Lie: The Love and Terror Cult

Lie: The Love and Terror Cult
Studio album by Charles Manson
Released	March 6, 1970[1]
Recorded	June 1967 September 11, 1967 August 8–9, 1968
Studio	Gold Star Studios, Los Angeles unknown studio in Van Nuys, LA
Genre	Folk psychedelic folk folk rock
Length	31:53
Label	Awareness Records
Producer	Phil Kaufman
Charles Manson chronology
Lie: The Love and Terror Cult (1970) The Family Jams (1997)

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Source	Rating
All About Jazz	(favorable)[2]
Mojo	(favorable)[3]
AllMusic	[4]

Lie: The Love and Terror Cult is the debut studio album by American musician and convicted murderer Charles Manson. It was released on vinyl on March 6, 1970, by Phil Kaufman, through a record label branded Awareness Records. Although not a commercial success, it retains a following among those interested in the Manson case, inspiring many cover versions and samples.^[4] The album includes some of Manson's best known songs, including "Look at Your Game, Girl" and "Cease to Exist" (the latter had been recorded by the Beach Boys as "Never Learn Not to Love").

The cover is a parody of the December 19, 1969, Life magazine cover, which featured Manson along with the headline "The Love and Terror Cult". The two covers are mostly identical; however, the "F" in "LIFE" has been deleted and the line "The dark edge of hippie life" has been removed. The date and price are replaced with the Awareness Records logo.