Love Stinks (album)

Love Stinks
Studio album by
the J. Geils Band
ReleasedJanuary 28, 1980
Recorded1979
StudioLong View Farm, North Brookfield, Massachusetts
Genre
Length37:34
LabelEMI
ProducerSeth Justman
The J. Geils Band chronology
Best of the J. Geils Band
(1979) 		Love Stinks
(1980) 		Freeze Frame
(1981)
Singles from Love Stinks
  1. "Come Back b/w "Takin' You Down"
    Released: 1980
  2. "Love Stinks b/w "Till the Walls Come Tumblin' Down"
    Released: 1980
  3. "Just Can't Wait b/w "No Anchovies, Please"
    Released: 1980

Love Stinks is the ninth studio album by American rock band the J. Geils Band. The album was released on January 28, 1980, by EMI Records.

The title song, "Love Stinks", is a rant against unrequited love. It has been covered by industrial metal band Bile, by Andru Branch in the film Love Stinks, Joan Jett in the film Mr. Wrong and Adam Sandler in the film The Wedding Singer.

  1. ^ Rolling Stone Staff (November 11, 2020). "The 80 Greatest Albums of 1980". Rolling Stone. Retrieved September 30, 2023. The Geils gang kicked down the door into the Eighties with a surprise New Wave makeover for Boston's finest blues-rock party monsters.