The Cult

At its highest level, rock music is both fresh and aged. With no exceptions, the truly great bands of the last fifty years have all leaned on the music of the past while keeping a keen ear on the activities of their contemporaries. By tossing in their own personal guilt, joy, fixations and obsessive desires, they delivered an effective and consequently magical updating of rock's age-old and undeniable tribal stomp. By these criteria, The Cult, born out of the musical and social upheaval of the late Seventies, were Britain's premier rock band of the Eighties and early Nineties - no argument.