The Cure

[Chocoholic]

 

A great site to visit for unbelievable content. There truly is something for everybody there. 

[Chocoholic]

Dammit, just realised the video has been blocked since the last time I saw it on there, which screws up the point of posting it. Sorry about that. The point on Open Culture being a great site still stands, though.

[Dr Nowt]

Open Culture’s great.

 

Not looked on there in years.

[mattyq]

Love this song

 

 

[an tha]

Went to see them last night at Wembley Arena.

 

It was superb - much, much better than I expected.

 

A 2 hr 40 min set - 28 songs.

 

Arguably the best sound > have ever heard in a large arena - crystal clear, great separation - and fuck me can Robert Smith sing...

 

The sound mix was great - the vocals were clean, clear and crisp and the drums and bass were thumping - properly vibrating through you.

 

6 men on stage - every sound coming from those men, no pre recorded bollocks/augmentation like you see with a lot of bands using loops and fills etc.

 

The new songs sounded interesting as well - long, sprawling songs.

 

Superb gig.

[cloggypop]

The last time they played Amsterdam a load of my mates went and left after the first set because they were steaming. They missed the best two hours that followed. Idiots. 

[cloggypop]

Great band, The Cure. Robert Smith doing whatever he wants to do and still filling stadiums. He writes a damn fine pop song on his own terms as well. 

[Grinch]

I can’t believe how good they still are.  Smith’s voice is still exceptional.

 

Could have done with some of the newer stuff being replaced by a few left out classics but that’s nitpicking and I’d never get all my favourites played by a band with such a huge back catalogue.

[cloggypop]

One of the finest UK bands ever. 

[KMD7]

I see Paul Weller mocked Smith lately calling him out for having his hair the same in his sixties and said he'd give him a slap if he ever saw him. I'd love to see Smith batter the Wellend headed cunt. 

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.joe.ie/amp/music/paul-weller-robert-smith-758863

 

He's a f***ing knob end'

Paul Weller has launched a brutal personal attack on The Cure's Robert Smith, labelling him a "f***ing fat c**t" in an interview.

He was speaking to Record Collector for a special edition of the magazine in honour of the former Jam singer when he made the remark.

Weller seemed to take issue with the suggestion from the interviewer that one of the songs on Noel Gallagher's upcoming album sounds suspiciously like The Cure's 1980 classic A Forest. According to the magazine, Weller responded to this observation with a mixture of “incredulity and revulsion”.

“Really??!” the singer-songwriter continued. “I can’t fucking stand them. F***ing fat c**t, with his lipstick and all that bollocks. He is my age as well, isn’t he?”

Weller added: “He’s a f***ing knob end. I don’t like him. There you go. There’s someone I would work with. I’d f***ing slap him, or something.”

The Cure and The Jam's linked music history

It is not quite clear why Weller has such a passionate dislike of the Cure frontman, but according to Louder Sounds, The Jam inadvertently helped Smith's band during the recording of The Cure's debut album Three Imaginary Boys.

Back in 2004, Smith told Rolling Stone: "The Jam were recording their album during the day, and we used to sneak in at night and use their equipment – we knew the bloke who was looking after it – to record our album. We just borrowed tape and stuff."

Or it could be that Weller is still upset over a comment Smith made in 1985, when he mentioned Weller during an interview in which he said that punk wasn’t a political movement.

 

He said:"It [punk] later became that, because people wanted it to be seen as a movement."

 

Smith claimed that people were dissatisfied with listening to “bands like Yes and Genesis“, and instead “wanted to hear something they could dance to”.

“Even people who think they’re socially aware and lend their names to things, like Paul Weller and stuff…  I mean it does no good at all, ultimately,” Smith explained. “Because you’d have to be particularly stupid to believe someone like Paul Weller.

“You’d have to be particularly stupid to believe someone like me.”

[manwiththestick]

Weller is a prick and not fit to be talked about in the same breath as Robert Smith.

 

And I say that as a fan of The Jam.

[Mook]

I can't be done with Paul Weller but his comments about Smith being a fat cunt with lipstick were hilarious. 

 

The pair of them look fucking ridiculous.

[Captain Willard]

Pornography is a great album. Very underrated. Their back catalogue is a weird mix of upbeat poppy singles and dark album tracks. I listen to Plain Song pretty much every day. 

[cloggypop]

Smith still makes good music. Weller had a couple of decent songs with Style Council I suppose. 

[an tha]

3 hours ago, Grinch said:

I can’t believe how good they still are.  Smith’s voice is still exceptional.

 

Could have done with some of the newer stuff being replaced by a few left out classics but that’s nitpicking and I’d never get all my favourites played by a band with such a huge back catalogue.

I enjoyed hearing the new stuff - fact it exists stops them becoming purely a heritage act, which IMO when it does happen is the exact moment artists start to die.

[VladimirIlyich]

9 hours ago, Mook said:

I can't be done with Paul Weller but his comments about Smith being a fat cunt with lipstick were hilarious. 

 

The pair of them look fucking ridiculous.

Pot calling kettle. Or has Weller gone on a diet recently?

[Mook]

Has Paul Weller ever weighed more than about 12 stone?

 

He's certainly pretty skinny in recent pictures although he does tend to look like someone's auntie.

[VladimirIlyich]

55 minutes ago, Mook said:

Has Paul Weller ever weighed more than about 12 stone?

 

He's certainly pretty skinny in recent pictures although he does tend to look like someone's auntie.

Last time I saw him being interviewed he had a massive pot belly. He was still thin everywhere else though. Wearing those slim fit button down collar shirts wasn't doing him any favours. It was a few years back,within the last 10 for definite.

[Mook]

5 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Last time I saw him being interviewed he had a massive pot belly. He was still thin everywhere else though. Wearing those slim fit button down collar shirts wasn't doing him any favours. It was a few years back,within the last 10 for definite.

 

Fair enough, I don't follow the fat cunt's career very closely as he's shite.