“Love Me Again” is from Strawberry Alarm Clock’s 1968 album The World In A Sea Shell. It’s only 3:30 but still the album’s longest song – and, significantly, one written by the band rather than outside composers.
With a blistering lead guitar throughout, and with vocals considerably wilder than the album’s other songs, “Love Me Again” is a great jam. There is a great harpsichord glittering extravagantly during parts of it and guitarist Ed King answers the impassioned singing with an atypical wah-wah part at the end. Overall the mood is manic and fast-paced, as if the band were finally unleashed and had to let out their pent-up energy.
Strawberry Alarm Clock were always a great band musically, but they required, as might be expected, a certain level of interest in a song to do it well. Many of the performances on The World In A Sea Shell are marked by a noticeable lack of inspiration from the musicians, but “Love Me Again” does not suffer from this. There is nothing complicated or groundbreaking about the song itself, but maybe that is precisely what the band needed — a simple framework to hang their considerable chops on. Rock on, Clock!
“Love Me Again” appears on…
The World In A Sea Shell (1968)
Changes (1971)
Strawberries Mean Love (1992)
The Strawberry Alarm Clock Anthology (1993)
My favourite song of the album
Lee Freemans greatest song and the best on the album. Definitely belongs in a sac top 20.