Hey, Folks! Here finishes up my series of EP’s. Hope you dug em as much as I wrote about em! I’m taking a few weeks off so if you need a daily fix of blog action check out Mike Ladano and John T Snows blog as they are lunatics at posting stuff every day. I’ll post their links below. Do the right thing and follow them. Both excellent writers!
The Cult!
Man, I love these guys! Billy Duffy and Ian Astbury know how to get down to business, and this little excellent song EP from 1989 has The Cult getting on down to some serious business!
You had to handle it to Billy and Ian as when it came time to release the ballad Edie(Ciao Baby) as a single it was a great move on their part not to recycle the typical power ballad move that was dominating video waves at the tail end of the 80s!
Edie is a different kind of ballad that has Duffy doing some excellent pick work on his 6 string. Astbury delivers a stellar vocal, and the song even lifts off somewhat during the chorus. It’s a good track.
Now,
Medicine Train is easily in my Top 5 all-time Cult Classics! Tucked on the end of the Sonic Temple as a bonus track for the CD release Medicine Train is just plain stellar when Astbury lets out the ‘SHOTGUN‘ the song takes off with a real dependable driving Bassline courtesy of Jamie Stewart. The chorus is the money shot! Listen for yourself, folks!
Riding on a medicine train (train)
Never coming down again, no (train)
Riding on a medicine train (train)
I ain’t never, never coming down
Side Two opens with Bleeding Heart Graffiti is a great track that was left off the Sonic Temple album! Bleeding Heart takes you as a listener on a journey of sonic proportions! Surprising it was left off of the album which shows you how much material Billy and Ian had going into the recording of this album.
The last two tracks Love Removal Machine and Revolution are live recordings from the 1987 Electric Tour! L.R.M is an excellent ripping version you get all kinds of feedback from the guitars, and it’s just a smorgasbord of enormous fireball riffs courtesy of Duffy with Wolfchild destroying the front row with vocals!
Revolution keeps The Cult chugging along as well but man what a way to end this series of Killer EP’s! The Cult put together one little 5 song ass-kicker of an EP!
THE CULT = BRILLIANCE!
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