Lie: The Love and Terror Cult

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Lie: The Love and Terror Cult
Lie: The Love and Terror Cult cover
Studio album by Charles Manson
Released 1974[1]
Recorded September 11, 1967 and August 9, 1968 (overdubs)
Genre Rock
Length 31:53
Label ESP-Disk (1974[2])
Producer Dennis Wilson
Stephen Despair (audio engineer)
Charles Manson chronology
Lie: The Love and Terror Cult
(1974)		 The Family Jams
(1997)

Lie: The Love and Terror Cult (actual title Charles Manson Sings) is the debut album by Charles Manson, originally released by ESP-Disk. Recorded on September 11, 1967 and August 9, 1968 (overdubs), its distribution began during the Manson murder trial.

The cover is a copy of the December 19, 1969 Time Life front cover, only with "LIFE" substituted with "LIE".

"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 as a hidden track on Guns N' Roses' cover 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 one reissue 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[3]. 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

[edit] 2006 ESP-Disk CD bonus tracks

  1. Devil Man (3:15)
  2. The More You Love (1:41)
  3. Two Pairs Of Shoes (1:56)
  4. Maiden With Green Eyes (Remember Me) (1:24)
  5. Swamp Girl (1:58)
  6. Bet You Think I Care (2:12)
  7. Look At Your Game, Girl (Alternate Version) (1:45)
  8. Interview (3:17)
  9. Who To Blame (2:26)
  10. True Love You Will Find (2:52)
  11. My World (1:45)
  12. Invisible Tears (1:33)


[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.popcultureaddict.com/music/charlesmanson.htm The Music of Charles Manson
  2. ^ http://www.discogs.com/release/671156 ESP-Disk CD description
  3. ^ http://www.discogs.com/release/671156 ESP-Disk CD description