Love: Remastered
£4.98
- Nirvana
- Big Neon Glitter
- Love
- Brother Wolf Sister Moon
- Rain
- Phoenix
- Hollow Man
- Revolution
- She Sells Sanctuary
- Black Angel
oLD TIMES - Big rock, rock with a hippy, trippy, goth, blues feel,you got it!My best tracksLove. awesome guitar, you got love those drums, more Dreamtime Phoenix. suberb guitar, sweet wah solo, The pounding bass, Ashbury minimal but effective vocals.Of course She sells sanctuary , the ultimate Goth rock. Great chorus.Judith. very lazy blues trippy rock.The original album didn t have little face on it, and think it was better for it.There are far better b- sides to be found in that eraSunriseNo 13EtcGreat albumThere bestBut check out there 1st album too Dreamtime .
The best and most underrated Cult Album - This album from 1985 bridges the gap between the earlier and more gothic punk feeling Dreamtime (1984) album, and the more rock-oriented, paired back Electric (1987). Love keeps some of the gothic feel of the earlier album, while this brooding atmosphere is turned up a notch to 1970 s style psychedelia. This album has a very consistent tone and feel to it at moves between brooding downbeat balads brother wolf, sister moon, judith, hollow man, black angel and more upbeat numbers nirvana, she sells sanctuary, the phoenix, big neon glitter and more upbeat balad numbers revolution, rain.For those of you who found Ian Astbury s voice gets a little jarring on Electric , this is a more tuneful / soulful album, without the drivelly sound of later albums such as Ceremony . Also Billy Duffy is in fine form. While he will never be hailed as one of the great electric guitarists, here he is in very good touch with the songs and the guitar and voice complement each other perfectly.
Superb except for singing flat on Brother Wolf Sister Moon - Brings back great memories of a superb 1985 gig at the Hammersmith Odeon (now Apollo). 12 of Rain is superb if you can find it. Can only give this album 4 stars though because of Astbury singing flat all through the chorus of Brother Wolf Sister Moon. He sang it perfectly live though - such a great pity.
A Classic! - This is one of those rare records that makes me feel young again. I was a teenager when this came out and I cannot believe how long it s been since it was released!It s not just that it has great songs to offer - which it does, every single one of them - but that it so aptly encompasses its place in history. At least for me. This is what the mid eighties sounded like to people who were tracking down the good stuff and bypassing the Stock-Aitkin-Waterman rubbish etc. It has a sound that cannot be found anywhere else: they rock like their lives depended on it, but they have a vibrancy and colour to their sound which was unique. If you can listen to She Sells Sanctuary and not dance your butt off (and more than likely look a prat in the process, but what the hell) then you ve got no soul whatsoever.This is what the eighties sounded like to those of us who were actually listening. This is to the eighties what Led Zeppelin 4 and Dark Side of The Moon were to the seventies and Nevermind and OK Computer both were to the nineties. Incidentally, get all the others too, and that s a pretty good record collection.Go for it.
Definitive Cult. This was their genre, they own it. - This is what The Cult were all about, before they decided to be a hard rock band - which incidentally they re also very good at. Anyway, this album is full of quality pop/goth/dance/rock songs that possibly invented the term crossover - this album appeals to fans of practically every genre. It kicks butt and it s groovy with no weak tracks. A desert island disc no less.