Re: The Cult Dirty little rockstar
Date: July 27, 2009 16:24
Dude - go see them if you can for Love Live. I'm not gonna be able to. They put on a kick ass rock show. Hell, their worst show I've ever seen was their Sonic Temple headline tour! But you may be aware of this - lately it's gotten very funny because a lot of Cult fans have gotten a bit pissed with The Cult for, oh my, playing the same songs on every tour as of late.
Imagine that. They're still playing songs from BIT though.
Eh, the Stones have their warhorses, the Hot Rocks; The Cult have their warhorses, the Pure Cult tunes. Cult fans are getting sick of hearing the same warhorses every time they come to town.
As much as Ian hates Sonic Temple and doesn't want that to be his legacy to be remembered by they sure do like to play their singles from that album - Fire Woman won't go away (I wish it would) and Sweet Soul Sister, which I've always liked, won't go away. Edie - which some people call eDIE - won't go away either. The only one they haven't played for a while is Sun King, one of their best tunes.
You listen to BG&E and you'll notice that it's way over the top production wise and even a bit silly. Still, War, Rise, Breathe, Shape The Sky - great tunes (as is Libertine). But the crossing of Dreamtime elements with dropped D tuning heavy metal tooting with Take The Power, The Saint, even War as well and Ashes And Ghosts and then the last two songs being big ballad rock mush - eh, the album is a bit weak overall. It's just not fitting. It certainly reeks of reaching too far to be relevant instead of just BEING. Where are the Classic Cult songs? Rise is it. Breathe is close.
Ceremony - ha ha. Title track, Wild Hearted Son, Earth Mofo, White, Indian and Red Jesus are fantastic. And I like Wonderland. The rest of it? Total crap.
I don't hear any NIN sound on The Cult - if anything, it's Achtung Baby. Again, like some Stones albums, it's what they left off that could have made that album, which I like a lot, a lot better - Sacred High, Splunge/Relapse, In The Clouds, Beauty's On The Street.