Love (Cult album)

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Love
Studio album by The Cult
Released	1985
Recorded	July 1985 - Aug 1985
Length	51:31
Label	Beggars Banquet
Producer(s)	Steve Brown
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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 edition 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"; 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.

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.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Nirvana" – 5:24
2. "Big Neon Glitter" – 4:45
3. "Love" – 5:35
4. "Little Face"
   • bonus track, in some territories
5. "Brother Wolf, Sister Moon" – 6:49
6. "Rain" – 3:55
7. "The Phoenix" – 5:06
8. "Hollow Man" – 4:45
9. "Revolution" – 5:20
10. "She Sells Sanctuary" – 4:23
11. "Judith"
    • bonus track, in some territories
12. "Black Angel" - 5:22
13. "Faith Healer"
    • bonus track, in Eastern Europe and Asia
14. "Edie" (Ciao Baby)
    • bonus track, in Eastern Europe and Asia
15. "Dreamtime"
    • bonus track, only on Indonesian pressings
16. "Bad Medicine Waltz"
    • bonus track, only on Indonesian pressings

Indonesian cassette tape version:

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 this Indonesian pressing, the song "Brother Wolf Sister Moon" is incorrectly listed as "Brother Walf Sister Moon", and drummer Nigel Preston is listed as Nigel Reston.

The Saudi Arabian cassette tape version 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] Personnel

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

[edit] Trivia

• 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.