The Cult: Electric

Dave · 2025-11-03T08:07:33+00:00

Title: Electric Artist: The Cult Genre: Hard Rock Released: 1987 Tracks: 1 - Wild Flower - 2 - Peace Dog - 3 - Lil' Devil - 4 - Aphrodisiac Jacket - 5 - Electric Ocean - 6 - Bad Fun - 7 - King Contrary Man - 8 - Love Removal Machine - 9 - Born to Be Wild - 10 - Outlaw - 11 - Memphis Hip Shake - Overview: Electric is the third album by British rock band The Cult, released in 1987. It was the follow-up to their commercial breakthrough Love. The album equalled its predecessor's chart placing by peaking at number four in the UK but exceeded its chart residency, spending a total of 27 weeks on the chart (the most successful run for an album by The Cult). The album marked a deliberate stylistic change in the band's sound from gothic rock to more traditional hard rock. Rick Rubin, the producer on Electric, had been specifically hired to remake the band's sound in an effort to capitalize on the popularity of hard rock and heavy metal in the 1980s. The album was featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2013 the album was re-released as a double CD set under the title Electric Peace, with one disc featuring the originally released album and the second containing the entire Peace album recorded during the Manor Sessions. After the breakthrough success of their second album, Love, the Cult began working on a follow-up with producer Steve Brown. In the summer of 1986, they recorded twelve tracks at the Manor Studio in Oxfordshire. These recordings, which came to be known as the Manor Sessions, were to make up a new album, tentatively entitled Peace. However upon completion of the recording sessions, the band decided that they were unhappy with the sound, and began to look for a new producer. The band went on to choose Rick Rubin, who was known for producing albums for hip hop artists and thrash metal band Slayer. These new recordings, with a slightly different track-list and running order, became the album that was released. Engineer Tony Platt recalled that Rubin used AC/DC as a benchmark for the album's sound: Rick Rubin was recording the Cult in Studio A and we stood in the airlock just outside the studio. A snatch of Highway to Hell would get played and then a snatch from Back in Black and then a snatch of Led Zeppelin, and we thought, "What the hell's going on there?" said, "Well, he's getting the guitar sounds from Back in Black, the drum sound from Highway to Hell and the voice sound from Led Zeppelin!" Literally, as he was mixing he was getting a guitar sound on the Cult and then comparing it directly with the guitar sound that he wanted to get from Back in Black. The same with all the other instruments. Although all twelve of the Manor Sessions tracks were initially scrapped, four of them would turn up as B-sides to singles from Electric. A further five of them appeared on a limited edition EP, and with the release of Rare Cult in 2000, the rest of the unreleased Steve Brown-produced tracks were made available, albeit in a limited edition format. They were finally made available on a mainstream release in 2013 as part of the Electric Peace release.

Topic starter Dave
Start date Nov 3, 2025

Nov 3, 2025

Title: Electric
Artist: The Cult
Released: 1987

Tracks:
1 - Wild Flower - 3:37
2 - Peace Dog - 3:34
3 - Lil' Devil - 2:44
4 - Aphrodisiac Jacket - 4:11
5 - Electric Ocean - 2:49
6 - Bad Fun - 3:37
7 - King Contrary Man - 3:12
8 - Love Removal Machine - 4:17
9 - Born to Be Wild - 3:55
10 - Outlaw - 2:52
11 - Memphis Hip Shake - 3:59

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