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“Spiritwalker” by The Cult
From the album Dreamtime (1984)
“Spiritwalker” by The Cult appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1984. It was first released in 1984 on the album Dreamtime. Its best result is #30 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1984. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #120 alternative song of 1984.
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"Spiritwalker" was the Cult's opening shot, the lead single from Dreamtime, their 1984 debut album on Situation Two, and its roots go back further than the band itself. Much of its lyric first surfaced in Ian Astbury's earlier group, Southern Death Cult, in an untitled number later dubbed "The War Song" that the band played at only its second gig, at Queen's Hall in Bradford in October 1981, and never again. By late 1983, trading as Death Cult, the group was playing it on a second UK tour, the words nearly settled but the music a very different animal from the one that was finally recorded.
Astbury and Billy Duffy share the writing credit; nobody else from Southern Death Cult got one. Duffy plays guitar, Jamie Stewart bass and Nigel Preston drums and percussion, with John Brand producing and engineering.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 30 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1984 | 48 |
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