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Lead Performance: The Cult
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Dalton Ross
Dalton Ross is an editor-at-large at EW and swears there are better pictures of him out there...somewhere.
It's always been easy to slag the Cult as posers. What's often been ignored is that, despite their shameless genre jumping, their forays into new wave psychedelia (''Love''), stripped-down metal (''Electric''), and arena rock (''Sonic Temple'') were all first-rate. On their comeback record Beyond Good and Evi, Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy actually make a surprising stab at respectability, once again merging big hooks and big rawk. Why, even the cheesy power ballad is fun, in a nostalgic sort of way.
Posted Jun 08, 2001
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