The Cure's finest album

Anything with last dance and lovesong on it deserves to be way down the list

Wot no Mixed Up?

Think I'm gonna vote for wish.

I always go with KMKMKM because it has all their different sides done well. Plus all those amazing B-Sides!

only on the orange vinyl, doesn't count

Sorry just preparing my poll on fly-tipping

None of you said Faith so all of you are wrong.

i was about to say faith

but now i'm just going to vote faith

Three Imaginary Boys.

Then Disintegration. The Top is the worst.

Got no issue with "Disintegration," but these days I'd vote "Seventeen Seconds." Or "Head on the Door," for Boris-era.

A very long time ago, it would've been Disintegration.

Over 20 years later, it is Robert Smith's favourite album: Seventeen Seconds.

It is the one that sounds the most 'timeless' to me. Disintegration dates itself for some reason with the use of keys and strings, mind you I still like the sound of them.

But Seventeen Seconds. It is the one that Bob said was The Cure's Pink Floyd moment, and I can see that. And I really like it.

Faith is a close second, but it is so dark, I have trouble listening to it; I really have to be in the mood for it.

i really want to vote for Wish but that is impossible as there is Pornography, Head on the Door and Disintegration.

go to party leather (ENBB)
Posted: March 7, 2013, 8:32:19 PM
Then Disintegration. The Top is the worst.

I can't even. Why. Sadface.

i still wish the production was better for 4:13 Dream there might have been something there but the mastering hurt my ears. could not listen to it outside a few times.

The Top is ace, but the songs on it worked so much better live.

this is so true, made me fall in love with those songs.

The Top's title track is fantastic.

Shake Dog Shake was indeed immense on Concert. I voted Seventeen Seconds, cos its the best album. I also love three imaginary boys, boys don't cry and curiosities is a veritable bag of treats. Yeah faith and pornography are great but just a little too bleak for me.

I liked "Mixed Up", me.

I tried to hash together a Spotify Playlist of The Top played live but it is missing a couple of tracks, I might go through some old recordings and make one anyway.

Yeah Give Me It on Concert is also fantastic

Is there a live version of piggy in the mirror out there?

tons

bootlegs from 84 are prob my faves, all the songs sounding pretty demented and gigs always seeming to end with pretty crazy versions of Forever. Also one of the few times, they managed a good live version of Charlotte Sometimes

Faith, closely followed by Seventeen Seconds, I kind of think of them as being one two-part album.

Love Charlotte Sometimes

Glasto '86 Charlotte Sometimes is gr8

The Head On The Door

It's still Pornogrpahy.

You lurking fucks are still going to vote Disintegration.

I'm aiming for quiet resignation instead of outrage this time.

I've listened to Pornography, Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Disintegration in recent weeks. Seventeen Seconds in creeping closer to Pornography but Disintegration is still miles behind the other three. It's probably behind Kiss Me x 3 too.

I should really give their last three a decent listen again. It's been a while.

we've done this so many times - I'd be more interested in a post-Wish poll tbh

Why don't you do one?

Not really fair on people like me who have never done one before :)

The Head On The Door

― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, March 8, 2013

"Shake Dog Shake" is my favorite of their openers though.

Kiss Me x3 or 17 Secs. One because it's all over the place in a great way and the other because it's so of a piece.

^^^
Exactly. My two faves as well.

Secrets is beautiful

I'm sorry, JJJ. I've just never liked it! TBF though I haven't listened to it in years. Maybe I will today and report back if my feelings have changed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwA8V6hcqQo

Slow day at work so I made a live version of The Top cut together from two concerts in '84, Washington & London (although not from the recordings that were used for 'Concert')

It's one continuous MP3 file.

Here is the link, remove the parenthesis and close the gaps.

http://we.tl/u3osk (please don't hurt me mods, there is nothing commercially released in this link) DnDer

Now for the real Cure geeks among us can we do a live Top without 84 tour material? Not sure they ever played Birdmad Girl and Empty World after that tour

http://www.cure-concerts.de/main/1989.php

Birdmad Girl used in two soundchecks but no gigs

Did they play Wailing Wall post 84?

Hahaha doubt it

yeah this is exactly the kind of early 80's exotic experimentation that must make Robert cringe these days

*waits patiently with arms crossed for ENBB's reevaluation*

xp Read that as 'erotic experimentation' and just no.

scene opens on a pair of big goofy white hightops thrown carelessly by the side of the bed

Throw your cock away!
You're shagged out and your face is grey...

this is not the Warm Bodies fanfiction thread

Stiff as toys an.....nevermind

I always wanted them to release an album of songs like 'It's Not You' and 'Doubt'.

Post-1992 songs that are okay:

Treasure
Bare
A Pink Dream
Maybe Someday
Bloodflowers (this one really doesn't do it for me, though)

Bloodflowers the album was one I almost got into, but did not stand the test of time. The WMS Robert Smith still seemed somewhat genuine (as genuine as Robert Smith could be in a theatrical kind of way), but by Bloodflowers, he was just a parody of his stereotypical self. I remember seeing his photos. Kind of felt sad for the man.

Shit I forgot Home

Here's the top 20 post-Wish tracks as voted in the ballot last year:

1. Burn
2. The 13th
3. Want
4. Watching Me Fall
5. (I Don't Know What's Going) On
6. The End Of The World
7. Mint Car
8. Lost
9. Before Three
10. Out of This World
11. Underneath The Stars
12. Jupiter Crash
13. Wrong Number
14. Cut Here
15. Gone!
16. 39
17. Labyrinth
18. Maybe Someday
19. Us or Them
20. The Promise

After Wish, I became disconnected with the band's music. I only like a few songs post-1992.

Have they done anything truly worthwhile at all since Wish? Wild Mood Swings BROKE. MY. HEART. and I didn't listen to anything of theirs since then.

I was such a massive, massive fan and I was thrilled that they were releasing something new and I'd get to see them live after not getting to see them touring for Wish (I would have been at one of the shows where Show was filmed) and then I heard WMS.... I tried to learn to love it, and if I got high enough, Mint Car was all right, but overall it was just embarrassing and demoralizing.

I still went to see them live twice for that tour b/c I wasn't going to give up on them without a fight. The show in Nashville was amazing (at an amphitheater - opened with Plainsong, closed with Killing an Arab - beautiful thunderstorm during the show - they were full of energy, and even WMS tunes were pretty engaging), but the show at George Mason University in DC was beyond boring. Robert Smith laid down on his back and sang for a while, and it felt like he was going, meh, fuck it, rather than being transgressive or cheeky.

It would be interesting now to check out post WMS stuff, maybe. Though when I tried to listen to 4:13 Dream once, I had to stop after a couple tracks b/c it just seemed so hollow and false.

I think I voted for The Top. Or Pornography, but pretty sure it was The Top. My first of their albums, and still one of my favorite records by any artist.

There were some good shows on the WMS tour -- there's a good Paris bootleg floating around -- but yeah that wasn't a high point for the band. The three albums since plus all the scattered rarities and one-offs have been better! Though if you're not liking 4:13 then...

thanks everyone for your (heh) post-wish lists... I will make a playlist and see what's the what! I never even gave Wish a serious listen, really.

Ned, I just listened to The Perfect Boy and really liked it!

Well, the remix, but still.

But now I'm listening to The Same Deep Water As You. Baby steps.

There are some good songs scattered here and there but I agree that stuff post WMS has always sounded pretty forced and inauthentic. I have the feeling that RS is ow incapable of coming up a song quickly and spontaneously anymore

oh.. porl came back? hm. i guess no then as i had no idea.

Wish has got this shoegazey feel/moments of loud wall-of-sound guitars, e.g., "Open", "Cut". They translated well live, e.g., the live album Show. But I always dug Play for Today's live versions that had the crowd chant 'ohhhh oh ohhhh oh ohhhh oh ohhh'