 "The best and most underrated Cult Album" | 2008-07-09 |
| - Reviewed By dmitrimahubbard |
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. |
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| "UNA PIEZA SUBVALUADA UNA JOYA" | 2007-11-17 |
| - Reviewed By manuelsam67 |
| ESTE ES UNO DE LOS GRUPOS QUE COMO SU NOMBRE LO DICE ES DE CULTO, LA PIEZA LOVE ES UNA VERDADERA OBRA DE ARTE QUE DEBERIA SER SEÑALADA POR TODOS LOS ROCKEROS COMO UN CLASICO Y TAMBIEN APARECER EN TODAS LAS RESEÑAS Y SELECCIONES DE CRITICOS ESPECIALIZADOS COMO UNA DE LAS MEJORES PIEZAS DE ROCK DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS,A PARTE DE LA MUSICA Y LA EXCELENCIA EN SU SONIDO CON UNA GUITARRA QUE SOBREPASABA Y AUN PERSITE COMO UNO DE LOS GRANDES DE LAS 6 CUERDAS, DEBE DE SER DEFINITIVAMENTE PARTE DE LA COLECCION DE TODOS, SALUD QUE LES APROVECHE NO SE DEJEN ENGAÑAR POR MUCHAS OBRAS QUE SE LOGRARON EN LOS 80'S QUE TENIAN MAS LIRICA QUE MUSICA, ESTO ES DE MIEDO CIAO !!!!!! |
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| "Most enjoyable music CD. Just love The Cult and their album, Love." | 2007-09-15 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2C03NSIVB98GI |
I really enjoyed this music CD, Love by The Cult, one of my favourite bands.
Problem, this CD + another music CD, Electric by The Cult, were so poorly and tightly packed into a flimsy cardboard; that, the jewel case for Love by The Cult was smashed all beyond repair. I do not have a replacement jewel case and none are sold here in my neck of the woods. |
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| "MId 80's Classic!!!" | 2007-08-03 |
| - Reviewed By User: A37AOGR8L3E6RK |
| This album was an instant classic! As other reviwers have mentioned...GOOD LICK picking a favorite...seriously it has all of what makes an album a classic. From my first experience listening to the Cult I was hooked on the Angelic vocals and dreamy guitar. They were something more than just another alternative rock group...they had a touch of blues and a unique sound altogether...i have NO CLUE how they never got bigger. One thing is painfully obvious with them is that they were WELL before their time! Had they not released their music until at least 10-15 years later they would be all over Mtv as well as all the Radio stations. This album is a must for those of u out there seeking an original, ROCKING but musical sound...they really have it all! Favorite tracks on this cd of mine include; Brother Moon... Sister Wolf, Fire Woman( their hit off of this cd), Nirvana, & last but not least Black Angel...as you can see i listed half the album...enough said...this band is destined to be re-discovered as i have faith in the world of music...thank you, your humble narrator, Alex D. |
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| "A release that defies musical classification with its brilliance" | 2007-07-26 |
| - Reviewed By brianmangum |
This album was without question one of the finest releases of the 80s. I'm not sure what genre it belongs in but The Cult Love is perfection. Its almost laughable that every track is just unrealistically awesome. When you close a perfectly executed album with Black Angel you have entered the musical heavens. This album stands the test of time as a absolute classic and deserves its ranking completely. Electric and Sonic Temple are classics of their own, but they never topped this release (AND WHO COULD!) Unreal.
Honestly... picking a favorite song on this CD would be ridiculious and stupid. Close your eyes and drop a finger on the track list. You'll be right. |
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| "the one i can't quit...." | 2007-07-16 |
| - Reviewed By User: A11F344H8N05JF |
| I quickly collected all the cult (Southern Death and the Holy Barbarians, also); LOVE is the one I keep going back to. There are few singers who have a voice and inflection that can become a musical instrument. All these albums need to be played loud and on nice equipment to be appreciated. Billy Duffy and James Stewart are phenominal. The drummer for this venture is, in my opinion, one of thier best. I'm not getting up to see who, just trust me, he is all over the place. If you want to get the the merging of the Goth Cult towards the Electric, get this. Then go and get them ALL! |
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| "A great album!" | 2007-06-27 |
| - Reviewed By misterdark |
| Described by some as having a more "psychedelic sound," I think this is one of The Cult's best albums. The songs have a somewhat esoteric and ethereal thing about them. My favourite? "The Phoenix." It has such a driven feeling to it. "Brother Wolf, Sister Moon" is haunting and austere. Ian Astbury's performances are always excellent, and the musicianship is right on par. |
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| "There was more to the 80's than U2..." | 2006-07-03 |
| - Reviewed By jprpfan58 |
As a longtime U2 fan, I believed that there was precious little else in the mid-80's. But this CD proved me wrong. While this is clearly an 80's production with all the sheen of the era, these songs are far stronger and diverse in scope. Not a bad song on the disc either. "She Sells Sanctuary" was the biggest hit (and still gets airplay!), but in reality most of the songs are even better.
Buy this CD, and forget about all the weak, contrived crap the 80's usually gave us. And give your U2 CD's a rest... |
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| "As the wall gets taller as you get smaller yeayah!" | 2006-05-20 |
| - Reviewed By dkmiles1 |
Watching Jimmy Kimmel Live recently reminded me of this album and the Cult (They performed "She sells sanctuary" on his show about a week ago.) In 1987, a buddy of mine had seen them backing up Billy Idol in support of the "Electric" album. My friend couldn't stop talking about how great this band was (they apparently destroyed the set after their "set" and had a remake of Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild"), well the next day, my friend bought "Electric" and forced me to listen, and frankly, I have been hooked ever since.
"Love" is a "modern rock" classic (note, I said "Modern" Rock classic, and not "Rock" classic, fans of Zepplin, the Doors, the Stones etc, need not apply to this genre of music, 'modern' rock is a space reserved for the likes of The Cure, The Smithereens, U2 (pre-"Joshua Tree"), Jesus and the Mary Chain, Siouxxe and the Banshees, etc...) in that vein, Love helped define an era of modern rock music, in fact "She Sells Sanctuary" literally powered the summer of 1985.
If you're looking for an album to have a serious retrospect of modern rock from the 1980's, your collection needs to start with Love. It's a sure-fire can't miss album that still sounds fresh today... Love rules! |
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| "Rare Peak for a Band and Its Era" | 2006-04-22 |
| - Reviewed By queensrich |
The Cult may be little more than a footnote now, but for a brief time in the mid-1980s (specifically the time it took to record, release and support this album) the genre-confused British rock band looked set to rival acts like U2 in quality, if not necessarily mass-market sucess, and add some much-needed gems to what was already a rapidly-declining contemporary music scene. LOVE, alas, was to be the only such highlight in the group's career, but it was and remains an extremely bright one.
Having cut its teeth as a better-than-average (though still largely undistinguished) Goth band with the negligible 1984 LP DREAMTIME, the Cult retained a bit of Goth's droning mordancy and eye-linered melodrama for the follow-up while abandoning its diffidence, monotony and silliness. Musically, LOVE is a bracing and ceaselessly inventive marriage of psychedelic swirl and new wave kick, with elliptical hippie lyrics from lead singer Ian Astbury on top and alternating gotta-dance/gotta-drink beats on the bottom to help maintain this delicate balance of styles throughout. The opening smash of "Nirvana" - a song far better than anything the as-yet-unformed band of that name would ever record - sets the pace, with Billy Duffy's glistening guitar work echoing against Astbury's arch calls for dancefloor salvation. "Big Neon Glitter" pairs post-U2 martial drums with effects-laden guitars - and the best scream on the album - to create a tune at once doomy and finger-popping. The title track slithers along sinuously, and things slow down even more for "Brother Wolf, Sister Moon," a mini-epic whose naive ruminations on Native American mythology somehow manage (like just about everything else on LOVE) to work. "Rain" is a rouser, an unstoppable up-on-your-feet single with the whole band - and its vision - in top form. "Phoenix" opens with an extended tribute to Jimi Hendrix from Duffy, whose wah-wahing skills prove impressive indeed. "Hollow Man" may be the album's weakest song, but it's still far from bad. The flower power sentimentality of "Revolution" is a lot more effective, though - Astbury's moving lyrics sit beautifully upon their meditation cushion of crystalline guitar strokes and chorus vocals. "She Sells Sanctuary," another single, provides a final and very welcome foot in the rump before "Black Angel" brings things to a close with one of the more effectively lugubrious seafaring tales you're likely to hear on a hard rock album.
LOVE stands among the eighties' finest musical moments, and at the absolute peak of the Cult's desultory and ambiguous career. With their next album, ELECTRIC, Astbury, Duffy and their changing cast of cohorts would take yet another sudden turn - into the terrain of heavy metal wannabes - leaving this singularly excellent and eclectic collection of songs to remain for all time a sort of genre unto itself - as well as a tantalizing promise of what might have been. Classic! |
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