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

I love this new one with CHVRCHES so much, possibly because it reminds me of a particular late-90s sound crossing between alt-rock, electro-pop and big beat (Smashing Pumpkins' 'Adore' and 'Ultra' by Depeche Mode especially). I started making a playlist to complement it https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4K8WgL7iYM8OAKZMgpfdIq?si=52d605d9bd354821

I guess I should have been paying a lot more attention to The Twilight Sad and 65daysofsummer over the years, huh

65dos rule

I haven't followed the Twilight Sad too closely because at some point it began to feel like diminishing returns, but No One Can Ever Know is glorious the whole way through. I guess they specialise in a kind of oddly stirring dourness, but that one seemed to have a bit more hot blood pumping round its veins than some of the other stuff I've heard

i think this one is actually a cover version rather than a guest vocal? smith plays all the instruments on it afaict. it's good though!

Yeah, I had to look this up because I've listened to that Twilight Sad album a hundred times and never heard Bob on it. Turns out he covered "There's a Girl in the Corner" and Twilight Sad released it as a B-side to one of their other singles from the record.

I wish I’d said that

These posts are actually covers of your post

you did not guest type them i think?

sorry sic, I did not see your note in the playlist post, scanned right past it!

:)

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i was able to listen to Dan's playlist, voting Crystal Castles.

Chvrches one sounds like a direct followup to Crystal Castles, which does not feel like it was eleven years ago

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markers has two socks?

the initial results were a bit different: BOB POPPINS: Robert Smith's guest vocals, 2003-2021

Spoiled ballots, changed via satellite rays from Italy.

Might have to redo the poll again because he's also done a remix of "How Not to Drown" and uh AWESOME

https://chvrches.lnk.to/HNTDRSRemixPR

i think, even by next year, "How Not To Drown" will be the most ranked song for Bob Poppins, this poll was just a bit too early

Gorillaz lockdown concert (feat. Bob’s poppin) in US cinemas this Wednesday night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfwwBGYWr7U

This is where I got it from and a good summary with other stuff:
https://mixdownmag.com.au/features/exploring-robert-smith-of-the-cures-musical-collaborations/

well you missed your chance to vote for it!!