Suddenly I stopAnd I know it's too late69ing in a forestAll alone
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link
I have questions
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
Also:
Fall fall fall fallInto the wallJump, jump out of timeFall fall fall fallOut of the skyCover my faceWhile the animals 69
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
The album title's a METAPHOR, god
― imago, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link
Xp
Sometimes we would spend the nightJust 69ing on the floorAnd even though it felt soft at the timeI always used to wake up sore
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
Show me show me show meShow me how you 69 that trick
(If you will.)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
You remember that day in ParisWhen we wandered through the rainAnd promised to each otherThat we'd always sixty-nineAnd dreamed that dreamTo be two souls as one
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
I would say I’m sorryIf I thought that you would 69
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
This is stranger than I thoughtSix different ways inside my heartAnd every one I’ll keep tonightSix different ways to 69
― castanuts (DJP), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
Wait, just occurred to me that we haven't done the joke in the opposite (Magnetic Fields) direction.
The book of lovecats is long and boring
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 October 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
I really want a cover of Lost that undoes all the ugly production/screaming and really knows what to do with that bassline - the latter swoops in and out a la Swastika Eyes in the version in my head
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 17 October 2022 13:05 (one year ago) link
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 17 October 2022 15:05 (seventeen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Such a pity this wasn't seventeen seconds ago.
― giraffe, Monday, 17 October 2022 13:24 (one year ago) link
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Another new song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD_Eumowa5Q
Musically sounds like they calculated the exact median between Homesick and Untitled, then went from there. Lyrically it is (unusually) openly about the death of his brother, there was a bit of a preamble about it too. Followed up with the most committed version of Disintegration I've seen in years and years.
Really hope this new album is well-recorded. The new songs sound Disintegration-y but with (even) less variation - reminds me a bit of that last Pink Floyd album The Endless River, where every song sounds a bit like another song and the resulting effect creates a kind of ambient rock feel.
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Friday, 21 October 2022 00:47 (one year ago) link
Stunning, I want this album NOW.
― Bee OK, Friday, 21 October 2022 01:10 (one year ago) link
Another new song, Fargile Thing;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmxUSFj8p1o
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:00 (one year ago) link
Sorry, song is actually called "A Fragile Thing.'
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:08 (one year ago) link
i preferred the original title
― dogdick solanke (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:42 (one year ago) link
Yeah, "Fargile Thing" would be a great title.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
probably my least favourite of the new songs? the closest musically to that Bloodflowersy MOR plod - underwhelming drum patterns have killed a lot of latter-day Cure songs for me and this feels like another casualty
musing on what an Actually Good Cure LP might sound like in 2022, I thought that it could be great if they took Laughing Stock as a jumping-off point - really leaning into sparseness and silence, taking that lovely facility for constructing interlocking melody parts and deconstructing it- minimal goth pastoral, if you will
(admittedly it is a weird pastime daydreaming about how beloved legacy band might make interesting creative choices, but I suppose ILM is a relatively safe space for this kind of thing)
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Saturday, 5 November 2022 23:18 (one year ago) link
Step 1: Sack JasonStep 2: *literally anything*Step 3: Brilliant album
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 5 November 2022 23:34 (one year ago) link
I just want the new album to drop already, obviously it's done. I only listen to these previews once or twice so they will be still sort of unknown when that finally happens.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 6 November 2022 00:10 (one year ago) link
xp tbh i am still pretty skeptical of Reeves Gabrels as a Cure member - recently someone on twitter posted video of his solo from From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea - and it sounds dumb but it struck me in a way it hadn’t before that a member of Tin Machine was in The Cure - and at that point I had to have a little lie down
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Sunday, 6 November 2022 00:14 (one year ago) link
Bee OK there was some talk on twitter that something would be released digitally before the end of the year (but vinyl wouldn’t be til 2023)
multiple pinches of salt required obviously
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Sunday, 6 November 2022 00:16 (one year ago) link
I don't see it happening this year because of Wish but it should happen in the first of 2023.
― Bee OK, Sunday, 6 November 2022 00:19 (one year ago) link
*First half
― Bee OK, Sunday, 6 November 2022 00:20 (one year ago) link
gabrels is a good guitar player but he is wanky in ways that the cure don't need; but generally speaking he kind of tones it down in the cure. which also means, I'm not sure why he needs to be there, or why it needs to be him.
― akm, Sunday, 6 November 2022 22:09 (one year ago) link
He and Jason certainly don't make the band *better*, at least not to my ears, so clearly Robert must just like having them around.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 November 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
If Perry coming back means that Reeves gets to Wrong Number all over the new album, I can put up with Jason
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Sunday, 6 November 2022 23:10 (one year ago) link
I guess to Robert the lure of a Bowie guitarist was irresistible. I do like his work on Earthling altho it’s not remotely Cure-appropriate.
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 7 November 2022 00:01 (one year ago) link
I am an actual big Tin Machine fan and have a lot of time for Reeves as creative foil for Bowie - but yeah not at all sure that his aesthetic really sits well with the Cure, to AKM's point, he seems to be fairly diligently playing away from his own style and thus starts to feel a bit like a session muso
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Monday, 7 November 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
He's pulled off less weird solos than I would have expected and that honestly is a plus. I was pretty impressed with the solo he did on "A Night Like This" when I last saw the band in 2016; I was expecting him to wave his dildo around but instead he did a really nice replacement of the sax solo part without replicating it.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 November 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
Reeves’ wife spent a good amount of time chatting with me about him and the band on Twitter, it was very sweet
― castanuts (DJP), Monday, 7 November 2022 04:09 (one year ago) link
I think it’s obv that Robert and him get along well. They’ve been doing random collabs since the mid 90s. More puzzling to me is why he brought back Perry who doesn’t seem to be anything on stage and looks pretty miserable doing so.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 7 November 2022 08:17 (one year ago) link
My theory is he has major dirt on Robert
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 7 November 2022 08:41 (one year ago) link
"he wears makeup, you know"
― StanM, Monday, 7 November 2022 09:00 (one year ago) link
BRING BACK LOL
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 7 November 2022 11:01 (one year ago) link
wowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXxiLwwmx4M
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 27 November 2022 01:13 (one year ago) link
wow indeed. I hope the music is healing, it's amazing to see him so engaged and present in his work after such a long time.
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 27 November 2022 06:20 (one year ago) link
I'm not sure I approve of this kind of bleakness being unleashed on fans of The Cure - I mean, if I was in a bad enough place, I'm not sure this couldn't be the push. And I'm not even gloomy or depressed, usually.
― StanM, Sunday, 27 November 2022 08:07 (one year ago) link
I had avoided all of the new songs until now and oh my god, this is legit the best thing I’ve heard from them since 1992
― castanuts (DJP), Sunday, 27 November 2022 13:59 (one year ago) link
This new song has an extremely strong "Bloodflowers" vibe. Not saying that's a bad thing.
― ilxor, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 05:34 (one year ago) link
this guy knows what's up
― more crankable (sic), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 07:09 (one year ago) link
Good band imo
― even the birds in the trees seemed to whisper "get fucked" (bovarism), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 01:14 (one year ago) link
It's been rumored.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 13 December 2022 01:15 (one year ago) link
got my Wish deluxe edition in the mail today!
― Jaime Pressly and America (f. hazel), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 01:21 (one year ago) link
quite Disintegration heavy tonight. apart from Burn nothing later than Wish except for 4 new songs all of which I liked. amazing gig, super glad I went
― even the birds in the trees seemed to whisper "get fucked" (bovarism), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 02:10 (one year ago) link
I've had the Wish deluxe CDs on repeat in the car for a couple of weeks now. Lots of interesting bonus tracks and alternate arrangements.
― I can't tell if he's trolling or not (ilxor), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 05:14 (one year ago) link
Last night’s THIRTY TWO song setlist from @thecure at Wembley last night (2 hours and 37 minutes of utter bliss) pic.twitter.com/fiAmiq2G7G— Tim Burgess (@Tim_Burgess) December 14, 2022
― groovypanda, Thursday, 15 December 2022 11:35 (one year ago) link
Loving this Wish reissue a lot, really worthwhile demo material imho.
Made a Lost Wishes Plus playlist that adds the other instrumental demos that never ended up as album tracks or B-sides, just to ride the vibe.
1. "Uyea Sound"2. "Cloudberry"3. "Off To Sleep..."4. "The Three Sisters"5. "A Wendy Band"6. "T6"7. "T7"8. "T8"9. "Now is the Time"10. "Miss Van Gogh"11. "Abetabw"12. "Heart Attack"13. "Swing Change"14. "Frogfish"
might play around with the order, but was having fun with their naming convention for a few of the demos in that placement
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 December 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
So there's a big ol' photo book out and I had things to say
https://thequietus.com/articles/32523-pictures-of-you-the-cure-tom-sheehan-review
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 January 2023 16:25 (one year ago) link