The Cure

[fearlessfreap]

65 year olds in black lipstick? Pass.

I do like A Forest, parts of Disintegration, and some poppier singles like Just Like Heaven. They had an album around 82 or so, whose title I can't remember that was comical in its dourness. It's what gave goths a bad name.

[Charlie O.]

Count me as another who likes their poppiest side - though not enough, so far, to have actually bought anything.

[quaco]

The Smith/Steve Severin psychedelic collaboration The Glove has some great stuff on it. I think I like it not only because it's a bit psychedelic, but also because there's less of Smith singing on it...

["BING E BONG"]

brand spanking new

[fange]

It's ok. The band has always liked a long intro, but this one is a bit too long. It creates a nicely layered mood once Smith starts singing, but it's just that one thing, for the whole glacial length of the song. No melodic guitar lines, no bass runs, no discernable (to me) structural surprises or exciting changes, just one ok long moody feel.

[loveless]

Yep. I'm very much with fange on this one. I consider myself a fan, but...this is a well that they seem to have been going back to for a hell of a long time now - these lengthy, moody, slow, and sort of non-distinguished laments.

I saw them a little over a year ago, and...it was a great show with a wonderful mix of songs across their career (hits and deep cuts alike), and Robert Smith had really taken a hard line on making the show affordable and completely thwarting the touts/scalpers (proving that any big act can do this if they care to), BUT...they also did a handful of new songs in the act (possibly including this one, certainly many from the upcoming album), and...they were all these sort of interminable dirges.

I had a proper Cure phase in my late teens - and a big part of what drew me to them was the variety on display (imagine a novice hearing Staring at the Sea/Standing on the Beach as their point of entry and just being stunned that all of those different feels, moods, sounds, etc....all of that progress...happened within such a short span of time). Even their then contemporaneous work like Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me seemed to contain multitudes.

[DarknessFish]

Sounds like they've covering late My Dying Bride circa Turn Loose the Swans. Those drums, the strings. Just needs more downtuned power chords and growling. And the strings were much better applied by My Dying Bride.

[sloopjohnc]

Sept 26, 2024 13:51:31 GMT loveless said:

Yep. I'm very much with fange on this one. I consider myself a fan, but...this is a well that they seem to have been going back to for a hell of a long time now - these lengthy, moody, slow, and sort of non-distinguished laments.

I saw them a little over a year ago, and...it was a great show with a wonderful mix of songs across their career (hits and deep cuts alike), and Robert Smith had really taken a hard line on making the show affordable and completely thwarting the touts/scalpers (proving that any big act can do this if they care to), BUT...they also did a handful of new songs in the act (possibly including this one, certainly many from the upcoming album), and...they were all these sort of interminable dirges.

I had a proper Cure phase in my late teens - and a big part of what drew me to them was the variety on display (imagine a novice hearing Staring at the Sea/Standing on the Beach as their point of entry and just being stunned that all of those different feels, moods, sounds, etc....all of that progress...happened within such a short span of time). Even their then contemporaneous work like Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me seemed to contain multitudes.

I had my Cure phase too and have gone through three copies of Boys Don't Cry.