HI DERE 100% OTM a couple of posts up. ESPECIALLY THE FUCKING FIGUREHEAD.
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
i can lose myself in chinese art and american girls
oh, that's just amazing ;)
no, seriously i love pornography and its lyrical premise. it's just that i wish it didn't quite sound the way it does - very devoid of warmth. which of course was the intention, so how can i be critical? also, 'a strange day' is really magic, genuinely something special. top 5 material, and that's saying something enormous when you're talking the cure's catalogue of songs
― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 03:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Porno is fantastic and Siamese Twins is probably my fave Cure song ever, but I still think that lyrically 'Disintegration' owns it completely. Maybe I'm just more interested these days in mid-life nostalgic ramblings than fits of narcotic fury.
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 07:33 (sixteen years ago) link
This Entreat thing is fantastic!! Thanks ILM.
― Bimble, Saturday, 3 November 2007 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Shoutout to the title track on this one.
― Bimble, Sunday, 9 March 2008 09:42 (sixteen years ago) link
hey bimble what was the track list for that quiet Black Sabbath comp you mentioned way upthread? That sounds like a unique treat! : )
― Drugs A. Money, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
when's the deluxe edt. of this coming out?.
― Creeztophair, Monday, 10 March 2008 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I made 'We Sail Through Endless Skies: The Quiet Black Sabbath Album', check it.
Tracklist:
1 Embryo (Master of Reality) 2 Supertzar (Sabotage) 3 Orchid (Master of Reality) 4 She's Gone (Technical Ecstasy) 5 Changes (Vol. 4) 6 FX (Vol. 4) 7 Planet Caravan (Paranoid) 8 Fluff (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath) 9 It's Alright (Technical Ecstasy) 10 Laguna Sunrise (Vol. 4) 11 Solitude (Master of Reality)
― Z S, Monday, 10 March 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
good stuff!
― Drugs A. Money, Monday, 10 March 2008 23:00 (sixteen years ago) link
After all these years it's Plainsong pour moi
― wanko ergo sum, Monday, 10 March 2008 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
the opening chords of plainsong evoke some weird shit in me.
otm
― latebloomer, Monday, 10 March 2008 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
last couple of shows I've seen, title track and Prayers for Rain just didn't hit me, whereas Plainsong and even, like, "Last Dance" and "Closedown" totally do. It sucks when you so want "prayers for raaaaaaaaaaaaaan" to just shatter your goth soul, and nothing happens.
― wanko ergo sum, Monday, 10 March 2008 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link
uh, rain
― wanko ergo sum, Monday, 10 March 2008 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Plaaaaaaaainsoooooooooong
― Mark C, Monday, 10 March 2008 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link
What is this picture at the start of the thread?
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 08:33 (sixteen years ago) link
lolll
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I was going to ask the same thing!
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 23:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i traded bob mould's 'workbook' to a guy in uni for this. i like workbook, but i won.
a later college roommate claimed that in 'prayers for rain' smith was actually singing 'president reagan'.
i'm not a big 'lullabye' fan, but the album is grebt and especially 'plainsong', of course.
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 23:54 (sixteen years ago) link
The picture at the start of the thread used to be the album cover (I swear!). Now I don't know what the hell it is!
― Bimble, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
it's better this way
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 00:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Crazy coincidence: I was listening to Disintegration this morning for the first time in years.
Ok, maybe not massively crazy.
Anyway, I wanted to confirm that a track on the new Guillemots album sounds like 'Pictures Of You' - at least its chords do. Not a great story. As you were, everyone.
― Matthew H, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Read on a Cure blog:
Why did so many bands that made their careers in the 80's seem to peek at or around 1988-89? The Cure had Disintegration, New Order had Technique, Siouxsie had Peepshow, Depeche had Violator, etc... The next album after all of these were "good" and then the rest just...ok.Were these not the pinnacle of these band's careers? Or were these just great albums to me because I was starting college, booze, and sex at that time?
Were these not the pinnacle of these band's careers? Or were these just great albums to me because I was starting college, booze, and sex at that time?
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
the epitome of a "DUH" comment
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
That's for sure!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Esp. with regards to Peepshow. I mean, I like that album a lot but compare it to Juju, Tinderbox, The Scream, Kalaidescope...
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
For those of us who are actually fans of Depeche Mode, we know that they had released several great records before "Violator", and also did release several after. Those who expect them to be a "rock" band may think otherwise though.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link
(And The Cure did most of their best work before "Disintegration" too - in fact 1980-85 mainly)
Well apart from Peepshow, those are basically my favorite albums from these bands
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I considered starting a "thread in which HOOS discovers the music of The Cure" but I am plenty self-indulgent already.
Just started hearing my first proper Cure albums this week. Porno didn't hit right away, was sort of coldly "impressive" but didn't kick me like I'd hoped it would. This on the other hand, Disintegration, is perfect and I wish I had discovered it when I was 15.
― Sherlock HOOS's Baker Steen Motherfuckers (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 22 December 2008 09:20 (fifteen years ago) link
"Head On The Door" is better IMO but also a completely different thing musically.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 22 December 2008 13:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't listened to Disintegration in years. Are all the synths still as badly dated sounding? I was wondering if maybe those tones have come full circle and aren't as cringe-worthy anymore.
― Nate Carson, Monday, 22 December 2008 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I was actually thinking it sounded like the M83 album I've been listening to all year.
― Sherlock HOOS's Baker Steen Motherfuckers (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 22 December 2008 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
i've never found the synths dated or cringe inducing.
― akm, Monday, 22 December 2008 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
The synths on this album are fantastic (except for "Closedown").
BTW on this most recent tour, the Boston setlist opened with "Plainsong" even though they had no keyboardist and I thought it was the first time the live context had the full-on bombast found on the album.
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Monday, 22 December 2008 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm thinking the synths sounded dated to me in the mid 90s. So by now, they're probably just right.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 02:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Are all the synths still as badly dated sounding?
We're speaking 1989. All synths from 1989 sound dated. Actually to a much larger extent than synths from 1981.
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
In another few years 1989's synths will sound perfect and hip, Geir. All you have to do is keep breathing and it all comes 'round... :)
Another useless post, but: Great album.
― staggerlee, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Welcome to the fold, Hoos!
― Geese Is The Word (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
"We're speaking 1989. All synths from 1989 sound dated. Actually to a much larger extent than synths from 1981."
See, I completely agree with this statement.
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
In another few years 1989's synths will sound perfect and hip, Geir.
Badly sampled "authentic" instruments played on synths will never, ever sound hip again. Never!
― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn306/Floridian_20/stop_sign.jpg
― Geese Is The Word (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 23:46 (fifteen years ago) link
i thought the picture at the top of this thread was originally the album cover? now it's something a lot... weirder
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 24 December 2008 00:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Roger O'Donnell on the making of Disintegration
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 11:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Good lord, this is essential reading. Thanks!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I peeked through that earlier, was great stuff! It doesn't surprise me in the least that they were basically a light-hearted bunch of gadabouts. Clay pigeon shooting picture is U+K
― everybody hauritz (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah ha! Now I know what Paul Cox the photographer looks like thanks to that! I rather enjoyed seeing "Photo by..." and having my own name be there on my Cure posters in high school.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
This says a lot:
I remember very clearly laughing and joking and fooling around in the control room while Robert was singing Disintegration and then all of us trying to be serious when he came in to listen back, I don’t know how he put up with it really. It was never a serious atmosphere in the studio and when you think about the album and how dark it is I'm sure people think we were sitting around slitting our wrists with candles and chains hanging from the walls. In fact years later working with Ross Robinson, he actually thought thats how we should work and he had this presumed idea of what the Cure should act like. It was completely wrong and false and just felt fake like we were trying to be the Cure, we were the Cure ... He never really understood that but thats another story..
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
basically a light-hearted bunch of gadabouts ...
... with a sub-schoolboy understanding of interpersonal relationships, by the sound of it. Either way: fascinating, fascinating reading. Thank you!
― What do you want? This ain't an egg shop (grimly fiendish), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 17:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Very interesting stuff.
― Enfonce bien tes ongles et tes doigts délicats dans la jungle de (Michael White), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Plainsong?
Yes a wonderful song especially if you are a keyboard player. I loved to play that song live incredible feeling starting the show just Boris and I.
awesome
― bum-sniff deviant (cutty), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link