Plainsong wrote:The Kiss Me B-sides are better than some of the songs on that record.
yeah i've said this before on here but the cure have to be the very best b-sides band. the kmx3 and wish b-sides are unreal good, it's mysteriously beautiful how this band has seemingly willfully obscured some of their best material. it's so romantic.
going back to the kmx3 discussion, it's probably neck and neck with disintegration for my favorite cure album. it's indulgence and sprawl is part of it's opulent charm for me even if there are some noticeable creative redundancies and a gulf in quality between the album's best and worst songs. it's a palatial piece of music.
fester wrote:Hot Hot Hot was the song that got me into the Cure (and rock music in general) when I was like 13 years old. It was the Mixed Up extended version.
I can't explain it. Before I heard that song all I listened to was new jack swing and top 40 rap.
Every part of this is exactly me. Right down to the Mixed Up version
i may have had a different opinion if i experienced them later in life but, just like a bunch of their songs, i am incapable of thinking of hot hot hot or why can't i be you as anything but terrific
So i was watching this absolutely obscure ealy 80's French tv show that someone improbably uploaded online that was video art intercut by alternative (or whatever they would have called it then) music videos and was surprised to find out that the cure made a video for the walk! I had never seen this before. It's actually too bad too because the version in the show i was watching was better quality than the one i found on YT (i think this is shot straight from someone's tv).
maybe this isn't news to anyone but it was to this massive Cure fan who thought he'd seen everything. I guess it makes sense, it was their first top 20 single in the UK.
I must insist on being a pessimist, I'm a loner in a catastrophic mind
i’m on a cure kick this week, mostly disintegration.
i missed that the cure put out a 4disc special edition of mixed up earlier this year and while most of it sucks, i did find this plainsong mix where they basically turn plainsong into a Four Calendar Cafe era Cocteau Twins song
i’ve been thinking about disintegration a lot lately and how it was so resonant as an adolescent and then kinda cringey for a while but revisiting it at 42 its honestly a lot more sophisiticated about adult relationships and fear of getting old and becoming irrelevant and general midlife anxiety than i think it gets credit for. some of it is real bad. last dance is total trash. but its easily their best album and one of the best albums of the 80s.
There’s no path to a satisfying conclusion at this point.
badhat wrote:kinda cringey for a while but revisiting it at 42 its honestly a lot more sophisiticated about adult relationships and fear of getting old and becoming irrelevant and general midlife anxiety than i think it gets credit for.
i've been getting into it for the really first time while deep in the throes of this shit IRL and yeah, for real
live life backwards every day
Yes, sir, I've become a real "Net-Head!" I don't know how I communicated before I got online!
i mean i’d rather focus on how good the album is overall but yea last dance is the one track that is as entirely adolescent and hokey as the cure’s detractors think they are.
also “a woman now standing where once there was only a girl” is such gross hacky shit.
There’s no path to a satisfying conclusion at this point.
but i still wish theyd done a full album of opium den bangers like “if only tonight we could sleep” and “like cockatoos” and “the snakepit”
I can't think of a better description of The Top than "a full album of opium den bangers"
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You are a sacred being of light projected into reality for a purpose. Demand the right to your moment in this holographic gift with no rules, no borders, except for those you choose to accept and live by.
Without Labour there is no Rest; nor without Fighting can the Victory be Won ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ
i've had disintegration in the cd player in my car for 4 years without changing and have listened to every song on it at least 100 times and still, when the prayers for rain/same deep water as you combo came on during the insane thunder storm last night it was completely perfect and honestly made my week