sonic temple Archives - Vinyl From The Vault https://vinylfromthevault.com/tag/sonic-temple/ Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:19:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 198238920 The Cult “Sweet Soul Sister” https://vinylfromthevault.com/the-cult-sweet-soul-sister-1990-beggars/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-cult-sweet-soul-sister-1990-beggars Thu, 04 Feb 2021 21:01:41 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/the-cult-sweet-soul-sister-1990-beggars/ The Cult “Sweet Soul Sister” 1990. Beggar’s Banquet. 12″ single. The track was the fourth and final single from their ‘89 LP Sonic Temple. It went to #42 in the UK and hit #14 on the US Mainstream Rock chart. I really love The Cult’s earlier recordings when they were more goth/post punk (Love is one of my favorite [...]

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]]> The Cult “Sweet Soul Sister” 1990. Beggar’s Banquet. 12″ single. The track was the fourth and final single from their ‘89 LP Sonic Temple. It went to #42 in the UK and hit #14 on the US Mainstream Rock chart. I really love The Cult’s earlier recordings when they were more goth/post punk (Love is one of my favorite records from the 80′s); Sonic Temple veered hard into heavy metal territory. However, “Sweet Soul Sister” and the other songs on the 12″ (the grungy “The River” and the live epic head-banging “American Horse,” recorded at Wembly) retain a lot of The Cult’s original sound. Usually described as heavy metal, I think the better description is “alt-metal,” akin to Jane’s Addiction and the Seattle-grunge scene developing at the time. It was during the recording of Sonic Temple that The Cult relocated from London to Los Angeles, home of hair metal, so I guess the either that vibe seeped in or The Cult felt that LA was the best place for them to explore their new direction which they began on ‘87′s Electric.

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