Love is an album by English

England

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 rock

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 band The Cult

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, released in 1985 on Beggars Banquet Records

Beggars Banquet Records

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. The record has been released in nearly 30 countries worldwide, and sold an estimated 2.5 million copies. It gave The Cult commercial success in the UK and abroad. Love was recorded at Jacob's Studios in Farnham

Farnham

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, Surrey

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, in July and August 1985.

Many Europe

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an CD pressings, as well as Canadian

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 and Australia

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n pressings, include two bonus track

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s: "Little Face" as track four, and "Judith" as track eleven. Various other foreign pressings have several other bonus tracks. For unknown reasons, the Korea

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n vinyl and cassette tape editions omitted the songs "Big Neon Glitter" and "Revolution". Also inexplicably, in the Philippines

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 a considerably shorter version of the song "Brother Wolf Sister Moon" was used; it lasts only 5.18, omitting most of the guitar solo

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s in the second half of the song.

In 2000, the album was remaster

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ed and reissued on CD, with only the ten original songs and different artwork. "Big Neon Glitter" and "Hollow Man" are alternately listed with and without the article "The" in their title, respectively.

In 2003, the record was issued on CD in Russia

Russia

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, Belarus

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 and Lithuania

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, formerly being available only as a bootleg

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 LP in the Soviet Union

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 and Uzbekistan

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. These 2003 Eastern European releases came with the bonus tracks "Faith Healer" and "Edie (Ciao Baby)" (acoustic) as tracks 13 and 14, and the word acoustic is misspelled as ""; the pressings also use a different font for the lettering. There is also an Indonesia

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n cassette tape version which rearranges the track listing, and includes "Dreamtime" and "Bad Medicine Waltz", from the previous Cult record Dreamtime

Dreamtime

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.

To coincide with the band's Love Live Tour in August 2009, the band will be releasing two different editions of the album:

Version one will be the "Expanded Edition", a 2-CD set consisting of the album on one disc as well as extended versions of album cuts, remixes, and b-sides on the second disc. This set is to be released on August 18, 2009 in the USA/Canada and September 21 in Europe.

Version two will be called the "Omnibus Edition" which will feature the first two discs from the "Expanded Edition" plus two more discs. Disc three will feature extremely rare demos from the Love album presented for the first time, and disc four will feature a live concert recorded by the BBC at the Hammersmith Odeon in London

London

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 on October 31, 1985.

Track listing

All songs written by Ian Astbury

Ian Astbury

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 and Billy Duffy

Billy Duffy

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.

1. "Nirvana" – 5:24
2. "Big Neon Glitter" – 4:45
3. "Love" – 5:35
4. "Brother Wolf; Sister Moon" – 6:49 (Philippines version runs 5:18)
5. "Rain
   Rain (The Cult song)
   "Rain" is a song by The Cult from their Love album. It was briefly known as "Sad Rain" during its recording, and the lyrics were reportedly inspired by a Hopi rain dance. Ultimately it was the second single released from that album following She Sells Sanctuary...
   
   " – 3:55
6. "The Phoenix" – 5:06
7. "Hollow Man" – 4:45
8. "Revolution" – 5:20
9. "She Sells Sanctuary
   She Sells Sanctuary
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   " – 4:23
10. "Black Angel" - 5:22

2009 "Expanded edition" CD 2 track listing

1. "She Sells Sanctuary" (Long version) - 6:59
2. "No. 13" - 4:40
3. "The Snake" - 8:09
4. "(Here Comes the) Rain" - 6:19
5. "Little Face" - 4:54
6. "Revolution" (Full length remix) - 5:29
7. "Judith" - 5:29
8. "Sunrise" - 5:11
9. "All Souls Avenue" - 4:45
10. "She Sells Sanctuary" (Howling mix) - 8:26
11. "Assault on Sanctuary" - 7:31

CD 3: "The Demos"

1. "Brother Wolf; Sister Moon" - 7:54
2. "Hollow Man" - 5:48
3. "She Sells Sanctuary" - 5:21
4. "All Souls Avenue" - 4:56
5. "Little Face" - 5:45
6. "No. 13" - 6:23
7. "Big Neon Glitter" - 6:34
8. "Waltz" (Instrumental) - 4:36
9. "Nirvana" (Instrumental) - 6:04
10. "Revolution" (Instrumental) - 6:50
11. "She Sells Sanctuary" (Olympic mix) - 7:04

CD 4: Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, 31 October 1985

1. "Love" - 5:54
2. "Nirvana" - 5:05
3. "Christians" - 4:33
4. "Hollow Man" - 5:01
5. "Big Neon Glitter" - 4:46
6. "Brother Wolf, Sister Moon" - 7:01
7. "Rain" - 5:12
8. "Dreamtime" - 3:10
9. "She Sells Sanctuary" - 5:35
10. "Go West" - 5:02
11. "Spiritwalker" - 4:35
12. "Horse Nation" - 3:17
13. "The Phoenix" - 5:19

Bonus tracks/international releases

• "Little Face" (bonus track, track four in some territories)
• "Judith" (bonus track, track eleven in some territories)
• "Faith Healer" (bonus track, track thirteen in Eastern Europe
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   and Asia
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  )
• "Edie" (Ciao Baby) (acoustic version) (bonus track, track fourteen in Eastern Europe and Asia)

• Indonesia
  Indonesia
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  n cassette tape versions:

1. Side A: Love, She sells Sanctuary, Rain, Nirvana, Revolution, Black Angel.
2. Side B: The Phoenix, The Hollow Man, Big Neon Glitter, Brother Walf Sister Moon, Dreamtime*, Bad Medicine Waltz*. *From the album Dreamtime.

On these Indonesian pressings, the song "Brother Wolf Sister Moon" is incorrectly listed as "Brother Walf Sister Moon", and drummer Nigel Preston is listed as Nigel Reston.

• Saudi Arabia
  Saudi Arabia
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  n cassette tape versions includes "Spiritwalker/ Dreamtime/Rider in the Snow/A Flower in the Desert" as bonus tracks, but it does not include "Judith" or "Little Face". An alternate Saudi Arabian version include only nine of the original ten songs, omitting Revolution, and comes with a different cover.

2009 Love Live Tour setlist

1. "Nirvana"
2. "Big Neon Glitter"
3. "Love"
4. "Brother Wolf; Sister Moon"
5. "Rain"
6. "The Phoenix"
7. "Hollow Man"
8. "Revolution"
9. "She sells Sanctuary"
10. "Black Angel"

Encore:

1. "Electric Ocean"
2. "Wildflower"
3. "Illuminated" (later replaced with Sun King)
4. "Rise"
5. "Fire Woman"
6. "Dirty Little Rockstar"
7. "Love Removal Machine"

Personnel

• Ian Astbury
  Ian Astbury
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   - vocals
• Billy Duffy
  Billy Duffy
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   - guitar
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  , acoustic guitar
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• Jamie Stewart
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   - bass
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  , keyboards
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  , background vocals
• Mark Brzezicki
  Mark Brzezicki
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   - drums
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• Nigel Preston
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  - drums on "She Sells Sanctuary"

Additional personnel

• Produced by Steve Brown
• The Soultanas - background vocals on "Revolution"