Lie: The Love & Terror Cult

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Lie: The Love & Terror Cult
Studio album by Charles Manson
Released	January 1, 1970
Recorded	September 11, 1967 or August 8, 1968
Genre	Rock and Roll
Length	31:53
Label	Aware One Records
Producer(s)	Dennis Wilson, Phil
Charles Manson chronology
	Lie: The Love & Terror Cult (1970)	The Family Jams (1997)

Lie: The Love & Terror Cult is an album by Charles Manson. Recorded on August 8, 1968, its distribution began during the Manson murder trial.

"Cease to Exist" had been previously recorded by the Beach Boys under the name "Never Learn Not to Love", and appears on their 1969 album, 20/20, and as the B-side of the single of "Bluebirds over the Mountain". The single gives songwriting credit to Manson and Dennis Wilson. Manson is not given co-writing credit on the album. It is worth pointing out that the Beach Boys' version does include significant changes (including a bridge that wasn't part of Manson's version, and changing the line "Cease to exist" to "Cease to resist", which does alter the meaning of the song).

Portions of the album have been sampled by many other artists, such as Front Line Assembly. Many of the songs have also been re-recorded; a version of "Look At Your Game, Girl" appears at the very end of Guns N' Roses's album The Spaghetti Incident?, while GG Allin covered "Garbage Dump" for his 1987 album You Give Love a Bad Name and Redd Kross and The Lemonheads have both covered "Cease To Exist". Dilute released a cover of “Home is Where You're Happy” in 2002 on the CD compilation If The Twenty-First Century Didn't Exist It Would Be Necessary To Invent It (5 Rue Christine). A noise-punk band from Orange County, NY, Sparrows with Machine-Guns, also does a cover of "Home is Where You're Happy".

The Brian Jonestown Massacre does a slightly reworked cover of "Arkansas" (called "Arkansas Revisited") on their 1999 album Bringing it All Back Home - Again. The band's leader, Anton Newcombe, has expressed interest in Manson's songwriting.

Devo are alleged to have plagiarized their song "Mechanical Man" from Manson's composition of the same name.

An acoustic version of the song "Sick City" was recorded by Marilyn Manson but has never been officially released. The Marilyn Manson song "My Monkey", from the album Portrait of an American Family, contains samples of Charles Manson speaking, as well as lyrics from the track "Mechanical Man".

All proceeds from the current version of the album, released by Awareness Records, are donated to a California fund for victims of violent crime. (California law prohibits Manson from collecting any money or royalties for his work.) In 2006, the album was reissued by the revived ESP-Disk label. This version includes twelve bonus tracks. A label employee confirms that all artist royalties will go to the family of Wojciech Frykowski.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Look At Your Game, Girl" – 2:03
2. "Ego" – 2:27
3. "Mechanical Man" – 3:18
4. "People Say I'm No Good" – 3:20
5. "Home Is Where You're Happy" – 1:29
6. "Arkansas" – 3:03
7. "I'll Never Say Never to Always" – 0:41
8. "Garbage Dump" – 2:34
9. "Don't Do Anything Illegal" – 2:52
10. "Sick City" – 1:36
11. "Cease to Exist" – 2:12
12. "Big Iron Door" – 1:10
13. "I Once Knew a Man" – 2:33
14. "Eyes of a Dreamer" – 2:35