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Gods Zoo

"Gods Zoo"
Death Cult Gods Zoo.jpg
Single by Death Cult
B-side "Gods Zoo (These Times)"
Released 23 October 1983
Format 7" vinyl single, 12" vinyl single
Genre Post-punk, gothic rock
Length 3:26
Label Situation Two (SIT 29)
Writer(s) Death Cult
Producer(s) Jeremy Green
Death Cult singles chronology
"Gods Zoo"
(1983)
"Spiritwalker"
(1984)

"Gods Zoo" is a single by the English post-punk/gothic rock band Death Cult (who later shortened their name to the Cult), released on 23 October 1983 by Situation Two. The song is often, erroneously, spelled "God's Zoo" (with an apostrophe in the word "Gods", indicating possessive case).

No credit is given to the design of the picture sleeve for the single. The front features the group's name centered between four stereoscopic printed television sets. Within each television is an image. Clockwise from top left the images are as follows: (1) the group's Mickey Mouse "skull" logo; (2) a nude female drawing (artist unknown, but the image is often credited to singer Ian Astbury, even though this has never been confirmed); (3) a portion of a Tim Page photograph of ARVN soldiers interrogating a Viet Cong suspect (it should be noted that the group's first release, the eponymous Death Cult EP, also featured a Tim Page Vietnam photograph on its picture sleeve, and both Astbury and guitarist Billy Duffy have expressed an interest in the history of the Vietnam War, which was also apparently a trend in the United Kingdom at the time); (4) a portion of a photograph of Jimi Hendrix (one of the group's influences).

The single is labeled A SIDE, and AA SIDE (for the B-side), which is an extended and remixed version of the title track titled "Gods Zoo (These Times)".


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