BOB POPPINS: Robert Smith's guest vocals, 2003-2021

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Bloke from The Cure has released two albums with the band in the last twenty years (and abandoned several more). But in that time, he's gradually worked up a CDsworth of Featuring credits on other artist's records. In this poll, we will agree on which are the best.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Crystal Castles: Not In Love (2010) 6
Junior Jack: Da Hype (2004) 2
self-covers: 2
Blank & Jones: A Forest (2003) 1
Junkie XL: Perfect Blue Sky (2003) 0
Anik Jean: J'aurai tout essayé (2010 - another version of Believe) 0
Faithless: Spiders, Crocodiles & Kryptonite (2004 - RS recorded a new vocal of Lullaby for them to sample) 0
paulmac: Pictures Of You (2004) 0
Robert Smith, Earl Slick and Mark Plati: A Forest (2003) 0
There's a Girl in the Corner (2015) 0
65daysofstatic: Come To Me (2011) 0
Japanese Popstars: Take Forever (2011) 0
Paul Hartnoll: Please (2006) 0
Billy Corgan: To Love Somebody (2005) 0
Earl Slick: Believe (2003) 0
Blink 182: All Of This (2003) 0
8:58: Please (2015 - another Hartnoll project) 0


bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 3 June 2021 23:15 (two years ago) link

also

Gorillaz - Strange Timez
CHVRCHES - How Not To Drown

(I've heard those two but actually haven't heard any of the ones in this poll ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

deepfake chopra (unregistered), Thursday, 3 June 2021 23:21 (two years ago) link

nah wait I've heard the Crystal Castles collab so that gets my vote

deepfake chopra (unregistered), Thursday, 3 June 2021 23:31 (two years ago) link

(long sigh)

what a lot of disappointment.

things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Thursday, 3 June 2021 23:44 (two years ago) link

ILX decided to take a combination of keystrokes as an order to post prematurely, withhold your vote please!

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 3 June 2021 23:46 (two years ago) link

deletion was requested 0.37 seconds after thread creation

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 3 June 2021 23:46 (two years ago) link

does that mean any of these songs will be better after the repost?

things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Thursday, 3 June 2021 23:52 (two years ago) link

sorry. i just really want another cure album and none of this. . . uhm, material. i'll stop now.☺

things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Thursday, 3 June 2021 23:52 (two years ago) link

I love a lot of these songs!

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 01:57 (two years ago) link

well that's because you have a much better attitude than me, just generally speaking.☺

(don't change pls)

things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Friday, 4 June 2021 03:04 (two years ago) link

i should know all of these but don't. someone should make me a Spotify playlist, so we can make an informed decision.

Bee OK, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:31 (two years ago) link

I mean if we need links

Junkie XL: Perfect Blue Sky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lag8FiFucEA

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:38 (two years ago) link

Blink 182: All Of This

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b74-GXalgv4

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:38 (two years ago) link

Earl Slick: Believe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbjYq8NpB00

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:39 (two years ago) link

Junior Jack: Da Hype

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNK6GWOVpQ4

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:39 (two years ago) link

Billy Corgan: To Love Somebody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPfCf1sYbok

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:40 (two years ago) link

Paul Hartnoll: Please

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feQH4qnUU68

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:40 (two years ago) link

Crystal Castles: Not In Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32udqal_lyQ

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:40 (two years ago) link

Japanese Popstars: Take Forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h91V4d9lA6c

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:41 (two years ago) link

65daysofstatic: Come To Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0iQRnir6cY

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:42 (two years ago) link

The Twilight Sad: There's a Girl in the Corner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbNxLyI8oRQ

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:43 (two years ago) link

Robert Smith, Earl Slick and Mark Plati: A Forest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TesGkaAsE80

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:43 (two years ago) link

Blank & Jones: A Forest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1st5Z_04S-o

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:44 (two years ago) link

paulmac: Pictures Of You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7Q2V87R1gs

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:44 (two years ago) link

Faithless: Spiders, Crocodiles & Kryptonite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzHu2Qi5BlA

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:45 (two years ago) link

Anik Jean: J'aurai tout essayé

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cB9HhBjaYc

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:45 (two years ago) link

8:58: Please

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFmjNtQyP68

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:46 (two years ago) link

Gorillaz - Strange Timez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbA5p54Rw2M

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:46 (two years ago) link

CHVRCHES - How Not To Drown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U_LhzgwJ4U

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 03:47 (two years ago) link

How can you do this poll in 2021 without Gorillaz and Chvrches as options!?

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 4 June 2021 03:52 (two years ago) link

Anyhow: the winner is clearly: “I’m not love”.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 4 June 2021 03:53 (two years ago) link

How can you do this poll in 2021 without Gorillaz and Chvrches as options!?

tbh you posted without reading the thread

bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 4 June 2021 05:41 (two years ago) link

it's really something that his voice has barely changed with age at all

for those wanting an update on new cure music, he said in an interview promoting "how not to drown" that the two cure albums they've been working on for the last few years only need to be mixed & he's hoping to announce release plans in 6 weeks, and his solo "noise album" is still on the way too

ufo, Friday, 4 June 2021 12:36 (two years ago) link

he also said the rest of the band were just not interested in his noise stuff which is why it became a solo album

ufo, Friday, 4 June 2021 12:37 (two years ago) link

Cool, so new albums will be coming out never then

80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Friday, 4 June 2021 12:49 (two years ago) link

ehh "the albums just need to be mixed and recording is done and i'm really hoping to announce them soon" is progress from the variations on "we've almost finished recording our new albums" that he was saying for the last two years

ufo, Friday, 4 June 2021 13:02 (two years ago) link

not that i even have much optimism that new music from them will be that good or anything at this point in time

ufo, Friday, 4 June 2021 13:03 (two years ago) link

the crystal castles song is a serious jam but I can never listen to their music again tbh

intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Friday, 4 June 2021 13:03 (two years ago) link

Here's another.

Eat Static ft. Robert Smith - In All Worlds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6JEVmgl20k

Noel Emits, Friday, 4 June 2021 13:33 (two years ago) link

The only "bad" album they've put out is Wild Mood Swings; I don't fault their later material for being comfortable rather than visionary.

80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Friday, 4 June 2021 13:41 (two years ago) link

the last few had their moments but weren't really good overall, not even in a comfortable settled into their sound etc. way

ufo, Friday, 4 June 2021 13:50 (two years ago) link

Da Hype is a massive banger but Robert Smith is not really what makes it good. Still this is a pretty solid set of tracks, certainly beats the stuff The Cure has done since Bloodflowers.

Siegbran, Friday, 4 June 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link

the last few had their moments but weren't really good overall, not even in a comfortable settled into their sound etc. way

Counterpoint: nah, they were mostly good

80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Friday, 4 June 2021 15:44 (two years ago) link

Quite right.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link

Da Hype is a massive banger but Robert Smith is not really what makes it good.

I would say the total opposite. Who knew his voice was so suited to House ecstasy ? But they were so right.

LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 4 June 2021 16:17 (two years ago) link

Here's what I could find out of the listed options on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Dk9Z9WI9C3JpZMpulgeoa

80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Friday, 4 June 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link

What's kinda remarkable about all these heard in a heap is that -- and sequencing and more would allow for even more fun possibilities -- is that it becomes an absolutely amazing genre-hopping solo album. Reminds me of nothing so much as Sinead O'Connor's collaborations compilation, which is a deeply underrated collection.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 June 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link

the cure has always been genre-hopping though.

that's why they rule.

things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Friday, 4 June 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link

I'm listening to Da Hype right now and I am very much Team LeRooLeRoo

80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Friday, 4 June 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link


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