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Label: Jugoton – LSBEG 78080, Beggars Banquet – LSBEG 78080
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Yugoslavia
Released: 1989
Style: Hard Rock
A1 Sun King 6:10
A2 Fire Woman 5:10
A3 American Horse 5:19
A4 Edie (Ciao Baby) 4:46 Strings arranged By Bob Buckley, The Cult
A5 Sweet Soul Sister 5:08
B1 Soul Asylum 7:25
B2 New York City 4:41 Backing Vocals – Iggy Pop
B3 Automatic Blues 3:51
B4 Soldier Blue 4:36
B5 Wake Up Time For Freedom 5:17
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Beggars Banquet Records
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Beggars Banquet Records Ltd.
Copyright © – Beggars Banquet Records
Copyright © – Beggars Banquet Records Ltd.
Licensed To – Jugoton
Licensed From – Virgin
Recorded At – Little Mountain Sound Studios
Mixed At – Little Mountain Sound Studios
Remixed At – A&M Studios
Mastered At – Sterling Sound
Printed By – GIP “Beograd”
Published By – Chappell Music Ltd.
Bass – Jamie Stewart
Coordinator [Production Coordinator] – Rock Enterprises, Sandee Bathgate
Design, Art Direction – Nick Egan, The Cult
Drums – Mickey Curry
Editor [Glavni I Odgoverni Urednik] – Siniša Škarica
Editor [Urednik Redakcije] – Veljko Despot
Guitar – Billy Duffy
Keyboards – Jamie Stewart, John Webster
Lacquer Cut By – SB*
Lead Vocals, Percussion – Ian Astbury
Management – Howard Kaufman
Producer – Bob Rock
Recorded By – Mike Fraser
Written-By – Duffy*, Astbury*
Recorded & mixed at Little Mountain Sound Studios, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Sep-Nov 1988.
Tracks A5 and B5 remixed at A&M Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA, USA, December 1988. Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York, NY, USA, January 1999.
Originally released as BEGA 98.
Barcode: 5012093009810
Rights Society: SOKOJ
Depósito Legal (State Standard Code): JUS. N. N4 201
Matrix / Runout (Side A runout): LSBEG 78080 A 24 04 89 SB
Matrix / Runout (Side B runout): LSBEG 78080 B 24 04 89 SB
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sonic Temple, might be the finest Cult Material
This was my third album of The Cult. And after the hard rocking Electric album that saw them have large record sales in America. The album, is full of explosives Native American style lyrics and there spiritual side showing just like in Love. 12 Tracks that are absolutely superb. The opening track un King’ is absolutely fantastic, and i always imagine hearing this live from the band, how explosive it could be. Just the symbols at the start and then moving on to the bass line, and then as soon as you here ‘HERE WHERE IT ALLL BEGINS!’ From Astbury is just superb. The second song is also very rocking and yet another great theme for the album. ‘Fire Woman’. The album has so many good songs that could have been released as singles. ‘American Horse’ ‘Edio’ the fourth track which has a beautiful acoustic side, and also the orchestra in the background sorting Astbury voice.
weet Soul Sister’ is also a beautiful song, with a nice keyboard effect. And a great guitar riff as always from this band, and once again the spiritual sides. Duffy always captures the bands sound so well. The next song is ‘New York City’ Which is awesome, the best rocking song on the album, fast speedy riff and great drumming, and just after i came back from New York City this song rocked in my heart.
Moving closer towards the end of the album, and it contains some fantastic songs, (of course i like all 12) but the album has a song ‘Automatic blues’ more like a Zeppelin song, like ‘Black Dog’ from the IV album. ‘Wake Up The Time For Freedom’ is a song great to chat too! Astbury to me is superb. And finally ‘Medicine Train’ which starts like Yoko Kanno ‘Digging The Potato’ well only because there is that soulful noise of the instrument Mouth Organ. Great song, and i really enjoy it.
Overall: 5
Overall at the end of the 80’s and The Cult were one of the fine acts to end this era of big hair, and make up. But the album is still essential, a band who followed the roots throughout. And the album should be highly taken into account.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The final instalment in a trilogy of great Cult albums
You had Love which was goth/rock/dance crossover, Electric was garage rock and Sonic Temple is American hard rock but if you think that sounds cheesy, boy do they do it well. Yes it stadium rock but it still has those typical Cult moments to give each song a bit of class. The songs themselves are strong, Duffy guitar work is sensational and Astbury is a phenomenal singer. Internal disputes and coming off the wagon meant things were never quite the same after this album but it stands the test of time as a great hard rock record. A lot of goth fans went off the band around the time of Electric and as this album is even rockier, they hated it. So ignore any negative reviews – if you like rock this album is a belter.
This LP is like a drug. It gets me something that I can´t explain. What a great fuckin’ band.
Billy Duffy: “All I had was a good haircut and a guitar – which is all you needed, really”. Billy Duffy is such a great guitarist; he never got the respect he truly deserves.
1989 rolls around and The Cult featuring Ian Astbury, Billy Duffy, and Jamie Stewart along with Bob Rock at the control center unleashed one of the best sounding hard rock albums that even today still sounds supreme!
Crazy to think Sonic Temple is 32 years old. Where does the time fly?
Once again this past Christmas I was gifted with “Sonic Temple” on vinyl which is spread out nicely over two double records that even has some bonus material on them.
This album kicks serious ass from the get go. Opener “Sun King” kicks the party off and the sound is massive. Cheers to Bob Rock and Mike Fraser for dialling it in sonically on this album.
“Fire Woman” has that great opening Duffy street rock riff and the song lifts off from there. Astbury was in his element here as I can still visual him in the video for this track digging his heals in at becoming that Arena Rock Guy which he dug for a time I’m sure before not too long after he kinda didn’t dig it.
Maybe I’m wrong here but either way the song still sounds good today on local crap radio.
“Sonic Temple” fuses some huge Zep like rock on tracks like “Soul Asylum” while others like “New York City” is one of those hard driving balls out rock tracks that will smack you you around like if Iggy Pop was doing the smacking! (See what I did there?). Mickey Curry from Bryan Adams band handled the drums on this record and keeps The Cult on track.
“Sweet Soul Sister” with that cool driving bass line courtesy of Jamie Stewart is another bonafide hit. How about that chorus and guitar solo from Billy Duffy.
With it being 1989 sure there would be a ballad included which is “Edie (Ciao Baby)”. For all the sap power ballads that we’re racing up the charts back than “Edie” was a different kind of tune one in which I like and maybe that is because of WolfChilds vocals or the fact that tune ramps up.
The rest of this album is killer. It’s all a brilliantly written heavy rock record and what better way than to end the sonic assault than all us of hoping on the “Medicine Train”!
ShotGun!
Thats the great thing about Duffy/Astbury and Stewart back than as they didn’t follow the cheese rock formula. Instead they forged their own path sonically and this album delivers that in spades.
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