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Principally recorded at Jacob's Studio, Farham, England in July & August 1985. Includes liner notes by Pat Gilbert.
The Cult's 1984 debut, DREAMTIME, proved to be an intriguing, if sometimes muddled, combination of early U2 and the Doors, topped off with Ian Astbury's ongoing lyrical fascination with Native American mythology. The immediate follow-up, LOVE, was a notable improvement. Ditching the most overt Doors references in favor of moody neo-psychedelia that sounds like a harder-rocking version of Echo & the Bunnymen, LOVE includes "She Sells Sanctuary" and "Rain." These driving singles introduced the UK band to the American college-radio market and laid the foundation for the group's mainstream commercial breakthrough later in the decade. The rest of the album is nearly up to the level of the singles, with Astbury's less-mannered vocals and Billy Duffy's powerful guitar riffs offering a much more assertive musical presence than ever before.
Domestic reissue of alternative rock band's 1985 album. Digitally remastered from the original masters with expanded artwork which includes new photos & liner notes. Beggars Banquet.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Personnel: Ian Astbury (vocals); Billy Duffy (guitar); Jamie Stewart (keyboards, background vocals); Nigel Preston, Mark Brzezicki (drums); William (background vocals).
Liner Note Author: Pat Gilbert.
Recording information: Jacobs Studios, Farnham, England (07/1985-08/1985); Olympic Studios, London, England (07/1985-08/1985).
Photographer: Andrew McPherson .
The Cult: Ian Astbury (vocals); William H. Duffy (guitar); Jamie Stewart (keyboards, bass).
The Cult: Ian Astbury (vocals); William H. Duffy (guitar, background vocals); Jamie Stewart (keyboards, bass, background vocals).
Additional personnel: Mark Brzezicki, Nigel Preston (drums); The Soultanas (background vocals).
CMJ (1/5/04, p.18) - Ranked #5 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1986"
Q (Magazine) (p.124) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]ime has proved The Cult's second album to be a minor masterpiece, a psych-rock epic laced with a bad-trip paranoia..."
Record Collector (magazine) (p.99) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The Cult reached a pinnacle with this release....A mixture of goth with hippy, trippy psychedelic vibes..."
Record Collector (magazine) (p.82) - "[LOVE] is largely a work of genius..." Love Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Real love
Well, actually I prefer heavy metal. But I agree with earlier reviews: this album is the most important piece of rock from the 80`s. It´s perfect!
Submitted by Jarmo (Finland)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No So many times I've recommended it....since 85.
Hypnotic, tight both musically and lyrically. All the tunes meshed by a sound thread that weaves a trance-like continuity...sure wish they would have stayed the course.
Over 20 years old and it still sounds fresh and best of all, difficult to tag a "genre description" on it.
Submitted by robertchaidez (san diego, ca)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No A Must Have
The band's music and words came together nicely. I played it over and over and liked it more each time. The guitar leads seem to never stop. The songs have memorable riffs and melodies. This was a good one to tell friends about in the 80's. When Danzig came out with Mother I thought he was a Cult copy and was miffed they were playing that song on MTV. I was then later let down, because the band never made anything else as memorable. They tried to go into hard rock when Metallica started blowing away the main stream hard rock scene. The should have stuck with alternative metal.
Submitted by Eugene (Chicago IL)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No This is A Must Have Classic.
This was one of the most influential albums of the 80s that went largely unnoticed by the MTV pop culture. When the group transitioned to this period and added the drummer Mark Brzezicki from Big Country they tapped into something spiritual on a level that havent been able to duplicate, unfortunately.
Nirvana, Love, Big Neon Glitter and Hollow man are my favorites. This is one of my favorite albumbs from the 80s.
Submitted by livealoha1999 (Honolulu, HI, USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No This band's best album
Always a big fan of the Cult, "Love" was not the first album I heard from them. But, I must admit, it's my favorite.
The songwriting, guitar, lyrics and general fun of this album are difficult to describe. This is one you listen to by yourself, with no lights on.
"Love" is diffiCult to define. It's not really metal, or pop, or indie, or rock.
"Nirvana" and "Rain" are still two of my favorite songs almost 20 years after the fact.
Submitted by redskinStu (Alberta, Canada)
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Purchase Love CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Cult Electric CD (1987) Remastered
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Recorded in New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Pat Gilbert.
ELECTRIC was the Cult's mainstream breakthrough album in the United States, where the UK band's previous records, DREAMTIME and LOVE, had been embraced by college radio. After unsatisfying sessions with LOVE producer Steve Brown, the Cult hooked up with superstar hip-hop producer (and unapologetic 1970s-boogie fan) Rick Rubin to re-record the tracks, and his changes make the album. Adding a drum sound as loud as his previous work with the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC and beefing up Billy Duffy's lead guitar riffs into full-on Led Zeppelin territory, Rubin completed the Cult's makeover from psych-tinged goths into '70s-inspired hard-rockers (with a heavy Doors influence as well). The revved-up singles "Love Removal Machine" and "Lil' Devil" best exemplify ELECTRIC, which is arguably the band's best album.
ELECTRIC was the Cult's mainstream breakthrough album in the United States, where the UK band's ...
| | Cult Sonic Temple CD (1989) Remastered
Love CD music
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More varied than its predecessor, Electric, Sonic Temple finds the Cult trying several different metal styles, from crunchy Electric-era '70s grooves and the fuzzy, noisy psychedelia of Love, to mellow ballads and commercial '80s hard rock. Not all of the experiments work, as some of the songs lean toward ponderousness, but enough of ...
| | Cult CD (1994) Remastered
Love music CDs
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In the three years since the last Cult album, their absence has been filled by grunge, the latest version of the big guitar sound. Thankfully, the Cult have returned to place their flambouyant stamp on guitar rock.
The newest album, ...
| | Pure Cult: The Singles 1984-1995 CD (2000)
Love songs
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Recorded between 1985 & 1996. Originally released on Beggars Banquet (130) IAN [43958 600130]. Includes liner notes by Dominic Wills.
The Cult, unlike its predecessor bands the Southern Death Cult and the Death Cult, was unapologetic about its mainstream rock & roll aspirations, which makes PURE CULT: THE SINGLES 1984-1995 the best possible starting place for the group, and for many, the logical end point as well. The Cult was a singles band, and a pretty great one, too, as evidenced by the Stones-like "Love Removal Machine" and the blazing "Fire Woman." The ensemble's mixture of '60s influences (no wonder Ian Astbury became the lead singer of the reformed Doors) and hard-rock power (no wonder drummer Matt Sorum went on to join Guns N' Roses) not only helped define a whole subset of the late-'80s alternative-rock scene, it's fair to say that the groups like Stone Temple Pilots owed at least some of their success to the Cult's ...
| | Cult Dreamtime CD (1984) Remastered
Love album
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Image-wise, the Cult still weren't entirely there yet, as the band photos show. Ian Astbury's bandana is more dated than anything else. But it's Billy Duffy's look -- a Duran Duran/Spandau Ballet wannabe, down to the haircut and suit -- which is terribly amusing in context. Musically, though, on their full-length debut, the Cult were pretty much on their way. Duffy's dramatic, spaghetti Western-tinged, dark psychedelic guitar and Astbury's passionate semi-wailing set the tone from the start and throughout, while the Jamie Stewart/Nigel Preston rhythm section keeps the tribal/goth feeling running equally high. Indeed, goth is still stalking the band's efforts whether the members liked it or not: consider "83rd Dream" and its distinctly creeped-out introduction, Astbury's vocals fed through extra effects. If there's not as much in the way of blunt power chording as later, Dreamtime is still loaded with a variety of moody, energetic joys. "Spiritwalker" is especially fantastic, Preston's rolling ...
| | Cult Ceremony CD (1991) Remastered
Love CD music
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The two-year gap between the release of Sonic Temple and 1991's Ceremony saw the Cult become victims of their own success. With Temple, the band had finally achieved the mass commercial acceptance that they had pined after for so long. Touring U.S. arenas (as headliners) and as Metallica's special guests, the Cult had officially "arrived." With Billy Duffy having assumed the musical direction of Sonic Temple, it was clear from the get-go that Ceremony would be Astbury's baby. Now reduced to a duo, Duffy and Astbury had their work cut out for them. The ensuing sessions that would make up the bulk of Ceremony would turn out to be a sonic triumph (the record sounds as if were recorded yesterday), and at the same time, a creative, blithering mess. Things start off promisingly with the record's title track, which is quickly followed by a classic Cult single, "Wild Hearted Son." Unfortunately, what follows the stomp and chant of "Earth Mofo" are eight of the most contrived, lyrically mundane songs that the Cult ever released. Although noble in his intentions, Asbury's ongoing fascination with the plight of the Native ...
| | Gameface Always On CD (2000)
Love music CDs
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Gameface's indie rock style never before was captured as decidedly rocking as on Always On, as the band stripped away much of their punk exterior to offer ten solid tunes that continued to prove why they were such a cult favorite. Jeff Caudill's expertise remains the guiding force behind the band's achievements, as his honed vocals make even the simplistic lyrical ...
| | Let The Good Times In: The Best Of The Love Generation CD (2003)
Love songs
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| | It's So Easy: Millenium Tribute Guns N' Roses CD (2006)
Love album
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| | George Brigman Jungle Rot CD (2005)
Love CD music
$17.69
One of the great homemade masterpieces of the 1970s, George Brigman's JUNGLE ROT is the sound of youthful hero worship gone gleefully off the deep end. Conceived as a tribute to British psych-blues band the Groundhogs and their leader Tony McPhee, the album takes that bands' acid-fried boogie and warps it with primitive recoding techniques and the fevered isolation in which Brigman worked. The title track alone with its fuzz-damaged guitar pan and punishing four-on-the-floor rhythms is worth the price of admission, yet the rest of the album delivers equally inspired wallops of technical brilliance and blown-out acid shred. While Brigman continued to hone his chops in the ensuing decades, he did so once again in relative anonymity. In the mean time, JUNGLE ROT became a collectors' sensation, finally receiving an official reissue in 2005.
**********DECEMBER 2007 UPDATE--These are the last copies of the first legit pressing of the Jungle Rot CD. In March George's all-new recording, Rags in Skull, was released! This amazing CD fully unleashes George's power and fury that was only hinted at with the Junge Rot LP over 30 years ago! Still, Jungle Rot remains a landmark LP--a classsic among DIY LPs and an amazing document of inner city strife! For all the latest news visit our site or check out the Bona Fide blog: http://bonafiderecords.blogspot.com. These are the last 10 copies of the Jungle Rot CD that we have, and it is not likely to be reprinted in the near future, so by all means, if you dont have it, either buy the CD now or try and track down one of the few remaining vinyl reissues on Anopheles!************************************************************George Brigman's 1975 debut LP, Jungle Rot, may well be the last great American 1970s underground LP of its stature and power (as both grail collectable and musical monster) to never to have received a legitimate reissue - until now! An eighteen year old songwriter and guitarist with big ambitions, Baltimore's Brigman cut Jungle Rot thirty years ago as a privately pressed LP on his own Solid Records label, making this raw fuzz guitar, acid-blues "rough diamond" gem his first release. Amazingly, this is the first legit (from original master)cd reissue to ever appear, and the sound quality exceeds the original (poorly mastered and pressed) release in every way, not to mention the even more poorly done bootlegs which followed. Finally a release from the masters with 3 way cool never before heard tracks from 76 andthis issue is fully authorized by George Brigman. The insane title cut will leave your jaw on the floor (sounding like Half Machine Lip Moves-era Chrome four years before they made that LP), followed by an even more crazed guitar freakout, "DMT" (that really sounds like the Stooges at their peak - though Brigman denies an influence), upon hearing this LP, you'll wonder why "Jungle Rot" hasn't been shouted from the roof tops in every Blue Cheer, Groundhogs and Stooges' loving ghetto the last three decades. "Schoolgirl" is perhaps the ultimate white blues lament from the USA '70s underground, with a pacing and grace that's as supple ...
| | Wayne Kramer Hard Stuff CD (1995) Reissue
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Principally recorded at Westbeach Recorders, Hollywood, California. Includes liner notes by Henry Rollins.
While it made sense that a label inspired by the punk ethic the MC5 helped found put out Wayne Kramer's first full-on solo album, in many ways The Hard Stuff sticks out like a sore thumb from the usual Epitaph fare -- namely, because it's not interested in toeing a particular sonic line. Kramer's youthful obsession with soul power mixed with rough and ready noise, tempered by his older and wiser years but not lacking for a section of energy, makes for a great full-on rock & roll album. Certainly when one compares this work with the neutered slop his Detroit contemporary Ted Nugent was churning out in the late '80s and into the '90s, there's little question who chose to rest on laurels and who decided to jump into things full on. Kramer's choice of musicians to work with doesn't hurt -- all of Claw Hammer back him up on a number of songs, including the great opening blast "Crack in the Universe," while elsewhere the Melvins, Josh Freese, Keith Morris, Kim Shattuck, and even label boss Brett Gurewitz sit in. In a fine nod to Kramer's soul roots, Was (Not Was)'s Sweet Pea Atkinson, along with bassist James Jamerson, Jr., take a turn on the heavy groove "Pillar of Fire." Kramer's lyrics take on the wreckage of America with compassion for those stuck at the bottom, but it's his wailing guitar work, direct and powerful, that demonstrates best of all how you can't keep a good man down. Hearing the perversely beautiful sludge/slow jam of "Junkie Romance," Kramer demolishing the heroin chic image with the eye of a weathered survivor armed with wit and compassion, or the spoken word portrayal of an argument turned violent in "Incident on Stock Island" shows how his gifts are in full swing. Fine bonus: the untitled bonus track ...
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