content: After a eight year hiatus, Book of Love is back. This "Best of" collection brings together several of their earlier hits ("Boy"), some of their later obscure hits ("Counting the Rosaries", two new tracks ("Try and Getting Faster"), and a early rarity called "It's In Your Eyes". Well known as the group that opened for Depeche Mode in the eighties, Book of Love started out with bang with their first album but failed to gather momentum into the nineties as grunge basically eradicated the synth driven alternative music Book of Love is associated with. Early hits such as "I Touch Roses" and "Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls" are indictive of what I loved about Book of Love, swirling synths, deadpan vocals, and catchy choruses. Later songs such as "Hunny Hunny" and "Alice Everyday" make me cringe with trite lyrics and what basically amounts to a Brady Bunch style musical production. In the end however, Book of Love always manage to redeem themselves with Ted Ottaviano's musicianship.