Probably easier than when they were travelling in between the gigs on other days tbf
― serving bundt (sic), Sunday, 23 July 2023 08:04 (nine months ago) link
so, I came with an open mind but that Lol/Budgie single with James Murphy is really terrible, isn't it
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 24 July 2023 12:54 (nine months ago) link
I like the instrumental track - almost early Creatures in feel - but would've preferred another vocalist.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 24 July 2023 15:09 (nine months ago) link
It sounds like it was written for Siouxsie
― the new drip king (DJP), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 10:49 (nine months ago) link
struggling to identify Lol’s contribution to it
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 13:23 (nine months ago) link
just saw my kid in his drama school production of The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe and noticed that the sound bed they used for the witch was an extended intro to A Forest
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length)
Just read this -- wow.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 13:28 (nine months ago) link
I'm not deep in the weeds enough to know if the set was particularly notable, but they were great last night. Deep cuts (to me) were "Cold" and ... "At Night"? Might have dusted off "High" for the first time this tour, but I'm not sure, since that song is pretty popular, I thought. Also got "Fascination Street," which I don't think they've been playing much.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 September 2023 12:17 (seven months ago) link
We got "High" in SF (if you will).
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 September 2023 14:34 (seven months ago) link
Weird, Setlist.fm has "High" as a tour debut last night, the only time played in 2023. They're usually good with that stuff. But I trust you!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 September 2023 15:10 (seven months ago) link
Cold: 10th time in North America 2023, Street: 7th, At Night: 21st — and setlist.fm says Chicago was the first High (if you will)
― vashti funyuns (sic), Monday, 18 September 2023 15:14 (seven months ago) link
xp!
Huh, so they've been playing At Night a lot more than Fascination Street?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 September 2023 15:21 (seven months ago) link
Boy that's strange. Convinced I saw "High" at the Shoreline this year. (I did definitely see it in 2016 at the same venue, thus the possible confusion.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 September 2023 15:28 (seven months ago) link
Either way, I've only ever seen the band with Jason, but for whatever reason last night was the first time he really clicked for me. Felt like the MVP, in fact, Bob aside.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 18 September 2023 15:34 (seven months ago) link
Yeah Jason has now really figured out his place in the band’s sound and is fantastic
― the new drip king (DJP), Monday, 18 September 2023 16:20 (seven months ago) link
Agreed.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 18 September 2023 16:24 (seven months ago) link
yeah no High at the shoreline show I attended. I would have loved that.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 18 September 2023 16:40 (seven months ago) link
Roger O'Donnell talks at length about his keyboards
― nate woolls, Monday, 8 January 2024 20:02 (three months ago) link
I love the idea that Roger O'Donnell has a warehouse full of synths that he only ever plays with two or three fingers.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 January 2024 22:15 (three months ago) link
(that was a joke, mostly)
It's that technique that allows him to play three, four or five synths at the same moment
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 8 January 2024 22:32 (three months ago) link
Any chance we get an album this year?
Kind of wild to realize it's been 16 years since the last album, nearly the same time gap encompassing Three Imaginary Boys to Wild Mood Swings.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 8 January 2024 22:51 (three months ago) link
A @TheCure fan brought this relic to @RoughTrade last night to show to @AndyVellaDesign and me.If it's genuine - and sources close to the horse's mouth believe it is - then it's an absolute Holy Grail of @RobertSmith memorabilia."Where it all began, really" as the owner said. pic.twitter.com/sChp9drSLZ— Simon Price﮷ (@simon_price01) January 19, 2024
― city worker, Friday, 19 January 2024 14:05 (three months ago) link
wow!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 January 2024 14:11 (three months ago) link
1. Did Robert return it?
2. Did no one else ever check it out?
― Wine not? (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 19 January 2024 15:32 (three months ago) link
Form: 69Book Condition: Yes
― peace, man, Friday, 19 January 2024 15:46 (three months ago) link
I check books out from the university library and a lot of them were last borrowed in like 1977 or 1985!
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Friday, 19 January 2024 16:05 (three months ago) link
Love it. "RJPC Smith"?
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 20 January 2024 01:08 (three months ago) link
fwiw Rik Mayall went to my school and kids used to write "Richard Mayall" in their text books all the time
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 20 January 2024 01:13 (three months ago) link
lol at all recent posts
― Pictish in the Woods (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 January 2024 01:18 (three months ago) link
That's even better than Trent Reznor's Volvo of Despair.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 20 January 2024 01:22 (three months ago) link
That's really an amazing and awesome find.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 20 January 2024 01:58 (three months ago) link
I reckon it’s genuine, that handwriting is very distinctive and a match for later scrawled autographs etc. https://pin.it/6mqYBuyfG
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 20 January 2024 04:20 (three months ago) link
sorry https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d8/fa/b8/d8fab8130e18f32fb56e44a27eea9c67.jpg
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 20 January 2024 04:33 (three months ago) link
George Costanza : Hey... you don't think... sure, that's Jon Voight's pencil!
Jerry Seinfeld : With Jon Voight's teeth marks.
pulls out the owners manual from the glove box
Jerry Seinfeld : Owner's manual... you know what? This car was owned by Jon Voight.
George Costanza : Ah! See? I told ya.
Jerry Seinfeld : Except Jon is spelled with an H. J-O-H-N.
George Costanza : So?
Jerry Seinfeld : Doesn't Jon Voight spell his name J-O-N?
George Costanza : So, what are you saying?
Jerry Seinfeld : Nothing. I'm sure "Jon" probably mispelled his own name. I know sometimes I spell Jerry with a G... and an I!
George Costanza : Get out of the car!
Jerry Seinfeld : What?
George Costanza : That's right, you heard me. Get out. You are ruining this whole experience for me.
Jerry Seinfeld : Oh, look! There's Gregory Peck's bicycle!
George Costanza : Get out!
Jerry Seinfeld : And Barbara Mandrell's skateboard!
― a (waterface), Monday, 22 January 2024 14:54 (three months ago) link
Enjoyed watching Lol on drums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI_yHkV7XTE
― MaresNest, Monday, 29 January 2024 23:22 (three months ago) link
The reissue series continues as such -- slightly expanded version of Paris up next:
https://store.rhino.com/en/rhino-store/artists/the-cure/paris-cd/603497825103.html
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 February 2024 21:42 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiWJfCSsduc
― Bee OK, Saturday, 10 February 2024 02:13 (two months ago) link
Sounds great at that pace - really thick and druggy
It’s such a shame they play everything to a click now
― Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Saturday, 10 February 2024 02:51 (two months ago) link
Is Paris the last release with Boris? Excepting that odd unplugged thing from the hits compilation.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 10 February 2024 06:11 (two months ago) link
Lost Wishes and the Elise B-sides were recorded before Paris but released after it was performed/recorded; Purple Haze I think would be the last recorded-and-released Boris.
― bae (sic), Saturday, 10 February 2024 06:46 (two months ago) link
I always thought Burn was the last Boris thing - but I am open to being educated here
― Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Saturday, 10 February 2024 06:59 (two months ago) link
d'oh!
― bae (sic), Saturday, 10 February 2024 07:05 (two months ago) link
Is Boris even (doing the programming) on Purple Haze? I want to say yes but I can't remember. Obv he's right there on the Virgin Radio version.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Saturday, 10 February 2024 07:27 (two months ago) link
Burn is indeed the last recording. Just him and RS at that point if memory serves.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 10 February 2024 10:34 (two months ago) link
Really great piece by Jude Rogers on Charlotte Sometimes, book and song but primarily the book, I think rightly.
https://steadyhq.com/thequietus/posts/21b14186-0eb3-436a-bb5c-3f7e27c29a0c
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 February 2024 00:12 (two months ago) link
Tonight I was out to dinner with an old friend of the opposite sex. She brought up the song "The Last Day of Summer" and I so casually said that song is on Bloodflowers. Now thinking back, how in the hell do I know that? But it's the Cure and they're my all-time favourite band and its not even close, so I did know that piece of trivia.
Ironically, she also talked about the Smiths "Asleep" and I had no clue where that song came from other than I didn't think it was an album track.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 24 February 2024 07:25 (two months ago) link
do you dislike bloodflowers? I wasn't hot on it for many years but I've come around, maybe in part because the albums after were fairly disappointing by comparison. The Last Day of Summer is probably my favorite song on that album.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 24 February 2024 15:17 (two months ago) link
It's a beaut, and it was nice to see it back in the mix on last year's tour.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 February 2024 15:51 (two months ago) link
Yeah that album’s saving grace
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 24 February 2024 16:45 (two months ago) link