The Cure thread

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Black Session; I think from around the time of Wild Mood Swings.

Excellent sound.

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It's got The end of the world, Taking off and Before three on the setlist do I'd say it's from the The Cure days.
 
My favorite is “Disintegration”. I’d been familiar with their singles for years but this was the first album I got by them and absorbed (at the time I bought it the newest one was Wild Mood Swings, just to date myself a bit). A lot of times more recently though I’ve been partial to Kiss Me x3.
 
I'm in love with The Cure.

My favourite album is Wish, closely followed by Disintegration.
Robert Smith has done a couple of solo covers, they are also beautiful.
 
The Cure are just silly. No thought, no sense of humour, not a single memorable musical theme. I think Robert Christgau's review of "Pornography" is the best summary of their music: "In books/And films/And in life/And in heaven/The sound of slaughter/As your body turns . . ."--no, I can't go on. I mean, why so glum, chum? Cheer up; look on the bright side. You got your contract, right? And your synthesizers, bet you'll have fun with them. Believe me, kid, it will pass.
However, I appreciate the eclecticism on "The Top", which together with "Three Imaginary Boys" is their only interesting album.
 
The Cure are just silly. No thought, no sense of humour, not a single memorable musical theme. I think Robert Christgau's review of "Pornography" is the best summary of their music: "In books/And films/And in life/And in heaven/The sound of slaughter/As your body turns . . ."--no, I can't go on. I mean, why so glum, chum? Cheer up; look on the bright side. You got your contract, right? And your synthesizers, bet you'll have fun with them. Believe me, kid, it will pass.
However, I appreciate the eclecticism on "The Top", which together with "Three Imaginary Boys" is their only interesting album.

Yes, The Cure are terrible with songs like this.

Better not hit play, you might *gasp* accidentally find yourself liking something by The Cure!





Day after day
I let you down
Promise you to change
Then change my mind
And every time I promise you
It will all be fine
It won't be like this next time

The days you wait
Turn into years
Always wait
Helpless tears
Hopeless nights
And all the fears
It will always be like this

You give me everything you have
Hoping it will someday be enough
To melt my heart
To make me fall in love

Day after day
I let you down
Promise you to change it all
Then change my mind
And every time I promise you
Soon be fine
It won't be like this next time

But tonight we play I think
The final act
I push too hard
And you crack
Walk away
Don't look back
This time you've really gone

You give me everything you have
Knowing it can never be enough
My heart's too old
Too hard
Too cold
For your love
 
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Disintegration is a perfect album as far as I'm concerned. Not one weak track. Nothing else they've done has ever been as perfectly cohesive. Bloodflowers is a close second for me.

100% agree. I ripped the audio off the Trilogy DVD and listen to those two all the time.
 
100% agree. I ripped the audio off the Trilogy DVD and listen to those two all the time.

I saw the Reflections shows they did in 2011, but I still regret not going to Berlin for the first Trilogy series. I actually think Bloodflowers sounds a lot better alongside Pornography and Disintegration than it does on its own. It needs that context.
 
"Wish" is my favorite! It's one of the very few albums that I like every song on. Off of the top of my head the only albums that I like every song on are "Wish," "Vauxhall & I" by Morrissey, "The Smiths" by The Smiths, "Charango" by Morcheeba (although track 5 teeters on the balance), "Madman Across the Water" by Elton John, and those are pretty much the only ones I can think of. Siouxsie & the Banshees come close with two different albums, "Superstition" and "The Rapture," but each album falls one song short for me. I love "Wish."
 
I am glad to see someone else really likes Bloodflowers--I thought I was the only one.

In terms of my favorite Cure album I am going to have to say Pornography, but Boys Don't Cry (not a proper studio album I know) gets a lot of plays from me.
 
I'm usually terrible at ranking albums, but this was easy for me. (I'll left out live albums, compilations, and US-only variations.)

1. Disintegration
2. Pornography
3. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
4. Seventeen Seconds
5. The Head on the Door
6. Faith
7. Wish
8. Three Imaginary Boys
9. The Top
10. Bloodflowers
11. 4:13 Dream
12. Wild Mood Swings
13. The Cure

I feel badly putting all four most recent albums at the bottom, but I just have never connected with any of them. I do like a lot of individual tracks on each, but as complete albums they don't hold my interest.

 
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My friend that LOVES the Cure hated the s/t so much when it came out and he never recovered. hahaha

Fortunately, I don't feel like I need them to keep making albums I like in order to love them. I'm totally happy having the best live shows ever and an enormous and awesome back catalog. Robert and I apparently just have very different taste in music nowadays, haha. I stopped questioning his weird side projects a long time ago, too.
 
Am I the only one who really liked that one? :(

I liked it at the time. It came out within a few weeks of YOTQ actually, which is funny to think about. At the time, I may have liked it MORE than Quarry! Which is insane as now I still listen to Quarry regularly and haven’t listened to s/t Cure in a decade.

I still need to see them live.
 
Am I the only one who really liked that one? :(

You know, I don't actually think it's a bad album or anything, it's just not my taste on the whole. I do like about half the songs, but not enough to ever really listen to the record. I think 'The End of the World' was a GREAT single, though...and the video was fun, too. I just tend to like my Cure really dark or really drugged-out. Or both.
 
My favourite albums are Disintegration and Wish.

Real gems in the portfolio of great albums altogether.
 
I still need to see them live.

Well, I'm ahead of you I suppose :)

I've seen them five times now.

1992 Duesseldorf
1995 Konstanz
1996 Birmingham UK
2000 Oberhausen
2008 Oberhausen

All were great concerts with between 24 and 36 songs being played. I'm really looking forward to their next german gigs, although there are no announcements until now.
 
Well, I'm ahead of you I suppose :)

I've seen them five times now.

1992 Duesseldorf
1995 Konstanz
1996 Birmingham UK
2000 Oberhausen
2008 Oberhausen

All were great concerts with between 24 and 36 songs being played. I'm really looking forward to their next german gigs, although there are no announcements until now.

They came around in 2004 when they did that Curioso fest but at that point I was in a band and we were on tour. I forget if they've come around since (to Philly). They probably have, I just couldn't afford it.
 
I liked it at the time. It came out within a few weeks of YOTQ actually, which is funny to think about. At the time, I may have liked it MORE than Quarry! Which is insane as now I still listen to Quarry regularly and haven’t listened to s/t Cure in a decade.

I still need to see them live.

You n' me both mate.
 
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