Seasons of Love is the third album by Christian rock band Mad at the World. Released in 1990, it was their highest charting album.

History

Beginning with their third disc, Seasons of Love, and in order to have a sound more amiable for live performances, the band's musical style shifted away from synthpop toward hard rock. Seasons of Love, released in 1990 and the first disc to feature Brent Gordon on guitar, was the band's highest charting album. The band's switch to hard rock was jarring for some people. It features some very aggressive and energetic songs, including "Promised Land" and "So Insane", both of which deal with drug abuse. The album in general had the band being compared to The Cult, Danzig and The Cure.

This album was reissued by KMG Records in 1999 on a "two-for-one" disc with Mad at the World.

Track listing

All songs written by Roger Rose, except "Marshmallow Land" written by Randy Rose.

"Seasons of Love" is a song from the Broadway musical Rent, written and composed by Jonathan Larson. The song starts with an ostinato piano motif, which provides the harmonic framework for the cast to sing "Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes" (the number of minutes in a normal calendar year). The main instruments used throughout the song are piano, vocals, guitar, organ, bass and drums.

The song is performed by the entire cast in the musical and in the 2005 film of the same name. The lyrics ask what the proper way is to quantify the value of a year in human life, concluding in the chorus that the most effective means is to "measure in love". Since four of the lead characters either have HIV or AIDS, the song is often associated with World AIDS Day and AIDS awareness month.

Songwriter

Jonathan Larson actually intended for Seasons of Love to be performed symbolically as a song at Angel's funeral. When Larson died the night before the preview opening of the show, the cast sang it at the beginning to pay their respects to the composer. It is performed at the beginning of the second act, referencing recent past events or the events to come. The song is heard twice throughout the second act (once as the opener, before A Happy New Year and the reprise is heard after "Take Me Or Leave Me," before "Without You") before hearing it in its last incarnation as background to I'll Cover You: Reprise and Angel's eulogy.

Seasons of Love is a Filipino daily drama anthology broadcast by GMA Network. The show was premiered last October 6, 2014 on the network's Telebabad early primetime block every Monday-Thursday replacing My BFF and aired worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV. The show ended on October 30, 2014 on its 4-week run with total of 16 episodes overall.

About

Seasons of Love is a weekly anthology on weeknight primetime, Seasons of Love proves that one can be at the right place and at the right time to fall in love. Show features a special 4-part story per week, totaling to 4 tales of love, all made sweeter while set against breathtaking landscapes and shot within charming towns in the Philippines. Each story showcases individuals who will become instrumental in presenting the many facets of love, all unique yet all romantic. The show cinematically captures the momentous events in the characters’ lives, making finding true love at the right place and at the right time so thrilling.

Seasons of Love (known as Love on the Land in Canada) is a four-hour television mini-series based on the acclaimed novel The Earth Abideth by George Dell. The book, which was for many years a buried treasure, was found by the author’s daughter-in-law and sent to Ohio State Press. It was written in 1934 but not published until 1988.

The two part mini-series, produced for CBS by Sullivan Entertainment (Anne of Green Gables, Road to Avonlea) was originally broadcast in the US on March 7 and 9, 1999, under the title Seasons of Love. In Canada, it was subsequently broadcast on television and released on home video under the title Love on the Land. The film, directed by Dan Petrie Sr. and starring Peter Strauss, Rachel Ward, Rip Torn and Hume Cronyn, was shot on location in Toronto and at Upper Canada Village near Morrisburg, Ontario.

Synopsis

Love on the Land is an epic drama spanning forty years in the lives of Thomas Linthorne (Peter Strauss) and his wife Kate (Rachel Ward) as they endure trials and tribulations while raising their family in rural Ohio during the period after the Civil War. When Thomas sets out to start a new life, he acquires a large piece of land and goes on a search for the woman of his dreams. He rescues Kate from an abusive relationship, and they develop a strong love for one another. Kate is unaware of the threat standing before her when a beautiful married woman moves in next door. Thomas’ choices threaten to destroy his family, his marriage, and his life.