Mark calls from California to tell me about Purple Rain, Prince’s 1984 album, which he and I both discovered at the same time on opposite sides of the continent. Meanwhile, I accidentally killed my side of the original recording and was left with something that sounds like I was talking from the middle of a blizzard … which I technically was.

• Mark’s film reviews
• Where Prince fans gather
• Purple Rain: The Movie

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Yeah, I know last week was Blue Oyster Cult. This week is The Cult. Next week is My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult. Or maybe the Blues. Or Prairie Oyster. I’ll let you know.

Anyway, this week is The Cult. Jakob and I tried to cram it all into a half-hour, but it didn’t work. It’s pretty clear we could do a show a week about each album, or maybe each song, but we’ll save that for another day. What we settled on was a brief look at The Cult in the 80s.

Some links:

• Cult Central: This was one of the first websites I ever visited.
• Sacred Soul: Where Ian Astbury can do no wrong.
• Ampersand Publishing: Jakob’s Universe.
• Big Awesome Hair: Jakob.

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