psychedelia, Some Crunch From Seahorses



Once or twice during the Seahorses’ concert at the Palace on Wednesday, a song would seem reminiscent of Oasis’ melodic, acoustic-electric mix. More accurately, though, a tune such as “Blinded by the Sun” faintly echoed Seahorses guitarist John Squire’s former band the Stone Roses, the erstwhile kings of Brit-pop who never quite managed to set the world on fire.

Squire has kept his love of psychedelia, but the Seahorses traversed crunchier terrain during the hourlong set, brewing an intoxicating concoction of Led Zeppelin, the Beatles and glam-era Bowie. The anthemic rockers from the quartet’s debut album, “Do It Yourself,” showcased Squire’s serious Jimmy Page infatuation, but while he peeled off an array of mighty riffs, his playing was never gratuitously flashy. Rather, his prowess informed and buoyed his bandmates’ equally stellar work, and together they created moods ranging from vaguely menacing to delightfully whimsical.

In contrast to the scruffily appealing personality of extroverted singer Chris Helme, Squire seemed almost shy onstage, concentrating mostly on producing Zep-like power and sprawl with his instrument, while never abandoning melody.

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5. Third single from the album. This one made it only to #16 in the UK. This was cowritten

by Squire and Liam Gallagher of Oasis.