Love (Cult album)
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{{Infobox Album | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
Name = Love |
Type = [[Album]] |
Artist = [[The Cult]] |
Cover = Album_love.jpg |
Released = October 1985 |
Recorded = July 1985 - Aug 1985 |
Genre = [[Post-Punk]], [[gothic rock]] |
Length = 51:31 |
Label = [[Beggars Banquet Records|Beggars Banquet]] |
Producer = [[Steve Brown]] |
Reviews =
*[[Allmusic]] {{rating-5|4}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ytxuak4k5m3l~T1 link]
*''[[Rolling Stone]]'' (unfavorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thecult/albums/album/242422/review/6068166/love link] |
Last album = ''[[Dreamtime (album)|Dreamtime]]''<br>(1984) |
This album = '''''Love'''''<br>(1985) |
Next album = ''[[Electric (The Cult album)|Electric]]'' <br /> (1987) |}}
'''''Love''''' is an album by the [[England|English]] [[rock music|rock]] band [[The Cult]], released in 1985 on [[Beggars Banquet Records]]. The record has been released in nearly 30 countries worldwide, and sold an estimated 2.5 million copies. It gave The Cult commercial success in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] and abroad.
The album was recorded at Jacob's Studios in [[Farnham]], [[Surrey]], in July and August 1985.
Many [[Europe]]an CD pressings, as well as [[Canada|Canadian]] and [[Australia]]n pressings, include two [[bonus track]]s: "Little Face" as track four, and "Judith" as track eleven. Various other foreign pressings have several other bonus tracks. For unknown reasons, the [[Korea]]n vinyl and cassette tape editions omitted the songs "Big Neon Glitter" and "Revolution". Also inexplicably, in the [[Philippines]] a considerably shorter version of the song "Brother Wolf Sister Moon" was used; it lasts only 5.18, omitting most of the [[guitar solo]]s in the second half of the song.
In 2000, the album was [[remaster]]ed and reissued on CD, with only the ten original songs and different artwork. "Big Neon Glitter" and "Hollow Man" are alternately listed with and without the article "The" in their title, respectively.
In 2003, the record was issued on CD in [[Russia]], [[Belarus]] and [[Lithuania]], formerly being available only as a [[Bootleg recording|bootleg]] LP in the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Uzbekistan]]. These 2003 [[Eastern European]] releases came with the bonus tracks "Faith Healer" and "Edie (Ciao Baby)" (acoustic) as tracks 13 and 14, and the word acoustic is misspelled as "accoustic" {{sic}}; the pressings also use a different font for the lettering. There is also an [[Indonesia]]n cassette tape version which rearranges the tracklisting, and includes "Dreamtime" and "Bad Medicine Waltz", from the previous Cult record ''[[Dreamtime]]''.
Out of the ten official songs on this record, the final song "Black Angel" is the only song never to have been performed live by the band on any tour.
==Track listing==
#"Nirvana" – 5:24
#"Big Neon Glitter" – 4:45
#"Love" – 5:35
#"Brother Wolf, Sister Moon" – 6:49 (Philippine version runs 5:18)
#"[[Rain (Cult Song)|Rain]]" – 3:55
#"The Phoenix" – 5:06
#"Hollow Man" – 4:45
#"Revolution" – 5:20
#"[[She Sells Sanctuary]]" – 4:23
#"Black Angel" - 5:22
==Bonus Tracks/International Releases==
*"Little Face" (bonus track, track four in some territories)
*"Judith" (bonus track, track eleven in some territories)
*"Faith Healer" (bonus track, track thirteen in [[Eastern Europe]] and [[Asia]])
*"Edie" (Ciao Baby) (bonus track, track fourteen in Eastern Europe and Asia)
*[[Indonesia]]n cassette tape versions:
# Side A: Love, She sells Sanctuary, Rain, Nirvana, Revolution, Black Angel.
# Side B: The Phoenix, The Hollow Man, Big Neon Glitter, Brother Walf Sister Moon, Dreamtime*, Bad Medicine Waltz*. *From the album ''Dreamtime''.
On these Indonesian pressings, the song "Brother Wolf Sister Moon" is incorrectly listed as "Brother Walf Sister Moon", and drummer Nigel Preston is listed as Nigel Reston.
*[[Saudi Arabia]]n cassette tape versions includes "Spiritwalker/ Dreamtime/Rider in the Snow/A Flower in the Desert" as bonus tracks, but it does not include "Judith" or "Little Face".
==Sample==
{{Listen|filename=Cult - She Sells Sanctuary excerpt.ogg|title=The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary excerpt|description=An excerpt from "She Sells Sanctuary"}}
==Personnel==
*[[Ian Astbury]] - [[vocals]]
*[[Billy Duffy]] - [[guitar]]
*[[Jamie Stewart (The Cult)|Jamie Stewart]] - [[bass guitar|bass]], [[keyboards]], [[background vocals]]
*[[Mark Brzezicki]] - [[drumkit|drums]]
*Nigel Preston - drums on "She Sells Sanctuary"
===Aditional personnel===
*The Soultanas - background vocals on "Revolution"
[[Category:The Cult albums]]
[[Category:1985 albums]]
==Trivia==
{{trivia|date=November 2007}}
*Other songs used as bonus tracks on some releases but remain largely unknown from this period are, "All Souls Avenue", "Sunrise", and a live version of "Revolution". These were used as B-Sides to singles in various countries.
*The song "She Sells Sanctuary" was featured on the radio station [[V-Rock]] as part of the official soundtrack of the video game ''[[Grand Theft Auto: Vice City]]'', it was also featured on ''[[Dave Mirra's Freestyle BMX 2]]'', and ''[[Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec]]. It is also available as a playable song on the game ''[[Guitar Hero Aerosmith]]''.
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