She Sells Sanctuary

It's as fresh in my mind as if it were yesterday what the songs of 1986-ish were.

So here's some songs that you could have put in place of this Pam Tillis, Norman Mailer scripted song, New Order, Bizarre Love Triangle, Susie and the Banshees, Cities and Dust, The Cult, She Sells Sanctuary, Big Audio Dynamite, Medicine Show, The Screaming Blue Messiahs, Wild Blue Yonder, Love and Rockets, Kundalini Express.

All those songs are out about this time.

And it's absolutely obscene that they didn't even think to choose like Guns and Roses or something that's got a little edge to it.

Sanctuary by The Cult.

She Sells Sanctuary by The Cult.

She Sells Sanctuary.

No, no.

Just sex.

Like, it's not in there.

It's not in there.

She sells sanctuary, okay? She doesn't sell her privates.

That's why I said I felt a bit disingenuous with it.

You know, we tried with Stay Beautiful, and I thought it was quite a good start where we could mix the two styles in, because one of the reasons why we got him in is because of, you know, sort of She Sell Sanctuary, and that was a mix of live, real drums and drum machine.

So, you know, we had to...

A lot to live up to then.

This was their commercial breakthrough, and it hit number four on the UK Albums Chart number 85 in America.

It had She Sells Sanctuary, great song, Rain, and Revolution.

In 1988, Sonic Youth released Daydream Nation.

This is considered to be the band's masterpiece album.

They started life in the independent charts, so we know them as the Southern Death Cult, The Death Cult, and now The Cult.

And with their new single, She Sells Sanctuary, they're not only up there in the British pop charts, but also up there on that roof.

Well, the hex that's done.

Ached my back bone.

And I thank the sun.

Ached my back, ached my backbone.

In the spring of 1985, the song She Sells Sanctuary became a surprise hit for a young band from Brixton, London.

The Cult had released their debut album the year before, but it went mostly unnoticed.

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She sells Sanctuary.

The ride never ends.

The ride never ends.

Lovely day, I don't know, maybe in the 70s.

And showing how you fight.

So that is She Sells Sanctuary by The Cult.

People always ask me, uh, about that.

They then became another goth rock band called Death Cult, and then they became The Cult after that.

And in fact, a lot of the early Cult music is still kind of inspired by that '80s goth sound, especially stuff like She Sells Sanctuary, uh, still has a lot of that reverby guitar, a lot of that melodrama.

Um, but we're here to talk about a certain man that got his start in a goth rock band.

Uh, Matty, I'm sending you a link.

So, uh, hey, lots of things going on today to talk about.

Number one, you know, on my radio show, oh, that breeze feels fantastic, I, I start my show with, my theme song is She Sells Sanctuary by The Cult.

And I discovered thanks to, uh, which it's a-- I love that song, the big build-up.

You know, when I was deciding what's gonna be my theme song if I ever get a show, and I had no one offering me a show, but up in my mind they were.

I said, "What would be my theme song?" You know what my runner-up was? I was gonna kinda really go old school, which would've been, um, Green Onions by Booker T.

Ba-down, da-down, a-down, da-down, a-down, da-da.

But I went with The Cult, She Sells Sanctuary.

Anyhow, this is, um, a really cool version of this song, She Sells Sanctuary.