The Cure: Classic or Dud?

^ 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

xp:

You look like a Genesis album!

It's a look I spent several teenage years emulating. I just don't think it works for him anymore...

No offence to any grannies out there..

I dunno, for some reason I think I'd find it a bit bizarre if RS decided to step on stage with short hair, no make-up and uh... leisurewear.

it's stupid how much people are hung up on robert's looks (plus he looks cool). you all probably look like shit.

Hahaha, I probably do. The make up still suits him, IMO. I think it's mainly the hair - it's lost its energy. Anyway...

why the hell would i want to show up to a Cure show and have Robert Smith with close cropped hair and a tasteful black t-shirt and dress pants combo like he's Sting or David Gilmour or some shit??

also, people say, "I dunno his whole look is starting to look a bit ridiculous at his age"...like WHAT AGE DID IT NOT LOOK RIDICULOUS TO BE THIS CRAZY ERASERHEAD LIPSTICK DEATH CLOWN?? 28? 34?

#staygoth

So how do you propose I harness this hair energy before it all gets lost?

i kinda stopped paying attention after Wish (probably like a lot of casual fans) but anyway Wild Mood Swings is a pretty cool album so far

Xpost The other side of the coin is this:
http://i2.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/018/666/fellowkids.jpg

I never demanded he be "tasteful"

there's nothing he can do either way he's just a mirror of our own despair over our eventually aging and death, which is cure's job!

The guy looks and appears the way he does and is currently making bank on a cross-country tour that has received rapturous acclaim. I don't think he's worried about being concern trolled over his hairspray.

Slicing Up Eyeballs recently shared a photo a fan took of themselves with Robert and one of the other Cure guys whom they ran into on the street. Smith was 'incognito', which is to say sans makeup and hairspray, and I can't be the only one who was shocked that in such a state he looked like any normal middle-aged rocker dude.

Yeah, I saw that picture, and if it wasn't for the hair and outfit he'd just look like your average 57 year old guy. There's nothing wrong with his look - it works for him, it works for the fans, and I'd find it utterly surreal to see him perform tracks like 'Plainsong' or 'One Hundred Years' looking like yer regular middle-aged musician. Besides, it's Robert Smith! He's earned the right to look however he fucking wants to look!

I remember when he showed up in the Hot Hot Hot video in short hair and I was like rawrr

Looks like Slicing Up Eyeballs isn't posting on the blog anymore. Where did you see that photo?

I'd like to see him adopt a look more befitting his age, maybe something along the lines of Mike Love

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

you won't be disappointed. they play a bunch of the hits and maybe one b-side.

Here's the pic
http://66.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m744gcJxs61qeetdyo1_1280.jpg

He look cool af

Pretty decent singles band

A touch dour, innit?

I wish RS would change his look.

― Duke, Tuesday, June 7, 2016 1:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He looks like someone's grandmother

― Duke, Tuesday, June 7, 2016 1:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I gather you go to The Cure for reinforcement of your fragile masculinity and to assuage your fear of death?

Looks like Slicing Up Eyeballs isn't posting on the blog anymore. Where did you see that photo?

I believe they're only doing updates on Facebook and Twitter (?) now.