― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 4 October 2002 20:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Friday, 4 October 2002 20:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
the "cure=suburbia" part of Michael Bracewell's England Is Mine is one of the best things ever!
― etc, Wednesday, 20 August 2003 08:54 (twenty years ago) link
― flowersdie (flowersdie), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 09:05 (twenty years ago) link
Classic, BTW. Again, my mid-teens coincided with Disintegration and I was full-on obsessed for a couple of years. I bought a shedload of albums at Oxfam last year, and a friend and I drove our GF/wives insane by listening, back to back, to 17 Seconds, Faith, Pornography and the Top. Divorce was on the horizon by the end of that evening.
― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:04 (twenty years ago) link
Thing is, there are SO many B-sides and rarities which have officially surfaced that they'd have to put out a box set. As it is, if the remasters that are surfacing next year are going to include bonus discs for each with room for other oddities, then that will partially settle the problem.
― Thy Lethal Zen Ned (Ned), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:55 (twenty years ago) link
― flowersdie (flowersdie), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 13:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 14:01 (twenty years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 14:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 14:18 (twenty years ago) link
― David A. (Davant), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 19:47 (twenty years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Saturday, 6 March 2004 12:31 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 6 March 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 March 2004 16:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Saturday, 6 March 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Saturday, 6 March 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 March 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Saturday, 6 March 2004 16:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 March 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago) link
Shake Dog ShakeFascination StreetA Strange DayA Night Like ThisLovesongPushSinkingPictures Of YouLullabyLovecatsMaybe SomedayIn Your HouseFrom The Edge Of The Deep Green SeaMCharlotte SometimesInbetween DaysJust Like HeavenHey You!!!Play For TodayA Forest Fire In Cairo (as a 3 piece)Grinding Halt (as a 3 piece)10.15 Saturday NightBoys Don't CryI Dig You (with Porl Thompson and Frank The Postman)I'm A Cult Hero (with Porl Thompson and Frank The Postman), Close To MeLet's Go To BedWhy Can't I Be YouFriday I'm In Love
Fucking hell, just reading that through sends me into space. I'm still shellshocked.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:07 (twenty years ago) link
Genius.
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago) link
!!!!!!
― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:48 (twenty years ago) link
And yes, Frank the postman showed up in all his voluminous glory, the first time they've done any Cult Hero material in (10 years according to Robert).
And was not Charlie saying some months back about how the band has fallen off recently? UNDESERVING INFIDEL! But I will not bear a grudge. Yet.
And I maintain my viewpoint, no doubt. Friday's only iffy moment came 11 songs in, when some (relatively) unfamiliar chords struck up - "What is this," I thought to myself with a grimace, "Joan Osborne's 'One Of Us'?" But no, it was in fact "Maybe Someday".
The Cure should've stopped recording new music after Wish (or more specifically, if you like, after "Fear Of Ghosts"). I love them still, but I shall not be moved on this matter.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 01:01 (twenty years ago) link
Porl, remarkably, is now jobbing as the band's guitar tech!
Wait, what? So essentially he and Perry B. have completed the circle.
Anyway. First batch of reissues in a month. EXCITED!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 01:04 (twenty years ago) link
I am naturally using all my spider-senses to procure a mixing desk feed of the show. I'll be absolutely amazed if nobody recorded it, but nothing yet. Ned, you will be the f...oooh, among the first to know when I find it!
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 01:09 (twenty years ago) link
That I had heard, seems to make sense! They and Depeche should just finally tour together. ;-)
In all seriousness, thanks for any leads you might have!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 01:33 (twenty years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 01:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 02:02 (twenty years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 03:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 03:09 (twenty years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 03:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron A., Tuesday, 9 March 2004 03:34 (twenty years ago) link
― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 03:34 (twenty years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:15 (twenty years ago) link
Actually I think Dan was born in 1974 and he went through all that shift you did except he kept loving the Cure as well. Rah!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron A., Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:27 (twenty years ago) link
― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron A., Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Monday, 23 August 2004 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 23 August 2004 23:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link
But for many of us born in or around 1974, this issue is fairly cut and dried. For a decade, The Cure made (mostly) great, emotive music to match the self-indulgent drama of teen angst. I too, found romance with a girl because of it. She was into Sylvia Plath 'n shit and thought Robert Smith was really good at painting with words in his lyrics. I felt the same. Even his terrible voice was welcomed as a strike for the blemished and the meek (read 'indie') against mainstream, hard-rock masculinity (what we call 'bogans' in Australia).
Then, as Paul and others have pointed out, we came of legal age in the early 90's and were lucky enough to be doing so right when music got a huge shot in the arm - with much better drugs and, yes, prettier girls. How convenient it was to feel disillusioned with "Wish" and all Cure work since. But my best efforts at objectivity still tell me, as they do to so many others, that The Cure are 80's classics and 90's duds. You can neatly bookend the best of this band up to and including "Disintegration".
― Stephen Stockwell (Stephen Stockwell), Friday, 27 August 2004 03:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stephen Stockwell (Stephen Stockwell), Friday, 27 August 2004 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Me too
I have been BURNed before but I still hold out hope that they have a mature-age masterpiece in em
They really should, all the things that RS sang about at 25 are actually happening now
― Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Monday, 26 February 2024 03:47 (one month ago) link
https://youtube.com/XmoFgi2EB9c
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 26 February 2024 09:56 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmoFgi2EB9csorry
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 26 February 2024 09:57 (one month ago) link
sky arts showed both Nocturne and the Cure's 2018 gig from hyde park on friday night. the years have not really been kind to R Smith but his voice has held up remarkably well, i thought.
― koogs, Monday, 18 March 2024 10:13 (one month ago) link
(there are like a million people in hyde park by the looks. played for two hours. things like A Forest and Just Like Heaven sounded note-perfect. it's all very impressive)
― koogs, Monday, 18 March 2024 11:34 (one month ago) link
Yeah their live show at this point is full-on stunning
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 11:28 (one month ago) link