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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 74 reviews)
Sales Rank: 7044
Category: Music
Artist: The Cult
Publisher: Beggars UK - Ada
Studio: Beggars UK - Ada
Manufacturer: Beggars UK - Ada
Label: Beggars UK - Ada
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 80065
UPC: 607618006525
EAN: 0766481411222
ASIN: B000007VCM
Release Date: March 7, 2000
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As the wall gets taller as you get smaller yeayah! May 20, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Watching Jimmy Kimmel Live recently reminded me of this album and the Cult (They performed "She sells sanctuary" on his show about a week ago.) In 1987, a buddy of mine had seen them backing up Billy Idol in support of the "Electric" album. My friend couldn't stop talking about how great this band was (they apparently destroyed the set after their "set" and had a remake of Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild"), well the next day, my friend bought "Electric" and forced me to listen, and frankly, I have been hooked ever since.
"Love" is a "modern rock" classic (note, I said "Modern" Rock classic, and not "Rock" classic, fans of Zepplin, the Doors, the Stones etc, need not apply to this genre of music, 'modern' rock is a space reserved for the likes of The Cure, The Smithereens, U2 (pre-"Joshua Tree"), Jesus and the Mary Chain, Siouxxe and the Banshees, etc...) in that vein, Love helped define an era of modern rock music, in fact "She Sells Sanctuary" literally powered the summer of 1985.
If you're looking for an album to have a serious retrospect of modern rock from the 1980's, your collection needs to start with Love. It's a sure-fire can't miss album that still sounds fresh today... Love rules!
Rare Peak for a Band and Its Era April 22, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Cult may be little more than a footnote now, but for a brief time in the mid-1980s (specifically the time it took to record, release and support this album) the genre-confused British rock band looked set to rival acts like U2 in quality, if not necessarily mass-market sucess, and add some much-needed gems to what was already a rapidly-declining contemporary music scene. LOVE, alas, was to be the only such highlight in the group's career, but it was and remains an extremely bright one.
Having cut its teeth as a better-than-average (though still largely undistinguished) Goth band with the negligible 1984 LP DREAMTIME, the Cult retained a bit of Goth's droning mordancy and eye-linered melodrama for the follow-up while abandoning its diffidence, monotony and silliness. Musically, LOVE is a bracing and ceaselessly inventive marriage of psychedelic swirl and new wave kick, with elliptical hippie lyrics from lead singer Ian Astbury on top and alternating gotta-dance/gotta-drink beats on the bottom to help maintain this delicate balance of styles throughout. The opening smash of "Nirvana" - a song far better than anything the as-yet-unformed band of that name would ever record - sets the pace, with Billy Duffy's glistening guitar work echoing against Astbury's arch calls for dancefloor salvation. "Big Neon Glitter" pairs post-U2 martial drums with effects-laden guitars - and the best scream on the album - to create a tune at once doomy and finger-popping. The title track slithers along sinuously, and things slow down even more for "Brother Wolf, Sister Moon," a mini-epic whose naive ruminations on Native American mythology somehow manage (like just about everything else on LOVE) to work. "Rain" is a rouser, an unstoppable up-on-your-feet single with the whole band - and its vision - in top form. "Phoenix" opens with an extended tribute to Jimi Hendrix from Duffy, whose wah-wahing skills prove impressive indeed. "Hollow Man" may be the album's weakest song, but it's still far from bad. The flower power sentimentality of "Revolution" is a lot more effective, though - Astbury's moving lyrics sit beautifully upon their meditation cushion of crystalline guitar strokes and chorus vocals. "She Sells Sanctuary," another single, provides a final and very welcome foot in the rump before "Black Angel" brings things to a close with one of the more effectively lugubrious seafaring tales you're likely to hear on a hard rock album.
LOVE stands among the eighties' finest musical moments, and at the absolute peak of the Cult's desultory and ambiguous career. With their next album, ELECTRIC, Astbury, Duffy and their changing cast of cohorts would take yet another sudden turn - into the terrain of heavy metal wannabes - leaving this singularly excellent and eclectic collection of songs to remain for all time a sort of genre unto itself - as well as a tantalizing promise of what might have been. Classic!
"Like the heat from a thousand suns..." April 11, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
"Love" was the first stylistic change for the Cult and the band's breakthrough record in Europe, spawning a series of superb singles and being one of those albums that truthfully deserved the success it had (although in America, it would take another album before any real success manifested).
So what makes "Love" so good? It really is a sense of synthesis of both the band's gothic roots, punk aesthetic, and '70s psychedelia-- the album presents the darkness of gothic but without the bleakness that can often come along with it ("Nirvana"), the sense of space and looseness of the best of psychedelia ("Revolution") and the sense of anger and immediacy of punk ("Phoenix"). Along the way, the band presents their pinnacle acheivements in the gothic/new wave arena (moody ballad "Brother Wolf; Sister Moon" and single "She Sells Sanctuary") anda rock masterpiece that points the way for what would be to come ("Rain"), and throughout the band's performances are top notch with both singer Ian Astbury and guitarist Billy Duffy beginning to really develop the sense of swagger that would be brought way out on their next album ("Electric"). Truthfully, there's not a bad cut on the album.
It can be argued, perhaps honestly, that The Cult never did anything as good as "Love", certainly it is the best of their early work. Highly recommended.
embrace the wind with both arms... February 17, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Love has to be the fastest transportation device to the farthest destination ever created by human being. The Egyptian recalls make me think that The Cult really come from a different world. This album is just a pure hour of emotion. Sounds, lyrics, instruments, vocals play as one.
Love is not only another amazing album out there, it's a DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE.
a "CULT" album September 12, 2005
This is a MUST for anyone into Goth, Neo-psychedelic, Hard Rock, Darkwave, Alternative... as it's the perfect blend from them all. I mean, A MUST!!!
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