I'm 55 now , on adventure before dementia. This is the one of song will stay with me regardless what I will forget.. thank you The Cult being in my life.
Man, must be terrifying knowing that at one point you’ll lose it all, forget who you are, live a confused existence before eventual death… Sorry to get so morbid. Just a thought most can’t comprehend. I’m glad you’re making the most of all the time you have left. But you are right about one thing: the music never leaves you. So make a playlist, compile some CDs, have all your favorite music with you for the long haul. It’s your best companion to guide you through the minefield that is dementia. Good luck and I hope the rest of your life is as happy as it can be.
¡Yes! ¡As madcritter, the guy with the other answer, says make a playlist now and tell your wife, children or whoever to play it for you in the future! ¡You won't need memory, only feelings, to enjoy it! 😃😄😁😉😉
Dude, how ironic. I'm 62, home recovering from Cerebral angiogram, finding out out I have a "bullet in my head" so to speak. Today I had an urge to hear this song and find this. SAME
I've seen the Cult five times and in every decade. They were always on the edge of being massive, but just never seemed to outdo their less-talented peers.
Yeah but you got to remember back then there was a lot of competition. Not to mention there may have been some political things going on in the background. It's always about politics and who you know in the big business world. Maybe the people that were handling the cult were not as Savvy in negotiating the high-powered world of Music records and Publishing.
I first saw The Cult in 1985 just a couple of weeks before they released She Sells Sanctuary. I was 16 or 17. Now I'm 50... and I'm still listening to these mofos :)
I was 12 in a target store they had the mtv video for fire woman. From then on i loved this band. Pure rock and great originality without any fluff. Just rock and roll. And i love red heads. Lol
@@bumblebee5337 that is funny. I like everything that's cool, from The Cult to Megadeth to Genesis to Rick James to The Beatles to Queensryche to The Red Hot Chili Peppers, on and on.
Millions of people out there, including me, feel the exact same way you do. No other rock and roll band in the world can match the vibe the cult puts out. It's as simple as that. They were rock and roll Magic. And they were the desperately needed lifeline during a time when rock and roll was on life support.
My dad said this band was a one hit wonder with "Fire Woman." I then played this song on Rock Band and was like "are you sure?" 8 years later he has become obsessed with them. Most under rated band ever
They were appreciated by people that knew good music. I think there was a lot of infighting and I'm sure drugs were involved. Ian Astbury can be mercurial and that's putting it mildly. Albums like Love, Electric, and Sonic Temple were awesome. I saw them in 2002-3 maybe? When the Album Somewhere between good and Evil was out. Been awhile. It was good but I'm not sure if they've released anything lately
If it has to be rated, this has to be rated #1 rock song of all time. Criterias: 1. Needs to rock 2. Needs to rock harder 3. Needs to be raw and authentic 4. Will make anybody move 5. Will make any body to produce an overdose of testosterone. Listening to this song even Ana De Armas will start growing a beard.
KICKASS rock and roll, the likes of which we had not heard since Zep. Plus, on this track in particular, THE best rock vocal performance (post-Zep) EVER (ahhh Ian, baby baby baby BABY!!!), remains unmatched to this day. Billy's probably the most underrated rock guitarist of all time. Oh...and they could play it all LIVE. The story-telling ethereal tracks on Sonic Temple, so brilliantly produced, are mind-blowing on headphones....aw, gonna go hear some more now!
One of the best bands, one the best songs, ever. Absolutely love this. I was lucky enough to see them in Boston before Covid. They did not disappoint. Unbelievable music. Birthday gift from my 31 year old son, LOL.
The Cult’s Electric album was cranked up daily in my car in ‘87 when I was in high school. I remember a girl recommended it to me. I was blown away. Their videos did not get much play on MTV at that time. It wasn’t until they released Sonic Temple a few years later that MTV started hyping them up and playing them. The Cult should have been bigger.
They were an X band. and that was kinda of small slice of prog-rock dance music when they cam out, and never caught on big, except amoung the old rockers who heard it. Kinda had to be near Houston.
I've always said they were the all-around best and coolest rock band between the mid-to-late eighties, but I'm starting to think they may be just the coolest band in rock and roll history ever.
This is the era that the Cult found themselves. They figured out who they were. And they went on to give us some of the greatest songs in rock history. I’m fortunate enough to have seen them live a few times. Ian always gave 110%. Even when he performed in Tempe AZ with a bad cold in ‘95, he gave extra. Thanks Cult. One of the most important rock bands in history.
@@billyfoster3223 Lol..yea all three of em....That is now my favourite comment..( ppl who know nothing about music, that's all they got to use....most underrated....well no matter....KEEP PLAYING IT LOUD!!!!!!
The best Rock and Roll is just three chords (give or take), proven right here. Killer band. Still sounds as good as the first time I heard it. Never get tired of their sound.
I am 59 this year and I have done many things in my life that I regret. But there are very few things that I regret not doing. And seeing this band live is one of them.
Daniel Tyler Too bad. I'm from LA Been to lots of shows. These guys WERE THE BEST CONCERT I EVER SAW. They ripped it up for 2 1/2 hours. Freaking AWESOME!!! AND THAT WAS THEIR SECOND NIGHT IN A ROW!! FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT SO THEY JUST DID A SECOND SHOW NEXT NIGHT. BADASS!
Whatever it takes to get to one of their shows just do it. It's one of my fondest memories. They're still out there doing it and they're doing it perfectly.
If you haven't already, you should delve into the history of The Cult. Check out The Southern Death Cult. This was the first incarnation with Ian Astbury, very goth but amazing songs, both lyrically and musically. Then The Death Cult, when Astbury joined forces with Billy Duffy. God's Zoo is a classic. After that they dropped the Death part and recorded Dreamtime :)
Remember my mom having Electric and coming pick me up from elementary school, and she would play this song nearly every day. Good old days do not ever fade...
53 and I can still rock my skin tight Levi's. Got all of my hair and covid started right about haircut time. so about 4 years with no haircut and I'm suddenly once again a hairball rocking it.
I just told my wife the same thing 5 minutes ago. Very much the AC/DC formula..but it sounds like The Cult, not AC_DC. Think for a minute how hard it would be to write a 2 or 3 chord riff based around a basic blues-rock pentatonic scale and to arrange it in a way that its instantly recognizable. Now imagine writing 4 or 5 songs like that. Imagine how The Beatles did that on nearly every song on every album, roughly 2 albums per year for 10 years. That is staggering when you think about it
The Pomp and bombast combined with the chops to pull it off. Fantastic band with some "get the fuck up and rock" songs. One of the reasons I have hearing aids today.
This song introduced me to The Cult in 87 (I'd somehow missed She Sells Sanctuary). Love Removal Machine was such an awesome, awesome song. Drove states away just to see this band live. The experience was oh so worth the driving, which was worth it in and of itself, come to think of it. PARTY.
What a great band. They have everything, the songs, the voice so unique. They should've been more famous. I was born in the 80's, didn't get to know them til some decades later
They were quite big in the 80s but tbh they were their own worst enemies. Dramatic style changes (listen to Dreamtime and Love then compare it to Electirc and then compare them all to Sonic Temple), Ian's huge ego, massive excess and inconsistant live performaces (Ian was either a rock god or a tone deaf talentless noise poluter with nothing between the two coupled with his ability to never hit a cue) all combined to ensure they never hit the hights they truly deserved. And I say this as a man who got in to them when Dreamtime was released the first time around.
A club called Visage in Orlando, played goth and stuff! Whenever they played The Cult, everyone would start shouting and running to the dance floor. Those days were some of the best!
@@squash2097 Some goth bands i recommend are Bauhaus, Christian Death, Clan of Xymox, Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Sisters of Mercy, Dead Can Dance, Mephisto Walz, The Frozen Autumn, The Mission, Lebanon Hannover, The Cure, Alien Sex Fiend, Killing Joke, Specimen, She Past Away, Motorama and The Cult's first two albums and their material of Death Cult and Southern Death Cult.
