The Cure

[Guest Ulysses Everett McGill]

Might be sign of getting older, or maybe deaf, anyway, just found a load of old CD's and have been uploading them to iTunes, cut a long story short

 

The Cure sound fucking brilliant, far better than I remembered

 

Rob Smith, a genius?

 

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[Woo]

Coincidentally, I was listening to 'The Head On The Door' on the way to work this morning.

[The Golden Eel]

Disintegration is an amazing album...

[diamondjoe]

Just listened to Wish a few weeks ago after a long abscence. Fucking superb album especially Trust.

[Uncle_Meat]

The Cure = Fucking ace.

 

Not much else to add to that statement.

[SpeedyG]

Meh, pre-1983 Cure = Fucking Epic

 

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And the ultimate Forever

 

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Post=93 Commercial Cure = OK.

 

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Arrrrgggghhhhh. WHY!

[Teflon Don]

Bob tackles The Beatles for a forthcoming McCartney tribute album:

 

[manwiththestick]

I love The Cure. That is all.

[stringvest]

Bob tackles The Beatles for a forthcoming McCartney tribute album:

 

 

Why record a song when all you do is make a version that's inferior in every way and brings absolutely nothing new to the original?  A few quid in his pocket I suppose.  

 

Robert Smith - A big fat wet baby.

[razor]

No, it's Madness this week.

[Adebisi]

I struggle to listen to a lot of their stuff without getting angst-ridden flashbacks of my youth, maybe in another 5 years.

They should have packed it in with Disintegration though, pretty much everything before that was aces and Disintegration would have topped it all off. 

[Rotpeter]

Bob tackles The Beatles for a forthcoming McCartney tribute album:

 

Talking of BOB.  Surely this (posted earlier) is the signature tune for BOB from Twin Peaks.

 

 

 

[Pidge]

One of those bands that became a bit of a joke for the 80s Goths, but disintegration is really fucking class. They have some other good stuff but that album is a fixture on my phone.

[stringvest]

I knew this thread would flush Speedy out.  

[Total Longo]

I struggle to listen to a lot of their stuff without getting angst-ridden flashbacks of my youth, maybe in another 5 years.

 

They should have packed it in with Disintegration though, pretty much everything before that was aces and Disintegration would have topped it all off. 

 

This.

 

Although I'm pretty certain that "Disintegration" may have caused people to top themselves, given it's pace. It's a great album, but funeral paced. 

 

"P0rnography" is their best album for me, and absolute beast of a record.

 

Agree that in the main they did nothing much after "Disintegration", although there are a few decent tunes on "Wish"  

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Why record a song when all you do is make a version that's inferior in every way and brings absolutely nothing new to the original?  A few quid in his pocket I suppose.  

 

Robert Smith - A big fat wet bog brush looking twat.

 

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[RedinSweden]

I always liked The head on the door best, due to it having A Night Like This, which is my favourite Cure track.

[Dr Nowt]

Met Boris in faintly surreal circumstances a few years ago, at a family friend's funeral.  I was giving a eulogy and kept seeing him out of the corner of my eye during it and thinking where the fuck do I know you from, which was quite distracting.  At the wake I was deep in conversation with the singer of our friend's brother's band for hours, and Boris just sat opposite and silently stared through me for a good portion of that, with his much younger French missus by his side.  Discovered later the lady I'd been speaking to had been playing their band down somewhat when she said they just used to gig a bit; they'd toured with The Cure and The Pixies and she'd been with Boris off and on for a long time.  Only then clicked who the bloke staring at me and only grunting when I spoke to him had been from up-to-date pictures, he's aged a fair bit like.  Our friend had mentioned that his brother played a bit, but again never gone into any detail such that we would ever have guessed he'd reached that sort of level.  Strange part of the day and strange epilogue to a sad situation all round.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

The more I see of Smith nowadays the more I think he looks like Stewart Lee dressing up as an early 90s era Jo Brand.

[razor]

The truth is, that pound for pound, The Cure are one of the best British bands ever. 

 

A genuine national treasure.

 

I've seen them three times and they were just huge each time.

[stringvest]

I can't work out whether this is sarcasm or not.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

 

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[aRdja]

Legend

[aRdja]

On 10/09/2014 at 20:49, razor said:

The truth is, that pound for pound, The Cure are one of the best British bands ever. 

 

A genuine national treasure.

 

I've seen them three times and they were just huge each time.

Agreed. Although i’d say they’re a much more a singles band moreso than album band, if you know why I’m saying.