The Cult - Love POLL

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original video of She Sells Sanctuary on You Tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_rEQ-nsQQM

just double click the stupid thing. Fuck that shit.

Recently picked this up at some Borders music section epic fail viking death funeral sale for 2 bux - forgot how much I missed it - a pox on the fucker that stole my vinyl copy in college - it was between 'Rain' and 'Big Neon Glitter' for me 'cause I like the bridges in both - Big Neon Glitter wins.

I really loved Love and was obsessed with She Sells Sanctuary but thought all the stuff they did after that went too Rick Rubin/Led Zeppelin, I remember thinking "hey, they're not a hard rock/metal band, they're a cool psychedelic alternative band!"

There was a live concert video of them performing I think at the Ritz in NYC that MTV used to to show a lot for some reason. Maybe it wasn't MTV, maybe it was part of 120 Minutes? MTV used to have some kind of thing where they'd show a complete concert on a friday night and usually it was lame. Or maybe my sister just had the video. I don't remember.

I remember loving the album, but also don't know if I ever really got past She Sells Sanctuary and Rain, I'll have to hear the others to check.

And I had a Southern Death Cult CD that I picked up in the big city (NYC) and it was like "check out this crazy rare thing of the Cult before they sold out"! I'll have to hear that again to see if it hits any nostalgia nerves.

checking out Southern Death Cult/Death Cult vids on youtube, he's got some weird kinda gothic Adam Ant style going on.

So happy to hear from you, Dan. So happy. What happened to that last time I emailed you? You didn't write back.

Dan, please come back. Please write me. Dan, I'm asking nicely.

You remember we met in person? Write me one more time, please.
newdawnfades61@yahoo...

wow, great album. for me it's between the opening two tracks and i'll probably give the nod to 'nirvana', but there's plenty of quality here. and of course 'sanctuary' is amazing.

Oh god is THAT why I can't vote in half the polls here, but I can see them when not logged in? I had no idea.

Ah.

I went with Rain. I haven't heard this album in over 10 years, but I have such great memories of dancing around with my sisX0r, really drunkenly, wearing ridiculous over the top glam goth clothes, that I have great nostalgia for this record that I don't want to dispell by finding out what it *really* sounded like with a couple of decades of perspective.

OMG, why does he have Doctor and the Medics as backing singers/dancers in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3DgAJwVeVU

(I watch this, and remember how much I loved it, and I really do wonder why I was never a Manics fan?)

Kate! You're back! <3 <3

Dan this quote gets me big time:
to see if it hits any nostalgia nerves.

That is what I mean, man. I'm always looking to hit my nostalgia nerves. Some ILXors recently told me about early 80's Genesis and that definitely hit the nerve, man.

Sorry, Bimble, I was tempted away by Erol Alkan, but I'll never leave you again, alright?

I'm wrong, it's actually Phoenix that's the best song on this album, with the mad wah wah guitars and everything.

I want to go back in time and slap my teeenage self and tell me this stuff is RUBBITCH because my adult ears are really not having this. But my nostalgia nerves are better served by, like, Love and Rockets' Express or Bauhaus or something.

Anyway Kate, honey you are my hero. I wanted to post that video so bad.

Wait - did you guys know I bought a ticket to see the Cult perform this whole album at the end of August? I guess I forgot to mention that.

xpost sorry

Kate honey you figure out whatever You Tube Bauhuas Love and Rockets whatever it is that hits your nostalgia nerves then send it to me. My email is new_dawn_fades61@yahoodot com with no underscores. Send it to me.

I've got a soft spot for No New Tale To Tell...

Oh god, where are they performing it?

OK, I just did an experiment, and put on the Holy Bible after listening to almost every song on Love, and, erm... it doesn't sound so bad, really.

oh the Manics...you are so funny. wasn't that the favorite album of theirs on that poll? I don't know any Manics past Generation Terrorists, I'm a novice. But there was one album that most people agreed was the best one. Can't remember if it was that one or not.

Unfortunately, the Cult are playing a really run down old goddman awful venue...but if it's any consolation, Paul Weller & Lou Reed played the same place. I don't care, man. I'm gonna get my nostalgia jollies anyway.

God if J0hn D. sees this he is going to roast my ass. I'll never hear the end of it. He's gonna kill me.

No, no, it's just funny, I was thinking about it - wondering why I never got into the Manics, when by all rights, I really should have. The image, the lyrics, the fanbase, the literary and artworld allusions - so many of my friends were Manics fans, and I never were. The thing that always stuck in my craw was the heavy metal affectations - *especially* the vocals.

So it's just funny, listening to The Cult, who have every heavy metal affectation in the book - *especially* the vocals, and for some reason I managed to get past that and still love them.

I wonder if, somehow The Cult snuck in to my tastes before my barriers went up, and the nostalgia thing makes me still like them, even if I heard it now, I might hate it. (Or, indeed, if the Manics had happened when I was 15, if I'd have loved them in the same way)

Yes, you mention later Cult and I'd meant to get back to Dan about that. It was positively embarassing what the Cult did after this album. I had a good friend in high school who was nuts about them (and very goth) and he told me that the new Cult song had a lyric like "baby baby baby mama" or it was mama something or other and we laughed about it. I remember a really funny thing in NME/MM about the Love Removal Machine lyric, "baby baby baby baby baby baby..." LOLOLOLOL

they were out of ideas, man I don't touch The Cult after the Love album. I don't touch it.

Yes, Holy Bible was apparently the favourite Manics album according to This Poll.

Kate, I'd do anything for you. Bring you roses. Do you want roses even? Won't you write me? Don't go so soon like you did before. Keep me company sometimes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0PCJz_pXU4

Sorry - I didn't write coz I have nothing to say. Except I have a hangover and I feel kinda shitty. And, erm, that's all, really.

hahahaha that's good enough for me, baby. You need some sleep?

I'm still nuts about that She Sells Sanctuary video. I like his white attire. It makes me want to do nasty things to him.

Alright, sorry Kate, maybe I went too far. Have a good day regardless.

Wha?

My server crashed and I had to contact the developer. Please don't take it personally when I go offline, Bimble. I has a job now, cannot spend 24/7 online any more.

Go as far as you like. I'm sure I've said worse about OL&M.

Can it really be anything other than "She Sells Sanctuary"?

Runner up: "Rain"

Third place: "Phoenix"

Honorable mention: "Big Neon Glitter"

No probs, Kate. ;)

Love fans should definitely give The Manor Sessions a listen.

^^ V. true.

i picked "Rain"

such a great album but haven't heard it in a very long time.

yeah I used to love all their stuff in the mid 90s in HS. I kind of want that Love shirt.

ok i think i gotta go with love. for the guitar all over the song. and how Astbury sings 'luuuh-huvv' towards the end. <3

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/80/Ian_Astbury.jpg/428px-Ian_Astbury.jpg

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Went with "She Sells Sanctuary" - I like the others but SSS is massive.

Love that pic of Ian above. Looks like he's ready for a motorcyle and Easy Rider.

He probably needs some big ass 70's sunglasses, too.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Woah!!! RAIN wins this??? Unthinkable!

Yeah, I was gonna o_O

great album but forgot to vote

Wow, "She Sells..." didn't top the list. I'm incredulous.

Is anyone planning on picking up this hoary thang?

Certainly not after I caught the band playing "Love" in its entirety last week. Well, caught some of it - the band was so terrible I had to leave early. Even skipped "Sanctuary." It made me sad and also reminded me of this great Christgau zing:

"Having risen from cultdom as a joke metal band metal fans were too dumb to get, they transmute into a dumb metal band. Dumb was the easy part. Ha ha."

Anyway, most if not all of the extra stuff on that set is on the boxed set from a few years back.

this is just sad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOtRjguqfY4

otherwise, yeah i've recently decided that love is the cult's greatest work. captures them in a comfortable middleground between shimmery post-punk and all out rock. plus it just has that special x factor.

Josh is right, though. Looks like a grand swathe of the bonus material has hit shelves before. Also, It's a bit of a shame that Jamie Stewart isn't joining the band on their current jaunt.

Had never even replaced my vinyl of this, so the Omnibus was just too tempting. (And the next two in the omnibus series are Bahaus albums!) Thus listening to this again now for the first time since 1989 or so. Takes an effort to hear past all the derivations that have happened since, but in a way time helps, as the stuff the Cult stole from the Doors and LZ now seems more part of a continuum to me.

And the poll results here seem reasonable to me, but if I'd noticed this I'd have voted "She Sells Santuary" into a tie.

So I uhh.... Got really high and played guitar along with this entire album. Perfect album to do that sort of thing with.

I love the rain.