The Wish b-sides are also stellar
― castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 20 January 2022 22:47 (two years ago) link
Anyone who had the Staring at the Sea VHS should remember this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKOdo_hD9k8
― nate woolls, Friday, 21 January 2022 04:43 (two years ago) link
Oh yes
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 January 2022 05:31 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQp3oWdS7cw
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 January 2022 11:09 (two years ago) link
^^^^ exactly
― castanuts (DJP), Friday, 21 January 2022 15:13 (two years ago) link
wish also had the best extended mixes they ever did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JAlbcDerHQ
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Friday, 21 January 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link
I remember being annoyed I had to get that CD single as an import when they did domestic for "High" and "Friday I'm In Love."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 January 2022 15:51 (two years ago) link
Album with the best b-sides is Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Thursday, January 20, 2022 3:03 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
otm, "chain of flowers" being my favorite
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 21 January 2022 15:53 (two years ago) link
brad otm again, "chain of flowers" is alltime. always been one of their very best songs to me. pretty sure it ranked top ten on my ballot when we polled them some years back.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Friday, 21 January 2022 15:56 (two years ago) link
"Snow in Summer"!
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 January 2022 15:57 (two years ago) link
"to the sky" also a personal favorite and quite good — though not necessarily a proper b-side. came from the kiss me sessions.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Friday, 21 January 2022 16:07 (two years ago) link
I remember taping that off the radio and searching for a physical version of it for ages... lost interest in the Cure before I did.
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Friday, 21 January 2022 18:05 (two years ago) link
I was at the height of my Cure fandom in high school when “to the sky” started getting play on the local radio. I pulled my hair out trying to find a physical copy. Definitely had a radio dub on cassette to get me through.
― sknybrg, Friday, 21 January 2022 18:35 (two years ago) link
this has been amazing to hear about the Cure's B-sides and hearing how people heard some of them over the radio. i grew up on KROQ and they didn't play "To the Sky" on the radio they did play "A Man Inside My Mouth" all the time. one time Richard Blade and Lisa May were on the air trying to figure out what the song was about, they had no clue and went down a rabbit hole they should have never gone down.
― Bee OK, Friday, 21 January 2022 18:46 (two years ago) link
I thought I had posted this on the Cure thread already, but this is kinda interesting, I was sure that A Man Inside My Mouth was included in the film Flight of the Navigator but it was a very close parody, maybe The band refused to give them the rights?
"When MAX and David stop behind the car to ask for directions, the song heard in the car is a fragment of "Trapped In My Mind", an obvious parody of The Cure's "A Man Inside My Mouth" composed by David Kitay and Guy Moon, and performed by Kitay himself specifically for the movie. A full version of the song does not exist."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCdLKYUIeno
― Maresn3st, Friday, 21 January 2022 18:57 (two years ago) link
Don't know why, but To the Sky got a TON of airplay on one of the Houston radio stations upon release.
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Friday, 21 January 2022 18:59 (two years ago) link
I’m from Houston too f.hazel, and the local Q station really payed that song. I guess lullaby and lovesong really were big hits locally.
― sknybrg, Friday, 21 January 2022 19:15 (two years ago) link
hahaha, along with I Beg Your Pardon by Kon Kan!
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Friday, 21 January 2022 19:22 (two years ago) link
Yes, but I would say that, "Halo" was our first dance song at our wedding.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 21 January 2022 19:24 (two years ago) link
Maresn3st, that's hilarious. i love that movie.
semi-related, but i seem to have vague memories of hearing "the big hand" on college radio in the pacific northwest. can't say for sure. i only recorded the hiphop shows back then, so who knows i could be confusing it with a different wish track (probably "letter to elise" in that case).
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Friday, 21 January 2022 19:40 (two years ago) link
x-postKon Kan! hadn’t thought about that one in a while
― sknybrg, Friday, 21 January 2022 21:11 (two years ago) link
The recent posts inspired me to listen thru the first chunk of Join The Dots the other morning. I was hearing almost every one of these for the first time, and without much warning I was immediately affected by "Man Inside My Mouth." Makes sense that it would place #50 on The Cure poll and that it received some heavy KROQ spins.
For context, this is from their top 106.7 of 1986:61. Bananarama - Venus62. The Smithereens - Behind the Wall of Sleep63. Eurythmics - Missionary Man64. The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink65. Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight66. The Cure - A Man Inside My Mouth
― billstevejim, Monday, 24 January 2022 18:23 (two years ago) link
Lol still in his stone-face phase.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5IJkf-msCE
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 3 February 2022 17:40 (two years ago) link
Lol airdrumming, lol
― castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 3 February 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
Lol is not on board
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Thursday, 3 February 2022 17:58 (two years ago) link
Lol is not on board bored.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 February 2022 17:59 (two years ago) link
There's a passage in Ten Imaginary Years where someone (could have been Robert, don't accurately remember right now) says that they look bored in all of their old promos and TV performances because, well, they were.
I have the close-up of Simon's big exaggerated sigh from the "Forest" video permanently burned into my memory. Very classic.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Thursday, 3 February 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link
I'd never heard this before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw7wJ8vEe20
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 February 2022 18:17 (two years ago) link
no offense but that was pretty ghastly to me
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 3 February 2022 22:22 (two years ago) link
Can a drummer explain to me why Lol was deemed sub-par? I (someone who knows nothing about drums) quite liked his drumming up to Pornography
― Duke, Thursday, 3 February 2022 23:38 (two years ago) link
As a drummer, or former drummer, myself, I think he was perfectly fine for the early stuff. Good, even. But of course he wasn't capable of doing the more intricate stuff that Boris eventually added to the band. Also, as I understand it Lol had an alcohol problem, which probably didn't help.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 February 2022 23:45 (two years ago) link
I haven’t read Lol’s book, but aiui all parties agree that his consumption did not impact his performance until several years after he was moved to keyboards, at which point he was self-medicating over being further sidelined as a social and contributing member of the group (this vicious circle also being exacerbated by the other members continuing to socially bond via alcohol)
― bad luck banging, or Lorna Doone (sic), Friday, 4 February 2022 00:48 (two years ago) link
The book is very good -- was just talking about it earlier today on FB. It's definitely written from someone who realized the depths of the problem, took accountability for it in the end while also noting how environment and family shaped him in that regard. I found it very well considered, and that it ended with he and Robert reestablishing their friendship and working a bit together again was a lovely conclusion.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 February 2022 01:17 (two years ago) link
Others like Ned can correct me, but Smith among rock autocrats doesn't strike me as vindictive or mean?
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 February 2022 01:29 (two years ago) link
I mean, he's griped about others he's not fond of, especially if he gets associated with them -- his long standing antipathy for Morrissey being a good example -- and I suspect there's more going on in those opaque intraband dynamics than we know about. I'm sure he's no plaster saint, no less than any of us. But I think it's a sign of something that when they got the Rock Hall nod just about every member past or present was there, and they specifically shouted out Andy Anderson, who had either just passed or had announced he was ill.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 February 2022 01:39 (two years ago) link
Smith among rock autocrats doesn't strike me as vindictive or mean?
the stories about how the whole band bullied lol in the midst of his alcoholism are pretty unpleasant so i think smith is quite capable of being mean
― ufo, Friday, 4 February 2022 01:44 (two years ago) link
That's true. Never mind.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 February 2022 01:46 (two years ago) link
Again, though, Lol is pretty clear about seeing it otherwise in his book! It's not a sense of "I deserved it," but of "I was really being fucking awful!" That he might want to put his own frame on it is clear enough, combined with the fact that they're all not a bunch of guys in their twenties any more.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 February 2022 01:47 (two years ago) link
Allegedly we have a formal album title
NEW ALBUM TITLE: SONGS OF THE LOST WORLD #thecure #robertsmith https://t.co/nAZvD7A0Rm— curefandocumentary (@curefandoc) March 3, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 March 2022 00:35 (two years ago) link
I look forward to hearing this either by the end of the year or never
― castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 3 March 2022 01:40 (two years ago) link
otm
― Rest assured: the author of this post was smiling whilst writing it. (Austin), Thursday, 3 March 2022 01:44 (two years ago) link
don't really believe a single word of this statement, but Robert Smith making amorphous vaporware album pronouncements has in itself become a welcome and soothing event within the CureSpace
― lemmy incaution (emsworth), Thursday, 3 March 2022 02:00 (two years ago) link
i like the title better than Live from the Moom
― Bee OK, Thursday, 3 March 2022 02:08 (two years ago) link
Hoping it’ll stand up to 4:13 Scream
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 3 March 2022 02:08 (two years ago) link
Hoping it's actually his unused film score from the Jurassic Park sequel.
But seriously— Recently dove into the Mixed Up super duper expanded edition and was pleasantly surprised by the more recent remixes (for the most part; some were meh). I just wrote it off when it was new because it seemed silly. Still kind of unnecessary, but not a total waste of time. If nothing else, it all definitely fits in with the spirit of the original album.
― Rest assured: the author of this post was smiling whilst writing it. (Austin), Thursday, 3 March 2022 02:20 (two years ago) link
And I forgot to add why I bring that up:
If it's any indicator of the new material, I think it will probably be very good comfort food.
― Rest assured: the author of this post was smiling whilst writing it. (Austin), Thursday, 3 March 2022 02:21 (two years ago) link
Huh I thought most of the new remixes were garbage
― castanuts (DJP), Thursday, 3 March 2022 04:02 (two years ago) link
Enh, the bad ones / good ones ratio I thought was about 75/25. So yes, most. Good ones I really liked: "Just One Kiss (Remember Mix)", " A Night Like This (Hello Goodbye Mix)", "The Last Day of Summer (31st August Mix)", and "Cut Here (If Only Mix)." A few embarrassing ones in that lot unfortunately, but most of them followed the original arrangements pretty closely, so it was at least listenable. It's a lot better when listening with the thought that the mixes were inspired by the original Mixed Up album. Some of them genuinely would've fit right in. Of course, the original Mixed Up was also an uneven album so the bonus material appropriately yields similar results.
― Rest assured: the author of this post was smiling whilst writing it. (Austin), Thursday, 3 March 2022 04:29 (two years ago) link
WE HAVE JUST ADDED A BLUE/YELLOW LOGO T-SHIRT TO OUR OFFICIAL STORES - ALL PROFITS WILL BE DONATED TO UNHCR @Refugees - PRE-ORDER AT https://t.co/JPIxEAlwXE pic.twitter.com/mgKTl9qZ4D— The Cure (@thecure) March 15, 2022
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 01:58 (two years ago) link
THAT'S NICE ROBERT
― StanM, Wednesday, 16 March 2022 08:48 (two years ago) link