Rare Cult [Box set]

Rare Cult [Box set]

Track Listings
Disc: 1

1. Ghost Dance [Radio Session]

2. Bad Medicine Waltz [Radio Edit]

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Disc: 2

1. Revolution [Full Length Remix]

2. Judith

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Disc: 3

1. Love Removal Machine

2. Wild Flower

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Disc: 4

1. Wild Flower [Extended Rock Mix]

2. Outlaw [Alternate Mix]

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Disc: 5

1. Fire Woman [NYC Rock Mix]

2. Medicine Train

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Disc: 6

1. Faith Healer

2. Full Tilt [Live Session]

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Disc: 7

1. Resurrection Joe [Long Version]

2. Assault on Sanctuary

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Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
With 48 of the 90 tracks in this lavish six-CD box set appearing for the first time on CD, Rare Cult lives up to its name. With a selection of single remixes, B-sides, and tracks that just never saw the light of day, Rare Cult charts the rise and decline of one of Britain's premier rock bands, from their first full-length release under the name of the Cult (Dreamtime) to 1994's eponymous album, via the heady peaks of Love, Electric, and Sonic Temple. The most interesting offerings are those that were laid down for the original successor to Love, which was going to be called Peace, and which provide more of a natural progression to the Rick Rubin-produced Electric. Even the later recordings show that they never really lost what made them great--the winning combination of Ian Astbury's distinctive vocals and Billy Duffy's rocking guitar. Indeed, many of the tracks from the sessions for Ceremony and The Cult are better than the ones that actually made the cut. If you're looking for a greatest-hits package, try Pure Cult. However, if you're in the market for a lasting testament to an innovative and ever-changing rock band, look no further. --Helen Marquis

Product Description
Import edition of this limited edition box-set for the UK alternative rock act that's out-of-print domestically. 90 tracks on 6 CD's (all studio, no live tracks). 78 tracks were previously unreleased in the U.S. and 48 were previously unreleased anywhere. Includes all the studio B-sides, the full previously unreleased 'Peace' album, complete radio sessions, 12'' mixes, alternate versions and out-takes, unreleased masters and a clutch of work-in-progress demos. The box also includes an 80-page booklet that details the sessions and gives background to the recordings and includes rare photos. The CDs are housed in a heavy-duty deluxe box approx. 6 X 5 1/2 X 2''.

Tracks:

Overture To 'Tannhauser'
Domna, Pos Vos Ay Chausida
We Don't Merely Use Instruments, We Play On Them. And They Play On Us.
Hungarian Dance No.7
The Violin Is One Of The Most Tender And Beautiful Instruments Ever Invented.
Violin Concerto In D Major (Adagio)
But For A Long Time It Was Seen As The Instrument Of The Devil.
The Soldier's Tale: Triumphal March Of The Devil
The Manipulative Seductiveness Of The Gypsy Violin.
Csardas Music
The Violin And The Initiation Of Nature
The Four Seasons (Spring, Mvt 1)
Birds Are Again Evoked In The Second Concerto, Especially Music's Natural Favourite.
The Four Seasons (Summer, Mvt 1)
Like The Devil, The Violin Is A Master Of Disguise.
Old Viennese Dance No.3 'Schon Rosmarin'
The Menacing Sensuality Of Ravel's Tzigane: A Very Different Side Of The Violin:
Tzigane
Do We Now Have The True Measure Of This Instrument? Not Just Yet.
Caprice No.24
The Many Effects Of The String Tremolando: Brandenburg Concerto No.4 (Last Mvt)/From Joy To Fright/Quartettsatz In C Minor/The String Tremolo Practically Spells The World Agitato.
Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge (No.7)
Prokofiev's Tremolo In Romeo And Juliet Should Not Be Heard Just Before Bedtime.
Romeo And Juliet: Act IV
Vivaldi Use It To Illustrate The Shivering Of Travellers Crossing The Ice.
The Four Seasons (Winter, Mvt 1)
The Violin Muted
Clair De Lune
The Gentleness Of Muted Strings Persists Even When A Whole Orchestra Plays.
Piano Concerto No.21 In C Major, K.467 (Slow Mvt)
The Pizzicato Violin
Pizzicato Polka
In Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto, The Accompaniment Is Pizzicato.
Violin Concerto No.2 In G Minor (Slow Mvt)
Varieties Of Pizzicato: Colas Breugnon (The People's Feast)/Now A Drier, Leaner, Hungrier Pizzicato. There's Not A Lot Of Comfort Here./Capriol Suite (Tordion)/The Use Of Pizzicato As 'Percussion'/Romeo And Juliet (Act I)/Mahler Used Pizzicato...
The Planets (Mars - The Bringer Of War)
The Technique Of Double-Stopping Enables The Violin To Play Duets With Itself./Sonata No.3 In C Major For Unaccompanied Violin (Fugue)/Now A Later Example Of The Same Technique
Hungarian Dance No.4
Double-Stopping Is A Standard Feature Of A Lot Of Folk Music.
The Four Seasons (Autumn, Mvt 1)
Now The Same Technique, But The Sound Might Have Come From Another World.
Bolero
Double-Stopping Can Only Approximate The Sound Of A Real Violin Duet.
Cadenza To The Violin Concerto By Brahms
Now Compare That With A Real Violin Duet.
Forty-Four Duos (No. 1: Teasing Song)
Another Duo By Bartok, Demonstrating The Violin's Rich Lower Register
Forty-Four Duos (No.2: Maypole Dance)
And Now What May Be The Most Beautiful Accompanied Violin Duet In History
Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins (Largo)
The Soul Of The Violin Is In Song; But What About This Weird Passage?
Violin Concerto No.1 In D Major (Mvt 2)
The Use Of Harmonies In The Orchestra Can Be Both Magical And Unsettling.
Symphony No.1 'Titan' (Mvt 1, Opening)
Tchaikovsky's Use Of Harmonics In The Sleeping Beauty Is Both Strange And Darling.
The Sleeping Beauty (Act II, No.15: Entr'Acte)
Ravel's Harmonics In Mother Goose Effect A Magical Transformation.
Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Beauty And The Beast)
Stravinsky's Harmonics In The Firebird Transport Us Almost Into Another World./The Firebird (Introduction)
The Natural Upper Notes Of The Violins Have A Unique Emotional 'Grab'.
Also Sprach Zarathustra (Of The Afterworldsmen)
Still In Their Upper Register, The Violins Unleash The Energy Of A Young Colt.
Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge (No. 4)
Elsewhere, Britten Uses The Same High Register To Create A Very Different Mood.
Four Sea Interludes (Dawn) From 'Peter Grimes'
To End This Outing With The Violins, A Charming Little Elfin Dance
Elfenreigen

Tracks:

Introduction To The Viola
Viola Concerto (Mvt 1)
Khatchaturian Gets A Very Different Sound From It: Fuller, Fruitier, More Exotic.
Gayane Suite No.1 (Armen's Solo)
Very Nearly The Whole Of The Violin's Upper Register Is Also Available To The Viola.
Passacaglia, Op.33b From 'Peter Grimes'
The Viola Can Bring A Special, Rich Twanginess To Pizzicato That The Violins Lack./Don Quixote/Berlioz Drew Sounds From It That Retain Their Metallic Strangeness Even Today.
Harold In Italy (Mvt 4)
The Muted Viola: Intimate, Gentle, Poignant In Dvork
Cypresses (No.9)
The Massed Violas Of The Modern Symphony Orchestra In Mahler
Symphony No.4 (Mvt 3)
The 'Period' Viola In Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No.6 (Last Mvt)
The Cello: A Voice Of Unique Nobility
Suite No.1 For Unaccompanied Cello (Prelude)
Brahms And The 'Soul' Of The Cello
Piano Concerto No.2 In B Flat Major (Mvt 3)
Most Orchestral Composers Tend To Emphasize The Cello's Lower Register.
Cantata 'Herz Und Mund Und Tat Und Leben', BWV 147 (Soprana Aria: Bereite Dir, Jesu)
In The Time Of Beethoven The Cello Remained As Fundamental As Ever.
Symphony No.3 'Eroica' (Finale)
But The Cello Is Not Condemned To Spend Its Life In The Basement.
Elfentanz, Op.39
Not Only In Recital Showpieces Like That Is The Cello Is Used In Its Highest Register.
The Protecting Veil (Opening)
A Cello With An Identity-Crisis: The Pizzicato Flamencan
Flamenco
Double-Stopping In The Lower Reaches Of The Cello's Range
Solo Suiet For Cello And Piano (Sardana)
It's In The Middle Register That The Cello Really Comes Into Its Own.
Oriental Dance, Op.2 No.2
It Was To The Cellos That Beethoven Gave Two Of His Most Famous Themes./Symphony No.5 (Mvt 2)/Still More Famous Than That Theme Is This One From The Ninth Symphony.
Symphony No.9 (Finale)
Introduction To The Double-Bass
The Carnival Of The Animals (The Elephant)
But The Double-Bass Can Be Intensely Expressive And Graceful.
Elegy No.1 In D Major
The Range Of The Double-Bass Is The Greatest Of All The String Instruments/Allegro Di Concerto, 'Alla Mendelssohn'/And It's Also Capable Of Very Considerable Virtuosity.
Capriccio Di Bravura
Double-Bass Solos In Orchestral Scores Are Rare But Often Memorable./Symphony No.1 'Titan' (Mvt 3)/In His Third Symphony Mahler Makes A Very Different Use Of The Instrument./Symphony No.3 (Mvt 1)
The Double-Bass Muted In Prokofiev/Lieutenant Kije Suite (Kije's Wedding)/In Another Work Prokofiev Uses The Double-Bass To Enhance The Winds./Romeo And Juliet (Act III)/And He Combines The Bass Clarinet With A Shivering Tremolo From The Double-Basses....
Symphony No.5 (Mvt 3)/So Much For The Strings/On Now To The Winds

Tracks:

The Antiquity And Magic Of The Flute
Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune
The Versatility And Agility Of The Flute
Orchestral Suite No.2 In B Minor (Badinerie)
The Flute In Fifteenth-Century Spain
Sa'Dawi
Other Flutes: The Bass And Alto
Chamber Music No.II
The Piccolo - Aptly Named
La Naissance D'Osiris (Mvt 6)
From A Piccolo Of The Eighteenth Century To One Of Its Descendants In The Twentieth
Suite No.1 For Small Orchestra (Valse)
A Variety Of Techniques
Chamber Music No.II
Flutter-Tonguing. But Tchaikovsky Got There Eighty Years Before.
The Nutcracker (Act II, No.2: Scene)
From The Transverse To The Vertical: The Baroque Recorder
Recorded Suite In A Minor (Menuet II)
An Unfamiliar, Early Vision Of The Instrument
Naelden, Naelden
The Bachian Oboe
Cantata 'Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott', BWV 80 (No.7: Duetto)
Introduction To The Cor Anglais Or 'English Born'
Symphony No.9 'From The New World' (Mvt 2)
The Loneliness Of The Cor Anglais
The Swan Of Tuonela
The Cor Anglais Joins The French Horn In Haydn.
Symphony No.22 'The Philosopher' (Opening)
Introduction To The Oboe D'Amore, Beloved Of Bach - But Also Of Ravel
Bolero
The Clarinet Family: Boxing The Compass, From The Depths Of The Bass Clarinet.../The Egyptian (Violence)/...To The Raucous And Squealy.../Taras Bulba (The Death Of Ostap)/...To The Shrill And Complaining...
Petrushka (No.8: Peasant With Bear)/...To The High Sprits Of A Playful Puppy./Symphonie Fantastique (Last Mvt)/And To The Downright Jazzy/Romeo And Juliet (Act II)
As The High Clarinets Tend To Be Loud, So The Bass Tends To Be Soft:
Gayane Suite No. 1 (Mvt 5)
The Bass Clarinet Is Used By Most Composers Mainly As A Colouring Agent.../Petrushka (No.4: The Blackamoor)/...But It Does Occasionally Get A Whole Tune To Itself./Iberia (Almeria).
The Range Of The Normal Clarinet Parts Goes Quite High...
The Snow Maiden (Scene 5: Melodrama)
...And Quite Low.
Peter And The Wolf (The Cat)
The Clarinet As Concerto Soloist
Clarinet Concerto In A Major (Rondo)
But That's Not The Instrument Mozart Wrote It For; This Is:
Clarinet Concerto In A Major (Rondo)
Introduction To The Saxophone
Hary Janos Suite (Mvt 4)
The Soprano Saxophone Has Quite A Different Feel To It.
L'Arlesienne Suite No.1 (Minuet)
The Little Sopranino Sax Goes Even Higher.
Bolero
The Most Famous Use Of The Saxophone Is In An Orchestration By Ravel.
Pictures At An Exhibition (The Old Castle)
The Saxophone Can Be Quite Contagiously Good-Humoured.
Sax-O-Phun
The Puffa-Puffa Image Of The Bassoon
Peter And The Wolf (Grandfather)
The Bachian Bassoon, In Accompanimental Mode
Cantata 'Weichet Nur, Betrubte Schatten' ('Wedding Cantata'), BWV 202 (Aria No.1)
Bizet Leaves The Puffa-Puffa Image Out, Allowing The Bassoon To Sing./Carmen Suite No.1 (Les Dragons D'Alcala)
And Ravel, Also In Spanish Mode, Does Likewise.
Bolero
The Bassoon As A Voice Of High Seriousness, Indeed Desolate Loneliness
Symphony No.3 (Opening)
The Eerie Bassoon In Its Highest Register
The Rite Of Spring (Opening)
Stravinsky Now Draws On Its Lowest Register, Lonely And Melancholy.
The Firebird Suite (1919, Berceuse)
The Bassoon As Concerto Soloist, Avoiding All Exaggeration
Bassoon Concerto In G Minor (Finale)
The Deep-Voiced Contra-Bassoon, As A Fairy-Tale Beast
Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Beauty And The Beast)
The French Horn Under Its Woodwind Hat
Wind Quintet, Op.43 (Last Mvt)
Now A More Prominent Role, In A Woodwind Quintet From An Earlier Era
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Op.100 No.5 (Mvt 2)
The Horn In Harmonious Blend With Strings In Another Quintet
Horn Quintet, K.407 (Finale)

Tracks:

The Trumpet As Virtuoso Soloist
Brandenburg Concerto No.2 (Last Mvt)
The Special Brillance Of Paired Trumpets
Concerto In C For Two Trumpets, RV537 (Mvt 1)
The Ceremonial Trumpet
Fanfare For The Common Man
Trumpets And Drums - An Incomparable Alliance
Messiah (The Trumpet Shall Sound)
The Versatility Of The Trumpet, From The Most Public To The Most Lonely
Piano Concerto In F (Slow Mvt)
The Trumpet As The Voice Of The City/An American In Paris/The Trumpet As Recruitment Officer/The Soldier's Tale (The March)/The Trumpet As Swaggerer
Carmen Suite No.2 (Habanera)
The Trumpet As The Voice Of Strength And Courage
Carmet Suite No.2 (Toreador's Song)
The Trumpet Muted/Petrushka (No.4: The Blackamoor)/Lieutenant Kije Suite (Opening)/The Trumpet As The Voice Of Weariness
Billy The Kid
The Trumpet As Character Actor
Pictures At An Exhibition (No.6)
The Trumpet As The Voice Of God
Mass In B Minor ('Et Exspecto')
The Birth Of The Trombone
Aenmerckt Nu Hier
The Birth Of The Brass As A Family
Canzon 12 In Double Echo
The Trombone In The Eighteenth Century
Trombone Concerto In B Flat Major (Finale)
The Tone Of The Tenor Trombone/Romance For Trombone And Organ/The Memorable Voice Of The Bass Trombone/Requiem (Mvt 2)/But The Bass Trombone Is More Than An Instrumental Bullfrog.
Hosannah
The Trombones Become Part Of The Orchestra.
Symphony No.5 (Finale)
The Wagnerian Trombone:/Overture To 'Tannhauser'
The Trombone As Caricaturist
Pulcinella (No.19: Vivo)
The Trombone As Raspberry/Concerto For Orchestra (Intermezzo)
The Horn And The Hunt
Horn Concerto No.4 In E Flat, K.495 (Finale)
The Challenging Horn Of The Baroque
Abaris Ou Les Boreades (Menuet)
The Scarcity Of First-Rate Players In Handel's Time
Walter Music (Minuet 1)
The Horn As Magician/The Firebird Suite (1919, Finale)
Horns And The Sound Of Nobility
Overture To 'Tannhauser' (Opening)
The Special Sound Of The Horn In Its Higher Register
Mass In B Minor ('Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus')
The Trumpet-Like Sound Of Massed Horns
Symphony No.3 (Mvt 1, Opening)
The Tuba - Unfairly Maligned?
Symphony No.6 (Mvt 3)
The Tuba Perfectly Cast By Ravel
Pictures At An Exhibition (Bydlo)

Tracks:

Introduction. And We Begin With A Bang.
Fanfare For The Common Man/The Bass Drum On The Battlefields/Wellington's Victory, Op.91 (Opening)
At The Opposite Extreme Is The Triangle.
Piano Concerto No.1 In E Flat (Scherzo)
Categories Of Percussion: Tuned And Untuned. The Side Drum
Overture To 'La Gazza Ladra' - The Thieving Magpie (Opening)
The Side Drum In An Effective But Unexpected Role/Clarinet Concerto (Mvt 1)
The Tambourine. One Of The Oldest Instruments In The World
Den Hoboecken Dans
Even Older Is The Originally Oriental Gong.
Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Laideronette)
No Single Instrument Can Match The Gong In Evoking The Breaking Of Waves./Passacaglia, Op.33b From 'Peter Grimes'/But Gongs Don't Have To Be Struck To Be Effective.
Gymnopedie No.2
The Cymbals Are Generally Discovered Early In Life./The Sanguine Fan/And They Do More Than Clash Together Loudly. They Can Be Clashed Together Softly./Studio Example: But They Needn't Be Clashed Together At All/Studio Example: They Can Be Lightly...
Other Untuned Percussion Instruments Include The Whip.: Piano Concerto In G Major (Opening)/And Here Are No Fewer Than Twenty, Cracked By Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Act I, Scene 5)
More Versatile Than The Whip Are The Wood Blocks.../Studio Example/...Which Crop Up All Over The Place In Twentieth-Century American Music.
Rodeo (Hoe-Down)
Related To The Wood Blocks, By Sound, Are The Castanets./Jota Aragonesa/But The Castanets Were Also Used By Monteverdi Back In The Seventeenth Century.
Scherzi Musicali (Damigella Tutta Belle)
A Still Earlier Example From Fifteenth-Century Spain
Yo M'Enamori D'Un Aire
The Birth Of The Bongo
Symphonic Dances From 'West Side Story'
From The Streets Of New York To The Blacksmith's Shop/Il Trovatore ('Anvil Chorus')
Desert-Island Decibels: Grand Canyon Suite (On The Trail)/Arcana
From One Vegetable To Another: The Humble Squash, Or Marrow/Huapango
Onwards To The Tuned Percussion. First, The Timpani
Also Sprach Zarathustra (Introduction)
But The Drum Roll Can Be More Effectively Frightening Than The Big Bang.: Symphony No.2 'Resurrection' (Mvt 3)
Not One Drum Roll, But Many/Grand Canyon Suite (Sunrise)/Symphonie Fantastique (Last Mvt)
Taking Advantage Of Tunability
Music For Strings, Percussion And Celeste (Mvt 2)
The Russian Composer Rodion Shchedrin Takes A Downward Turn./Carmen Suite (Changing Of The Guard)/Tuned, Yes; But For The Truly Melodic We Must Look Elsewhere.
Introducing The Glockenspiel/Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)
Saint-Saens And The Xylophone
The Carnival Of The Animals (Fossils)
Ravel And The Xylophone
Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Laideronette)
Introducing The Marimba/Carmen Suite (First Intermezzo)
Introducing The Vibraphone
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Narange Dolce)
The Vibraphone Goes Russian.../Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)/...And Is Joined By The Marimba./Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)
Introducing The Hungarian Cimbalom
Folk Dances
The Cimbalom And The Symphony Orchestra
Hary Janos Suite (Mvt 3)
Introducing The Tubular Bells
Hary Janos Suite (Viennese Musical Clock)
A More 'Up-Front' Approach From Rodion Shchedrin
Carmen Suite (Introduction)
But The Bells Can Also Make The Sinister Even More Sinister./Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Mvt 1)
Introducing The Celeste
The Nutcracker (Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy)
Magic, In The Use Of Collective Percussion
Miroirs (La Vallee Des Cloches)
Plucked Instruments: The 'Undercover Percussion'/Carmen Suite (Scene)
A Prime Case In Point Is The Harp, Irresistible To The Romantics./The Nutcracker (Act II, No.1: Scene)/The Non-Solo Harp As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra/Hungarian Rhapsody No.1
The Traditionally Subservient Role Of The Harpsichord In The Baroque Orchestra
Brandenburg Concerto No.2 (Slow Mvt)
The Piano: King Of The Tuned Percussion/Symphony No.3 'Organ' (Mvt 3)/And A Quarter Of A Century After That:
Petrushka (Russian Dance)
The Anti-Romantic Piano As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra
Music For Strings, Percussion And Celeste (Last Mvt)

Tracks:

Keyboard Instruments In The Orchestra - The Most Powerful Of Them All:
Symphony No.3 'Organ' (Finale)
But Things In Handel's Day Were Very Different.
Organ Concerto In B Flat, Op.4 No.3 (Last Mvt)
The Organ Is Difficult To Classify.
An Unexpected, Organ-related Guest
Concerto Pour Zampogna (Last Mvt)
Peasant-Fancying... And A Touch Of The Roaming Cowboy
Les Miserables (Drink With Me)
Outside Artefacts And The Power Of Association
Mahler's Sleighbells
Symphony No.4 (Opening)
A Roll-Call Of Some Unusual Guests/The Typewriter/Parade
Chains, And More/Integrales/An American In Paris/Sandpaper Ballet
Purpose-Built Oddities: Wind Machines/Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Opening)
Don Quixote (Variation VIII)
National Calling Cards: The Guitar For Spain/Concierto De Aranjuez (Finale)
And The Guitar's Poor American Relative, The Banjo/Washington Breakdown
And Poorer Still, The Mouth Organ/The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Packing Up)
The Balalaika For Russia/Romeo And Juliet (Act II: No.14)
The Maracas For Mexico/The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (El Desayuno)
The Bongos And Congas And A Whole Wealth Of Other Drums For Africa And Central America/Studio Example
The Sitar Of India/Evening Raga: Bhapoli
The Accordion For France (Especially Paris)/Paris Canaille
The Zither For Vienna/The Third Man (Theme)
The Cimbalom For Hungary/Folk Dances
The Guitar As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra/Rondena
There Are Whole Orchestras Of Balalaikas./Sveit Mesiats
The Effect Of The Wordless Human Voice, Used Purely As An Instrument/Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Mvt 1)
Nocturnes
Instruments And the Imitation Of Nature. The Clarinet As Cuckoo
The Carnival Of The Animals (The Cuckoo)
The Flute As An All-purpose Aviary
The Carnival Of The Animals (The Aviary)
The Oboe As Duck
Peter And The Wolf (The Duck)
The Recording Of Reality. Does It Work As Well?
The Pines Of Rome (The Pines Of The Janiculum)
The Recording Of Reality Electronically Reborn In New Guises
Cantus Articus - Concerto For Birds And Orchesra (Mvt 2)
Beethoven Turns Avian: Cuckoo, Nightingale, And Quail
Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' (Andante Molto Mosso)
Some Improbable Casting: The Violin As Braying Donkey
The Carnival Of The Animals (Persons With Long Ears)
A Truly Orchestral Hee-haw To Be Reckoned With
Overture To 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
A Thunderstorm In A Million
Symphony No.6 'Pastoral (Allegro-Allegretto)
the Instrumental Depiction Of A Silent World
The Carnival Of The Animals (The Aquarium)
Saint-Saens' Menagerie Takes A Curtain Call.
The Carnival Of The Animals (Finale)

Tracks:

The Grouping Of Instrumental Families. An Additive Approach. First, Two Violins
Forty-Four Duos (No.4)
A Great Contrast, Of Both Pitch And Character: Violin And Viola
Duo For Violin And Viola In B Flat Major, K.424 (Finale, Vars 1 & 2)/Studio Example
Arrival Of The Standard String Trio: Violin, Viola, And Cello
String Trio In B Flat (Menuetto)
The String Quartet: Two Violins, Viola, And Cello
String Quartet In F, Op.18 No.1 (Mvt 3)
The String Quintet - When The Extra Instrument Is A Second Viola
String Quartet No.5 In D, K.593 (Adagio)
The String Quintet - When The Extra Instrument Is A Second Cello
String Quintet In C (Mvt 3)
The String Sextet: Two Violins, Two Violas, And Two Cellos
String Sextet In B Flat (Mvt 2)
The String Octet: The Standard String Quaret Times Two
Octet In E Flat, Op.20 (Mvt 1)
Double The String Octet: A Fully Fledged String Orchestra
String Symphony No.2 (Finale)
The Massed Strings Of A Symphony Orchestra
Fantasia On A Theme Of Thomas Tallis
Contrasts Of Pitch And Instrumental 'Colour' In The Woodwind Section
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Op.100 No.5 (Theme)
In The First Variation It's The Horn That Gets The Lion's Share.
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 1
In Variation Two The Torch Is Handed To The Bassoon.
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 2
In Variation Three The Oboe Leads.
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 3
Variation Four: Conversation Before Returning To A Solo-dominated Texture
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 4
And Variation Five is Dominated By The Clarinet.
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 5
The Next To Be Featured Is The Virtuoso Flute.
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 6
Individual Farewells And A Closing Chorus
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 7
A Mixed Group: Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, String Quartet, And Double-Bass
Octet In F (Mvt 3)
The Early Classical Symphony Orchestra Of Haydn And Mozart
Symphony No.29 In A, K.201 (Finale)
Strings, Wind, But No Brass. What Haydn And Mozart Never Knew
Canzon 28
Beethoven's Fifth: Two Horns, Two Trumpets, And Three Trombones Join The Team.
Symphony No.5 (Finale)
From Beethoven To The Massive Orchestras Of Berlioz, Wagner, And Mahler
Beethoven Changed The Face Of The Symphony And The Orchestra Forever
Symphoy No.6 'Tragic' (Mvt 1)
The Cult Of Orchestral Elephantiasis Reaches Its Peak.
Symphony No.1 'Gothic' (VI: Te Ergo Quaesumus)
When Large Doesn't Necessarily Mean Loud: Debussy
Images (Gigues)
A Crisis Of Confidence; The Orchestra's Survival Hangs In The Balance, But It Still Develops. The Ondes Martenot:
Turangalila Symphony (Chant D'amour 1)
The Advent Of The 'Early Music' Movement Brings A New Vitality And Freshness.
Balle De Xerxes (Gavotte En Rondeau)
Computer And Synthesiser: Friends Or Foes?
Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins (Largo)
A Speculative Look Ahead/Mass In B Minor ('Dona Nobis Pacem')

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This CD is excellent for the beginner or expert! To be able to haear the instrumets separately and then together really provides a good education. and/or refresher. The book thaty comes with the CD is alomost worth the price by itself!

Very Informative and Enjoyable.......2006-11-20

Whether you're a music novice or pro, "The instruments of the Orchestra" is a very worthwhile purchase. The 7 CDs, with a total of 8 hours, are expertly narrated by Jeremy Siepmann. He's a great speaker, very much like the late Leonard Bernstein was. Mr. Siepmann takes you on an unforgetable musical journey covering the origins and use of the various orchestral instruments throughout musical history. The balance between his narration and a wealth of musical examples, which range from snippets to entire movements, is superb. The comprehensive enclosed booklet is excellent and faithfully follows the 7 CDs in content. Even with my 40+ years of music training I still learned new things from this wonderful collection. Considering the excellence of the content, and a cost that translates to about $5 per disc, this collection is a great value. Grab it, you won't regret that you did. Five solid stars!

Frank's view.......2006-08-19

This boxed set of CD's with booklet achieved all I had hoped that it would. There are good samples of individual instruments and well done commentary on each. The only drawback was that some of the samples were too brief and could have been longer, hoiwever I guess this fits in with time constraints of the medium. It has given me a lot of clues as to future purchases of CD's for listening to individual instruments. Altogeth a satisfactory purchase and a welcome addition to my collection.

Excellent Intro for Those Not Familiar with the Orchestra.......2003-11-08

I've listened to classical music for years and am interested in composition. I bought this CD set to learn how an orchestra and its instruments work. I thought the CDs would be a nice but boring lecture. They aren't! Not only are they FUN but they are informative as well. I learned a huge amount from each CD and couldn't wait to listen to the next one.

The narrator and writer is a great speaker and holds your attention well. He is definitely knowledgeable. He provides musical examples for each point he makes, so you get to "hear" what he just talked about. I'd say the CDs are about 65% music and 35% narration. You'll learn about the range of instruments, some history, different ways to play them, how they sound, and how they are used in the orchestra. This CD set was a great learning experience and is sold at such a low price!

I recommend this CD for those who want to learn about classical music and those who know about it but are interested in learning more about the inner workings of an orchestra. You'll learn much useful information. For instance, the Rite of Spring (with that eerie start) is written for bassoon! I never knew a bassoon could sound like that but now I do.

Tracks:

Love Removal Machine [Peace Remix]
Zap City
Faith Healer
She Sells Sanctuary [Long Version]
Edie (Ciao Baby) [Acoustic]
Little Face
Spanish Gold
Love Trooper
River
Lay Down Your Gun [Version Two]
No. 13
Bleeding Heart Graffitti
Sea and Sky
Go West [Crazy Circle][Mix]
Join Hands

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Best of what, one may ask? Well, of Rare Cult, itself a limited-edition six-CD box set designed with the hardcore fan in mind. If your principal memory of the band, however, is the "Edie" video or the snippet of "She Sells Sanctuary" that showed up in a car commercial, you'll be pleased to know that both songs are included here, in acoustic and extended versions, respectively. A bunch of other rarities and B-sides, five of which are not included in the box set make this a must-own for stalwart fans as well. --Genevieve Williams

Album Description

15 track compilation of highlights from box set, featuring 11 tracks never before released in the U.S. Beggars Banquet.

Customer Reviews:

Another Great Cult Album.......2007-04-16

I'm not all long winded-so I'm going to keep it simple. One of the most underrated rock bands that continue to put out great albums and continue to rock. Just got Good and Evil-Love It. Can't wait for the next release

Some worthwhile material, but more a marketing piece than I'd expect from Beggars'.......2006-04-28

"The Best of Rare Cult" is a compilation of tracks from the exhaustive "Rare Cult" boxed set, and much to the chagrin of someone like myself who ponied up the cash for the box, also includes five tracks not in the "Rare Cult" boxed set. I'm actually a bit shocked that Beggars' Banquet would have resorted to this sort of marketing ploy, but nonetheless, the set is what it is.

For the casual fan of the Cult, there's really not a whole lot here that's worthwhile-- yeah, you get an early take of "Love Removal Machine" replete with overdubs galore, different (although in many cases subtlely) mixes of some early tracks like "She Sells Sanctuary" and "Go West", an acoustic version of "Edie (Ciao Baby)" and a couple leftovers, b-sides and so on that are really worth noting ("Zap City", "No. 13"), but really it's hard to judge this as critical.

If you've gotten all the albums and are looking for more, then this has more value-- admittedly-- the above mentioned material as well as some other leftovers, usually those that are glaringly in some camp or another (uber-goth "Little Face", melodrama monster "Bleeding Heart Graffitti") are probably of interest to deeper fans. And of course, if you're totally hardcore, five tracks here are not readily available elsewhere, so it's essential.

But truthfully, this one kind of stinks of marketing to me, and I always hate that. I'd give it 3.5 stars, but I'm always bothered by these sorts of compilations.

Don't let the "Rare" fool ya!.......2001-08-04

During a recent trip to Kansas I got tired of the local radio stations in a hurry (like twenty minutes). With four more days before my return home I new I needed to find some new music for the rental car, fast.

Despite being a huge Cult fan I had been leary of purchasing this compilation of "Rare" tunes. You know, the type of music that only the true diehard fan can truly appreciate. Being desperate I took a chance. Right from the opening drum beat of "Love Removal Machine" I had a feeling that I had made a good decision. I like this version better than the original. It has a live type intensity, but with a studio production quality. I kept waiting for the applause at the end. "Zap City" continues with the same live type urgency that has you leaning over to crank up the volume. What else can be said about "She Sells Sanctuary". A classic rock tune that is included here with "Long Version" in the sub-title. It's is similar enough to the album version to make it instantly recgonizable, but with enough variation to give it a subtle freshness. The lone applause at the end makes you feel as if you just sat in on a private session with the band. The acoustic version of "Edie" rounds out a four song set that alone would make this album worthwhile.

While there are some songs of the variety that I was afraid the whole album might be made up of, there are more than enough quality songs to make this an often played addition to even the casual Cult fan's collection.

Good Enough.......2000-12-21

The Cult, from their Gothic beginnings of Southern Death Cult, to Death Cult, and then Love. Ya stop there and ya got what ya got here. This CD steers clear of the heavier side (Electric, Sonic Temple) and perfectly bridges the gap that as they explained in the liner notes, was too far to cross for hard core Love fans to get to Electric. As with Love Removal Machine, hell- this version with more of the Love sound is just as good and it's Metal brother on Electric to me! All the songs are catchy and very spiritual, as you would expect with any Cult CD. The sound quality is great, so you don't feel cheated as with some "rare cuts and live stuff" CD's. The material here is like having a brand spankin new Cult album, and it feels the same cuz radio Still won't touch the good stuff. Hell, I thought the Cult CD that came out in about 94 (the one with the black bull on it, or whatever that is) was amazing. It was heavy , it was alternative, and for some reason , you were lucky if you heard Coming Down maybe once a month anywhere , so be your own person, screw the mainstream trendy Ted's , and get this awesome CD.

Must have fo Cult fans!.......2000-10-20

This best of b-sides and outtakes is an absolute must have for Cult fans, not only for the three previously unavailable songs, but for the remastered quality of the tracks that you may be familar with (Love Trooper, Zap city etc). The liner notes are a very informative reference to the history of each track. This cd is hopefully just an appetizer for whats included in the forthcoming box set!!

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THE BLUE PRINT For Box Sets to comes
Should I sell this!
Exhaustive. (almost)
The RAre cult keeps the Love Era alive
A must have for the Cult fan.

Rare Cult
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Live at Marquee London 1991
Beyond Good and Evil
Rise
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Spirit\Light\Speed

ASIN: B0000516TU
Release Date: 2000-11-21

Tracks:

Ghost Dance [Radio Session]
Bad Medicine Waltz [Radio Edit]
Resurrection Joe [Radio Session]
Go West [Crazy Spinning Circles]
Bone Bag
Sea and Sky
She Sells Sanctuary
No. 13
Snake
(Here Comes The) Rain
Little Face
Spiritwalker [Radio Session]
Revolution [Radio Session]
All Souls Avenue [Radio Session]
Big Neon Glitter

Tracks:

Revolution [Full Length Remix]
Judith
Sunrise
All Souls Avenue
Electric Ocean [Original Version]
Go Go Guru [Original Version]
Love Removal Machine [Radio Session]
Conquistador [Radio Session]
King Contrary Man [Radio Session]
Electric Ocean
Zap City [Demo Version]
Love Trooper [Demo Version]
Progresso [Backing Track Demo]
Peace Dog
Oink [Version One]
Waltz [Backing Track Demo]
Groove Co. [Demo Version]

Tracks:

Love Removal Machine
Wild Flower
Peace Dog
Aphrodisiac Jacket
Electric Ocean
Bad Fun
Conquistador
Zap City
Love Trooper
Outlaw
Groove Co.
Walk My Way

Tracks:

Wild Flower [Extended Rock Mix]
Outlaw [Alternate Mix]
Wolf Child's Blues
Go Go Guru [Rubin Version]
Down So Long
Soldier Blue [Werman Mix]
Zodiac [Demo Version]
Yes Man [Demo Version]
Citadel [Demo Version]
Crystal Ocean [Demo Version]
Lay Down Your Gun [Version One][Demo Version]
Bite on the Bullet [Demo Version]
Iron Star [Demo Version]
Star Child [Demo Version]
Messin' Up the Blues

Tracks:

Fire Woman [NYC Rock Mix]
Medicine Train
New York City [Demo Version]
Sweet Soul Sister [Rock's Remix]
Bleeding Heart Graffitti
River
Indian [Early Version][Demo Version]
Spanish Gold [Demo Version]
Host Of Angels [Demo Version]
Northern Man [Demo Version]
Auto [Demo Jam]
Red Jesus
Join Hands
Edie (Ciao Baby) [Acoustic]
Love Removal Machine [Live Session]

Tracks:

Faith Healer
Full Tilt [Live Session]
Earth Mofo [Live Session]
Heart of Soul [Acoustic]
Witch [Full Version]
Coming Down [Put The Boot In]
Breathing Out
Gone [Degenerate]
Down on Me
Beauty's on the Street
Splurge/Relapse
North
Sacred High
In the Clouds [Edit][Alternate Take]

Tracks:

Resurrection Joe [Long Version]
Assault on Sanctuary
Love Removal Machine [Extended Version]
Wild Flower [Guitar Dub]
Soldier Blue [Extended Version]
Fire Woman [LA Rock Mix]
Witch [Remix]
Coming Down [Butchered]
Gone [Dub Vocal]
Love Removal Machine [Small Soldiers Mix]
Resurrection Joe [Hep Cat Mix Long Version]

Amazon.com

With 48 of the 90 tracks in this lavish six-CD box set appearing for the first time on CD, Rare Cult lives up to its name. With a selection of single remixes, B-sides, and tracks that just never saw the light of day, Rare Cult charts the rise and decline of one of Britain's premier rock bands, from their first full-length release under the name of the Cult (Dreamtime) to 1994's eponymous album, via the heady peaks of Love, Electric, and Sonic Temple. The most interesting offerings are those that were laid down for the original successor to Love, which was going to be called Peace, and which provide more of a natural progression to the Rick Rubin-produced Electric. Even the later recordings show that they never really lost what made them great--the winning combination of Ian Astbury's distinctive vocals and Billy Duffy's rocking guitar. Indeed, many of the tracks from the sessions for Ceremony and The Cult are better than the ones that actually made the cut. If you're looking for a greatest-hits package, try Pure Cult. However, if you're in the market for a lasting testament to an innovative and ever-changing rock band, look no further. --Helen Marquis

Album Description

Import edition of this limited edition box-set for the UK alternative rock act that's out-of-print domestically. 90 tracks on 6 CD's (all studio, no live tracks). 78 tracks were previously unreleased in the U.S. and 48 were previously unreleased anywhere. Includes all the studio B-sides, the full previously unreleased 'Peace' album, complete radio sessions, 12'' mixes, alternate versions and out-takes, unreleased masters and a clutch of work-in-progress demos. The box also includes an 80-page booklet that details the sessions and gives background to the recordings and includes rare photos. The CDs are housed in a heavy-duty deluxe box approx. 6 X 5 1/2 X 2''.

Customer Reviews:

THE BLUE PRINT For Box Sets to comes.......2007-01-14

I bought this box the month it was released back in 2000.
I was so impressed. This is the best box set I could imagine getting this year. It's amazing in scope and design. Also if you order early you can get a Bonus 7th Disc with the first run of pressings. That 7th disc contains previously released and hard-to-find extended remixes. The Booklet and discs are all perfectly chronological. The pictures in the book are great and show the bands evolution. The Text in the booklet is very informative, plus you get comments from Ian and Billy. You get all the info you need for each song. The box design is minimalist but easy to love. 3 Black cases 2 discs each. The book and then 7th disc in slip case. The discs are Black and just say Rare Cult - Disc 1, etc. This is so cool. Oh, the music. This is for serious Cult fans. Others might be bored here, but I am not. There are demos, B-sides and lots of unreleased wonders. So many songs! So Little Time. Thank You Beggars Banquet!

Should I sell this!.......2006-12-12

Good stuff for the hard core fan.I have the 7 disc version( the remix disc is above average)Nice packaging(2 disc's per case) and great booklet and sound,This is alot to take in,but the The Cult brought something new(in my opinion)to rock music,and this set illustrates that.Now....should I sell this!. You never know. Recommened.

Exhaustive. (almost).......2006-04-28

An exhaustive six disc (with first pressing containing a bonus disc) boxed set of rare and unreleased material by the Cult, "Rare Cult" is pretty much an extended love letter to the band's fans, collecting b-sides, radio sessions, leftovers and the "Peace" sessions. Organized chronologically, the set has a nice organic flow that follows the band's progress.

Being chronological, the set begins in the band's post-goth period, the "Dreamtime" and "Love" albums of the early '80s. A little over a disc of material is included, mostly drawn from radio sessions-- these tend to be pretty interesting and there's some great performances ("Spiritwalker") that capture the energy of the pieces better than the original studio performances did. A couple largely extraneous remixes are included and a few leftover tracks, in particular "Little Face" and "Judith", which were removed from "Love" when the band wanted to produce a harder edge to the album's sound. Both pieces are interesting (in particular "Judith", which is bizarre and atmospheric), but it's clear why "The Phoenix" and "Love" were substituted for them-- neither feel fully realized.

The next set of material is perhaps the most intriguing of the entire boxed set-- the Cult began working up material for an album tentatively titled "Peace" with the usual demos, radio session performances, and eventually recording an album. After hooking up with producer Rick Rubin, the band would re-record the material from these sessions as the "Electric" album, a record of stripped down rock music, so the opportunity to hear this material without Rubin's influence is intriguing, whether it be the sessions and promotion leading up to the album's recording or the album itself. Intriguingly enough, the best material on "Electric" seems to suffer pretty heavily ("Love Removal Machine" is just a mess), but the material I was less interested in on "Electric" ("King Contrary Man", "Peace Dog") seems to work out better here. I'm thinking it may be because not all this material was altogether suited for being stripped down rock, and it's nice to have the "Peace" album to compare (which I actually find to be superior to "Electric"). The real gem from these sessions is "Zap City"-- issued as a b-side, it's a fierce and explosive song that probably would have benefited from Rubin's production strategy, but even without, it's a fantastic piece. The set also includes a handful of tracks leftover from the Rubin sessions, some additional mixes but also a couple leftover tracks, many of which are worthwhile.

The set then turns to a series of demos cut during the "Sonic Temple" sessions-- it only includes pieces that were not included on "Sonic Temple". Some of these, remarkably, are of enormously high quality, but I suspect this is because of a sense of immediacy and urgency, building upon the heights of the stripped-back "Electric" approach ("Zodiac") rather than the somewhat overblown "Sonic Temple". Admittedly, some of hte pieces are a bit lacking in songwriting (notably "Yes Man", which is mind-numbingly irritating but also the rambling, endless "Lay Down Your Gun"), but these are demos and were wisely excluded from the album. Also of note from these sessions is "Star Child", the basis for "Star" on "The Cult" several years later.

"Ceremony", the much lamented follow-up to "Sonic Temple", is the next album and again, a series of demos are provided. The first two are most interesting in that they present the Cult with Billy Duffy on acoustic guitars and, while they feel like demos, both "Indian" and "Spanish Gold" get exciting and powerful readings in this fashion that really allows Astbury to shine. After these two, a few electric demos are provided-- similar to the material on "Ceremony", many of the pieces are intriguing but a bit overlong ("Host of Angels"). The most exciting piece on here is "Northern Man", an early version of fan favorite "The Witch", which even in this early stage was enormously powerful (although it definitely benefited from the lyrical rewrite). The set also includes a set of rerecordings that serbed as b-sides, including great acoustic versions of "Edie (Ciao Baby)" and "Heart and Soul" that really provide an opportunity for the pieces to breathe and fantastic "live in the studio" readings of "Love Removal Machine" and "Earth Mofo" (the latter in particular).

After "Ceremony", the band recorded "The Witch", presented here in an extended mix (that quite frankly, adds little to the piece), one of the best recordings of their career and then turned their attention to what would be their last album before breaking up, simply titled "The CUlt". This set provides an opportunity for long-time fans to reconsider the album, Billy Duffy states in the liner notes that he considers it the "great, undiscovered Cult album", an assertion I would support. A pair of remixes of album tracks (including a brilliantly fractured remix of "Gone") and a pile of fantastic unreleased tracks shed new light on just how good this record was.

The bonus remix CD that the first prints of this came with are kind of... well, it's mostly dance mixes and the like. I'm glad I got the disc, but it's not something I largely feel a great need to listen to.

The boxed set comes housed in a big cardboard box surrounding three double digipacks all in basic black and includes extensive liner notes (culled in part from interviews with Billy Duffy) discussing the band's history, the material on here.

If there's a complaint, it's that the set is not quite exhaustive-- five tracks are only included on "The Best of Rare Cult", a real point of irritation for someone who went out and bought this box.

Let's be straight, years on after the release, odds are anyone reading this already got this box, but if you're a diehard Cult fan and you don't have this, you're really missing out, this set is exhaustive, and while all the music is not essential, there's certainly enough great material on here to make it a fine investment. Recommended.

The RAre cult keeps the Love Era alive.......2004-08-19

I was rather skeptical of buying this box set a few years back, i already owned all of their cd's. Unlike most box sets, the songs here are almost completly different than the studio versions; in a good way. The Cults' electric is no longer metal but closer to the Love sound. My friend and I used to joke what if Electric was the only cd in the world, that would mean Outlaw would be popular, i detested that song. But, the rare cult version is stellar it sounds like it came right off of Love. If you are cult fan and feel like you have everything they have to offer, this is the box set for you. It is worth every penny, though the new price is a bit high. This box set is better than their studio albums.

A must have for the Cult fan........2004-05-28

Each of the CDs has a different feel to them. The remixes of many of the songs show the diversity of the band. The first CD and the bonus 7th CD are my favorites. As some of the previous reviewers stated, this is not for the casual Cult fan. If you have all of the other albums, them you NEED this one.

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complete the collection
More to add to that huge Cult Box Set

Rare Cult Demo Sessions

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ASIN: B000071WDQ
Release Date: 2002-11-26

Tracks:

Love Removal Machine
Peace
Zap City
Love Trooper
Angel
Tom Petty
Browns Gone To Ausy Land
Babywalker
Surf Nazi
Groove Co (Backing Track)
Oink (Version One)
Oink (Version Two)
Waltz
Blues One
Untitles (1)
El Progresso
Untitled (2)
Groove Co
Medicine Train (One)
New York City (One)
American Horse (One)
Sun King (One)
Automatic Blues
Yes Man
Zodiac
Fire (One)
Wake Up Time For Freedom (One)
Bite On The Bullet
Fred Divinyls
Citadel
The River
The Crystal Ocean
Cashmere
Edie (One)
Bleeding Heart Revival
Lay Down Your Gun (One)
My Love
Iron Star
Star Child
Wake Up Time For Freedom (Two)
Lay Down Your Gun (Two)
Medicine Train (Two)
New York City (Two)
Fire (Two)
American Horse (Two)
Sun King (Two)
Edie (Two)
Ceremony
Full Tilt
Earth Mother
Crazy Hearted Lover
Friend
Wonderland
Bangkok Rain
Red Eye
Spanish Gold (Take Two)
White
Host Of Angels
Black Cat
Pre Take Jam
Northern Man
Auto
Angel
Upbeat Track
Downbeat Track
Tight Lip
Spanish Gold (89)
White (89)
Track Four
Indian (89)
Track Six
Track Seven
Track Eight
Spanish Gold (Take One)
Northern Man (Session Mix)
Host Of Angels (Session Mix)
Sweet Salvation (Session Mix)

Album Description

77 tracks on 5 CDs, disc one - June 1986, disc two - The Sonic Temple Demos June 1988, disc 3 - The Sonic Temple Demos June/August 1988, disc 4 - Demos 1986-1989-1991 & disc 5 - Demos 1986-1989-1991 (feat. Hot Night Demos, Jam Demos & Ceremony Sessions).

Customer Reviews:

complete the collection.......2004-05-13

Ive had this collection for about 5 months. I listen to this instead of the regular CD's. Its amazing how good they sound raw in the studio. For literal demos, they sound incredible. Most bands wouldnt reveal themselves like this. One can really follow their creativity, and how the songs evolve. I'll go along with the previous review for the content. This is a pricey collection for the hardcore fan if you can find it.
Also look for the collection RARE CULT. It has 7 CD's and is equally hard to find. Also fantastic with never before released songs.

More to add to that huge Cult Box Set.......2004-03-31

I had to get this because I'm crazy about The Cult and all the changes that they've gone through over the years. Five more reels that were found by guitar-guru-soulman Billy Duffy after the main Box Set was released are found here. There are 77 tracks from '86 to '91 that are basic, rudimentary outlines of some killer songs. What I love about this set is it's a deeper look into the awesome duo of Astbury/Duffy. The first set is a collection of songs done around the time of the Manor sessions, before the Cult teamed up with Rick Rubin. The Second Set was recorded during the Sonic Temple period while the Third Set consists of Ceremony tunes in the making. All these songs are found elsewhere in The Cult universe, but these tracks have a voice of their own. Any Cult fan who wants a microscopic view of The Cult during these energetic, spiritual and chaotic times in a classic Rock n Roll band, will truly appreciate this.