Dreamtime (The Cult album)

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Dreamtime is the debut studio album by the English rock band the Cult. Released on 31 August 1984 by Beggars Banquet Records, it peaked at No. 21 on the UK Albums Chart and was later certified silver by the BPI after having sold 60,000 copies. The first single, "Spiritwalker", peaked at No. 1 on the UK Independent Singles Chart. Dreamtime has subsequently been reissued (or in some cases bootlegged) in roughly 30 countries worldwide. Lyrics to the song "Horse Nation" are taken almost verbatim from the non-fiction book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970). "Spiritwalker" is a reference to shamanism, while "Dreamtime" is inspired by mythology of the Aboriginal Australians and 'Butterflies' is a reference to the Hopi ceremonial butterfly dance. "A Flower in the Desert" is a reworking of the Southern Death Cult's song "Flowers in the Forest". The music of the album is characterized as dramatic, moody, dark psychedelic, with "crystalline guitar not that far off from what U2 was going after"....

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