THE CULT KNEW HOW TO WHIP UP SOME ACCA DACCA BOOGIE




The Cult are a band which are impossible to classify. I cant say I am the worlds biggest fan of any British post punk pock, which partially describes the output of The Cult since the formation of the band in 1983, but the addition of hard rock into the mixture occasionally resulted in an inspirational blend of post-punk, proto-alternative and AC/DC-ish boogie with a few songs to prove it. 

I only know the music of The Cult from a very casual and undedicated viewpoint, their greatest hits compilation `Pure Cult - For Rockers, Ravers, Lovers and Sinners`, which covered their best stuff up until the early 2000`s, is the only album I have of the
band. 

The Cult has had so many band members come and go it isn`t worth attempting to try and summarise the personnel side of things, they are as British in alternative circles as Status Quo, as British as fried eggs and potato chips. 

Vocalist Ian Astbury and guitarist Billy Duffy have been the only mainstays in the band,
it`s worth noting that the replacement drummer in Guns N`Roses, Matt Sorum, started out for a time as virtually the squillioneth drummer for The Cult before joining the Gunners when original drummer Steve Adler couldn`t even function during the initial recording of the Use Your Illusion albums due to drug addiction.

The Cult continue to tour and make the occasional album present day, but the point of my blog tonight was to highlight three classic boogie rock songs which The Cult recorded in their heyday. 

They are LIL` DEVIL, LOVE REMOVAL MACHINE and the best of the lot, the once popular WILD FLOWER, the best ripoff of an AC/DC riff you will ever find. 

The first two aren`t quite as straight ahead boogie hard rock like WILD FLOWER, they have a slightly angsty punk thread running through them with a creepy gothic
undercurrent present, if you listen to some of the other more out there alternative songs on this compilation things really do become very gothic and left of field, but for the most part, The Cult were always visionary and odd ball enough to take artistic chances. 

If you like Malcolm Young chops and a dash of alternative post-punk rock, then the mixture of both which The Cult whipped on these three songs should impress you a little.

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