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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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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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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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Dec 18, 2022 15:24
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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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Dec 18, 2022 15:52
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Irradiate your sperm or eggs now until they are grey slime.
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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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Dec 18, 2022 16:47
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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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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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