Rare Cult | ||||
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Released | 21 November 2000 | |||
Recorded | 1984-1994 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Label | Beggars Banquet | |||
Producer | John Brand, Chris Kimsey, Steve Brown, Rick Rubin, Tom Werman, Bob Rock, Richie Zito | |||
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Rare Cult is a limited edition, six-CD box set (early copies with a seventh bonus disc) from British rock band the Cult, released in November 2000. The chronologically-organized set contains 90 tracks (48 previously unreleased) of studio B-sides, radio sessions, 12-inch mixes, alternate mixes, demos and the complete then-unreleased Peace album (also known as the "Manor sessions", later re-released with Electric as Electric Peace). The set is packaged in a matte black box with gold lettering, containing three 2-disc gatefold digipaks and an extensive 80-page booklet of liner notes and photos. [1]
Only 15,000 copies were produced, with only the first 5,000 copies including a bonus seventh disc of remixes. The Rare Cult box set is complemented by the single-disc compilation The Best of Rare Cult and the 2002 5-CD release Rare Cult: The Demo Sessions.
All tracks were written by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy unless otherwise noted.
See also Electric
This bonus CD contains the additional mixes and extended versions released on the original singles and was only available with the initial 5,000 pressings of Rare Cult. [2]
The Best of Rare Cult | ||||
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Released | 17 October 2000 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 74.53 | |||
Label | Beggars Banquet | |||
Producer | Bob Rock, Steve Brown, John Brand, Richie Zito | |||
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The Best of Rare Cult is a single-disc compilation of selected songs from the Rare Cult box set, including five tracks not featured in the box set. [3] The cover artwork by American artist Rick Griffin (of Grateful Dead fame) is adapted from Griffin's original cover for the abandoned 1987 single release for "Soldier Blue." [4] The CD was released on 21 October 2000, before the box set.
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Released | 12 August 2002 | |||
Recorded | 1986-1991 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Label | Beggars Banquet | |||
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Rare Cult: The Demo Sessions is a five-CD box set released in August 2002 including all available demo sessions recorded by The Cult between 1986 and 1991. The set contains 77 tracks, 51 of which were previously unreleased. Only 3,000 numbered copies were available exclusively from the Beggars Banquet online store. [5] The packaging is designed to resemble the previous Rare Cult set, but with images of the actual studio worksheets and tape reels used during the demo sessions.
Having toured North America during March and April 1986 and played a handful of European dates in May, The Cult returned to the UK that June to play festivals and their own headline date at Brixton Academy in London on 28 June. They had premiered four new songs on a radio session the previous February and attempted to record a new single, Electric Ocean, in Montreal at the start of their North American tour.
Already booked to start recording the following month for their third album at the Manor studios in Oxfordshire, the band took advantage of their time off touring to record demos of songs and rough ideas at E.zee studios in North London.
Though nine of these tracks appeared on the Rare Cult box set, the entire session is included on this release in its proper context, with the unedited introductions and in the order that the songs were recorded. [6]
On 11 June 1988 The Cult entered Track Record studios in Hollywood, CA to record fourteen tracks and on the following day they laid down a further seven. The second session, recorded on 13 August 1988 at Track Record, was the serious pre-production for Sonic Temple, with both producer Bob Rock and engineer Mike Fraser in attendance. [6]
The Track Record Demos - June 1988
The Track Record Demos - June 1988
The Track Record Demos – August 1988
The Red Zone tracks are the pre-production recordings for Ceremony, recorded on 23-25 January 1991. Most of the songs from the finished album sessions are present here, though many would undergo lyrical revision and several have alternate, ‘working’ titles. Recorded live in one take with a scratch rhythm section and featuring rough guide vocals, the tracks provide a raw snapshot of the genesis of the album. [6]
The Red Zone Demos - January 1991
The Hot Nights demos were discovered on a 7" reel of tape by Billy Duffy, too late for inclusion in the original box set. Neither Duffy nor producer Steve Brown could remember details of the recording which took place in October, 1986. [6]
Recorded by Craig Thomson and mixed 25-27 March 1989, the Jam demos are the last studio recordings to feature Jamie Stewart and the only tracks featuring Matt Sorum on drums prior to the 2001 release of Beyond Good and Evil. On the tape boxes, the songs are simply titled Track One to Track Eight but the subsequent given titles have been used on the release.
The Ceremony outtakes were found on working DATs from the sessions.
The Cult are a British rock band formed in 1983. Before settling on their current name in January 1984, the band performed under the name Death Cult, which was an evolution of the name of lead singer Ian Astbury's previous band Southern Death Cult. They gained a dedicated following in the United Kingdom in the mid-1980s as a post-punk/gothic rock band, with singles such as "She Sells Sanctuary", before breaking into the mainstream in the United States in the late 1980s establishing themselves as a hard rock band with singles such as "Love Removal Machine" and "Fire Woman". Since the initial formation of Southern Death Cult in Bradford in 1981, the band have had various line-ups; the longest-serving members are Astbury and guitarist Billy Duffy, who are the band's two songwriters.
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