Love (Cult album)

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Love
Studio album by The Cult
Released	1985
Recorded	July 1985 - Aug 1985
Genre	Rock, gothic rock
Length	51:31
Label	Beggars Banquet
Producer	Steve Brown
Professional reviews
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The Cult chronology
Dreamtime (1984) Love (1985) Electric (1987)

Love is an album by the English 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 UK and abroad.

The album was recorded at Jacob's Studios in Farnham, Surrey, in July and August 1985.

Many European CD pressings, as well as Canadian and Australian pressings, include two bonus tracks: "Little Face" as track four, and "Judith" as track eleven. Various other foreign pressings have several other bonus tracks. For unknown reasons, the Korean 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 solos in the second half of the song.

In 2000, the album was remastered 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 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 Indonesian 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.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Bonus Tracks/International Releases 3 Sample 4 Personnel 4.1 Aditional personnel 5 Trivia

[edit] Track listing

1. "Nirvana" – 5:24
2. "Big Neon Glitter" – 4:45
3. "Love" – 5:35
4. "Brother Wolf, Sister Moon" – 6:49 (Philippine version runs 5.18)
5. "Rain" – 3:55
6. "The Phoenix" – 5:06
7. "Hollow Man" – 4:45
8. "Revolution" – 5:20
9. "She Sells Sanctuary" – 4:23
10. "Black Angel" - 5:22

[edit] 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)

• Indonesian cassette tape versions:

1. Side A: Love, She sells Sanctuary, Rain, Nirvana, Revolution, Black Angel.
2. 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 Arabian 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".

[edit] Sample

[edit] Personnel

• Ian Astbury - vocals
• Billy Duffy - guitar
• Jamie Stewart - bass, keyboards, background vocals
• Mark Brzezicki - drums
• Nigel Preston - drums on "She Sells Sanctuary"

[edit] Aditional personnel

• The Soultanas - background vocals on "Revolution"

[edit] Trivia

Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines. The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.

• 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.

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