Electric

Right ear...Left ear. Guitar front and center. Pretty straight forward rock 'n' roll capturing the guitar sounds and licks of other earlier bands. Solid voice for the style and enjoyable. Not the best of lyrics but good enough.

The guitar riffs are solid but the vocals just sound like they're trying too hard to be ACDC. I feel like this could've been very good with a little more originality; I've heard this kind of music done better by several other bands. I listened to Love after this and I really feel like that's the one that should've made this list. 2.5 because it's unoriginal but at least enjoyable. Highlights: Lil' Devil, King Contrary Man, Love Removal Machine

Pretty cool album, I dug the vibes! Recognized one song (if not two) but wasnt sure if they were the original songs or covers (I assume the former). Not sure Id really ever heard The Cult before so Im interested in checking them out more.

Ok, nothing special.

Pretty fun listen

You Rock

3/5. The description I heard of the Cult picking up an AC/DC sound rings really true with this album.

Rating: 6/10

No she sells sanctuary!? No hits? It was OK.

It's fun to be bad to the bone.

I really enjoyed this.

This is just rock. Kind of weird to hear almost in the context of the late 80s. Just plain old rock. Not bad.

This kind of immediately fell into the background as I listened, filed under British proto-metal/heavy rock. After the fact, while reading the unusual song titles, I wondered if there was more going on lyrically that I failed to pay attention to.

It's ok. Kinda like a slightly goth Thin Lizzy.

Solid

This record sounds like hair metal but better. It was actually pretty enjoyable to me. This genre from this time period can often times come across as super cheesy to me but this record didn't feel as cheesy. I don’t think I’d ever revisit the album but it was easy to listen to. Born to be Wild is a classic but it’s a bit cheesy. Reminds me of my dad.

Quite generic rock

A solid album but left me wanting a little more.

Sounds like Billy idol et al, from that period. Upbeat and unfiltered rock

Hard rock, met een uitstekend begin van het album (eerste twee nummers). Daarna wordt de gitaarmuziek toch wel veel van hetzelfde.

Ach ik ben in een goede bui en kon de energie die de Cult bracht wel waarderen.

3.5

Mix of classic and new age rock. Hint of inxs .

Decent, in every sense of the word.

After second o third song is kind of the same thing Bad Fun is very badass

Tykkäsin! Muutaman 2000-luvun bändin selkeä esikuva.

First thought was it sounded rather generic. But it won me over, would have loved to hear this stuff live.

A fun listen yet again. Might listen again, born to be wild is a banger.

I hear Guns n Roses, AC DC and Led Zepp tones in there. Was decent

6/10. I quite liked this one

3.1

Very good. Doesn’t age that badly.

Ach, toto som nepocul roky a pritom to bol celkom smak

3,5

They are very competent, this is a good band, but they feel like if Danzig's voice was boring, or Led Zeppelin was less charismatic. Born to be Wild is a rock standard, but I don't see myself listening to the rest of the album again.

3.5 would be a4 if I liked 80s Rick more

Never had listened to the Cult. Pretty standard 80s hard rock. I really liked the vocalist, reminded me of Danzig.

Court, solide, efficace

3/5. I did enjoy this album, and it's glam and hard rock vibes. Definitely trying to be multiple different bands but hey, it was fun to listen to. The songwriting, pretty basic, but they rocked out and the production was amazing. Felt fresh and new despite the 80's release date.

All the songs sound the same but it's a good heavy beat.

Holy ACDC!! But while the guitar riffs are very similar, I prefer Ian Astbury's voice, and the lyrics aren't as dumber down. 100,000 more Canadians bought this than Brits!

3.5. I haven't listened to much of their stuff before, and this was good fun

Mid tempo riff-rock, with some nifty guitar solos and a gruff sounding vocalist. It's all a tad to mainstream sounding for a band that named themselves "The Cult". Also I couldn't really hear much of the words but I'm pretty sure I haven't missed anything that important.

Didnt have the one song i know but still enjoyable rock and big hats

Some songs sound like they have AC/DC style riffs. Pretty damn good. Had no clue I was going to like this! 3.5

3.4

This surprised me. My first thought was ok, let's get this over with.... But, surprisingly - I enjoyed it. I even liked their version of Born to be Wild. I do know the Cult, and I think I have heard one of their other albums, but I look forward to listening to this one again. Strong first listen. 3/5

Regular stuff

Reminds me of Danzig. This is an above standard Hard-Rock album. However, it gets quite monotonous after about 3/4. 3.5/5

Seems like pretty standard 80's rock. Nothing really stood out to me.

very fun album! 3*

Pretty standard popular 80s rock. You have the edgy band members with the I don’t care attitude jamming out. But in all that edginess, they still cover a song that’s a classic about being wild. That doesn’t seem wild to me. That’s why this album is good but nothing great. 6.4/10

usually classic rock is offensively bland. This was just bland, so that is a plus. Shouldn't have read the review about the yeahs before listening, it was all i could hear!

Wasn't very interested in this album, it has some good energy and the vocals are not bad, but it doesn't have anything to make it more than a generic British rock album. Final thoughts: Eh. Generic. Genre: Hard rock, 1987. Rating: 3.1/5

2 3

AC/DC style riff rock with Jim Morrison vocals. I like it. Electric Ocean reminds me of Alice in Chains and the Cult is likely an influence for them.

Listened Before? N These guys are great hard rockers. Similar to AC/DC in the US with a better vocalist. I enjoyed this album, and I wasn't familiar with any of the songs other than the big hit "Love Removal Machine". I will say, I do like the vocalist but his voice gets a bit old IMO. Also, the cover of Steppenwolf's "Born to be Wild" is horrible. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Love Removal Machine

Not for me but not as headache inducing as expected

I'd say an average hard rock album. At some point I couldn't even distinguish when one song ended and another started.

THE cliche 80s rock. Time capsule record right here. This should he a soundtrack to a retro 80s movie.

Rubin communes with the gloriously dumb, to a production certainty that covers many other uncertain sins.

Generic 80s hair band stuff that I enjoyed until I got to their cover of Born to Be Wild, which is so laughably bad that it made me realize that I could have spent today listening to a better 80s hair band

I honestly think that going from a post punk band to a hard rock band feels a bit like they’re getting worse as a band in my opinion. I’m honestly not a big fan of the band or anything so this might be better than the post punk stuff but this is generic as fuck 3/5.

It's funny, I know one album quite well by The Cult, but only one. I've never heard any of these before. You have to say the guitar is slammin' and just a great rock sound throughout alongside the driving drums. This is a hard partying, hard working band. But, it lacked the emotion of songs like "She Sells Sanctuary" for me. Were the ones I love better or just attached to memories. I can't say for sure.

I don't know what The Cult sounded like on their first two albums, but apparently their third album, "Electric," embraced a hard rock style that strayed from their gothic roots. It seems that producer Rick Rubin may be to thank for that. Rubin was incredibly influential in the evolution of hip hop in the early 80s before becoming a hard rock hitmaker, but "Electric" seems like a bit of a miss compared to his catalog. It has almost all of the hallmarks of 80s hard rock, but it's missing something that is hard to place. I think it lacks catchiness? Singer Ian Astbury has the vocal wails to fit the genre. The guitars and drums are fine, if unspectacular. But there are no bombastic choruses that get stuck in your head despite your best efforts. In fact, the catchiest song is "Born to be Wild," a cover of a Steppenwolf song written by Mars Bonfire that doesn't quite match the original. Steppenwolf gets no placement on the 1001, and I'm not sure The Cult needed to be either.

Rick Rubin worked his magic. This is a really good 80s hard rock album. Up until the last two tracks, I was ready to give it a 4. But those last two tracks made me reevaluate the album again…twice. And the more I listen, the more it sounds like AC/DC’s little brothers. It just sounds a bit derivative in the end.

Nice rock music that wasn’t too hard/heavy.

Quality 80s rock that thankfully doesn’t sound too 80s. I don’t think I need to return to this one but it was fun Great album cover. Great guitar work 3

Pretty decent hard rock with some cool moments

Sött

That was unexpectedly good. I was expecting dumb hard rock from late 80s and that’s exactly what I got only it somehow sounded really good. I wonder what made the difference and I think that it was this characteristic vocal tone. I read that they were doing more gothic stuff before making this record so that makes sense. It made the album stand out among all of the bands that sounded almost exactly the same. A nice dose of refreshing fun. Only the Born to be wild cover is reaaaally bad. 3.5/5

Awesome guitar riffs. Great heavy metal, but nothing original.

Pure fun rock and roll. Fave tracks, Electric Ocean and Love Removal Machine.

Buttrock with eyeliner!

+1 for "Love Removal Machine" -1 for "Born to Be Wild" 3/5

Parece divididos

generic hard rock

This sounds like a generic 80's rock album, trying to be the next ACDC. Electric starts off strong then falls flat early in and turns to average riffs and samey-songs, although I cannot deny some songs are pretty perfect. Astbury's vocals are nothing special and sound rather generic, this is a mountain of consistency. Favorites: Wild Flower / Peace Dog / Lil' Devil / Outlaw

Situat entre 'Love', on van sublimar i donar per acabada la seva etapa gótica, i 'Sonic Temple', que els va impulsar a la primera divisió de bandes de rock als 80, 'Electric' és més un meritori exercici de génere que una obra mestra del rock, com de vegades se l'ha volgut catalogar. Les seves virtuts són les pròpies de la banda: riffs potents, composicions originals i diferents, i la veu inigualable d'Astbury

I'm into the 80s glam rock sound, but that Born to Be Wild cover is the kind of mistake that casts a shadow over the whole project. I shudder just thinking about it. Best track: Wild Flower

Sounds like a perfect Lost Boys soundtrack

Found this to be pretty generic. It almost sounds like a parody actually. Not to say it sounds bad or anything, but there's a certain edge that's missing here.

Generic and boring

The Cult is every hard rock glam era stereotype rolled into one. Felt like a scene from Wayne’s World. It wasn’t bad, but wasn’t a fun listen.

I feel like I’ve listened to this exact album 20 times already.

Booooring

Feels like some pretty average 80s hair and rock. 2.5/5

Ei mun juttu tääkään. Semmosta ok autotallimusiikkia mutta ei mulla lähteny mihinkään. Kaipasin nopeampaa tai mielenkiintosempia melodioita tms. Aika polkevaa vaan.

Seems like basic throwaway “hard” rock

4.5/10

No offense to the guys but this just wasn’t anything of note

Painfully generic. This sounds like the music that would be playing in the background of a comedy set in the 80s that couldn't get the rights to more well known songs, so the filmmakers had to just get someone on the crew to make something that sounded 80s-enough.

Yeah, yeah, yeaaaahh. It would probably be fitting to listen in the car on a drive with friends to the keg party.

At their best, this album songs like it could be Danzig or Billy Idol... but I'm not a huge fan of either of those. So, here we are.

Danzig-style vocals (but pre-dating Zandig) with generic rock backing. Imagine this could be the soundtrack to the b-roll of a reality show about a tattoo shop in Detroit.

Ingen høydare...

this ain't it chief

Remarkably average generic 80s rock, their previous and following albums are better generic 80s rocks

suede for guys with tribal tattoos

Not sure why this 1987 album sounds indistinguishable from bad albums that are 15 years older.

Decent rock album. Not my thing.

Boring and generic album Standout song: Electric Ocean

Yeah this is kinda funny because the last time I checked these guys were a post-punk band! I harbor a healthy amount of disdain for Rick Rubin's unsavory comments regarding "English pussy music" and the fact that this album sounds churned out of the same bullshit hard rock machine that kickstarted itself in the early 70s (when I say that, I don't mean Zeppelin, I'm talking about bands like Bad Company). Rubin is an admirable producer who gets fantastic results (Reign in Blood and Blood Sugar Sex Magik, case in point) but the whole idea of a goth/post-punk group flipping itself on its head and leaning into cock rock more than anything is laughable to me. This is so bland it's not even funny. Recorded about 10 years too late.

I don't dislike it, it's just kind of unremarkable, after listening I couldn't remember any details of any of the songs. Didn't enjoy the Born To Be Wild cover but it led me to the existence of an Ozzy Osbourne and Miss Piggy cover of it. Favourite song: Love Removal Machine Least: Born To Be Wild

⭐⭐+ Kan höra varför man kan gilla detta. Det är inte dåligt men jag tycker inte det är något speciellt. Gillar dock sångrösten vilket är den tydligaste identifikationen för The Cult. Finns Cult låtar jag gillar men de är inte med på detta albumet. Det blir en stark 2a.

The fur hat on the album cover was the highlight. The music is overshadowed by bands that did it better.

Sad for a metal album to be this deeply disappointing. One of the worst covers of Born to Be Wild I’ve ever heard so it’s not even on the notable cover versions list. Unorginal reheated Metallica nachos, I hated the vocalist and lyrics for their original stuff. It sounded the same and I didn’t like that sound. Minor recuperation for good bass and guitar, but it’s Kiss without the subtlety or musicianship; which is saying something.

Meh

Ha Ha, I remember when this came out and it was considered quite edgy! Lol, pretty average stuff.

The Cult, but ironically couldn't be more middle of the road mainstream. Surprisingly dull. Hard agree with the reviewer who said this is what AI would give you if asked for a hard rock album.

Hmm. This was played on the local alternative station when it came out even though it was classified as “hard rock.” The singles got a lot of airplay, but I never bought the album.

I like She Sells Sanctuary, but I've never really listened to anything else by The Cult, so I was looking forward to this. Sadly I was very disappointed. This album sounds like Status Quo doing hair metal.

It’s crazy how many British rock bands I just don’t know. Not sure what this is going to be, so will be a fresh listen. Sounds very AC/DC inspired type of hard rock. First track is solid but gets more generic after that. It’s very 70s/80s hard rock/heavy metal. Nothing is bad and it’s very easy to listen to but it doesn’t stand out much at all. Obviously every era of music is going to have bands that sound like other bands without standing out much on their own, but it doesn’t mean the music is bad. This is exactly that. Not memorable or original enough. A few solid guitar riffs and solos though. Somewhere between a 2 and a 3. It’s fun enough to get over the lack of something distinctive and original. Was really leaning 3 until the Born to be Wild cover which kind of sucks. Will probably never listen again to this album though and it’s tiring by the end of it. Think I’ll go with 2. It’s all fine, but doesn’t feel necessary for this list.

too rock type shit not in that

This all seemed kind of opaque to me… like half of it didn’t even connect with my brain as songs. There were a few riffs I liked here and there but overall felt disappointed.

Wasn't The Cult a gothic/post-punk band? Why are they making generic cock rock? Why is this album here over the previous one, Love? What the hell is happening? Key tracks: Love Removal Machine

Decent vocals. Good hair. The rest is entirely average.

So generic

It’s fine. A perfectly 80s rock album but nothing more than generic

It was fine… gave up about three songs away from the end and put on Pearl Jam lol

Hair metal may be for some but not for me.

just not my vibe at all

Middle of the road. Peak british rock, nothing to write home about. Favorite track: Wild Flower

It was fine, but a bit too derivative imo

me gustó, me pareció escuchable, disfrutable. El sonido está bueno, si bien no soy mucho del heavy rock o de este género un poco más ruidoso, aún así lo aprecie. la batería y las guitarras suenan muy bien. el problema que tengo es q el álbum de principio a fin parece ser una sola canción. No hay diversidad de temas, no se exploran otros sonidos, y lo entiendo. sin embargo eso hace q no me parezca un álbum buenísimo ni original. Es escuchable? si, pero no es nada wow. no suma ni resta 5/10

Not my type of music

Fun to listen to a Cult album for the first time but I wasn't that moved. Makes sense why I only like their one hit but think the rest of their music is just okay.

the most generic hard cock rock i've ever heard in my life. it's perfectly tolerable enough to listen and tap my foot a bit, but it's not *good*. nothing about this is particularly interesting or notable or even slightly original. it's meeting the bar of "i like when i am listening to music" for enjoyment and by the time i finished it i could not remember a single song. radio friendly paint by numbers album.

...I hope the drummer is just wearing that iron cross because they're really into Prussian History. If not for the weirdly discount Billy Idol singing here this would sound like the musical equivalent of those compositions of everyones faces in a country. It's almost impressively generic. You know its bad when I'm 4 sentences into a review and I'm scowering wikipedia for something ntoeworthy to talk about here. Apparantly they cite a wide range of influences from "the doors to Led Zeppelin" and I wish they were more influenced by the doors because maybe then they'd be interesting. One of their songs is in GTA: Vice City so that's something I suppose. Fuck, I dunno, these guys give me bad vibes 2 stars I guess.

boring and irritating

2.5/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the-cult/electric/ Entertaining in its simple, straightforward hard rock, but nothing more than that. Really not my thing. Born to be Wild cover is completely unnecessary.

I have never heard a more generic rock album in my life. It left zero impression on me.

Something doesn't sit completely right with me on this. Read on Wiki that they aimed for a very Led Zeppelin raw sound, and while I can see that, it lacks originality and identity to me. None of the songs are particularly interesting, and it all feels quite generic and soulless to me. As I always say, this would work well as background noise in a rock bar, but not particularly interesting when standing on its two legs. 1987 also feels quite late for an album like this to be released, when AC/DC and Zeppelin did it way better ten years earlier. Strong 2. Not because it sounded bad, but just because it felt boring and unimpressive.

I enjoyed the Cult stuff I heard on MTV and the radio but never really got into them. Reading their Wikipedia page was interesting - I didn't know how tumultuous the '80s were for them. I had always known that when Matt Sorum joined GnR he came from the Cult, but I didn't know that he had basically just joined the Cult. This is alright. I liked Sonic Temple more. Covering "Born to be Wild" seems unnecessary.

It could be 500 hundred band from that time, and no one understands why you would pick that one

I don't guess I'd ever heard The Cult before. It sounds like pretty standard 80's hard rock.

Good for the genre but not my favorite kind of music

álbum bem mediano, mas love removal machine é ótima!!!! 2/5.

The songs start blending together pretty quickly and then it becomes quite tedious. Especially since the singer's voice is aggressively 80s. Very Billy Idol.

Album Review 087 Electric by The Cult (1987) Rating 1.5/5 The Cult take a new direction for this album and that direction is signposted “meat and potato pub-rock”. Whilst most of it isn’t truly awful, their cover of Born To Be Wild sets the benchmark for how bad a song can be.

Standard stuff. Quite like the genre, don’t think they did anything particularly interesting with it but solidly played and fairly well enjoyed. Hated the born to be wild cover.

unfortunately my feelings abt this album are very influenced by the question of why it was included on this list in the first place. i did not need to hear this album before i died. did the compilers get to like number 950 and run out of albums? nothing original or pioneering or interesting abt this record - by the late 80s this style of music was already trite and overcommercial, and unlike the bon jovi album (which is also trite and overcommercial and on this list) electric does not have any staying power or relevance. im just listening as a goth band actively sells out and is manhandled by rick rubin into becoming poundland ac/dc it was a tolerable listen but with nothing remarkable & barely anything to distinguish the songs from each other. awful born to be wild cover. album gets a lot more entertaining when u realise 1. it was recorded in a gorgeous 1700s manor in oxfordshire 2. the vocalist's yea-yuhs throughout the record sound distinctly lil-jon-esque

hørte ikke færdigt, er lidt træt af rock-genren nu

This is my first time listening to an album by The Cult start-to-finish. Right from the start, this just feels generic, but not good enough to be considered classic or iconic. And there's just something off-putting about Ian Astbury's vocals. It sounds like he's just always flat of the note he should be hitting. And "Born to be Wild" was just a bad idea. _Someone_ should have stopped them.

Really? How in the hell did this make the grade? Horrid...I am only 4 songs in and I can't believe I've made it this far. Banal "hard" rock, if I'm being generous. This is a travesty...make it stop, please. And then reading the lyrics...I am laughing. At least as (rock) comedy, this works! 2 generous stars because I'm a nice guy...and admit that at least they can play their instruments.

Didn't like this album. The production isn't good, drums are very forward and boring in my opinion and the bass guitar is too low and hard to hear at times. There are some decent guitar riffs throughout. The band mostly seems confused on the sound they want to create, the singer sounds like Danzig and the music sounds like Poison. There are maybe 2 songs I would add to a playlist, other than that this is repetitive and not interesting.

Not exactly AC/DC or Iron Maiden.

What an uninteresting album. The hard rock sound is fine, but it is basically a variation on a theme the whole way through. It sounds like something you’d hear on in the background of a Hard Rock Cafe and not really think about twice.

Not really my thing

Meh. The Cult walked so Nickleback could run. Dude-rock / butt-rock / whatnot-rock or whatever this is certainly has its place on this list, but there are other examples of the genre far more deserving than this album that deserve to be on this list. This might be the worst cover of Born To Be Wild I’ve heard. I’d rather hear The Wiggles or Kidz Bop perform that song. For some reason I thought this band was cooler than they came across as. Or was that their reputation from their earlier work I was aware of?

I didn’t like it.

I don't like this. Not very interesting, sorry.

Generic cock rock. No idea how this made the 1001 albums list in 1987 given people like AC/DC had already been doing it for a decade by then. Sounded it like it could have been the soundtrack to This Is Spinal Tap if the lyrics had been funny and the band had been in on the joke.

Bruh. I got better things to do rn.

When I first saw the album cover of this I thought I was finally getting a metal album. But no, this is the most generic hard rock I've ever heard. It's by no means bad since I love this type of music (Led Zeppelin is one of my favourite bands) but there's nothing new or special here

Well constructed songs. Just a bit samey and dated. Of its time.

just seems like a random hair metal band? like it's fine but doesn't stand out to me. 2 stars for me

Meh. Love is a better record, top to bottom, so I don't get why this one got the nod.

2,1 Highlights: Wild Flower, Born to Be Wild

Really not good... 2 stars.

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This is entirely without anything unique. This sounds like the dude who sings that Billy passed the 3rd grade in Billy Madison

I’ll start with positives, I actually really like the cover. I normally find “pictures of the band” type of covers to be boring and underwhelming but the masterful work with the font on this album is really sharp and eye catching. I also think The Cult is an underrated band amongst hair metal bands, and I think apart of that is they don’t come across quite as cringey as other glam metal bands because they don’t dress as ridiculous as their contemporaries like Dokken and Poison, and they don’t have as much of a cringey sex obsessed pest vibe as bands like WASP and Crüe do. But the biggest problem this album does have is the same as all other hair metal bands, the whole album is held up by the radio singles and everything else is either forgettable or just filler. You can take the vast majority of their contemporaries’ albums to prove that. So for their genre they are above average, which is NOT saying much.

Dumb fun

Meh, a bit generic hair metal sounding to me.

This is sounds like a cover band of 80s bar rock. Bleh

Not saying this is dull, generic, 80s British dad rock, but I accidentally had my player on repeat and it took me 3 songs to realise it had started back over...

Meat and potatoes hard rock. Great drums and vocals throughout, but didn't move me.

Meh

It rocks, but not really in a way that is memorable or would make me want to listen again.

2 - some extremely generic hard rock

Not bad but not my thing. It’s funny that this really just sounds like “rock”

A perfectly cromulent hard rock 80's album. I'm curious about their earlier albums, since there's talk about them being darker and more brooding. Ah well.

All of the songs blurred into one and it was just like a wall of sound which I did not like

I really thought - based on the one Cult song that I and 90% of the human race know - that this would be much better than this. For the vast majority it just brought to mind three middle-aged men in AC/DC t-shirts playing bad pub rock, stomping their feet and pointing their guitars in time. And that's not an image I've ever thought I wanted. Also, one of the all time disgusting covers on here - I don't think it's possible to ruin Born To Be Wild (a hippy anthem you idiots!) more than The Cult have here. Similar to the Black Crowes, this isn't horrible per se, but it's not something I need in my life.

I'm as mad as that other guy about not being sold any sanctuary

They were better at goth. The singer is good, everything else is very generic hard rock. Motley Crue's Girls Girls Girls is from the same year and not on the list...

Sonically, it’s generally a mixture of AC/DC and Van Halen. Tom drum tones are a bit odd. Vocals are a bit repetitive and “yeah yeah yeaaaah!” Seems like a pretty solid album for ‘87, but hasn’t aged well. 2.2/5.0

“Mi no like dat.”- Bumba Clause

ik dacht een gothic plaatje te horen, bleek het een glam-hair metal plaatje van 13 in een dozijn te zijn... jammer

heard before: No Fav tracks: Wild flower Would I listen again: unlikely Decent rock n roll album. nothing super stand out but a fun listen. Rating: 3

They sound like second rate Led Zeppelin, Doors and AC/DC. Listen to the real thing and ignore this group.

Generic rock, with the vocals being a bit annoying. I didn't really care much for it.

The top comments on this album have pretty much nailed it. Generic and I dont see why this is on the list. 2/5.

Ça a été pour une grande part une épreuve. Alice était d'accord que c'était irritant. Born to be wild était aussi une version très mauvaise.

Very classic stadium rock, again, hard to listen to it seriously but I can't knock it

Some people say this is a one star album but it's bread and butter rock and does it in a way that feels honest. It's not great but it's not the worst thing.

It’s fine, if trying too hard. No need to come back to anything on here, as it all sounds the same - just stripped down hard rock, no harm, no foul … except for that Born to be Wild shitburger… ooof.

Just sounds like fairly bog standard generic eighties rock. Lacks the fun of something like AC/DC or the electricity of prime GNR. lil Devil at least injects a level of catchiness not provided elsewhere but still feels very paint by numbers. Love Removal Machine manages to sound like a rip up of AC/DC and the Rolling Stones in one song. Astbury’s vocals on Born to be Wild sound as if youve stumbled into a bar where the local drunk is belting it out on karaoke for the hundredth time

This wasn’t super memorable. It was like AC/DC but less interesting

Eh some hard rock dad rock whateverness. Good production at least.

Predictable 80s straightforward rock, with a couple of decent tracks.

pretty repetitive and generic, no standouts. 2/5

Nothing special so 2/5

Boring, by the book 80s metal. Some decent riffs but nothing memorable. A totally mediocre Born To Be Wild cover is one of the best songs on here by default.

Not for me.

The first few songs are by far and away the standouts on this album. Its not bad per se but nothing stands out.

Average Generic

Every song is just a mid-paced rocker à la AC/DC. Very boring.

Always thought the Cult were a goth band, I might never have actually heard them. Turns out they are just another dull rock band. 2.5 rounded down Heard before? No Owned: No: 29/108 (26%) Will I get? No

Det står 1987 men det låter inte särskilt mycket 1987, fet är pá pluskontot. The Cult är ett märkligt band som börjar som nån slags svartrock (så du va inte helt fel ute Fredrik) för att bli det här för att senare transformera igen till yttetligare nåt annat med nån slags påklistrad indian och vilda västern image. Här slungas stelopererade köttbensriff ut som vore det konfetti, helt distanslöst och osvängigt. Några gånger höjs tempot (t.ex. "Bad fun") då blir det aningen mer aptitligt. Annars är det här en trist historia med mycket manér, men det är aldrig genomuselt. Svag tvåa

Blir positivt överraskad. Hade förväntat mig renodlad pudelrock utifrån omslaget. Lite roligare än så är det. Funkar att lyssna igenom, men sätter inget bestående avtryck. Tydligen Rick Rubin som producerat.

Not terrible but felt like a waste of time

Just basic and stuff I’ve already heard before

I was excited to see this as the selection - I recall liking The Cult in their quasi hair metal days of Fire Woman and Sweet Soul Sister only to find out later they were proto-alternative mainstays on the local alternative rock station. Unfortunately this album sucked.

It's passable hard rock but honestly not nearly as memorable as their contemporaries. The Apple bio even states they were AC/DC emulators, hard to carve out your own niche when that's your identity. I did like a couple songs, like Bad Fun with its rumbling guitars does sound like the train in the song, and Wild Flower is enjoyable. But this hardly seemed necessary.

I know everyone loves this band and I’m trying to give this a fair listen, but it’s never done much for me. Ok, this cover of born to wild does nothing for me.

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i’ve never really like this dude’s voice, and this really hit that point home for me

didn't love it didn't hate it but didn't like it either 6.95/10 2/5 holy mid

Boring

This sucks, sell outs - stylistic change from previous records

What even is Hard Rock? This doesn't seem very hard to me. Anyway, it's pretty annoying. All the songs sound the same and not great. I don't think any are bad other than Born To Be Wild, but still. None are very good.

This is an okay album. Rick Rubin keeps the sound consistent throughout, but not my cup of tea sound-wise. I do like Wild Flower as an opener, but most everything else sounds like its just a vehicle for the musicians rather than anything about the music itself. Add to that a bad cover of Born To Be Wild,

Boring 80s rock by numbers. Why not a proper Cult album?

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Barely two songs into this album and I already know everything I need to know about it. This is without a doubt the most unnecessary add to the list that I've gotten so far (250ish albums in). It wasn't a really big practice back when this came out, but this reminds me of the stuff Nickelback would do. Basically workshop an album until it is the most boringly middle of the road slop that "anyone" could enjoy. The difference is, at least Nickelback had How You Remind Me. To be fair, apparently The Cult started outside a goth rock/post punk band? I'd much rather listen to that then this lowest common denominator hard rock music that doesn't have a single unique idea in it. Overall, it's not bad, per-se, which is why it's not getting a 1. It's just beyond derivative and boring. This thing was made in 1987? Only two years away from Nirvana? Way to fuckin date yourself immediately. And they're aping the 70's, not even trying to cash in on hair/glam metal. Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, and Aerosmith was doing this stuff better back in the seventies. If I were to re-do this list, this honestly would be the first album I'd drop from the list, and it isn't even close. At least every other album I'd drop has *something* unique about it. There is no originality to be found here. If there's ever an album that feels like it got on purely because the band is British, it's this one. Why there needs to be a 70's throwback album from 1987 on the list confuses me.

I was disappointed. Thought I’d like this

The fact that anyone considers this badass is hilarious to me. 2/5

Classic rock meh Don't mind it but wouldn't listen again in a hurry

Pub Rock at best. Nothing outstanding on this album.

As a big fan of 70s classic rock this one was kind of underwhelming. Plenty of significantly better albums from that decade

Around the end 2013 or so, EDM crossed over from a novel/trendy sound, to something over saturated and tired. Anyone trying to get in on a club banger or progressive house festival anthem was sniffed out for their authenticity. I’d imagine that hair metal had the same timeline of events towards the end of the 80’s. This album felt like it was trying to cash in on the hair metal sound/aesthetic. A bad cover of “Born To Be Wild” was shoehorned near the end was a practical admission that The Cult couldn’t hold a pop song on their own. Rick Rubin even back then, you were better than this. A waste of a spot imo 2/5.

I think I watched these at a school battle of the bands once. Of all the albums i've ever heard this is definitely one of them.

Favorites: Wild Flower, Aphrodisiac Jacket, Love Removal Machine I kinda hated this one. This album feels like they tried to make Spinal Tap a real band but forgot to make it funny, which prompts the question, what day did God create Electric, and couldn't he have rested on that day too? 3.5/10

I remember this coming out and The Cult reinventing themselves with it. Didn’t make a massive impact on me at the time but the rock press creamed over it, and obviously the singles were played everywhere. It’s a solid enough, rock and roll-by-numbers album. The no frills Rick Rubin production is good. A lot of the songs fall short though. The Born To Be Wild cover is completely unnecessary too. When this came up I initially thought 3/5. Now I’m listening to it again, it has to be a 2 for me.

Du hard rock à cheveux long extrêmement générique. Tout y est fadasse et déjà entendu, plat et sans aucune inventivité. C’est plutôt bien exécuté, mais parfaitement dispensable.

Feels like a 40 minute AC/DC song, but it's good

The same boring dad rock pastiche that Ac/dc did years before this band, so zero profit there. Unlike Ac/dc, The Cult actually has a decent vocalist.

I used to have a neighbor who spent nearly everyday working on his car in his driveway. His garage was filled with other random stuff. This was a middle aged man with kids, and he had a Scarface poster in his garage. If he listened to music while he was working on his car, I imagine it would be this album

Standard guitar rock

Kinda dull 80s metal. A couple good songs, but the rest is disposable. 2/5

Before this album, I only knew She Sells Sanctuary, which is a fascinating mix of punk and gothic, with some pop production. This, though, is not that. This is polished metal, shiny and smooth. It's consumer grade. This was cast, then buffed to remove any character. I know I criticize thrash a lot, and I'm not a metal guy, but that's because I find the sound inherently unsettling. I still respect the artistry. This has that weird, flavorless smoothness that only comes from focus groups. And yet, I'm still going to rate it above all that thrash, because that means it's hard to really hate. I would never notice this "metal" if it was mall music. And I think that's more insulting than anything I've said about thrash metal.

Not a terribly bad album, I found it reasonnably pleasant to listen, but it's so unoriginal that I’ll have forgotten everything I just heard by the end of the day. Sounds like a generic imitation of every single rock and hard-rock band you’ve ever heard between the late 70s and the late 80s. What’s it doing on this list exactly ?

nothing terrible but just overall fine rock music. high 2

Meh I’ve never loved maximalist electric guitar

i certainly wasnt in the right headspace to listen to this today. i think i only either like metal or soft rock. pick a side bro.

Boring. I can’t even remember if I finished listening. One song sounded exactly like an AC/DC song

Just a bit generic. Wasn't really interested. Could probably be 3 stars instead of I was in a better mood.

2/5

zz top but bad

"We have AC/DC in England," they said.

Yawn...

a 2nd tier hair band has a Billy Idol tribute singer as frontman. Mixing favors the sharp and repetitive snare at a cost of any enjoyment to be squeezed from this generic production

nur weil Rick Rubin produzierte muss es mir nicht gefallen. selbst Born To Be Wild tönt schrottig.

This album was a lesson in the shifting sands of 80s youth tribalism in the UK for me. At the start of the decade all the cool kids were mods, New Romantics and casuals while I was a preteen metal kid provoking ridicule by insisting on headbanging to AC/DC at the swimming club disco. By the time this came out I had moved on and thought it was seriously naff and backwards looking but all the cool kids thought it was the greatest. *Insert 'baffled' meme of choice* Listening now I still think it is a more than slightly ridiculous 3rd generation photocopy of AC/DC, etc. It's fine for about three tracks but it really only has one idea. I also think Love or their first, Dreamtime, and/or an earlier AC/DC album should be in the book rather than this.

I've heard a lot about this band. They have been overhyped. This was passable hair rock, but the singing is strained and the instrumentation somewhat boring.

2.5/5: Bland and boring - there are much better albums out there from this era and genre. Extra 0.5 stars because they are from Bradford. At this point in the 80s, the riffs and solos had to be better than THIS. Why did we need a cover of Born to be Wild??? I'm off to listen to far better album released in 1987 by another Yorkshire band (Hysteria by Def Leppard). Standout track: - Outlaw: 3/5 - this one had some energy to it.

yeah it was nothing

The Cult, while influential, has always felt like a tryhard band to me.

It's incredible how middle-of-the-road this album is. Like, so generally bland that I think I experienced no emotion throughout the whole album.

It didn’t blow my mind. It was a nice album to listen to but it didn’t evoke anything from within me

Bad. Not good. Bad. I'm fairly acquainted with their '89 "Sonic Temple" and of course the '85 "She Smells Sanctuary" and I'm not sure I would have recognized this album - from in between those years - as The Cult. Not that "Sonic Temple" was much better, I suspect, outside of my nostalgia, but it had *a sound*. A sleaze. This here has nothing.

My uncle might listen to this while fixing up his car or something, and I wouldn't mind it being on in the background. But I don't really know how to work on cars.

Lidt for generisk rock, britisk 80’er, nede fra pubben

This is what I imagine when I think of classic hard rock. And I’m not a fan. It’s not something that grabs my interest or attention but feels more like a solid wall of sound. It sounds nice enough but it’s not something I’ll be putting in my playlist.

very standard pub rock

A rare Rick Rubin miss. Just generic hard rock. Bland bland bland. And no She Sells Sanctuary or whatever it’s called?!? Why put a Cult album on here that doesn’t contain their only good song? This strikes me as the authors British upbringing rearing its ugly boring head again

Only knew The Cult from their early 80's goth-leaning singles, so I was utterly unprepared for this incredibly generic, lame hard rock album. Really disappointing bland stuff.

King Contrary Man had a really enjoyable breakdown; that was probably my favorite song. Rick Rubin’s fingerprints are everywhere (clean sound mixing and crisp instrumentation), but “Born to Be Wild” is a huge swing and miss. Terrible cover. Edit, one week later: it wasn't that good, now that I think back on it. Knocking a star off.

Born to be Wild should have been left off. It wasn’t a better version for sure. Liked this musically (like they planned). The lyrics flipped between simplistic in a good way and making me feel like they were written by an entry level high school band. The guitar solos were fun but didn’t feel unique to them. It was produced to have a metal sound not because that’s where their art took them but because it was the style of the day and I’m not totally sure how I feel about that… fairly generic if I’m being honest. AI made it

Not for me, didn’t grab my attention.

This one didn’t do it for me. Sounded like Tony Hawk background music. AC/DC knockoff. I liked the Cult’s earlier albums when they were more punk/goth. This album sounded like they were trying too hard to appeal to mainstream American audiences. Boring

Not my favorite genre but musicians are obviously skilled.

4.5/10 Didn’t like this very much. Initially I thought the route-one hard rock/metal was ok, but it was mid and relentless. Fairly melodic, singing wasn’t annoying. It’s just dumb and not amazing. Best: Lil’ Devil

A lot of the same type songs. Decent guitar rock but it wears

I read the Wikipedia article and I was expecting like a Sisters of Mercy album, so I guess that’s kinda on me. Listened to some of their other songs after finishing this album, and the earlier stuff is definitely better.

This was disappointing and samey, but a 1 feels too harsh...

Overall a decent album but can't understand why it's on the list (especially when their prior album Love is better). Best song: Love Removal Machine. 2.5⭐️

Save for some solid playing, particularly the guitar work, this is really just a caricature. Rick Rubin's weird power fantasy. Interesting detail on the mix but it's about as dry as burnt toast. Gonna lose an entire star, too for the awful Steppenwolf cover. I'm left thinking I don't understand this band at all.

Thought I would enjoy this but by the time I got to track three I was choking on hairspray and howling vocals. Will not come back to this.

Flat out did not enjoy this. Painfully generic and dull. Why listen to this when there are millions of others just like it?? No.

funny but boring

Moderately serviceable hard rock music, but is this really a necessary pre-mortem listen when there's (ob/sub)jectively better music out there? Also, that Born To Be Wild cover is straight up ass.

Interesting to see that this came out the week I was born. Things have changed in the music industry! Aside from some interesting guitar moments, this was pretty forgettable and stereotypical classic rock.

It feels like such a sell out sound. They were in LA once and tried to make the most dull "1987" style music they could based on that memory. Guns n Roses came on after then and I could instantly tell the difference even before Axl's voice came on. Just dull.

Sounds like someone described the cult to AI and it spat this out

Mediocre bar band rock.

I mean, it eas definitely what I expected from late 80s hard rock. But it reallt didn't stand out, and they absolutely massacred "Born to be wild" minus one star just for that travesty.

Not Bad. Very Rock and roll. The production was awesome I gotta say like every was so clean. Songs were aight

I feel bad but I’m not into it and gotta get thru these more quickly so I can catch up…

Aphrodisiac Jacket sounds like a Citizen Dick song title.

“OH YEAH BABY! MAKE ME CRAZY! AHH BABY! BABY BABY BABY!” There you go. I’ve just summed up the whole album. There’s also a cover of “Born to Be Wild” that only makes me feel guilty for having listened to such a poor rendition. Instrumentation includes pounding drums, lifeless bass, and a very lively guitar that will float around the minor pentatonic scale if it wants to do a solo, which it will at least once a song. Production isn’t great, which is surprising considering it’s Rick Rubin, but all of their albums sound like this so I wonder if it’s intentional? Vocals are unique, but after forty minutes, annoying. Lyrics are nothing special. I enjoy this band, but not for a whole album. Maybe my enjoyment doesn’t even endure three of their songs. Oh well, baby. 2/5

too 80s

Aggressively banal. At least for me. It’s probably one of those things you just had to be there for. 2/5

This is default rock music. If you told me it was AI generated I would believe you.

This feels like classic 80s hair metal. It's fine, but there isn't a ton to digest here. The guitarist is by far the best musician of the group. Best Songs: Aphrodisiac Jacket, Love Removal Machine Worst Songs: Outlaw

Disappointing

Groupe inconnu. Du rock basique et mou, avec quelques chorus de guitare qui vont le sauver de la note minimale =>2/5. Et dire que la même année Voivod sortait "Killing Technology", un album vraiment original et créatif ... et pas dans la liste. Le choix des albums dans cette liste est vraiment bizarre !

Love Removal Machine

This would have been the type of music I listened to in the mid-late 80s, but I have never heard of this band, or any of their songs. I understand why. It's not bad (except the Born to be Wild cover) but nothing stands out or grabs my attention

I don't know the pretty much Rip off the Stones, Zeppelin, ACDC and whatever else. Nothing much new here at least this was before everything had to be drenched in reverb.

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Started well but the voice grated on me and it was a lot of unecessary solos and yeahhhhs

Wow this is derivative, even for the late 80s. Yea, the Born To Be Wild cover is real shit.

Fav: Love Removal Machine Least Fav: Born To Be Wild This level of sell-out is pathetic, the change away from gothic rock definitely seems wrong if this album came from it

All songs are the same and some of the instruments sound like they were recorded with a cheap VST. But it 1987 huh?

tutto ok

Very generic 80s rock.