LOS ANGELES (ALBUM)

'''Los Angeles''' was the 1980 debut album by X. Produced by ex-Doors keyboard player Ray Manzarek, it included a cover of the 1967 Doors song, "Soul Kitchen."

Contents

Critical response

Re-release

Trivia

Track listing

Bonus tracks (2001 reissue)

Personnel

Additional personnel

Critical response

In 1989, it was ranked #24 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s.
Fans of X's hard-core punk phase and LA area gigging days have always selected this as the band's finest album. Other critics tend toward their later albums Wild Gift, Under the Big Black Sun, and More Fun In The New World.

Re-release

It was re-released by Rhino Records in 2001 with five bonus tracks.

Trivia

★ The song "Los Angeles" can be heard on ''Tony Hawk's Underground 2'' (where the words "nigger" and "shit" are censored), the third season episode "Everyone Leaves" of HBO's ''Six Feet Under'', and '' (in which the verse "She found it hard to say goodbye to her own best friend..." is sung twice - first time in place of the verse "All her toys wore out in black and her boys had too...").

★ The song "The Unheard Music" can be heard on ''The X Files'' season two episode "3" about vampires stalking Los Angeles. In a scene in a hard core punk bar, character Fox Mulder (portrayed by David Duchovny) seeks out character Kristen Killar (Perry Reeves) while the song is playing in the background.

★ Punk band The Bronx have covered Los Angeles, in tribute to their home city and also to X.

Track listing

All songs written by John Doe and Exene unless otherwise indicated.
# "Your Phone's Off the Hook, But You're Not" – 2:25
# "Johnny Hit and Run Pauline" – 2:50
# "Soul Kitchen" (John Densmore, Robbie Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison) – 2:25
# "Nausea" – 3:40
# "Sugarlight" – 2:28
# "Los Angeles" – 2:25
# "Sex and Dying in High Society" – 2:15
# "Unheard Music" – 4:49
# "The World's a Mess, It's in My Kiss" – 4:43

Bonus tracks (2001 reissue)

# "I'm Coming Over (Demo version)" – 1:24
# "Adult Books" – 3:21
# "Delta 88 (Demo version)" – 1:28
# "Cyrano de Berger's Back" – 3:01
# "Los Angeles" – 2:14

Personnel

★ Billy Zoom – guitar

★ John Doe – bass, vocals

★ Exene – vocals

★ D.J. Bonebrake – drums

Additional personnel

★ Ray Manzarek – organ