Chords for The Cult - Ian Astbury- Billy Duffy - Rapido 1989

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_ _ _ _ _ [F#] Rapido!
Billy McDuffie, I went from the cult [D] and [F#] usually Rapido's up here, usually Rapido's
supposedly at all times, at [G] all times.
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_ _ _ The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ old Goths among you may remember a band [Bm] called Southern Death [G] Cult, an odd [Dm] name for
a band from the North, which evolved into Death Cult.
[G] When the Goth [C] scene died, Death
Cult didn't, [G] and so became the Cult.
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The name got shorter, the hair got longer, and the
[G] music got heavier.
_ [C] _ _ [D] One _ _ _ of the most difficult things was after Punk Rock, there was nothing around that inspired
us, you know.
And so we went back to the past and started listening to the music again.
It was more inspiring than what was [F#] going on.
I wasn't inspired by Bauhaus or Killing
Joke or anything like that, you know.
_ _ It was more like listening to things like Free and
Janis Joplin and Stones and the Stooges, you know.
That's what really turned me on, because
Punk Rock was rock and roll.
The Pistols and the Clash, they were rock and roll bands. _
Generation X, lead guitar.
I mean, even like the Clash, I had long hair when we first started.
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[C#] _ That's _ [F#] what we were always inspired to be.
I mean, like in terms of Gothic, Gothic was
a tag put on us by the British press.
Basically, all the young groups at that time, most of
them were sort of like fans of Punk Rock.
It was like punks that learned to play, you
know.
Picked up the instruments, started cheering Punk Rock.
And _ really didn't feel, I mean,
the Gothic scene, [F#m] again, we _ left.
_ [F#] 1984, we left and went to the States.
So it's what
we've always aspired to become, just being a rock band.
And I think we're just getting heavier.
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[F#] I think, you know, heavy metal is dying a death, really, in terms of, you know, bouffant
hair and lipstick and spandex trousers.
That's kind of going out.
It's kind of gone back
to the street again.
It's more sort of like essential rock and roll. _ _
_ Most of our friends
live in Los Angeles.
Most of our friends are either involved in music [Am] or around music. _ _ _ _
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If _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Am] _ their abrupt move from [C] Gothic to heavy metal [Gm] hasn't [D] convinced you that the cult
know what they're doing, then the [G] single Edie, Ciao Baby, should have.
If only because it
[D] was dedicated to 60s youth quaker and crown [C] princess Warholite, [F#] Edie Sedgwick.
Just kind of being interested in the Warhol scene, the factory, the underground, Edie
Sedgwick.
I just felt compelled to write something about it.
You know, I mean, basically spending
time in New York City and being interested in that scene. _ _
Sat down one night and wrote
the song, wrote the words to it, you know, myself and Billy, [C#] put the thing together.
_ [C#m] You are the best!
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_ [G#m] _ _ [F#] _ [C#] With _ _ last [F#] year's Sonic Temple album, the cult were more [C#] convincing metal merchants than
ever before.
[B] But have they [C#] taken this return to rock's roots a little too literally?
[F#] After
all, the last thing anyone needs is another [C#] bunch of Zeppelin clones.
[F#] I mean, in terms of influence, sure.
I mean, Led Zeppelin are typically icebergs.
I mean,
one of the most classic blues-based rock and roll bands of all time.
And I think people
who aren't really _ _ aware of or voiced in rock and roll music or rock and roll history, who
are more sort of interested in trendy and fashionable music forms or whatever, seem
to like look at rock and roll as some kind of _ idiotic Neanderthal [G#] caveman kind of thing,
[F#] you know.
So they just throw, like, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Spades, you know.
I think we've
transcended that kind of criticism.
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