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Title: Major disappointment
Review: This album was one of the biggest disappointments in rock. After the soaring, sweeping guitars of "Love," this album came across as a cheap metal album. One reviewer says it is the album AC/DC should have made; maybe so, but the Cult were on the road to something completely different, something that transcended bar-rock. There were a couple of decent songs, but Rick Rubin's color-by-numbers production is just a terrible mix with the Cult's ethos. Instead of soaring spirituality, it's plain old earthbound mediocrity. The Cult never recovered, although "Sonic Temple" is a much better album than this. If you want the real thing, though, get "Love."
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