"4:13 Dream" by the Cure

Curt1s, who cares about "Plainsong"? Looks like you Atlanta dudes got "Charlotte Sometimes," only time they've played that all tour. I would've killed for that one in Texas. Good setlist though, I bet it was a blast.

(Tell us more about the show!)

NU CUR3 ALBUM OMG

I was standing there listening and it just sort of hit me what a phenomenal event was going on in front of me & thank god I was alive in the 21st century so I could see Robert Smith alive and in person. It hit me how much they are really one of the biggest influences in the sound & style of modern rock. This is the first band I've seen that's had that kind of mystique, and certainly the first act that's had this sort of charisma. In every note they played you could hear them outclassing every sad mallindie band that tries to sound like them. The most beautiful, emotional, playful, dark, hypnotic music you can imagine.

Peak of the night for me was probably "A Forest," the performance of which was pretty much the embodiment of everything a good rock song should be. The Cure are the not-so-secret masters of the repetitive, hypnotic hook. And "Charlotte Sometimes" did make me freak, yes!!

65daysofstatic def sound better live than on record, and their light show was impressive too!

It hit me how much they are really one of the biggest influences in the sound & style of modern rock.

There's something gratifying in realizing that, I've found. Very few of the open borrowers of the sound/style have made things their own but damn if they aren't an increasingly broad touchstone for a lot of things.

otm

"Holy Hour" in Charlotte, NC...

oh shit

wish I could go to all of these shows

1st encore: The Holy Hour, Other Voices, Drowning Man, Faith

!!!!!!!!!!!

for Ned: The Cure * Underneath the Stars * Hollywood Bowl May 31 2008

Uh, yeah, I'll take that encore there.

goddamnit fuck, why didn't they play that Faith encore in Texas, or "Charlotte Sometimes," or...

New video footage:

The Cure : Charlotte Sometimes : Charlotte, NC 6.16.08

The Cure : Faith : Charlotte, NC 6.16.08

ok, so they were fucking amazing in Cleveland last night. best seats i've ever had at a show. we were right in robert's line of sight. he totally looked right at me like 3 times. he did, seriously! so here is the set list. they played for like 3 and a half hours...fuck, so good!

Open
Fascination Street
A Night like This
end of the world
lovesong
want
pictures of you
lullaby
the perfect boy
edge of the deep green sea
kyoto song
hot hot hot
the only one
charlotte sometimes
torture
sleep when i'm dead
push
inbetween days
just like heaven
primary
us or them
never enough
wrong number
100 years
end

encore 1: at night!, m!, play for today, a forest

encore 2: 3 imaginary boys, fire in cairo, boys don't cry, jumping someone else's train, grinding halt, 10:15 saturday night, killing an arab

wow, "Torture" is back in the set. cool, they played that in Austin.

COF has posted links to the entire Atlanta show if anyone's interested

Okay wow I did a search for this thread on ILX that did not leave me confident I'd be able to find it again off the New Answers page. Any tips?

Also...
I like this damn Freakshow single. That's fucking funky greatness or something. I just wish they'd release the goddamn album already.

search for Cure's instead of Cure

Fantastic! I'll write that down and remember it thanx

new single "Sleep When I'm Dead" (Mix 13) is out on July 15th. good to see a single a month continue.

streaming here

Not my favorite song from the new record, so far.

I'm saddened by the lack of interest for the singles here on ILM

I'm interested but I also haven't had a chance to pick them up properly.

I definitely like this one the most so far.

c'mon, it's the Cure we're talking about here!!

xp

yes this is a grower and you can clearly see how they found this amongst the scraps of the 'Head on the Door' sessions

The single sounds like classic The Cure, at least in terms of style and atmosphere (even if the razor-sharp hooks aren't there anymore). Somehow, returning to (or maintaining) their "classic sound" isn't enough for me with R.E.M. (on the okay but sort of lackluster Accelerate), but it might be enough with The Cure.

I dont know - for me the "classic" Cure sound has grown to mean the 'Wish' type of dreamy jangle. Whereas, this single kind of reminds me of that transition sound the Cure had in 1984-1985, eg. say "Baby Screams"

this new song is quite good - for the first time in years I'm really waiting for the new album.

I have to say that, based on the snippet looped on their site, I like this a LOT more recorded than I did live.

well the snippet is just the quiet intro

I know, but I hated that intro when they played it live.

I posted the whole song upthread

haha oh yeah, you did

okay so based on the link posted to this thread, I like this a LOT more recorded than I did live.

I don't dig it much. Something about the guitar sound just doesn't feel right.

i bought all three new singles as they were just $1.99 each.

Really Bee OK? The vinyl singles (weren't they to be released as 7"s)? Where'd you get them? I'd do that.

i got them from Amoeba Hollywood but the CD singles are also at Amazon for the same $1.99 each.

I saw the Cure tribute band here in Seattle last night called Fascination Street and words fail me...the singer had the whole Robert Smith thing down, you would have thought it was the real article, hair, clothes, movements, slight double chin, even down to his voice...at first I thought he must be just lip-syncing to a backing track but when he flubbed his accent a few times on one song I realized it must really be someone other than Robert Smith singing. They did a good variety of songs from across the Cure's discography. It was a fun gig.

I feel duty bound to link to their website.

I mean...you know...until the REAL Cure album comes out and all...

Alright final single is out, "Perfect Boy". Easily the best of the series and probably my fave Cure single since god knows when

The video

I think I still like "Freakshow" and "Sleep When I'm Dead" more, although my favorite song of the 8 new ones is "All Kinds Of Stuff".

Yeah that one is killer (esp that bassline)

It's all a good batch of songs in general -- really looking forward to the new album. (And finally getting a NAME for it.)

The Cure 2

Through the Portal of Time

still haven't listened to these.

anyone hear about this?

The Cure - Hypnagogic States EP [US CD]
All 4 Cure singles from the summer of 2088 - remixed! The Only One (Remixed by Jared Leto, one-time member of Fight Club), Freakshow (remixed by AFI's Jade Puget), Sleep When I'm Dead (remixed by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance), The Perfect Boy (remixed by members of Fall Out Boy). Plus a megamix by 65 Days Of Static of all 4 singles, entitled, Exploding Head Syndrome.

WAHT DO NOT WANT

my favorite song of the 8 new ones is "All Kinds Of Stuff"

Same here.