The CULT: Sweet Soul Sister (single version) 7″ Also contains the unreleased 7 minute “The River”. Check video.

Description

This song´s like a drug. It gets me something that I can´t explain. 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. What a great fuckin’ band.

Single by The Cult from the album Sonic Temple
Released: February 26 1990
Format: Vinyl 7″
Recorded: 1988
Genre: Hard rock,
Length: 3:32 (Single edit)
Label: Beggars Banquet
Writer: Ian Astbury, Billy Duffy
Producer: Bob Rock
“Sweet Soul Sister” is a song by English hard rock band The Cult. It was first released on their 1989 album Sonic Temple, and was later released as a single. It reached number 42 in the UK Singles Chart, while peaking at number 14 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the US. In addition to the album version, there is a shorter single edit (which is approximately 3:30 long) and an approximately 6.00 long which was released as a B side on the vinyl 12″ release of the single (on sale here). The artwork displayed on this page is for the original single version. The video was filmed at Wembley Arena in London on 25 November 1989.

Song meaning:
Ian Astbury stated in an interview that he wrote the song about the Americanization of European culture.
“Several images sprang to mind as I was writing this song, it was kind of an observation of how European youth is becoming somewhat reluctantly Americanized. You know the references to the Star Spangled Banner. But again with all my lyrics I like to leave them open to peoples interpretations and hope that people find themselves inside my songs.” – Ian Astbury (1989)