"Love" is the second studio album by the English rock band The Cult, released on October 18, 1985, by Beggars Banquet Records. This album marked the band's commercial breakthrough, reaching number four in the UK and remaining on the chart for 22 weeks. It produced three Top 40 singles in the UK: "She Sells Sanctuary," "Rain," and "Revolution." Love has been released in nearly 30 countries and sold an estimated 2.5 million copies. The album was recorded at Jacob's Studios in Farnham, Surrey, during July and August 1985.
Many European CD pressings, along with Canadian and Australian versions, include two bonus tracks: "Little Face" as track four and "Judith" as track eleven. Various foreign pressings feature additional bonus tracks. The Korean vinyl and cassette editions notably omitted "Big Neon Glitter" and "Revolution." In the Philippines, a shorter version of "Brother Wolf; Sister Moon" was released, lasting only 5:18 and omitting most of the guitar solos.
In 2000, the album was remastered and reissued on CD, featuring only the ten original songs with different artwork. "Big Neon Glitter" and "Hollow Man" are alternately listed with and without the article "The" in their titles.
In 2003, the album was issued on CD in Russia, Belarus, and Lithuania, where it had previously only been available as a bootleg LP in the Soviet Union. These releases included bonus tracks "Faith Healer" and "Edie (Ciao Baby)" (acoustic) as tracks 13 and 14, with "acoustic" misspelled as "accoustic." The pressings also used a different font for the lettering. An Indonesian cassette version rearranged the track listing and included "Dreamtime" and "Bad Medicine Waltz" from the previous album, Dreamtime.
To coincide with the band's Love Live Tour in August 2009, two editions of the album were released. The first, the "Expanded Edition," is a 2-CD set featuring the album on one disc and extended versions, remixes, and b-sides on the second disc. This set was released on August 8, 2009, in the US and Varada, and on September 21 in Europe. The second edition, the "Omnibus Edition," includes the first two discs from the Expanded Edition, plus two additional discs featuring demos from the Love album and a live concert recorded by the BBC at the Hammersmith Odeon in London on October 31, 1985.
