Dreamtime (album)

Dreamtime
Studio album by The Cult
Publication (s)	September 1984
admission	March – April 1984
Label (s)	Beggars Banquet / Sire
Genre (s)	Post punk , rock
Title (number)	10/13 (CD version)
running time	50:44
occupation	Ian Astbury - vocals Billy Duffy - guitar Jamie Stewart - bass , backing vocals Nigel Preston - drums
production	John Brand, Chris Kimsey
chronology Death Cult (EP) (1983) Dreamtime Love (1985)

Dreamtime is an album by the British rock band The Cult . The album was released in 1984 through the Beggars Banquet Records label. It was a first respectable success for the band and reached number 21 on the British charts.

Emergence

After Death Cult became the band The Cult, they went into the studio in early 1984 to record their debut. The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth , Wales , in late March to early April 1984 and mixed at Eel Pie in Twickenham in late April 1984. The text of the song Horse Nation comes almost verbatim from the book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ( Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ) the writer Dee Brown . Some early pressings that were still on the old Situation Two label contain a different version of Go West (Crazy Spinning Circles) . Disliked this version, the band re-recorded the piece in June 1984 after signing with Beggars Banquet Records . It then came on the album as Go West .

reception

Allmusic's Ned Raggett highlighted Ian Astbury's vocals and Billy Duffy's "dramatic, western-influenced, dark-psychedelic" guitar playing. Even if some things are sometimes too shrill and dramatic to be easily digestible, the band cannot be accused of a lack of energy. Despite the fact that the band will improve soon anyway, the Dreamtime album is still attractive enough to listen to. He awarded four out of five stars.

Track list

1. A1 Horse Nation - 3:45
2. A2 Spiritwalker - 3:39
3. A3 83rd Dream - 3:38
4. A4 Butterflies - 3:00
5. A5 Go West - 3:59
6. B1 gimmick - 3:33
7. B2 A Flower in the Desert (Astbury / Jepson / Burroughs / Quereshi) - 3:42
8. B3 Dreamtime - 2:47
9. B4 Rider in the Snow - 3:11
10. B5 Bad Medicine Waltz - 5:55
    • Bone Bag - 3:47 (CD Bonus)
    • Sea and Sky - 3:32 (CD Bonus)
    • Resurrection Joe - 6:07 (CD Bonus)
    • Love Removal Machine ( Peace version) ( Russian and Eastern European pressings)
    • Zap City ( Russian and Eastern European pressings)

All songs were written by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy unless otherwise noted.

Web links

Dreamtime at Allmusic (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.starpulse.com: Biography The Cult
2. ↑ www.allmusic.com: Dreamtime review by Ned Raggett