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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDVzELTbHPg Faith and Seventeen Seconds has those ambient tracks, but then it still has those dark versions of the Three Imaginary Boys years...M being one of them. Primary is the only real pop song on Faith and is very overtly pop in a series of extremely dark tacks Seventeen Seconds I guess is the weird overlap, between 70's pop and 80's goth And then we get Pornography next an insane deep dive into dark 80's goth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_HeyTKfT0s I love M so much its just such an interlude or door stop or place marker, in a change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeNRYUVkIzE Boys Dont Cry is gone, The Three Imaginary Boys are dead The decent into darkness, and the rise again in 80's drugs and Japanese Whispers and The Glove and The Top and then the mess that is Head on the door In Between days is a signal a light https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scif2vfg1ug The phoenix like Kiss Me Kiss me Kiss me happens. Why cant I be you...amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0E9urVs-2o Disintegration almost feels too mature and too wrong to be next, it is their best album but not their defining masterwork. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZsQdLlvuk4 Wish, 3 years later is the capstone, the ultimate Cure album. An encapsulation of the highs and lows of their style past and ability, of their career. Its in some ways Kiss Me... part 2 and a besting of past achievements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olNQWNrKxn8 Wee fucked around with this message at 15:00 on Dec 18, 2022 |
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I can't get this tune out of my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvNuArAFFF8
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Dec 18, 2022 14:45
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Mr. Bung posted:I can't get this tune out of my head. Its from this doco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9A7BG7omKY
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Dec 18, 2022 14:51
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post itt every time you lol that 311 tried to cover Lovesong
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I like Wish but it is in no way the ultimate Cure album. It’s where one can hear Robert Smith take some shortcuts in the songwriting and production for the first time. It’s both the end of the best era of the band and the beginning of the decline that all great bands endure.
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Dec 18, 2022 15:18
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This riff fucks so hard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELKVW8HiUTE
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Brrrmph posted:I like Wish but it is in no way the ultimate Cure album. It’s where one can hear Robert Smith take some shortcuts in the songwriting and production for the first time. It’s both the end of the best era of the band and the beginning of the decline that all great bands endure. "take some shortcuts in the songwriting and production" I'm going to need more info about this.
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Armitage posted:post itt every time you lol that 311 tried to cover Lovesong My college buddy was in a college-serious relationship with this girl who had apparently dated someone from 311 back in Ohio? Anyway Lovesong was on the radio and she did some melodramatic thing about 'oh 311 wrote such pretty songs.....  'I was like  This Is A Cover Anyway I like Pictures of You when I'm sober but I absolutely love Just Like Heaven when I'm drunk
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Vampire Panties posted:I absolutely love Just Like Heaven when I'm drunk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G05BjQSSHKI Wee fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Dec 18, 2022 |
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Its interesting to think how detailed and complete Robert Smith makes demo tracks for Cure songs, there's videos online, and then how the Mixed Up remix albums may have used them. The Lost Wishes cassette is a good example of his demos. Wee fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Dec 18, 2022 |
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Irradiate your sperm or eggs now until they are grey slime.
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Bloodflowers is a very good album that never gets any credit.
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The curtain call of "real" Cure is the video and live album SHOW Probably one of the best live videos and accompanying albums ever. I have this on VHS, and when I become very rich I will purchase it on vinyl. Its just like Wish, until recently, never re released. (FYI I have a first pressing of Wish, and the re-release, and the Lost Wishes cassette) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uoByRly-6g The intro with all the attendees wandering around is a perfect encapsulation of the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erz1EKxO82Y Wee fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Dec 18, 2022 |
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A popular song and oddity is the track Charlotte Sometimes which appears on no album but was a single released after the Faith album in 1981 Its a bizarre, Dr Who episode quality at best, music video that looks as important as the reason it was ever made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KeII31qyck The B side is another thing all together and deserves little attention. The song Charlotte Sometimes is considered along side and in some ways equal in the bands older catalogue with the track A Forest. Although A Forest appears like an outlier single it did appear on the Seventeen Seconds album. There is approximately 18 months between the release of A Forest and Charlotte Sometimes, though they were probably developed and rehearsed in the same rehearsal sessions at some point. Charlotte Sometimes and A Forrest sit as bulwarks before a change, in the space before such things as Japanese Whispers and Siouxie The last of what we knew for a while Wee fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Dec 18, 2022 |
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PORNOGRAPHY 1982 Roberts mother died and if you thought A Forest was a reprise from Faith..it was not and its going to get worse. Their darkest most goth album, but no one knows or even thinks about it beyond maybe Hanging Gardens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKav_kXO97A An absolute stand out in their discography. Wee fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Dec 18, 2022 |
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The following album offers not much, The Top in 1984 is a melange of Roberts "real" band and his side projects at the time. Its high as a kite nonsense with maybe Shake Dog Shake and the single The Caterpillar (probably deserving a review and being on Kiss Me... a few years later) as the only real stand outs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Mv_-MTaw4
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1985, The Head on the Door. You do not go this album as an album. You go to it for the singles, and even then you missed it. In Between Days and Close to Me are essential Cure songs on a over all terrible album. Real heads go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljxZimxO5vM
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Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me 1987 It stands on its own, but in hindsight its like a warm up for Wish, its so many good songs outside of the singles. They all stand strongly on their own but you can see Disintegration in some of them, you can also see Wish. And its like like after this they actively went, no, that old dark part, we gotta get out, and did so 2 years later. Wee fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Dec 18, 2022 |
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Disintegration (1989) Its their best album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZsQdLlvuk4 Its a full album complete , it should be listened to as such, there's singles but for once it has to be heard as a whole. Its their mature representation of the dark poo poo they may have previously toyed with put forth in an extremely deep and honest way for once. No one knew what duplicity meant until this album made them look it up. Wee fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Dec 18, 2022 |
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If The Cure then why people still sick huh? Explain that, you can’t
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A Few Hours After This is a highly underrated song.
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Cant do Wish (1992). Can you imagine The Cure making one of the best albums of the 90's? They did it. Its so of its time in some ways it makes it hard to deal with 30 years later. But its so good and so visceral in its intent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhIjwuVj68I Lets all loving burst into tears High AND From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea? Its Pure and good and heart wrenching in both directions. Its a masterpiece. Wee fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Dec 18, 2022 |
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JnnyThndrs posted:Bloodflowers is a very good album that never gets any credit.
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I listen to a lot of 70's-80's cure still. I've been focusing on 17 seconds/faith/pornography for awhile though. I should give disintegration a spin sometime soon 
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I like that one Dinosaur Jr. cover that cuts off in the middle for no reason
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I never went into a goth phase. I do know that these guys can jam, though.
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For a couple of years, my brother drove me to school and we always listened to Disintegration during the morning during winter. It's been a long time but I still can't listen to Pictures Of You without shivering a little bit because some part of my brain just assumes that the temperature is well below freezing.
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All due respect to Robert, I used to dress like the cure in the late 80's. I didn't do lipstick, but I did foundation and eyeliner, which I think is actually a good look for guys, even cis ones like me. There was this one dude I knew who actually had a "Cure car" where he painted the cheap used junker car with the kind of graphics you see on Head on the Door / Kiss me x3. He usually always had at least three girls also dressed like the Cure in tow. He got his rear end kicked one night at the dance club when him and his groupies brought squirt guns and started squirting punks / goths. I like all of the music except the stuff that got too mainstream and I got sick of (Disintegration), my favorite album is probably The Glove, which is weird since Robert only sings two tracks on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETpJ1GfjbUQ
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If The Glove didn’t have that terrible singer on most if it, it would be a classic album. Jesus, she’s irritating, but Severin and Smith do a good job together.
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The cures music makes me endlessly sad. Not because of the music itself but because it was the love of my life’s favourite band and it evokes many memories.
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they a pretty good band op.
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you didn't tell us what was wrong with them in your op. can't just name a band and expect us to make fun of them
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I was absolutely obsessed with the Cure about 20 years ago, and then about 12 years ago I became obsessed with David Bowie. I worked at a Nashville bar from 2015-2017 and I got to sort of know Reeves Gabrels (the Cure's current lead guitarist and David Bowie's former guitarist/musical director) and dude loves to talk about both gigs, which is great because I loved listening to his stories about Bowie borrowing his socks and how Robert Smith won't let him deviate from the guitar parts as written but that he's welcome to shred his own solos I like the Cure very much and look forward to hearing what a studio album with Reeves playing on it sounds like because I've seen him play up close and dude is a loving guitar wizard
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Happy Hippo posted:I was absolutely obsessed with the Cure about 20 years ago, and then about 12 years ago I became obsessed with David Bowie. I worked at a Nashville bar from 2015-2017 and I got to sort of know Reeves Gabrels (the Cure's current lead guitarist and David Bowie's former guitarist/musical director) and dude loves to talk about both gigs, which is great because I loved listening to his stories about Bowie borrowing his socks and how Robert Smith won't let him deviate from the guitar parts as written but that he's welcome to shred his own solos maybe the op meant riffing like playing with/ and or like them sadly I think he meant making fun of them. He will find very few friends to agree with him here
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JnnyThndrs posted:If The Glove didn’t have that terrible singer on most if it, it would be a classic album. Jesus, she’s irritating, but Severin and Smith do a good job together. I love Jeanette Landray's vocals on that album! When I first heard some of the songs I thought it was Siouxsie!
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