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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.
Wow. England's Beggars Banquet imprint and the Cult have been in full stride in 2009. One has to wonder if it's merely to celebrate the release of what is considered to be a classic and influential album, or if they are trying to convince the rest of the world that this is so. For starters, in North America, where the band actually cracked it, the album has achieved platinum status, and world-wide totals make it at least twice that. The band was a turning point for songwriter/vocalist Ian Astbury and songwriter/guitarist Billy Duffy, and Love was one of the first albums of the period from England to move outside of the entire post-punk/positive punk realm and instead look back to the big-name hard rock bands of the '70s (Led Zeppelin being the primary one), and it created a sound that influenced many acts in its wake. Love has become a classic album. But here is the amazing thing: in March, punters saw a killer 180-gram, limited-edition vinyl reissue of the single "Love" b/w "She Sells Sanctuary." September saw an expanded edition of Love released; it included the original album in remastered form with a bonus disc totaling 11 cuts that included all the tracks that appeared on the band's singles from the period, A- and B-sides, as well as a full-length mix of "Revolution," the long version of "She Sells Sanctuary," and the "Howling Mix" of the same track. Then, to top it off, October, 2009 saw the "Omnibus" edition of Love. This box contains four CDs: the original album in a gatefold sleeve, as well as a separate disc for the singles just as in the prev
2009 four CD set, the ultimate edition of the British Alt-Rock band's 1985 masterpiece. For nearly 25 years, Love has been a consistent seller, endorsing it's classic status in The Cult's repertoire. Designed to cater to the more committed fan, the Omnibus Edition is presented as a limited edition four disc box set with the CD's housed in Japanese-style paper sleeves, reproducing the original vinyl cover art. Apart from the re-mastered original album the box also includes the singles, the demos and a live recording from 1985. Equal parts Psychedelic Hard Rock and New Wave Goth, the songs on Love emanate a bright guitar sheen, tight arrangements, crisp drumming and a command performance from vocalist Ian Astbury. Along with the liner notes, the 48 page book features unseen contact sheets from the album photo session and a chronology of contemporaneous quotes by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy that illuminate the status of the band at that point in their career. 45 tracks. Beggars Banquet.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Personnel: Ian Astbury (vocals); Billy Duffy (guitar, background vocals); William H. Duffy (guitar); Nigel Preston, Les Warner, Mark Brzezicki (drums); Jackie Challenor, Lorenza Johnson, Mae McKenna (programming).
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, backgrCMJ (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..." Cult Love Songs | | Love CD DISC 1: |
| 1. | Nirvana  |
| 2. | Big Neon Glitter |
| 3. | Love |
| 4. | Brother Wolf, Sister Moon |
| 5. | Rain |
| 6. | Phoenix |
| 7. | Hollow Man |
| 8. | Revolution |
| 9. | She Sells Sanctuary |
| 10. | Black Angel |
| | Love Songs DISC 2: |
| 1. | She Sells Sanctuary |
| 2. | No. 13 |
| 3. | Snake, The |
| 4. | (Here Comes The) Rain |
| 5. | Little Face |
| 6. | Revolution - (Full Length Remix, remix) |
| 7. | Judith |
| 8. | Sunrise |
| 9. | All Souls Avenue |
| 10. | She Sells Sanctuary - (Remix, remix) |
| 11. | Assault on Sanctuary |
| | Love Album DISC 3: |
| 1. | Brother Wolf, Sister Moon |
| 2. | Hollow Man |
| 3. | She Sells Sanctuary |
| 4. | All Souls Avenue |
| 5. | Little Face |
| 6. | No. 13 |
| 7. | Big Neon Glitter |
| 8. | Waltz |
| 9. | Nirvana |
| 10. | Revolution |
| 11. | She Sells Sanctuary - (Rough Mix, remix, previously unreleased) |
| | Love CD DISC 4: |
| 1. | Love - (previously unreleased, live) |
| 2. | Nirvana - (previously unreleased, live) |
| 3. | Christmas - (previously unreleased, live) |
| 4. | Hollow Man - (previously unreleased, live) |
| 5. | Big Neon Glitter - (previously unreleased, live) |
| 6. | Brother Wolf, Sister Moon - (previously unreleased, live) |
| 7. | Rain - (previously unreleased, live) |
| 8. | Dreamtime - (previously unreleased, live) |
| 9. | She Sells Sanctuary - (previously unreleased, live) |
| 10. | Go West - (previously unreleased, live) |
| 11. | Spiritwalker - (previously unreleased, live) |
| 12. | Horse Nation - (previously unreleased, live) |
| 13. | Phoenix - (previously unreleased, live) |
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Purchase Love CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Chills Kaleidoscope World CD (1986) (Import) Import; Australia
Love
 $23.75
KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD contains 10 bonus tracks and represents everything the band recorded through early 1986, including all of the LOST EP, and the I LOVE MY LEATHER JACKET/THE GREAT ESCAPE 12"
KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD, The Chills' 18-track compilation culled from The Chills early and mid-'80s EPs and singles, is highlighted by the song "Pink Frost."
The Chills' Martin Phillipps mixes up melodic pop with elements of garage rock and punk, creating songs with a sweet melancholy all their own. Phillipps has always been the focus of the Chills, writing and singing the band's songs. His group has also rivaled Menudo in its sheer number of personnel changes. In a just world, the Chills would have sold just as many records.
KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD showcases the shifting line-ups and many moods of the early to mid-'80s Chills. "Rolling Moon" captures a mood of shambling joy, its simple, repeated keyboard riff sounding like a distant caravan crossing New Zealand's big-sky country. "Pink Frost" is undoubtedly one of the Chills' two or three finest songs, an eerie tale of finding one's lover dead and being stricken with waves of icy panic. Phillipps's ghostly voice floats over glacial, plucked chords, its elegance and restraint only adding to the menace. "I Love My Leather Jacket" could have been written for the wake of "Pink Frost'"s dead lover. The Chills' pumped-up fuzz guitars and a celebratory chorus of "I love my leather jacket/I love my absent friend" turn a song of loss ...
| | Killing Floor CD (1995) (Import) With Book; Limited Edition; Digipak; Germany
Love
$25.39
The sheer toughness -- and overall derivative -- nature of Killing Floor's debut album, issued six months after Led Zeppelin's debut in 1969 on the Spark label, is a wondrous contrast to the overly slick treatment American blues were given by British artists. All of these tunes, with the exception of one, are revamped versions of songs from the blues canon with different words. The lone "cover" in the set was written by Willie Dixon titled "Woman You Need Love," the tune Zep ripped for "Whole Lotta Love." Despite the fact that this set was issued before by Repertoire, the Akarma version is definitive in that it features the original cover artwork in a heavy cardboard gatefold sleeve, and killer sound. This is a raw, immediate, overdriven, psychedelic blues record that offers an interesting historical counterpoint to the immediate impact of Page and Plant and Co., but it also offers a great contrast to the recent 1990s versions of American groups trying to rock up the blues in like style: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion immediately comes to mind. They also provide a heavier, less reverent, and altogether heavier update of the Yardbirds rave-up sound~ Thom Jurek
Listening to Killing Floor's debut LP today -- essentially rearranged Chicago blues songs given a bombastic heavy rock treatment -- you cannot dismiss the impact and influence of Led Zeppelin's self-titled debut, which was released six months earlier, in January 1969. ...
| | Danny Kirwan Second Chapter CD (1975) With Book; Limited Edition; Digipak
Love
$19.79
The first solo album from Fleetwood Mac singer/songwriter Daniel David Kirwan has the future producer for Human League and Buzzcocks, Martin Rushent, utilizing those skills here, as well as engineering. The sound is crystal clear, and a feather in the cap for Rushent as well as Kirwan. It starts off with an uncharacteristic "Ram Jam City," which has more Lindsey Buckingham sounds than one would expect, especially since the two guitarists come from two different musical worlds. "Odds and Ends" is more lighthearted, the kind of music Paul McCartney toyed with on The White Album's "Rocky Raccoon." What Second Chapter immediately sets forth is the importance of Kirwan as a pop artist, and how, despite Fleetwood Mac's success after he left, his sounds could still have been beneficial to that supergroup. "Hot Summers Day" is a fine example of that, a beautiful song that could offset Buckingham's gritty ramblings. It would have made a nice counterpoint as Stevie Nicks complemented Christine McVie's tunes with her adventures, bringing an important change of pace to that popular band's hits. The jacket looks like a dusty old family album-style book holding Kirwan's Second Chapter. And the music reflects that old-world feel in titles like "Skip a Dee Doo" and "Falling in Love with You." Three of the best songs on this excellent outing are "Love Can Always Bring You Happiness," "Second Chapter," and a sleepy and beautiful number called "Silver Streams." Kirwan's tune is haunting as well with its lilting "all you need is love to show you the ...
| | Legend CD (2007) (Import) With Book; Limited Edition; Digipak; Germany
Love
$25.69
In some circles, Mickey Jupp is something of a minor legend, a roots rocker with excellent taste and a cutting wit, best heard on the songs "Switchboard Susan" and "You'll Never Get Me Up in One of Those," both covered by Nick Lowe. Basher's endorsement is a clear indication that Jupp is a pub rocker, a guy who specializes in laid-back good times, so it shouldn't come as a great surprise that his first band, Legend, was proto-pub, an unabashed celebration of old-time rock & roll, filled with three-chord Chuck Berry rockers and doo wop backing vocals. Nevertheless, listening to their 1970 LP is a bit of a shock, as it's completely disassociated with anything that was happening in 1970, even with Tony Visconti enlisted as their producer. Legend's sensibility is ahead of its time in its retro thinking, pointing the way to the rock & roll revival of the late '70s and not even that similar to the country-rock of Eggs Over Easy or Bees Make Honey, as this has little of the rustic feel of the Band: it's just straight-up oldies rock, a trait emphasized by those incessant doo wop harmonies that are on almost every cut on this LP (but do disappear on the bonus live cuts on the Repertoire reissue, possibly because they were too busy playing to harmonize). Those harmonies and the light, almost goofy, touch of Jupp's writing here distinguish Legend and also illustrate why they made no waves in 1970; it's hard to see the counterculture getting roused over the verse "If you were an apple you'd be/Good good eating/If you were a book you'd be/Good good reading." These slightly silly flourishes do have a lot in common with the wry humor of Nick Lowe, who at this time was denying ...
| | Cult Born Into This: Savage Edition CDs (2007) Bonus CD; Special Edition
Love
$17.99   
Fans of alternative rock legends the Cult waited six long years for a follow-up to 2001's somewhat heavy-handed comeback, BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL. For this latest return from hiatus, Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy took their most recently employed rhythm section into the studio along with sought-after producer Martin "Youth" Glover (the Verve, Guns 'N Roses). With BORN INTO THIS, the Cult makes a valiant stab at recapturing the spirit of the LOVE and ELECTRIC-eras of the band. ...
| | Black Sabbath Paranoid CDs (1971) (Import) Bonus CD; Bonus DVD; Advd; Deluxe Edition; United Kingdom
Love
$31.89
PARANOID proved to be Black Sabbath's most focused, consistent, and successful record. Leaving behind the amorphous, extended jams of their debut for focused songs and a more structured sound, Black Sabbath virtually wrote the book on heavy metal with the ominous, unforgettable riffs, thunderous rhythms, and dark themes on this release. There are some up-tempo rockers, the famous title track for one, but for the most part PARANOID oozes along like a bad dream, as on the slinky, creepy opener, "War Pigs," or the lumbering thud of "Iron Man" (which boasts one of the most indelible electric guitar riffs in rock history).
2009 digitally remastered and expanded deluxe three CD edition of the classic sophomore album from the Heavy Metal kingpins led by Ozzy Osbourne. Originally released in 1970, Paranoid still stands as an important milestone in the history of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal. This ultimate edition features a beautifully remastered version of the album, an alternate version of the album including instrumental mixes, alternate recordings and more plus the SACD 5.1 audio mix of the album
The album's title is apt: PARANOID is filled with an edgy aggression and lyrics about war, insanity, death, and destruction. ...
| | Santa & Friend Santa Sings Christmas CD (2007)
Love
$11.49
Robert Ayres and Kimberly Jensen are Santa Claus and friend in this collection of wonderfully interpreted traditional Christmas songs. Santa follows up in the final track with a dramatic reading of Twas the Night Before Christmas in which he invites your children to practice their reading by joining him in a read along of this famous and popular Christmas poem. Though these songs are traditional and often heard during the holidays, they take on an original and story like quality when sung in character by these two highly talented vocal artists.Children and their parents best know Robert as the voice of Leap’s Grandpa for Leapfrog’s LeapPad Learning System and as the narrator for Leapfrog collaborations with Disney, Dr. Seuss, Richard Scarry and others. His stage and screen roles, both sung and acted, range from Santa Claus to King Lear to the Impresario ...
| | John Cooper Baecker Jazz Worship Service CD (2008)
Love
$18.99
The John Cooper Jazz Orchestra John Cooper (composer/conductor)Roger Ingram, David Hoffman, Art Davis, Brian Coyle Kenny Partyka, Russ Miller, Gunnar Mossblad Chris Collins, Mark BergerRick Simerly, John Mose, Tom Garling, Mike PasheneeMatt Traeger ("Communion" only) Matt Michaels, Jeff Halsey, David Taylor Reverend DaNita Bell LINER NOTESFirst things first! Thank you for purchasing this recording. We have made every effort to relay a performance that conveys the enthusiasm brought to the music by these incredible musicians and wish you many happy hours of listening.This music was the result of a direct request to write a jazz worship piece by Garth Baecker. Mr. Baecker approached me and discussed the idea of a new piece several years ago. The Western and Eastern associations of the Illinois Conference of the United Church of Christ scheduled a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the denomination for April of 2007, and Garth commissioned me to compose a work for the event. At the time, I assumed this would mean a single movement composition, but a meeting with event organizers revealed that they wished to have an entire worship service written! Through the course of the meeting, a few guidelines emerged. The church wished the piece to reflect their theme for the year which was light, and more specifically, This Little Light of Mine. Also, they requested writing a New Orleans sounding piece for the Offertory. I suggested utilizing music in all the traditional places within the service: Prelude, Gospel, Hymn, Offertory, Communion, and a piece for closing. Everyone at the meeting agreed and the only addition was a reharmonization of the traditional Doxology that follows the Offertory.The Offertory, composed first, presents a groovy New Orleans strut over an asymmetrical formal design. As composer, I wanted to reach way back into the jazz tradition and write a work that would feature the drummer, who creates this “2nd line feel.” Throughout the course of the piece, the band interacts with the drummer who serves as the glue that holds the work together. You can hear the band become downright snotty and childlike in how upsettingly playful they try to be while interacting with the drummer. In the end, the will of the drummer prevails, the band gets onboard, and the movement finishes never having compromised the groovy feel. Stunning solos are delivered by trumpeter Art Davis, trombonist John Mose, and bassist Jeff Halsey. The two big heros in the performance of this movement are our drummer David Taylor and our lead trumpet player, Roger Ingram who both give, without reservation, true offerings of musical greatness. The next piece I wrote was St. Anthony’s Light. The composition is a hardbop contrafact written over the tune of This Little Light of Mine. I wanted to set This Little Light in 5/4 time, and just before I began writing, decided to compose a new melody in a hardbop style. In the recapitulation, you can hear both the composed melody juxtaposed against This Little Light of Mine in the background. David Hoffman plays a great trumpet solo and Chris Collins follows superbly ...
| | Flesh Quartet Love Go CD (2008) (Import)
Love
$17.09
| | Yas Arabology CD (2009) (Import)
Love
$30.19
Y.A.S. is Mirwa‹s Ahmadza‹ and Yasmine Hamdan. YAS is the first international ...
| | Sic & Mad Songs For The Revolution CD (2009)
Love
$16.49
Sic & Mad offers a unique and volatile molotov cocktail of garage rock, art-punk, NY hardcore, hip-hop (a la Beastie Boys), reggae, avant-garde psychedelia and ska. The intense rhythm section of the Slackers (Victor Ruggiero – guitar; Marcus Geard – bass and Ara Babajian – drums (also of Leftover Crack) provide the perfect and varied underpinning for frontman Happy's honest and intimate vocal style. His political, socially-conscious lyrics are delivered with a wry sense of humor and driven by the trio's tough drumming, versatile, expressive bass and eclectic guitar stylings.Following hot on the heels of their out-of-print first offering, "23 Blues - The Destruction of Utopia Pt. 2." the core members rallied friends from various circles past & present including David Hillyard of The Slackers, King Django (from Stubborn All-Stars & Skinnerbox fame), Papa B (Japanese Reggae Dancehall legend from Mighty Crown family fame), DJ Mush1 (current frontman of The Scorchers, former trumpeter of The Slackers) and various other close and dear friends.Sic & Mad was started by the mysteriously charming and disarming Happy (aka Michael Weininger) and Victor Ruggiero in 1986 as freshmen in high school. Their chief aim at the time was to impress the only punk girl— pretty and newly-transferred— in their suburban town in Westchester, NY. Inspired by the underground punk, ska, reggae, rap, and hardcore of that period, Sic & MAD would eventually spawn NYC ska heavyweights The Slackers, which Vic Ruggiero currently heads.Through the years, Sic & Mad has shared stages with inspirational underground ...
| | Nomads 7th Day CD (2009)
Love
$16.45
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| | Carbon Copycats Captain Bringdown & The Buzzkillers CD (2009)
Love
$16.45
Carbon Copycats are Micky Mercurio and his band. For this recording, Micky (vocals, guitar) played with Mary Fridmann (bass, vocals), Dave Fridmann (drums) and Bill Racine (guitar) at Tarbox Road Studios and BJs Fredonia, NY. All songs by Micky Mercurio except #1, 9 Dylan, #15 Cash, #3, 12 w/ Joe.SYRACUSE PAPERBuzzkillers deliver rough, tough psychedelic rock:Micky Mercurio keeps very good psychedelic rock company.As he says on this neat little rock CD's inside cover, 'MIcky Mercurio, Mary Fridmann, Dave Fridmann with Bill Racine are Captain Bringdown and the Buzzkillers."Fans of Mercury Rev and Flaming Lips take note: Yes, your Dave Fridmann produced this 15-song collection recorded at Tarbox Road Studios and live at BJs in Fredonia.The music carried a heady buzz, psychedelic rock like it oughta be, rough, tough and tumbling out of speakers and right into your gut.Mercurio's voice and guitar work dodge, weave and surf with the guitar of Racine, vocals of Mary Fridmann and drums of ...
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