The Cure: Classic or Dud?

The remasters are ok; i know some people have complained that they're overly compressed but I don't really have any issues with how they sound; I guess there's also an edit problem with Shake Dog Shake on the Top. The bonus tracks though, for the most part, never grabbed me; good to listen to once, but not lifechanging. Join the Dots is a better companion. Let's just say: I got rid of all my cds of the remasters (except for Disintegration) and kept rips of them because I didn't feel that wedded to them.

also don't think Ned and I both didn't think of Dan when they played Push

What's the edit problem on "Shake Dog Shake"?

Part of the initial drum roll is cut off. It's very slight, but definitely noticeable if you're very familiar with the song.

I think the remastersame sound great, much better than the originals. It's the bonus disks that aren't essential.

Stupid spell check

bonus dicks would have been better

Remastersame is a word?

My spell check put those two words together

Or something went haywire

I was just trying to add an s

I like the sound of the remasters that I bought (first 4), but the lack of quality control and lack of complete bonus discs put me off the next batch.

Quality control issues: pages missing from booklet from 1st LP, dropout during "M" should have been repaired, "Other Voices" intro at end of "Primary" track...

they played two new songs at my show, here is the other one called "Step Into The Light":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18ENsKMYaNk

yeah they did that last night too. it's alright. the other new song is better.

Nobody mentioned "Pictures Of You", which had a single mix, an extended mix, and the extended dub mix that made it on Mixed Up.

Friend of mine made a playlist of every song they've played on this tour

https://open.spotify.com/user/12137425947/playlist/2lbeYZWuBordnJCE9Hgwya

I've listened to the bonus discs on Spotify and decided I can live without them.

Just listening to The Top right now - one of my favourites. The title song is amazing

The title track is one of their most underrated songs, IMO. One of those tracks they really should be playing live.

The Top also has THE MIGHTY BANANA SONG!!

So-called because it sucks mighty banana!

Salinger reference an' all.

No way, Turrican. No way.

i love "Bananafishbones."

^ this.

Best part of 'The Top' is when the drums return after the line 'you just imagine it's cold'. Also, I discovered embarrassingly late that the toy heard in the first and last few seconds of that song is called ... a top. [Insert obligatory 'English is not my native language' comment here.]

The title track is one of their most underrated songs, IMO. One of those tracks they really should be playing live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoxouXuFrLI

The end of this Sasquatch review of The Cure's set emphasizes why festivals are so shit:

"The set also went on far too long – an hour and 45 minutes. Watching a band come out for two encores when only 20 or 30 people are clapping and 95 percent of the crowd has fled was just one of the anomalies of a Sasquatch day that will be long remembered."

xxxpost:

Smith claims not to remember much about making The Top, but I seem to remember reading an interview where he said they spent ages trying to get the best take when recording the spinning top!

Also, I discovered embarrassingly late that the toy heard in the first and last few seconds of that song is called ... a top. [Insert obligatory 'English is not my native language' comment here.]

― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 10:34 (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha! Fascinating when something so "obvious" understandably doesn't convey to non-native speakers. I must say that for some reason "The Top" also makes me think of the big top of a circus.

There's also a top on the front and back covers - seen from above on the front, side-on on the back.
http://eil.com/images/main/The+Cure+The+Top+104347b.jpg

The story of Robert spending an entire night in the studio, high on magic mushroom tea, trying to get the top sound "just right" is recounted in Ten Imaginary Years.

yeah the Top double meaning was lost on me for a long time as well (especially since the lyrics only refer to a place)

I thought I'd got rid of that book years ago, but I was clearing out the garage a couple days ago, and there it is.

used to know every word of that book by heart

Somehow ... "Disintegration" is probably my most played album of 2016. Can't really explain why or why now. I think, in part, at least, playing it followed a conversation with a friend who was getting rid of 10 per cent or so of his CD collection and vaguely thinking "I should sort out my shelves of CDs" ... and just ending up seeing the album ... but, anyway, it seems beautiful right now.

it is such a great album. they played like eight songs off of it at the show i just went to. they were highlight, that's for sure.

tonight! very excited!

also as the show draws closer i'm realizing something about myself: i like to think of myself as someone who wants the deep cuts but i really want the HITS gimme gimme gimme all those sweet hits fellas don't let me down with some oh this was a b-side from a single off The Top shit

B-b-but the Top b-sides were Happy The Man and Throw Your Foot

I would love it to Throw Your Foot A-Wayyyyyy

DJP I'm very shallow as a person I'm finding out

I definitely want to hear "Friday" and "High" and "Just Like Heaven". Might grab a beer during "Lovecats"

was talking to someone who was going to see them last week in denver and felt a tinge of goth fear of missing out.

This is the band that does "Putting on the Rtiz" right?

That's right

Imagine Robert in that video instead of Taco

This is the band that does "Putting on the Rtiz" right?

― chr1sb3singer, Tuesday, June 7, 2016 11:30 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yah recent setlists show they are doing all the hits - "Puttin' on the Ritz", "Enola Gay", "Just Can't Get Enough", "Love Will Tear Us Apart", "Tainted Love"

I'm holding out hope for "Queen of Hearts", "Time in a Bottle" and "Afternoon Delight"

'Throw Your Foot' is classic as fuck.

I wish RS would change his look.

He looks like someone's grandmother

I completely endorse RS going full Havisham