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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.
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). Principally recorded at Jacob's Studio, Farham, England in July & August 1985. Includes liner notes by Pat Gilbert. 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 . 1985's Love displayed a marked improvement over the Cult's early material, and though it remains underappreciated in America (worldwide it was a smash), this exceptional record has actually aged better than the band's more notorious (and equally important) releases: Electric and Sonic Temple. 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, who as usual says a lot more with less than most singers. Overall, the album benefits from a wonderful sense of space, thanks in large part to guitarist Billy Duffy (who is much more subdued here than on future releases), whose restraint is especially notable on "Revolution" and the remarkably uncluttered title track. Duffy also provides compelling melodies ("Hollow Man," "Revolution"), driving riffs ("Nirvana," "The Phoenix"), and even a U2-like intro to "Big Neon Glitter." Also on offer is the near-perfect "She Sells Sanctuary" and the smash hit "Rain," quite possibly the band's most appealing single ever. Considering the musical schizophrenia that would plague each subsequent Cult release, Love just may be the band's purest moment. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia 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. 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.
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) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
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Purchase Love CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Cult Dreamtime CD (1984) Remastered
Love
$10.39 The Cult includes: Ian Astbury (vocals): Billy Duffy (guitar). The Cult: Jamie Stewart (bass instrument); Nigel Preston (drum); Ian Astbury, Billy Duffy. Personnel: Ian Astbury (vocals); Billy Duffy (guitar); Nigel Preston (drums, percussion); Mich Ebeling, Jamie Stewart (background vocals). Liner Note Author: Pat Gilbert. Recording information: Rockfield Studios, Wales (04/1984). Photographers: Paul Venning; Paul Cox. Unknown Contributor Role: The Cult. 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 ...
| | Cult Electric CD (1987) Remastered
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$12.95 Reissue digitally remastered from the original masters with expanded artwork which includes new photos & liner notes. Beggars Banquet.
The Cult: Ian Astbury (vocals, percussion); Bill Duffy (guitar); Jamie Stewart (bass); Les Warner (drums). Engineers: Bruce Buchalter, Andy Wallace. The Cult: Ian Astbury (vocals, tambourine); Bill Duffy (guitar); Jamie Stewart (bass); Les Warner (drums). Engineers: Bruce Buchalter, Andy Wallace. Recorded in New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Pat Gilbert. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Personnel: Ian Astbury (vocals, trombone, tambourine); Billy Duffy (guitar); Jamie Stewart (bass guitar); Les Warner (drums). Audio Mixer: Andy Wallace. Liner Note Author: Pat Gilbert. Recording ...
| | Cult Sonic Temple CD (1989) Remastered
Love
$12.95 Digitally remastered reissue from the original masters with expanded artwork which includes new photos & liner notes. Beggars Banquet.
The Cult: Ian Astbury (vocals, percussion); Billy Duffy (guitar); Jamie Stewart (keyboards, bass). Additional personnel: John Webster (keyboards); Mickey Curry (drums); Iggy Pop (background vocals). Recorded at Little Mountain ...
| | Cult Ceremony CD (1991) Remastered
Love
$9.89 Domestic reissue, digitally remastered from the original masters with expanded artwork which includes new photos & liner notes. Beggars Banquet.
The Cult: Ian Astbury (vocals); Billy Duffy (guitar). Additional personnel: Suzy Katryama (cello); Benmont Tench (piano, organ, Mellotron); Scott Thurston (piano, synthesizer); Richie Zito (keyboards); Charley Drayton (bass); Mickey Curry (drums); Alex Acuna (percussion); Tommy Funderburk, Mona Lisa, Donny Gerrard, Yvonne St. James (background vocals). Recorded at The Music Grinder & A & M Recording Studios, Hollywood, California. Personnel: Ian Astbury (vocals, background vocals); Billy Duffy (guitar); Suzie Kattayama (cello); Scott Thurston (piano, keyboards, ...
| | Cult CD (1994) Remastered
Love
$9.89 The Cult: Ian Astbury (vocals, guitar, tambourine); Billy Duffy (guitar); Craig Adams (bass); Scott Garrett (drums). Additional personnel: Bob Rock (acoustic & electric guitars, keyboards, bass); Scott Humphrey (programming, synthesizers, keyboards); Jim McGilleray (percussion). Recorded at Warehouse Studios, Vancouver, Canada. The self-titled follow-up to 1991's anemic Ceremony clearly shows a once great band trying to recapture the excitement of their earlier efforts. Sadly for the Cult, their problems were bigger than the sum of their parts. When it boils down to it, the constant musical tug of war between Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy would result in the band losing its focus and ultimately, its audience. From Love onwards, each Cult release would be greeted with a mix of awe (Electric), commercial triumph (Sonic Temple), and eventually, apathy as the band's fan base continued to be bedazzled and eroded ...
| | Pure Cult: The Singles 1984-1995 CD (2000)
Love
$13.45 Totally remastered, featuring 19 of your favorite Cult tracks including 'She Sells Sanctuary', 'Edie (Ciao Baby) ' & 'Sweet Soul Sister', with new artwork. Beggars Banquet.
The Cult: Ian Astbury (vocals); Bob Rock (guitar, keyboards); Billy Duffy, James Stewart, James Stevenson (guitar); John Sinclair, Benmont Tench, John Webster, Richie Zito, Scott Humphrey (keyboards); Jaime Stewart, Haggis, Charley Drayton, Kinley Wolfe, Craig Adams (bass); Nigel Preston, Matt Sorum, Raymond Taylor-Smith, Scott Garrett, Michael Lee, Mickey Curry, Les Warner, Mark Brzezicki (drums). Producers include: Steve Brown, Bob Rock, Rick Rubin, John Brand, Richie Zito. Recorded ...
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Love
$12.05 Gameface: Jeff Caudill (vocals, guitar); Todd D. Trout (guitar); Paul Martin (bass); Steve Sanderson (drums). Personnel: Jeff Caudill (vocals, guitar, electric guitar); Paul Martin (bass guitar); Steve Sanderson (drums). Audio Mixer: Jim Monroe. Recording information: Revolver ...
| | Let The Good Times In: The Very Best Of The Love Generation CD (2003) (Import) United Kingdom
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| | George Brigman Jungle Rot CD (2005)
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$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. George Brigman sounded like a man out of time on his rare mid-'70s debut, Jungle Rot (though it's not so rare anymore, having been reissued both legitimately and illegitimately on several labels). Unlike the oncoming punks and new wavers, he had an obvious affinity as a keeper of the flame of classic rock forms, most particularly the late-'60s/early-'70s blues-rock of British bands such as the Groundhogs. Yet if this was blues-rock, it was blues-rock the D.I.Y. way, recorded on his own with a mass of hazy distorted guitar lines. It was almost unself-consciously auteurish (and even a bit minimalist) in its presentation, his insistent and repetitive songs fired by belligerent lyrical scuzziness and sullen vocals that were don't-give-a-damn to the point of near-nonchalance. So it's a bit like hearing a punky, pared-down Groundhogs, that band's guitarist and focal point, T.S. McPhee, being one of Brigman's declared heroes. It's the kind of sound that fits the frequent collector description of this kind of music as "mind-melting acid fuzz" (or words to that effect) to a T, though it does get more monotonous over the length of an LP than the top blues-rockers do. Note, though, that despite what you might have read elsewhere, Brigman wasn't purely devoted to thickly fuzzed subdued rants. He also peeled off some nicely silvery and sliding riffs on occasion, sometimes summoning a fetching shy almost-croon for rather gentle reflective rolling bluesy numbers, particularly on the best song, "Schoolgirl." The 2005 CD on Bona Fide adds historical liner notes and three bonus cuts in a marginally less unconventional style that Brigman recorded slightly later with the band Hogwash. ~ Richie Unterberger
**********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 ...
| | Wayne Kramer Hard Stuff CD (1995) Reissue
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$12.99 Personnel: Wayne Kramer (vocals, guitar), Marjorie Kramer (vocals), Jon Wahl (guitar, harmonica), Christopher Bagarozzi (guitar), Rob Walther, Randy Bradbury, Mark Deutrom, Matt Freeman, James Jamerson Jr., Bruce Duff (bass), Bob Lee, Josh Freese, Brett Reed (drums). Engineers: Sally Browder (tracks 1-3, 5-10); Joe Barrisi (track 4). Principally recorded at Westbeach Recorders, Hollywood, California. Includes liner notes by Henry Rollins. All songs written or co-written by Wayne Kramer. This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Personnel: Wayne Kramer (vocals, guitar, bass); Bret Gurewitz (vocals, guitar); Kim Shattuck, King Buzzo, Sweet Pea Atkinson, Keith Morris (vocals); Marjorie Kramer (spoken vocals); Jon Wahl (guitar, harmonica); Christopher Bagarozzi (guitar); Rob Walther, Randy Bradbury, Mark Deutron, Matt Freeman, James Jamerson, Jr., Bruce Duff (bass); Dale Crover (drums, percussion); Bob Lee, Josh Freese, Bret Reed (drums). Recorded at Westbeach Recorders, Hollywood, California. Audio Mixers: Sally Browder; Wayne Kramer ; Jason Roberts ; Brett Gurewitz. 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 ...
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