okay, whoever thought the Cult were a cutting edge modern rock band? For some strange reason a lot of otherwise cool people, even modern rock DJs, think this band is the shit. I just dont see it. They are only slightly more edgy than the Black Crowes! To play them nonstop on an otherwise halfway decent station is a waste of my time.
The Cult has one hell of a range. Check out “She Sells Sanctuary” from the Love albumn. Fantastic stuff. These guys lifted alternative music to a new level. This album is to Goths what the Grateful Dead are/were to hippies.
Electric just plain fucking rocks… I mean really… “Love Removal Machine” fucking awesome. “Electric Ocean” has one of my favorite guitar solos of all time. I didnt care for any of the rest of the releases afer that, with the exception of “Sun King” from Sonic Temple and “Witch” from the Cool World CD.
…and yes, they are the shizat. Fuckin A.
“Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, I fell from the sky”
I don’t know if I would call The Cult cutting edge. I would kinda classify them as old school alternative. (horrible classification, but its all I can think of right now) They always seemed a little too heavy to fit in as an alternative band in the pre-Nirvana period, but not heavy enough to be metal. They don’t fit in with the newer metal, but they seem to get played alot on the hard rock stations. I guess it doesn’t really matter how you classify them, cause the fucking rock. The Cult doesn’t have to try to be cool, cause they just are. When all this new school “cutting edge” metal is done, The Cult’s albums will still be strong ones.
They totally revamped their image and sound early on, when metal was big, to jump on the bandwagon. Still good, though.
Good point Badtz. The whole revamp thing didn’t seem to work when I saw them with Metallica on the Justice tour. The Cult got booed off the stage.
I still think their stuff stands up after time though.
“She Sells Sanctuary” (the first popular song by The Cult) came out in 1985, a full 5 years before “Hard to Handle” (BC’s first hit) came out.
I saw them on another tour and they got booed off the stage. The guitar player couldn’t seem to remember any of the songs.
Of course, when I saw them in concert, he seemed to remember all of the songs just fine. And still, that’s the best concert I’ve ever been to.
blur and *Badtz, I’m interested in your thoughts about their “revamp.” Sonic Temple seems to follow pretty logically, to my mind, from Electric, and is not exactly a heavy metal album (unless y’all are defining heavy metal as different than I do). And no one would accuse Ceremony of being metal.
And fuck you, too.
Eh? The Cult are the Grateful Dead of Goth? Surely you mean the Sisters of Mercy? Siouxsie and the Banshees? Christian Death, even. But the Cult?
-fh
I’m defining their revamp more on who they toured with, and the image they were portraying. When you tour with Metallica in the 80s, and are in heavy rotation on Headbangers Ball, you’re classified as metal in my book.
The Cult is great. I absolutely whip my hair around and car-dance when they come on the radio. Granted, alot of their songs sound an aweful lot like their other songs, but thats OK.
I AM the Firewoman…
Well, I actually meant to refer to the album Love in itself, not the band entirely. Truthfully, I was refering to the song “Spiritwalker” and it isnt even on the Love album. My bad.
Grateful Dead of Goth was wayyyy to strong I now realize.
My apologies to:
Sisters of Mercy
Siouxsie Sioux
Chrisitian Death
and my favs…
Bauhaus and Dead Can Dance
They got the lick from one of their songs in a car commercial (forget which song, which commercial). Glad to see they’re picking up a few extra bucks.
There was a bloody Nescafe ad that featured “She sells Sanctuary”. Nescafe!
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I agree with you on this one. DCD are the best. I never got a chance to see Bauhus in concert but I saw Peter Murphy in concert, remind me to tell you the story about that one…
And I do believe Tansu that Cult song in a Nescafe ad is the 6th sign of the Apocolypse. Along with a Cocteau Twins song selling a perfume (the ad was for a perfume called Noa).
There was a Tortoise song selling a perfume (Contradiction by Calvin Klein). I bought that perfume. I’ll just roll up my sleeve now so you can see the mark of the Beast on my arm.