'Shake Dog Shake' made for a great gig opener, too. I think Anderson's drumming on The Top is great, but they probably wouldn't have risked re-hiring him even if they'd wanted to, given the legendary stories about him freaking out on long tours.
― Turrican, Thursday, 19 May 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link
I like Boris Williams a lot and think he is an integral part to the sound of The Cure when they went huge but I can't help listening to "The Lovecats" or The Top and wondering what might have been
I mean, imagine Andy drumming on "Hot Hot Hot!!!" for starters
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 19 May 2016 17:15 (seven years ago) link
The Top is amazing. I maintain the album Robert did by himself on drugs is his best stuff. Check the bass tone on this live version it's so siqqqqqqqqqqqq.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHfb-FYXaFM
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 19 May 2016 17:15 (seven years ago) link
Andy woulda put those neat hi-hat trills on 'Hot Hot Hot!!!', like he did on 'Birdmad Girl'
― Turrican, Thursday, 19 May 2016 17:25 (seven years ago) link
Oddly Anderson was briefly in the tribute band Cureheads and got fired for not turning up. What are the stories about him freaking out on tour? He's been with quite a variety of bands.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 19 May 2016 17:53 (seven years ago) link
Getting into fights with security guards and smashing up hotel rooms.
― Turrican, Thursday, 19 May 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
Violent when drunk I seem to recall. Must have been quite a tour given the state RS was in at the time
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 19 May 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link
...and Lol, too!
― Turrican, Thursday, 19 May 2016 19:32 (seven years ago) link
robert's bullying of the rest of the band is so ingrained in cure culture and it looks like he's still at it. there's some video of him clowning on simon's stuttering problem on stage a few nights ago. i love it.
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 19 May 2016 19:56 (seven years ago) link
More people have actually left The Cure than been fired, haven't they?
― Turrican, Thursday, 19 May 2016 20:03 (seven years ago) link
I mean, in terms of firings, there was Anderson and Tolhurst during the '80s and then Bamonte and O'Donnell in the '00s. All the others: Dempsey, Hartley, Gallup, Thornalley, O'Donnell (the first time), Thompson (both times) and Williams all left. Although rumour has it that Gallup has actually left and rejoined several times over the years between albums, though it's been kept quiet.
― Turrican, Thursday, 19 May 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
wtf is gallup really going to do with his life other than be the cure's bassist, come on.
― akm, Thursday, 19 May 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
being Robert's best mate. Isn't that full time?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 May 2016 21:22 (seven years ago) link
"Shake Dog Shake" has become my favorite Cure opener
Seing all this The Top love makes me so happy. I think it's brilliant and criminally underrated, especially by the music press who just seem to copy/paste old reviews without actually listening to it.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 19 May 2016 21:30 (seven years ago) link
it's probably my favourite cure album, next to disintegration (which was the second cure album I ever owned). definitely the two I play the most.
― akm, Thursday, 19 May 2016 21:54 (seven years ago) link
It's hard for me to say what my favourite Cure album is, really. The one thing I'm certain of is that it's never been Disintegration!
― Turrican, Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:03 (seven years ago) link
Don't get me wrong, I like Disintegration a lot, but I've always been mystified by its status as the Cure album one must hear, above any of them.
― Turrican, Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:06 (seven years ago) link
I suppose it's down to your entry point into the band, though... for me, I got into the pre-Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me stuff first, whereas someone who heard Disintegration first might rate it higher? Disintegration to me is like a ramped up version of Faith... Faith on steroids.
― Turrican, Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:11 (seven years ago) link
Disintegration is a bore. Don't be sorry.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:12 (seven years ago) link
hey now
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:14 (seven years ago) link
disintegration was my first cure record and it took me a long time to love it (although i fell for "plainsong" immediately) but it's sorta got everything in there while also managing to sustain an incredible mood
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:15 (seven years ago) link
idk what my favorite cure record is though. faith?
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:16 (seven years ago) link
I got all I want (!) from glacially paced dour Cure listening to "Sinking."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:19 (seven years ago) link
I prefer the vinyl config that cuts 'Last Dance' and 'Homesick', and it's still a long record even then.
― Turrican, Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:19 (seven years ago) link
I have a fantastic bootleg from the Top tour with Phil still on bass and Boris in on drums (maybe his first or second show ever, if I recall correctly). I'll post it when I get home if enough people are interested.
― Austin, Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:21 (seven years ago) link
i have the vinyl, i hate that it's missing homesick. I would have cut something else, dunno what. anyway it's been reissued as a double with noithing cut.
― akm, Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:24 (seven years ago) link
The Head on the DoorFaithPornographyThe TopJapanese WhispersSeventeen SecondsDisintegrationThree Imaginary BoysWishKiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me4:13 DreamBloodflowersThe CureWild Mood Swings
...is the way I'd rank them overall, I think.
― Turrican, Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:29 (seven years ago) link
x-post:
'Homesick' is my least favourite song on there by a zillion miles (dare I say it, one of my very least favourite songs of their so-called "classic" period) so I don't miss it on the vinyl version.
― Turrican, Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
KMKMKM so far down that ranking is astonishing to me
― nate woolls, Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:33 (seven years ago) link
Listen you
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:34 (seven years ago) link
at least turrican and I agree on the bottom 4
― akm, Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:38 (seven years ago) link
not loving disintegration to me is weird. but putting head on the door tells me you like different things about the cure than I do (which is towering monoliths of gloom sound)
― akm, Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:39 (seven years ago) link
also how anyone can dislike homesick I don't know
― akm, Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link
xxxx-post:
Yeah, but look at the albums above it! There's a lot of tracks I love on Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, but there's also a lot of stuff that would have easily been chopped if they'd had to whittle it down to a single album.
I've never really been a big fan of 'Fight', for example.
― Turrican, Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:45 (seven years ago) link
― akm, Thursday, May 19, 2016 6:39 PM
I like sex-crazed drug-addled pop Cure.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:46 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, akm, but I ranked Faith second and Pornography third, and we're talking about a less than paper thin difference between the rankings at the top end there.
― Turrican, Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:51 (seven years ago) link
ditto
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:51 (seven years ago) link
xx-post:
as opposed to... sex-crazed drug-addled gloom Cure?
― Turrican, Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:53 (seven years ago) link
you bet!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 May 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link
Ah, for me it's never really been a question of "happy Cure vs. gloom Cure" ... I think it's entirely possible to like both sides of what the band do, and I do. I just prefer the way they did the former on The Head on the Door to the way they did it on Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, and the way they did the latter on Faith and Pornography to the way they did it on Disintegration.
― Turrican, Thursday, 19 May 2016 23:03 (seven years ago) link
There's a lot of tracks I love on Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, but there's also a lot of stuff that would have easily been chopped if they'd had to whittle it down to a single album.
I might let you cut some tracks off KMKMKM, but only if I get to replace them with "A Japanese Dream", "Breathe", and "To The Sky".
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 19 May 2016 23:43 (seven years ago) link
The Cure in Las Vegas tonight. it's getting closer, i could not be any more excited for Sunday Night.
― Bee OK, Friday, 20 May 2016 03:09 (seven years ago) link
I'm also bemused by the disproportionate focus on Disintegration in the band's catalogue.
Love a good ranking exercise:
FaithThe TopKiss Me Kiss Me Kiss MeWishJapanese WhispersSeventeen SecondsPornographyDisintegrationThe Head on the DoorThree Imaginary BoysWild Mood SwingsThe Cure4:13 DreamBloodflowers
― Birds in Hell, Friday, 20 May 2016 08:25 (seven years ago) link
In terms of how often I play them -
Seventeen SecondsThe Head on the DoorConcertThe TopFaithJapanese WhispersDisintegrationPornographyStanding on a BeachThree Imaginary BoysKiss Me Kiss Me Kiss MeBloodflowers... the remainder, played once or twice each ...
― MatthewK, Friday, 20 May 2016 08:33 (seven years ago) link
PornographyFaithDisintegrationThe TopKM^3Japanese WhispersWish4:13 DreamSeventeen SecondsThe CureThe Head on the DoorThree Imaginary BoysBloodflowershi-def coprophagy videospounding nails through my fingertipsWild Mood Swings
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Friday, 20 May 2016 13:18 (seven years ago) link
wow, 4:13 so high?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 20 May 2016 13:22 (seven years ago) link
yup
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Friday, 20 May 2016 13:25 (seven years ago) link
punk Cure and gloom Cure >>>> pop Cure
― ejemplo (crüt), Friday, 20 May 2016 13:35 (seven years ago) link
pornographythe topseventeen secondsfaiththe rest
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Friday, 20 May 2016 13:37 (seven years ago) link