― Fevvers, Thursday, 29 August 2002 09:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
I would suggest either _Pornography_ or _Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me_ as your next purchase.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 29 August 2002 09:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
That's sounds like high praise, but remember, they only released two albums in the 1990s.
I personally wouldn't get The Top either. The first couple of songs are okay, but overall, it's pretty forgettable.
I can't remember which one Faith is (I have ...Happily Ever After, so I can never remember which one is Faith and which one is Seventeen Seconds), but I'd recommend getting Seventeen and Pornography next, because those three all represent a certain phase in the band's existence. I'll also second Kiss Me.... I think there's a lot of filler on there, but it does also contain a lot of the Cure's best work.
― Vic Funk, Thursday, 29 August 2002 10:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 29 August 2002 10:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
Seventeen Seconds + Faith = more drinking, increasing cocaine use
Pornography - drinking, any drug on the table including heroin, infighting
Let's Go To Bed / Lovecats era - Robert Smith does cocaine 24/7, starts dropping acid with Steve Severin, does The Glove record, then
The Top - Reactionary "I'm still angry and serious" album, heavy hallucinogen and heroin abuse, drinking continues
Head On The Door / KMKMKM / Disintegration / Wish - cocaine, cocaine, cocaine, drinking, cocaine
Wild Mood Swings - E, booze
Obviously, Smith's best work is done under the mirror's influence.
― Chris Ott, Thursday, 29 August 2002 11:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― george gosset (gegoss), Thursday, 29 August 2002 11:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
OH MUST I. ;-)
Dan's recommendations = sound. Follow them duly. Alex in Mainhattan's note about The Top should be disregarded (he is very right about Wish, though). Disintegration probably remains my singular favorite, though Faith is the very close runner up.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 August 2002 11:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
The Cure famously(!) gave up drugs (apart from alcohol and Lol baiting) for the Head on the Door album.
― flowersdie, Thursday, 29 August 2002 11:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
Great drug summary, Chris. It all makes so much more sense now vs. when I was a straightedge teen.
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 29 August 2002 11:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
Wow -- I have to heavily disagree, I wouldn't change one damn thing about that album. It and Disintergration are radically different (in Cure terms) in approach, style, etc. but both are so perfectly sequenced that imagining them any other way is impossible for em.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 August 2002 13:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 29 August 2002 13:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 29 August 2002 15:14 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 August 2002 15:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 29 August 2002 16:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 August 2002 16:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 29 August 2002 16:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 29 August 2002 16:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
Lately I'm really quite fond of Japanese Whispers.
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 29 August 2002 16:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
Lately I'm frilly bright fronds of Korean Hollers.
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 29 August 2002 16:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 August 2002 16:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave (Dave225), Thursday, 29 August 2002 16:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
Are you forgetting that I loathe "A Thousand Hours", Ned?
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 29 August 2002 20:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
In short, "Fight" is the worst song The Cure released prior to Wild Mood Swings.
― Chris Ott, Thursday, 29 August 2002 23:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
Those suits? Pure coke.
― Chris Ott, Thursday, 29 August 2002 23:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
liz, obv. you have recommendations now for just about any cure record in existence. it seems like there's maybe an appreciation for more lo-fi kind of stuff for nz'ers?? maybe thats not true, but i'm saying that b/c of things duane and di have put on tapes for me, i dont know if your tastes might run along the same veins. blah, what i'm getting at is that you might like the curiosity album. kind of hard to find maybe but if you'd like to, e-mail me and maybe i could send you a tape or something.
― ron (ron), Thursday, 29 August 2002 23:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 30 August 2002 00:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Friday, 30 August 2002 01:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― george gosset (gegoss), Friday, 30 August 2002 01:20 (twenty-one years ago) link