Beggar's Banquet: The Cult From the band's UK label, featuring a mail-order only release. http://www.beggars.com/artists/catalogue/cult/index.htm

PopMatters - The Cult Overview of the band's career and reviews of their albums. http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/c/cult-pure.html

Kevpa's Lyrics and Stuff - the Cult Lyrics Listed by album and by title; also includes pictures. http://kevpa.topcities.com/thecult.html

Ian Astbury Review of 'Spirit/Light/Speed', the new album (out July 2000) from Ian Astbury, the front man from The Cult. http://www.musicomh.com/albums/ian-astbury.htm

The-Cult.com Unofficial site for The Cult with discography, rarities, news, and photos. http://www.the-cult.com/

The Cult Collector's guide offering information on releases from 1983 onwards. http://users.castel.nl/~bleem02

Electric Southern California based tribute band. Features concert dates and sound files. http://www.theelectric.org/

Taokow's Love Removal Machine Tribute to The Cult. http://taokow.tripod.com

Amazon offers Electric (Audio CD),07 March, 2000 List price $15.98 A new sound (and a horribly inconsistent one). / 3 A clear indication of the influence a producer can have on a band, "Electric" was a massive stylistic shift for the Cult under the influence of Rick Rubin, who steered the band away from their gothic and psychedelic influences and towards a more straightahead L.A. hard rock sound-- guitarist Billy Duffy's semi-hollow guitars, laden in effects, so crucial to the sound of the band, were traded in for a Les Paul and a pile of distortion and Ian Astbury's most indulgent swagger and attitude in his vocals were encouraged and suddenly, there was a very different band going under the name The Cult. The band had previously recorded an album (to be titled "Peace") and brought an early version of "Love Removal Machine" to Rubin for remixing. The producer didn't find anything to do with the piece, but saw the same potential the band saw in it and suggested a rerecording-- "Electric" being the product of that suggestion. Mind you, one thing that's pretty clear-- the band didn't seem completely ready for the massive style shift, and the net result is "Electric" is a remarkably inconsistent album-- the great material on here is absolutely phenomenal-- opener "Wild Flower" is a statement-- riff based rock, a fierce guitar solo, and enough attitude for a dozen albums in three-and-a-half minutes, "Lil' Devil" sounds like it was recorded by a bunch of 20 year olds in 1973, full of rock swagger and energy, and "Love Removal Machine" is another just great slice of riff-based rock and with fantastic performances from the whole band-- bassist Jamie Stewart maintains the old-style ringing sound that was prevelent in the old recordings, Duffy is inventive and exciting, and Astbury delivers his most over the top performance. But quite frankly, the rest of the record falls way short, either marred by oddball production choices (the second vocal shout of "baby" overdubbed on the tail-end of the not-as-good-as-it-should-be "Peace Dog", the total production wreck of "Aphrodisiac Jacket") or being simply unmemorable ("Electric Ocean", "King Contrary Man"). And then there's the spectacular misfire in covering Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild". It's tough to say what's worse, the sludgy rhythm guitars, the completely lifeless drum performance (and for that matter, production, the drums sound ludicrous), Duffy's totally disjoint (and not in a good way) guitar solo, Astbury's bizarre attempt at what I can only assert must be an teen-angst soaked sneer or the stunning bad idea of adding a whispered harmony now and again. It is though, one of those pieces that I really revel in disliking, so I suppose it's worth hearing. Still, when all is said and done, the good material on "Electric" is so good that it carries the album nicely, but the album is kind of a mess.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 04.03.22 Kevin Clinton, Myth and Cult: The Iconography of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Stockholm: Svenska Institutet i Athen, 1992 . Pp. 209; 12 illustrations, ... http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1993/04.03.22.html

The Cult: Pure Cult: the Singles 1984-1995 - PopMatters Music Review Overview of the band's career and a review of "Pure Cult: the Singles 1984-1995." http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/c/cult-pure.shtml

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