"4:13 Dream" by the Cure

The shirt prices were insane!! I really liked one of them (the girlie pink one with the red RS on the front) but couldn't justify the $$.

Also insane was standing in line for a beer for 20 minutes only to be told it was one per customer.

I was honestly blown away by how good they sounded.

A couple of the people I'm going with still owe me for the tickets but as I bought them way the hell back last summer to me it's like free money -- so I'll use their cash to pick up the shirts. All evens out in the end. ;-)

people I'm going with still owe me for the tickets but as I bought them way the hell back last summer to me it's like free money

haha me too, i love this -- i bought tix like 10 months ago!

Oh! I forgot to mention that I ran into the brother of one of my college roommates and his fiancee while 65dos were playing! That also made my night.

So how were 65dos anyway?

I don't really know, we got there halfway through their set and spent the remaining time buying t-shirts and looking for non-crowded bathrooms. What I heard seemed cool.

The Chicago show last night was fantastic. And despite everything you might be reading about Robert's voice being "fucking awful", it wasn't really that bad. You could notice between songs that he had a cold or something, but it didn't seem to be hampering his singing all that much.

65dos were pretty good, other than the fucknut who thought it was still funny in 2008 to try and blind a band member with a laser pointer (the drummer was the unfortunate victim last night, through their entire set).

"Freakshow" is "Shiver and Shake" in half time...

48 CURE THE ONLY ONE

Yeah, it's flopped.

Which is a shame because its the first really good Cure single for 16 years, kind of like High mixed with Just Like Heaven.

Having said that, you couldn't get the CD single, it sold out pretty much immediately. And as far as the 'box' edition, I didn't see one.

The box thing was a myth.

Only One is probably their best post-Wish single after "The 13th" and the b-side ain't bad either. Premiered live tracks, esp The Perfect Boy, leave me hopeful.

comment from Robt replying to fan about how frustrating it is trying to find the single:

YOU'RE FRUSTRATED?
IMAGINE HOW WE FEEL!
THE BEAUTY OF THE MIGHTY UNIVERSAL GETTING US OUT THERE AND IN THE SHOPS... YEAH!

ANYWAY
ITS AN ONGOING THING...

MAYBE THE NEXT ONE WILL BE FOUND IN A FEW MORE PLACES... ?
(the sound of not holding breath)

ITS AN ONGOING THING...

LIKE MAKING THIS WEBSITE the official cure siteLOOK AND FEEL LIKE THE ONLY ONE...

SOON
PLEASE
SOON!

ITS AN ONGOING THING...

CHICAGO!
RSX

PS
THE NEW ALBUM 'SINGLE OR DOUBLE?' DEBATE...

I JUST FEEL ON REFLECTION THAT MAKING THE NEW ALBUM A 'SINGLE' (WHATEVER THAT MEANS... 8 TRACKS? 13 TRACKS? 21 TRACKS?!!) WILL BE SOMEHOW 'BETTER' - MORE COHERENT - MORE IN TUNE WITH THE BAND AS IT IS...
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE LABEL - THEY ARE HAPPY(?!!) TO TRUST ME WHATEVER WE DECIDE...

AND ANYWAY (BIG CLAIM ALERT!) EVERYTHING WE RECORDED DURING THE NEW ALBUM SESSIONS WILL GET RELEASED - IN THE REAL WORLD NOT JUST AS DIGITAL...

THAT DARK SECOND ALBUM FOR CHRISTMAS MAY NOT BE AS FANCIFUL AS I THINK?!!

ONWARDS...

I really can't wait for the next batch of remasters. I was listening to a Cure playlist on iTunes last night and the difference between the remasters and my old Disintegration tracks was pretty huge.

The CD single is suddenly now available (I got one on Sunday. See it move up three places? That was me)

thanks for that Mark, i found this one interesting as well:

THE MAJOR CONFUSION

5/7/2008 1:45:12 PM - by CURE:ROBERT

A FEW OF THE MORE IRRITATING FALSEHOODS FLOATING AROUND...

1)
"THERE IS A "SPECIAL VERSION" OF THE FIRST CD SINGLE "THE ONLY ONE""

NO THERE ISN'T
ANYONE THAT OFFERS OR CLAIMS ANY KIND OF "SPECIAL" VERSION OF THE FIRST SINGLE - WITH A BOX OR A FREE HOLIDAY OR WHATEVER - IS EITHER LYING OR STUPID
OR BOTH

2)
"THERE IS NO USA VERSION OF THE FIRST CD SINGLE "THE ONLY ONE""

YES THERE IS
ITS JUST THE MIGHTY UNIVERSAL CANT GET IT TOGETHER TO EITHER
A) GET AMAZON ETC TO LIST IT
OR
B) GET IT OUT ON THE 13TH... IT WILL BE AVAILABLE AT $2.99 (OR THEREABOUTS) FROM MAY 20TH

APPARENTLY "NO-ONE BUYS CD'S ANYMORE"...
UNSURPRISING IF THEY ARE NOT AVAILABLE EH?!!

3)
"X,Y OR Z HAVE 'EXCLUSIVE X,Y OR Z' REGARDING THE FIRST CD SINGLE "THE ONLY ONE""

NO THEY DON'T
IT WILL BE AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE
IT IS NOT EXCLUSIVE TO ANY RETAILER

AND...

NO...
THATS IT FOR NOW!

BUT I AM SURE I WILL BE BACK..

RSX

So guys, likely album opener, "Underneath the Stars" is pretty godly: http://www.mediafire.com/?jdm4zyfpljx

(that's a live bootleg recording i should mention)

"The Only One" is a cross between the Smiths' "Shakespear's Sister" and, um, "High"

anyone go to San Jose last night? looks like they played "The Blood," "Catch," "A Strange Day," "Doing the Unstuck" and the full, 4-song Seventeen Seconds encore. So jealous...

SO impatient for Saturday.

they've been mixing up the setlist a bit more lately -- I think you're in for a treat, Ned :)

http://media.tumblr.com/HMYQgMDrx9jx6fraqYiPJE1R_500.png

OMG Mookieproof! You won the internet for the day! (That being the Sasquatch fest pic, I think.)

I <3 those Robert smith ALL CAPS UPDATES.

KEEP IT UP ROBERT

YES
NO
HAHA YES I MEAN

MACKRO.MACKRO

So, judging by the setlist, our friend Ned must have had his head blown...

yeh NO SHIT

*whistles idly*

34 songs, six of them new, perfect sound, great performances, Robert looking just fine, way into it crowd, Hollywood Bowl...nah, sucked.

You didn't go the Shrine show?

Trust me, after seeing THAT setlist, I regret not being able to catch that as well. ;-)

Setlist: Intro (Adagio For Strings), Out of This World, Pictures of You, Fascination Street, alt.end, A Strange Day, The End of the World, The Baby Screams, Love Song, Sleep When I'm Dead, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Lullaby, The Perfect Boy, Kyoto Song, The Only One, Push, How Beautiful You Are, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary, Us or Them, Signal To Noise, One Hundred Years, Bloodflowers

1st encore: Plainsong, Disintegration
2nd encore: "Simon would like to dedicate this next song to Lol and Michael. Says he can play it much better (without them?)" Three Imaginary Boys, Fire In Cairo, Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab
3rd encore: "Cause I'm not sure how to play Happy Birthday, we'll do this instead." Faith!!! (Happy Birthday to Simon mixed in, plus 2Late extra lyrics)

o_0

To put it mildly!

'Faith' from said show. FLAC format so it'll take a bit.

OH MY GOD i said earlier in the thread i would LOVE to see them do Faith. i hate you Ned. make them play Faith in Texas this weekend please. oh and Bloodflowers too. best setlist of the tour, so far.

No, that's the point! I didn't see them do that, so I'm in the same boat!

Been talking with people today who went, though. LOTS of compliments on my shirt, yay me. (Got the black/red striped one.)

Who knew? A review of the Shrine show:

So Cindy and I went off to see The Cure at The Shrine here in Los Angeles last night. Really strong and powerful performances from everybody I thought. This was the first time ive seen the band as a four piece and I have to say I was very impressed.It was truly rockin at the shrine!
One of the highlights for me was how so many of you guys came up to say hello to me afterwards.That made it a great end to a very nice evening! Thanks!

Why quote this -- easy: the identity of the author.

blimey!

That'd explain the second encore intro, just above.

Any idea what the new album will be like? I hope it will be nothing like "The Cure", which was easily their worst ever album.

I would imagine you'd like the new single, no?

the new single's great.

Ned, i see now you went to the Hollywood Bowl. fair enough, still a great show i'm sure. i would kill for that Shrine setlist though, that is gonna be the stuff of legend on this tour.

would have loved to see the shrine OR hollywood bowl show (hi ned!). mind you, i got super-lucky with middle floors close to the stage for the toronto show, which was awesome. are they doing approx 3-hour sets for every show? as others have said, his voice sounded amazing - i was shocked how it really didn't seem to have changed at all.

Toronto Main set: Open, Fascination Street, alt.end, The Walk, End of the World, Lovesong, Pictures of You, Lullaby, The Perfect Boy, From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea, Hot Hot Hot, Sleep When I'm Dead, Push, Friday I'm in Love, Inbetween Days, Just Like Heaven, Primary, Shake Dog Shake, Never Enough, The Only One, Wrong Number, One Hundred Years, End

1st encore: Lovecats, Let's Go To Bed, Freakshow, Close To Me, Why Can't I Be You?
2nd encore: Boys Don't Cry, Jumping Someone Else's Train, Grinding Halt, 10:15 Saturday Night, Killing An Arab
3rd encore: Play For Today, A Forest.

robert's one and only 'stage trick' during the show - spitting in the air and catching it in his mouth. yuck.

The Cure - Faith - The Shrine Los Angeles, CA 6/1/08

i would kill for that Shrine setlist though, that is gonna be the stuff of legend on this tour.

Yeah, that's all pretty sharp. I won't complain, I got a great show in a great setting.

One more clip:

The Cure @ The Shrine - Bloodflowers (clip)

as others have said, his voice sounded amazing - i was shocked how it really didn't seem to have changed at all.

Sign of that -- his legendary held note on the live version of "Prayers for Rain"? PERFECTLY held on Saturday night, for the same length of time.

Also, I should say without hesitation that "Baby Rag Dog Book," which they ended the main set with at the Bowl, is THE new aggro monster rampage death track from the band. Astoundingly great.

...what was the OLD aggro monster rampage death track??

"Dressing Up"

"Catch"

(Actual potential answers depending on era: "Doubt", "One Hundred Years", "Give Me It", "Shiver and Shake", "Disintegration", "Cut", "Lost", "Us or Them")