"4:13 Dream" by the Cure

shit :(

Meantime, Porl seems to have turned into Billy Corgan. Are those tattoos?

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Chain of Flowers has handily collected a bunch of Robert posts from the main site on the whole recent hullabaloo, which can make for some amusing reading.

all-caps is cruise control for cool eh Bob

Hahah wow, Bob's not happy.

I hadn't spotted this earlier that the tour went south - its a shame, what happened to 65daysofstatic? Did they still play some US shows regardless?

(cause if I'd had tix for the US tour I would be pretty pissed off at missing out on 65dos! I mean the Cure will come back but I bet 65dos dont)

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SO
I AM KIND OF HALF WITH YOU?

BUT ALONG WITH A FEW OTHERS ON HERE I THINK YOU ARE MISUNDERSTANDING THE KEY POINT

WE MOVED THE DATES BECAUSE I AM DESPERATE TO FINSH A PROJECT THAT WAS STARTED IN MARCH 2006

IT IS DRAGGING OUT TOO LONG AND I KNOW IN MY HEART WE NEED TO FINISH IT NOW
NOW
NOT IN 2 MONTHS
BUT
NOW

WHEN IT IS DONE
WE WILL PLAY SHOWS

Roffles

wow!! a remastered/ 2 cd 'mixed up' is coming out?? NO WAY!
what extras will that have on it then?
funny cause Harold and Joe and the Lets Go To Bed (Milk Mix?) were the best things about the whole project/era and they were both b sides.

Also "Primary" (Red Mix)

Harold & Joe won't be on it, they haven't doubled up with Join The Dots on the rest of 'em

So, there was a new song "Please Project" at Download the other night. From the low-quality YouTube recording, it sounds (to me) like the love-child of "Just Like Heaven" and MBV's "Soon" and of course, the lyrics are recognizably Robert Smith's.

Details + link from a chain of flowers:

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Here's a video from the Download Festival of the new song 'Please Project':

"I managed to get the whole new song on video, unfortunately it was through my little digital cam which hasn't the best microphone in the world.
We were also right in front of the speaker stacks so that adds to the decrease in quality. Still, you can kind of get a feel for what the song is like and since I haven't seen anything else come in for that song, I thought I'd forward this on until a better quality recording is available.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCveIQjPuvw

I'm also currently uploading the full "quality" file on google video, it was too big for youtube, and I"ll send you the link for that too if you like.

I loved the show, utterly loved it, they did a great job and they were so energetic and it looked to me like they were having a blast. Robert was very animated through most of the songs and all in all it was a wonderful night!"

Yeah yeah. *thinks bitterly over how he SHOULD have been seeing them this weekend...*

Not related to the new album...but too good not to link:

"One Hundred Years" at Download
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQQXl8R4Dvw

Chain of Flowers has links to the new song. Sounds very much like something from the Wish era

One of the new songs sounds amazingly close to their "Man in my Mouth/Throw your Foot" era: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M0MBqx5oHc

There'll be a 6 7 8 up there before long!

Will this be "Pornography" part 4 or are they finally doing something more poppy and uplifting again after two (missed) depressive albums?

After all they haven't been able to come up with a good "dark" album since..... "Pornography".....

In my somewhat outspoken opinion, they haven't been able to come up with a truly, truly brilliant album since (or before) Pornography. Plenty of very good stuff, sure, but nothing else they've done touches that record's genius (with the possible exception of The Top).

Are they planning to ever finish the reissue series? It's been well over a year since the last batch of releases...

Geir doesn't like Disintegration? It's tuneful.

I'm guessing he doesn't like the long songs.

Time to change this thread's title. Laters rumor is that this will come out on 31 March and will have 33 songs.

I am more interested in the remasters. Because, yes, I kind of like "Disintegration" even though it would have been better had it been trimmed by 10-15 minutes. Plus I still only have those three as burned copies and I will not buy the proper CDs before I have the remasteres.
But I don't like "Disintegration" as much as the earlier stuff, or Cure's more poppy later stuff.

Obviously looking more forward to the "Wish" remaster.

It struck me when I got the Cure Hits DVD for the kids (and me) that they haven't had an all conquering pop hit since "Friday I'm in Love" and at the time you would never have thought it would have 'ended there'.

I guess the 'media' changed so much, there were other fine singles but the radio stopped playing them.

So, what to expect? This long gestation period never bodes well for most artistes.

Yeah, make the "8" up there!

What happened is that they haven't released a pop album since "Wild Mood Swings", which landed in the middle of the Britpop boom and suddenly they seemed like the previous generation. The guitar/song oriented audiences didn't need them anymore, as they had Blur, Oasis, Pulp and Suede instead.

After that, they have been very much revalued and are seen as a very important act today. But those "dark" last couple of albums have lacked obvious hits.

Had it been on "Wish", then "Mint Car" would have been just as huge as "High" and "Friday I'm In Love". It's the same kind of song, after all.

I thought it was because "WMS" wasn't good enough! (I never heard it so can't say for certain)

If it had been, the guitar/song oriented audiences would have bought it also: There was no great "year Zero" about Britpop (in fact blimey, far from it!)

I have to agree with Geir here. WMS did have IMO one of their finest pop singles, "The 13th"

i just don't like the overly-jubilant robert smith. as witnessed on 'mint car', 'the 13th', a couple of tracks on kiss me etc.
the japanese whispers singles are awesome though

Japanese Whispers
Chinese Whispers
Chinese Democracy

I thangyew.

New single is out on May 13th. 4 singles to be released over the next 4 months.

waht

from COF:

May 13th - The Only One (mix 13) + Ny Trip (CD, 7", Digital Download)
June 13th - Single #2 (mix 13) + new b-side (CD, 7", Digital Download)
July 13th - Single #3 (mix 13) + new b-side (CD, 7", Digital Download)
August 13th - Single #4 (mix 13) + new b-side (CD, 7", Digital Download)

Also, the the first single will come with a collector's box that will house all 4 of the singles. There will be a separate box for the cds and the 7" vinyl singles. If you were around for the Wish era, you'll remember that they did the same thing with the High single.

Such teases.

mutiple pastic single releases in boxes, such a 90's thing to do!

Things not mentioned here yet are that the album itself comes out in September and that the single mixes will be different from the album versions.

also not mentioned: whether it will be any good or not

I want to believe etc.

I for one am excited

and yes the collectors box is totally 90's and totally awesome

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and yes the collectors box is totally 90's and totally awesome

it's true

i've still got that HIGH box somewhere. my friend and me almost drove all the way to liverpool to watch the premiere of the HIGH video too, in HMV, as there wasn't one near where we lived. man i wouldn't even click a YOU TUBE link for the new video these days.

About time with a new album, but I am kind of just as interested in the last bunch of the remasters. "Disintegration" is in a lot of discount campaigns here, so I guess it's just a matter of time now.

the single mixes will be different from the album versions.

more likely that they're just 3-4 minute 7" versions of 7-8 minute album cuts than that they're especially different mix-wise tho? especially if they're still doing the "label mix"/"Robert mix" dual-formatting of the album.

Yeah, that 'High' video viewing.. Went to that. Got the box (with the balloon). As I say upthread, "Friday I'm in Love" was their last decent 'hit' single, as in "didn't just sell to rabid/rabbit Cure fans"

So, maybe they're trying to get that back with the boxset thing.

Wasn't there something about the album coming in a 'one disc' version for the record company, and a 'deluxe' 2 disc version for Robert?

that waas the original plan, yes. I still think this will only come out as a regular single album.

Hmm.. The 'announcement' is due for today, so maybe it is that 'double'.

Going to the Boston show tonight (Dan P - you going?) The set lists from the previous two shows are incredible. I'm so excited!

Yes, I am going!!! ^_^ Super-excited!

We ended up with floor tickets, row P; how about you?