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Postby Rainbow Battle Kid » Fri Dec 08, 2017 10:03 am

man they have so many good b-sides
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Postby tarantula » Fri Dec 08, 2017 10:07 am

have the bassline and guitarline and beat eve come into closer convergence than on "accuracy"

just a good show all around for the cure
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Postby transitive » Fri Dec 08, 2017 10:26 am

What's the best Cure record to listen to while depressed?

Seventeen Seconds or Faith?
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Postby tarantula » Fri Dec 08, 2017 10:28 am

"the head on the door"

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Postby transitive » Fri Dec 08, 2017 10:34 am

Not like wistful, romantic depression. More like, bleak, "am I even a person in a body?" depression.
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Postby tarantula » Fri Dec 08, 2017 10:39 am

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Postby Milk » Fri Dec 08, 2017 11:02 am

transitive wrote:Not like wistful, romantic depression. More like, bleak, "am I even a person in a body?" depression.


Pornography then obviously.



I actually personally dont worship Pornography like a lot of cure fans do. It's lower tier in their 80's stuff for me. Above The top, possibly under TIB. Plus the good songs on it are so much better live anyway.

i guess i'm gonna rank the cure records now cause it had to happen some time


Disintegration
Faith
KMKMKM (tough call though because i dont like at least half that record, but the half i like is so good)
The head on the door
Seventeen seconds
Wish
Three imaginary boys
Pornography
Japanese Whispers (they call it a singles album but it has 8 songs like most early cure records and those songs wouldnt be on record otherwise and most of those weren't singles so it counts)
The Top
Wild Mood Swings

and everything else doesn't need to be rated.
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Postby Milk » Fri Dec 08, 2017 11:07 am

Just had an idea to rank top 20 cure songs and then realised there's no way i can do this. But i think some of you should try.... I got the idea in part cause none of the ranked records have Charlotte Sometimes on them which is a crime.

this is one of my favorite things ever



one of my favorite bassline ever too.
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Postby transitive » Fri Dec 08, 2017 11:27 am

Milk wrote:
transitive wrote:Not like wistful, romantic depression. More like, bleak, "am I even a person in a body?" depression.


Pornography then obviously.



I actually personally dont worship Pornography like a lot of cure fans do. It's lower tier in their 80's stuff for me. Above The top, possibly under TIB. Plus the good songs on it are so much better live anyway.

i guess i'm gonna rank the cure records now cause it had to happen some time


Disintegration
Faith
KMKMKM (tough call though because i dont like at least half that record, but the half i like is so good)
The head on the door
Seventeen seconds
Wish
Three imaginary boys
Pornography
Japanese Whispers (they call it a singles album but it has 8 songs like most early cure records and those songs wouldnt be on record otherwise and most of those weren't singles so it counts)
The Top
Wild Mood Swings

and everything else doesn't need to be rated.


It's weird, I find 17 Seconds and Faith to be far more depressing than Pornography. Pornography to me feels almost like the cinematic version of depression. All histrionic and showy, whereas the 17S/Faith has a disturbing quiet, bleakness to them that really unsettles me.
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Postby Plainsong » Sat Dec 09, 2017 2:41 am

This was harder than I thought.
20 Favorite Cure songs

Pictures of You
Plainsong
In Your House
Push
Disintegration
Grinding Halt
Jumping Someone Else's Train
Primary
Play For Today
Cold
One Hundred Years
The Funeral Party
Faith
Closedown
Inbetween Days
One More Time
High
Apart
Charlotte Sometimes
Last Dance
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Postby inmate » Sat Dec 09, 2017 2:56 am

pornography is my go-to album for when my brain is in a really dark place and i don't have the will to try to make myself better. realistically i think one hundred years on repeat would probably do the trick. disintegration is my go-to for lovesickness, although i listened to it so much while crushing on one specific girl so it's a bit harder to listen to now.

i haven't listened to a lot outside of those two albums, but i feel pretty confident that pictures of you is their best song
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Postby Milk » Sat Dec 09, 2017 10:38 am

feel like this thread should not forget to appreciate jokester Robert smith

absolutely love this song no matter how wrong it is, i mean to be fair he paints the character as a pathetic figure. Still it wasn't lost on me it was NOT included in the bonus disc of the remastered TIB. Whereas pretty much all of their other early songs/demos were. Probably even Smith cringes at this song a little now.




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Postby Milk » Sat Dec 09, 2017 10:42 am

the review Desperate Journalist refers to

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Postby odilon redon » Sat Dec 09, 2017 12:00 pm

Rainbow Battle Kid wrote:man they have so many good b-sides


yeah I said this in another thread but bar none they’re the best b-side band to me
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Postby blab » Mon Dec 11, 2017 1:01 pm

I've listened to the song Fire in Cairo probably 1000 times the past month. I fuckin love that song.
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Postby brent » Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:02 am

for some reason i have barely checked out their b-sides. i remember downloading join the dots back when it came out but never really gave it a close listen

going to rectify this today
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Postby odilon redon » Tue Dec 12, 2017 11:23 am

brent wrote:for some reason i have barely checked out their b-sides. i remember downloading join the dots back when it came out but never really gave it a close listen

going to rectify this today


discs 1 and 2 and the first half of 3 are essential listening if you have any interest in this band.
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Postby noiseandpop » Fri Dec 15, 2017 7:24 pm

some of the best b-sides for sure



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Postby Plainsong » Sat Dec 16, 2017 1:01 am

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Postby Milk » Sat Dec 16, 2017 1:44 am




I inadvertently kinda ripped this song off a few years ago. I swear it was not deliberate because i hadn't heard that song in years but it was clearly in my subconscious and then someone heard it eventually and was like "dude, this is halo" and then i was very ashamed. Like i knew i was mimicking The Cure sound wise, sure, that was not in doubt, but i didn't think it was any specific tune. I mean i suppose it's mostly the guitar line that does part of the main Halo bassline but still.

actually, may as well:

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Postby Milk » Sat Dec 16, 2017 1:46 am

noiseandpop wrote:



in a different internet world i'm known as the exploding boy. This was my first internet username. still one of my absolute favorite b-side. though probably my actual favorite may be





such strong memories of early internet days linked to this song. Like 1999-2000.
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Postby tarantula » Sat Dec 16, 2017 6:45 am

the cure:

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Postby odilon redon » Mon Dec 18, 2017 12:26 pm

the cover art on cure singles is so much better than most of the cover art on the actual albums
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Postby noiseandpop » Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:40 pm

a drunk, sad bump



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