Hindu Love Gods is the only album

Album

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 by American

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 band Hindu Love Gods

Hindu Love Gods (band)

Hindu Love Gods was an American pop/rock and blues band that was, in essence, an occasional side project of members of R.E.M., with Warren Zevon and Bryan Cook.-History:...

, released in 1990. The album was recorded around the same time as Warren Zevon

Warren Zevon

Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.Zevon's work has often been praised by well-known...

's album Sentimental Hygiene

Sentimental Hygiene

Sentimental Hygiene is an album by rock singer/songwriter Warren Zevon, released in 1987. The release of Sentimental Hygiene marked the first studio album for Zevon in five years...

, for which Zevon had enlisted Bill Berry

Bill Berry

William "Bill" Thomas Berry is a retired American musician, multi-instrumentalist, best known as the drummer for the alternative rock band R.E.M. In addition to his drumming duties, Berry played many other instruments including guitar, bass guitar, and piano, both for songwriting and on R.E.M....

, Peter Buck

Peter Buck

Peter Lawrence Buck , is an American rock guitarist who is best known for playing in and co-founding alternative rock band R.E.M....

, and Mike Mills

Mike Mills

Michael Edward "Mike" Mills is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer who was a founding member of the alternative rock group R.E.M.. Though known primarily as a bass guitarist, backing vocalist, and pianist, his musical repertoire includes also keyboards, guitar, and percussion instruments...

 of R.E.M.

R.E.M.

R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...

 as players. The musicians also recorded this set of cover version

Cover version

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s, reputedly during a late night drunken recording session. The recordings were not originally intended for release.

Track listing

1. "Walkin' Blues
   Walkin' Blues
   "Walkin' Blues" is a song that was written by blues musician Robert Johnson in 1936.It has been later recorded by many artists, including Cee Lo Green, Muddy Waters, Colin James, Paul Butterfield, Johnny Cash, Hot Tuna, The Grateful Dead, Rory Gallagher, R.L. Burnside, Eric Clapton, Hindu Love...
   
   " (Robert Johnson) – 4:12
2. "Travelin' Riverside Blues" (Robert Johnson) – 4:02
3. "Raspberry Beret
   Raspberry Beret
   "Raspberry Beret" is a song by Prince and The Revolution. It was the first U.S. single from their 1985 album, Around the World in a Day. The sound was different from any previous Prince track, incorporating Middle Eastern finger cymbals, stringed instruments, and even a harmonica on the extended...
   
   " (Prince) – 3:53
4. "Crosscut Saw
   Crosscut Saw (song)
   "Crosscut Saw", or "Cross Cut Saw Blues" as it was first called, is a bawdy blues song "that must have belonged to the general repertoire of the Delta blues". The song was first released in 1941 by Mississippi bluesman Tommy McClennan and has since been interpreted by many blues artists...
   
   " (Fred Ingrahm, Bill Sanders) – 3:06
5. "Junko Pardner
   Junco Partner
   "Junco Partner" is a traditional American blues song remarkable for being covered and revised by many artists over several decades. Some of them include Dr. John, Professor Longhair, James Booker and The Clash. It was played in different music genres such as blues, folk, rock, reggae and dub...
   
   " (Bob Shad
   Bob Shad
   Bob Shad was an American music producer and record label owner. He produced the first album by Big Brother and the Holding Company...
   
   ) – 2:39
6. "Mannish Boy
   Mannish Boy
   "Mannish Boy" is a blues standard first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1955. It is an arrangement of Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man"...
   
   " (Bo Diddley
   Bo Diddley
   Ellas Otha Bates , known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter , and inventor...
   
   , Melvin London
   Mel London
   Mel London was a songwriter, record producer, and record label owner. He was active in the Chicago blues and R&B scenes in the 1950s and 1960s...
   
   , Muddy Waters
   Muddy Waters
   McKinley Morganfield , known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the "father of modern Chicago blues"...
   
   ) – 6:57
7. "Wang Dang Doodle
   Wang Dang Doodle
   "Wang Dang Doodle" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon for Howlin' Wolf at Chess Records in Chicago. It has been covered by many artists, including Love Sculpture, Koko Taylor, Z. Z. Hill, Ted Nugent, the Pointer Sisters, PJ Harvey, Grateful Dead, Ratdog, Savoy Brown, Charlie Watts, Booker T....
   
   " (Willie Dixon
   Willie Dixon
   William James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...
   
   ) – 3:51
8. "Battleship Chains
   Battleship Chains
   "Battleship Chains" is a song written by Terry Anderson and made famous by the band the Georgia Satellites in 1985. Appearing on their debut album, It reached number 86 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also appeared on the album Hindu Love Gods by the band Hindu Love Gods, a collaboration...
   
   " (Terry Anderson
   Terry Anderson (musician)
   Terry Anderson is an American musician.Anderson is a drummer, vocalist and song writer from North Carolina. He was a member of local bands the Woods and the Fabulous Knobs...
   
   ) – 3:06
9. "I'm a One-Woman Man
   I'm a One-Woman Man
   "I'm a One-Woman Man" is a song co-written by American country music artist Johnny Horton and Tillman Franks. It was originally released as a single by Horton in 1956, whose version peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart....
   
   " (Tillman Franks
   Tillman Franks
   Tillman Ben Franks was an American bassist and songwriter who was also the manager for a number of country music artists including Johnny Horton, David Houston, Webb Pierce, Claude King and the Carlisles.-Biography:...
   
   , Johnny Horton
   Johnny Horton
   John Gale "Johnny" Horton was an American country music and rockabilly singer most famous for his semi-folk, so-called "saga songs" which began the "historical ballad" craze of the late 1950s and early 1960s...
   
   ) – 2:16
10. "Vigilante Man" (Woody Guthrie
    Woody Guthrie
    Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...
    
    ) – 2:56

Personnel

Hindu Love Gods

• Bill Berry
  Bill Berry
  William "Bill" Thomas Berry is a retired American musician, multi-instrumentalist, best known as the drummer for the alternative rock band R.E.M. In addition to his drumming duties, Berry played many other instruments including guitar, bass guitar, and piano, both for songwriting and on R.E.M....
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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• Peter Buck
  Peter Buck
  Peter Lawrence Buck , is an American rock guitarist who is best known for playing in and co-founding alternative rock band R.E.M....
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
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• Mike Mills
  Mike Mills
  Michael Edward "Mike" Mills is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer who was a founding member of the alternative rock group R.E.M.. Though known primarily as a bass guitarist, backing vocalist, and pianist, his musical repertoire includes also keyboards, guitar, and percussion instruments...
  
   – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Warren Zevon
  Warren Zevon
  Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.Zevon's work has often been praised by well-known...
  
   – Vocals
  Singing
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  , guitar

Production

• Niko Bolas
  Niko Bolas
  Niko Bolas is an American music producer, sound engineer, and consultant and business developer in the fields of virtual reality and Internet radio...
  
   – production
  Record producer
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  , engineering
  Audio engineering
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• Richard Landers – engineering
• Rail Jon Rogut – engineering
• Andrew Slater – production
• Bob Vogt – engineering

Sales chart performance

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1990	The Billboard 200	168

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1990	"Raspberry Beret"	Modern Rock Tracks	23