Hindu Love Gods formed in Athens, GA in 1984. The original lineup was Peter Buck (guitar), Mike Mills (bass), Bill Berry (drums), Warren Zevon (piano) and Bryan Cook (vocals). This lineup released one single, "Narrator", without much success. Buck, Mills and Berry joined Zevon on his album Sentimental Hygiene. During an all night (and supposedly drunken) studio session, the four recorded the album Hindu Love Gods, without Cook. The result of this session was released in 1990. The song that received the most attention was a rock version of Prince's "Raspberry Berry" which reached #23 on the Modern Rock charts. Downtown Athens, as seen through the University of Georgia arch Athens or Athens-Clarke County is a city located in Georgia, U.S., in the northeastern part of the state, just off of Georgia 316. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Peter Buck (born December 6, 1956 in Oakland, California) is the guitarist and co-founder, along with Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, and Bill Berry, of the seminal 1980s college rock band R.E.M.. After spending time in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the Buck family moved to Athens, Georgia... A guitar is a stringed musical instrument. ... Michael Edward Mills is the bass guitar player of the band R.E.M. He was born on 17 December 1958 in Orange County, California but moved with his family to Macon, Georgia in the early 60s. ... A Fender Jazz Bass Bass guitar (also called electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply bass) refers to an electric bass or an electric/acoustic string instrument with a similar appearance to the guitar, but with a larger body, commonly four strings, longer scale neck and tuned an octave lower... William Thomas Berry (born July 31st 1958) was the drummer in alternative rock band R.E.M. for 17 years. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... Zevon on the cover of his 1978 album, Excitable Boy. ... Steinway Model D A piano is a keyboard instrument, widely used in western music for solo performance, chamber music, and accompaniment, and also as a convenient aid to composing and rehearsal. ... In music a singer or vocalist is a type of musician who sings, i. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... Sentimental Hygiene is an album by soft rock singer/songwriter Warren Zevon, released in 1987. ... This article is about the year. ... The term prince (the female form is princess), from the Latin root princeps, when used for a member of the highest aristocracy, has several fundamentally different meanings - one generic, and several types of titles. ... Modern rock is a phrase commonly used by radio stations to describe rock music styles that are commonly found on mainstream radio stations, generally beginning with late 1970s punk but referring especially to any rock music of the 1980s, 1990s or 2000s, mainly to differentiate the format from classic rock...

Track Listing:

1. Walkin' Blues

2. Travlin' Riverside Blues

3. Raspberry Beret Raspberry Beret is the first US (and second UK) single off of Prince and The Revolutions 1985 album, Around The World In A Day. ...

4. Crosscut Saw

5. Junko Pardner

6. Mannish Boy

7. Wang Dang Doodle

8. Battleship Chains

9. I'm A One-Woman Man

10. Vigilante Man