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Go Outside

The single that introduced the band, with a video made from Jonestown footage.
Cults, from Cults (2010)

Follin and Oblivion wrote it. It was first on the Cults 7-inch in 2010 (the album article gives April 20, 2010), then track two of the debut at 3:24. The band article says Paul Kostabi recorded it at Thunderdome Studios, and the album article says it contains a sample of a Jim Jones recording, from a single Wikipedia source, and that it was used in the video game MLB 11: The Show. It reached 12 on the UK sales chart in 2011. The first video starred Emma Roberts and Dave Franco; the second, uploaded on July 15, 2011 and directed by Isaiah Setret, places the band into archival Peoples Temple and Jonestown footage. OC Weekly reports Follin and Oblivion were digitally inserted dancing with members, that the Jim Jones researcher Fielding M. McGehee III encouraged the project, and that Setret said survivors previewed it and expressed their appreciation of its focus on the lives of the Peoples Temple.

The Jonestown Institute's Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons describes a video that opens with Jones preaching in Los Angeles, with Oblivion in a police uniform among the choir, Follin baptized, then Jonestown and the events of November 1978 without showing the deaths; the choir director Don Beck's face was superimposed and he was initially upset. We could not get a setlist.fm count or any covers or samples.

Sources

  1. Cults (album), Wikipedia
  2. Cults and Go Outside, OC Weekly (2011-11-03)
  3. Cults video and Jonestown, Jonestown Institute
  4. Cults (band), Wikipedia