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umakmehrd
Thanks for posting Gaslightstreet - big fan of theirs from the beginning, got to see them at a small venue in Vancovuer a few years back they fricken ROCK..
New stuff sounds great!
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shadooby
Skip and y'all know I'm in.
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shadooby
Skip and y'all know I'm in.
HA ha! Lizard in a bottle!
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umakmehrd
Thanks for posting Gaslightstreet - big fan of theirs from the beginning, got to see them at a small venue in Vancovuer a few years back they fricken ROCK..
New stuff sounds great!
Where did they play in Van? Commodore?
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oldschool
Been a big fan since the Love album. Wasn't a big fan of the last 3 albums so will give this a go. Like the two songs they dropped so far so hopeful about the rest of the album.
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DandelionPowderman
There is something for everyone on all their albums. What I have missed in those last albums after «The Cult» (although I listen to them a lot, and enjoy some of the stuff on them) is good, consistent songwriting.
When that is said, some of their best stuff is on there, too. «Tiger» on Born Into This, for instance.
My ranking of their albums:
Love
Sonic Temple
Dreamtime
Electric
The Cult
Ceremony
Hidden City
Choice Of Weapon
Born Into This
Beyond Good And Evil
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crholmstrom
Looks like the tour is hitting the Native American entertainment complexes. They're playing here at the closest one to Seattle. Pretty small room.
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crholmstrom
Looks like the tour is hitting the Native American entertainment complexes. They're playing here at the closest one to Seattle. Pretty small room.
They're playing about 30 miles from me at the beautiful Arlington Theater in Santa Barbara, an old move theater built in 1931 w/capacity of apprx. 2,000.
I was thinking of attending, but the only album I really ever liked of theirs is Love from 1985 - might go for a cheapie $59 balcony seat.
It appears that sales are terribly slow with numerous tickets available in every section, so might hold out for an even cheaper ticket when prices drop.
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VoodooLounge13
They do put on a good show. Saw them a few years back with Bush and Live I think it was? Or maybe it was Counting Crows?
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VoodooLounge13
They do put on a good show. Saw them a few years back with Bush and Live I think it was? Or maybe it was Counting Crows?
The Cult did a tour with STP and Bush in 2018.
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GasLightStreet
The Cult gave up the stardom that they had created, with momentum, in the mid to late 1980s with jangly rocking singles and playing arenas to playing theatres with dead end singles and heavy albums.
After that they went back to being what they started out as - an artsy indie punk band only with heavy rock touches.
After not duplicating their 1989 success of SONIC TEMPLE with 1991's CEREMONY (released that month: NEVERMIND's Smells Like Teen Spirit, NEVERMIND, the RHCP album BLODD SUGAR..., METALLICA, Tin Machine 2, Hole, @#$%& Bryan Adams, Ween, GNR ILLUSIONs, Ozzie and loads of others) they fell off the music map (in as much time as it took for Nirvana to blast everything apart in September I got row 5 tickets to see The Cult in February 1992 for cheap - the day of the show).
They weren't even a hair band, they just... went away.
BADMOTORFINGER and ACHTUNG BABY followed soon after.
CEREMONY just didn't carry the weight. It sounded retro, actually, which was oddly better than the heavily processed SONIC TEMPLE. Although the first single is excellent, song wise and video wise, everything else was pointless.
Their 1994 self titled album was "a return to roots" only with muscle.
A break up and a return and new album aside between 1999 and 2001, they've been basically focused on just being artists and releasing new music since 2007 onward and performing for their serious and curiously casual fan base.
The odd thing about 2022's first leg of the UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN tour is the new album won't be out until they just finish the first leg of the tour. They've since added later dates but it seems a bit awkward.
Of course the Stones did that in 1969. But The Cult are not The Rolling Stones. And it's 2022, not 1969.
They're still a big band. But they're not GNR big. What I find most interesting is they continue to create new music and go out and play it. 2012's CHOICE OF WEAPON is possibly, in terms of maturity, their greatest album. Overall, their second best album, just behind the excellent and sound defining LOVE.
Where as ELECTIC is a @#$%& blast, except for the idiotic cover, and SONIC TEMPLE is the FM rock radio pinnacle, CHOICE OF WEAPON is magical in its overallness.
From what I can gather, UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN will be more akin to DREAMTIME and THE CULT in essence than anything else, which means... it will probably be exceptionally awesome.
For Cult fans, anyway. For anyone else, there's always AC/DC and Led Zeppelin.
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DGA35
Nothing beats Billy Duffy's pose on the cover of Sonic Temple!