Lie: The Love and Terror Cult - Covers and Sampling

Covers and Sampling

"Cease to Exist" had been previously recorded by The Beach Boys under the name "Never Learn Not to Love," and it appears both on their 1969 album, 20/20, and as the B-side of the single of "Bluebirds over the Mountain." Manson was not given co-writing credit. The Beach Boys's version includes such significant changes as the inclusion of a bridge that was not part of Manson's version, and the change of the line "Cease to exist" to "Cease to resist," which alters the meaning of the song.

Portions of the album have been sampled or covered by many other artists, such as Front Line Assembly. Many of the songs have also been re-recorded; a version of "Look at Your Game, Girl" appears as a hidden track on the Guns N' Roses cover album "The Spaghetti Incident?", while GG Allin covered "Garbage Dump" for his 1987 album You Give Love a Bad Name and Rob Zombie, Redd Kross and The Lemonheads have all covered "Cease To Exist." The Lemonheads recorded two other songs from the album, a version of "Home is Where You're Happy" appeared on the 1988 album Creator and Evan Dando reappropriated some of the lyrics and melody of "Big Iron Door" into his song "Left For Dead," which appears on the group's 1990 album, Lovey.

The Brian Jonestown Massacre does a slightly reworked cover of "Arkansas" (called "Arkansas Revisited") on their 1999 album Bringing It All Back Home – Again. The band's leader, Anton Newcombe, has expressed interest in Manson's songwriting.

An acoustic version of the song "Sick City" was recorded by Marilyn Manson, but this has never been officially released. The Marilyn Manson song "My Monkey," from the album Portrait of an American Family, contains samples of Charles Manson speaking, as well as lyrics from the track "Mechanical Man."

Devendra Banhart does a version of "Home Is Where You're Happy".