GLORIA 01/01/2004 MIRRORS is essentially metal-lite pop--simultaneously

MIRRORS is essentially metal-lite pop--simultaneously more accessible and more generic than the Cult's usual self-consciously sinister fare

Recording information: Fast Forward Productions (12/1982)

The Deluxe Edition for Village of the Damned presents the full score as heard in the film for the first time

Name-dropping Nat Turner and Marcus Garvey and dressing in red

Format Detail: CD standard Digipak

GLORIA 01/01/2004 MIRRORS is essentially metal-lite pop--simultaneouslyThe first and best album by Chicago's Shadows Of Knight is as close as an American band ever came to an equivalent to the early albums by the Rolling Stones. The group is today best known for its magnificent, feral version of Van Morrison's "Gloria," a defining single in the '60s punk canon. But the rest of this album shows that these white boys knew the blues better than most, turning Chess Records standards like "I Got My Mojo Workin'," John Lee