Cult Love

Enjoy the best box release ever: The Cult Love (Omnibus Edition) 4xCD Boxset!
Some albums deserve an expanded reissue. Some don’t. The Cult’s second album, 1985’s Love, is largely a work of genius. Despite the heady heights of success scaled by The Cult during the arena rock years, their second album Love is by far their best. Originally released in 1985, there simply isn’t a bad song on here, and evergreen rock anthems such as Rain and the iconic, She Sells Sanctuary are probably their best known and best loved tracks. Re-mastered from the original studio analogue tapes, this four-disc box set is a feast for fans. Aside from the original album, there’s a disc of remixes and non-album B sides, a disc of previously unreleased early demos and a disc recorded live in 1985 on the Love tour. Add a 48-page book with unseen contact sheets from the album photo session and a mass of other material assembled by Astbury and Duffy and you have the ultimate version of one of the greatest British rock records of the 80s.

1985's Love displayed a marked improvement over the Cult's early material, and though it remains underappreciated in America (worldwide it was a smash), this exceptional record has actually aged better than the band's more notorious (and equally important) releases: Electric and Sonic Temple. Equal parts psychedelic hard rock and new wave goth, the songs on Love emanate a bright guitar sheen, tight arrangements, crisp drumming, and a command performance from vocalist Ian Astbury, who as usual says a lot more with less than most singers…

Singles Collection: 1984-1990 (August 1991, only 10,000 copies produced) (also known as E.P. Collection 84 - 90, with only 500 copies produced). Many, many non-LP tracks on this very rare and out of print EP's. This collection contains 10 EP's Beggars Banquet released between 1989 (the first 3) & 1991 (the other 7). They are labeled "BBP 1 CD" up to "BBP 12 CD". (BBP 4 CD was a Bauhaus release; BBP 5 CD was a Gary Numan release). All releases contain hard to find B-sides, mixes, rarities & live-tracks that are taken mostly from out of print 7-inches, 12-inches & CD-maxis. Included are: Love Removal Machine/Lil' Devil, Rain/Revolution, Fire Woman/Edie (Ciao Baby)/Sun King, Spirit Walker/Go West, Sweet Soul Sister (Live 1987 / 1989), The Electric Mixes, The Manor Sessions, Resurrection Joe/She Sells Sanctuary and Wild Flower (Live 1986 / 1987).

Increasingly, and especially in a day and age where music is so widely and readily available thanks to advanced technologies, when a company or act wants to make a good box set, it had better deliver. To its credit, Beggars Banquet did just that with Rare Cult, an astoundingly comprehensive and entertaining collection that packs in 90 tracks over the course of six discs…