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Re: The Cure
« Reply #70 on: February 22, 2014, 02:28:47 AM »
Disintegration and Pornography are easily their best albums imo.
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Re: The Cure
« Reply #71 on: February 22, 2014, 08:05:57 AM »
I have their 'Triology' DVD.
Liked some songs, disliked others... It really depends on your mood.

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Re: The Cure
« Reply #72 on: February 22, 2014, 01:13:45 PM »
Ok well it's been awhile, I should give Pornography another listen. Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong album. I just remember that what I heard sounded a lot different from Disintegration and left me disappointed.

Iv always considered A Perfect Circle's '13th Step' to be like a more modern and metal version of Disintegration.

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« Reply #73 on: February 22, 2014, 01:21:39 PM »
Ok well it's been awhile, I should give Pornography another listen. Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong album. I just remember that what I heard sounded a lot different from Disintegration and left me disappointed.

Iv always considered A Perfect Circle's '13th Step' to be like a more modern and metal version of Disintegration.

To be fair...Pornography is a bit more "aggressive" than Disintegration.   The "trilogy" albums essentially all revolve around the ideas of depression and contemplating the meaninglessness of existence.   I suppose the difference would be that Pornography sounds a bit more like someone who is actually on the verge of suicide, whereas Disintegration is more the picture of someone who can't even get motivated enough to go through with it.    ....if that makes any sense.  :-\
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Re: The Cure
« Reply #74 on: February 22, 2014, 03:19:01 PM »
I've been a fan of them since the beginning although not as hardcore about them for the last decade or more.  When I pull one of their CDs off the shelf for a spin these days, the ones I grab most often are "Boys Don't Cry" or "Head On The Door."  Haven't seen them live since the "Kiss Me Kiss Me" tour but that was a fantastic show.  :metal

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Re: The Cure
« Reply #75 on: May 07, 2015, 09:17:27 AM »
Been listening a lot to Faith lately. While I've always held Disintegration and Pornography highest, I think I've grown to love Faith just as much. Head on the Door and Kiss Me Kiss Me would roundout my top5, boy oh boy is their discography awesome. Sure, they have a few misses, but so many hitters.

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Re: The Cure
« Reply #76 on: May 08, 2015, 09:35:28 AM »
Disintegration and Pornography are easily their best albums imo.

True. After that, I like Seventeen Seconds and Faith. Those two albums + Pornography should be listened in sequence, they are capable of great emotional heights.

They give me the impression of a linear narrative:

Seventeen Seconds - someone is dying ("the final sound", the album ends with "the light begins to fade/ and everything is quiet now")
Faith - the funeral (The Holy Hour, The Funeral Party, "I went away alone/ with nothing left but faith")
Pornography - the rage after ("it doesn't matter if we all die...")

Maybe it's just my imagination. But they give these feelings. Faith is the ultimate soundtrack for a funeral.

I can't enjoy Bloodflowers at all. Every song seem to be a variation of Out of this World. Not much rhythm variation, it's seems the chords and chord progressions are basically the same during the whole album. And the lyrics are not that impressive. But it seems many fans like the album.
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« Reply #77 on: May 08, 2015, 09:55:06 AM »
Watching Me Fall is possibly my all time favorite Cure song.   At least top 3, anyway.
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« Reply #78 on: May 08, 2015, 10:54:29 AM »
Not a super huge Cure fan, but I do enjoy some of their stuff - particularly from Disintegration thru Blood Flowers. Never really got into the s/t album aside from the song Anniversary, nor 4:13 Dream. And I've never dug into any of their stuff before Disintegration with the exception of the songs on their Greatest Hits and the songs that are on Mixed Up. That said, I do love A Forest, tho I prefer the version on Mixed Up over the original.

I can't enjoy Bloodflowers at all.
Really? I love that album! I think it's the one album of their's that I can listen to from start to end without skipping any tracks. Wish I would've gotten to see them on the Bloodflowers tour, altho I'm happy I at least got to see them once on the Wild Mood Swings tour.
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« Reply #79 on: May 08, 2015, 10:57:12 AM »
Scotty...I would especially recommend Staring at the Sea: The Singles.  Sortof a best of the earlier material.   That's what got me into early Cure.  Really great stuff.
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Re: The Cure
« Reply #80 on: May 08, 2015, 12:04:16 PM »
While I really like Wish, and do like the debut as well as Bloodflowers, I would say that the run from Seventeen Seconds to Disintegration is just incredible, and possibly the best stretch of albums any band has had.

Seventeen Seconds
Faith
Pornography
The Top
The Head on the Door
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Disintegration

The Top is the oddball, but I really like it for it's uniqueness. The first three in that bunch are the amazing post-punk albums, the latter three are the amazing keyboard-driven albums, and are also awesome.

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« Reply #81 on: May 08, 2015, 02:53:35 PM »
And there is the debut, Wish and Bloodflowers which are all solid albums too.
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Re: The Cure
« Reply #82 on: May 12, 2015, 12:02:46 AM »
Just finished off their discography and have really grown to like their stuff. A lot.

Anyone like the song Halo? Never officially on a CD, but it's on their Join the Dots compilation. It was a b-side on Friday I'm In Love. Excellent tune, perhaps better than FIIL
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Re: The Cure
« Reply #83 on: May 12, 2015, 06:10:28 PM »
I do. In fact, they have many great B-Sides.
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Re: The Cure
« Reply #84 on: May 12, 2015, 11:01:14 PM »
That's what I've come to find. Join the Dots has a lot of great stuff on it.

A girl I work with, at her sister's wedding, their first dance was to Halo. When I first heard it I thought to myself, "That's an excellent song for a wedding."
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Re: The Cure
« Reply #85 on: October 08, 2015, 10:05:06 PM »
The Cure are coming back to North America. Only three dates have been announced thus far, more to come in January. 25 dates all together. Really hoping they come back to Minnesota, but they haven't been here since the Wild Mood Swings tour.

https://www.altpress.com/news/entry/the_cure_announce_first_u.s._tour_in_eight_years
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Re: The Cure
« Reply #86 on: November 17, 2015, 08:36:38 AM »
The full NA tour has been announced... I'm trying to decide whether or not it's worth that would be a total 24 hours driving, plus the cost of the ticket. Iouldn't consider that kind of commitment for most bands and most tours, but something tells me this might be my first and only real chance to see The Cure in concert. Not for certain of course, but given how they don't tour very frequently anymore...

Have any of you DTF Cure fans seen them live before? Recently?
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Re: The Cure
« Reply #87 on: November 17, 2015, 09:57:17 AM »
The full NA tour has been announced... I'm trying to decide whether or not it's worth that would be a total 24 hours driving, plus the cost of the ticket. Iouldn't consider that kind of commitment for most bands and most tours, but something tells me this might be my first and only real chance to see The Cure in concert. Not for certain of course, but given how they don't tour very frequently anymore...

Have any of you DTF Cure fans seen them live before? Recently?

I've seen them twice... 1995 ish (Wild Mood Swings) and 2000 ish (Bloodflowers). I bought tickets immediately for the Austin show, I figured "how many tours do they have left in 'em".. plus tickets weren't as bad even at the top tier.

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« Reply #88 on: November 17, 2015, 10:00:02 AM »
I know it's been 15 years since, and may not match their current shows, but how would you rate those shows?
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« Reply #89 on: November 17, 2015, 10:01:58 AM »
I know it's been 15 years since, and may not match their current shows, but how would you rate those shows?

Well I was much more "into" The Cure around Wild Mood Swings, and I felt it was a tremendous show.  By the time bloodflowers came around I wasn't as excited to see them, and the album never grabbed me really. It was still a very good show full of old and new tunes.  I would personally not pass up an opportunity to see them at least once.

I really hope they are in the best form they can be given their age this time around.

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Re: The Cure
« Reply #90 on: November 17, 2015, 12:11:16 PM »
Once again, no Minnesota...  :'(
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« Reply #91 on: November 18, 2015, 02:10:39 PM »
I know it's been 15 years since, and may not match their current shows, but how would you rate those shows?

Well I was much more "into" The Cure around Wild Mood Swings, and I felt it was a tremendous show.  By the time bloodflowers came around I wasn't as excited to see them, and the album never grabbed me really. It was still a very good show full of old and new tunes.  I would personally not pass up an opportunity to see them at least once.

I really hope they are in the best form they can be given their age this time around.

I tried to buy tickets this morning through the presale but there was an issue with my computer and by the time I got in there weren't any excellent seats left. I told myself I wouldn't make the trip (realllly long drive, for me) unless I was able to get the best seats possible. I'll have to try again when the tickets go on sale for the general public and hopefully have better luck then.

Anyways, I've been listening to Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me a lot recently.

It's in competition for my favorite album along with Disintegration (hardly controversial choices, I know). Feel like KMKMKM has the more peaks, but also perhaps a bit more filler than Disintegration.
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Re: The Cure
« Reply #92 on: November 18, 2015, 02:19:11 PM »
Wish still remains my personal favorite.

You've got Open and then High and later on you have Doing The Unstuck, Friday, I'm in Love, Trust, A Letter to Elise. A just think that album flows nicely. Wish would have been way better had they kept Halo

Then Disintegration comes second because you really can't go wrong with any track on that album, but I think their rhythm section really shines on that album.

Doing the Unstuck seems to be overlooked a bit, the remix on the Join The Dots album is better than the studio version.
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Re: The Cure
« Reply #93 on: November 18, 2015, 03:16:58 PM »
The Cure has a few albums I don't particularly care for (2 or 3) but the rest of their discography is great to amazing. I'd say they have at least 5 or 6 amazing albums, which is really great.

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Re: The Cure
« Reply #94 on: November 28, 2015, 01:52:01 AM »
The Cure announced a European tour for next fall and it includes a Helsinki date (their first Finnish show since 1996), but I may be in Canada doing my exchange at that point. If they swapped the Euro and NA dates, I might be able to see them on both continents. :P

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« Reply #95 on: November 28, 2015, 02:05:16 AM »
The Cure announced a European tour for next fall and it includes a Helsinki date (their first Finnish show since 1996), but I may be in Canada doing my exchange at that point. If they swapped the Euro and NA dates, I might be able to see them on both continents. :P

They're playing in my city as well, I was blown away when I heard it. Tickets drop on Monday and I gotta get me two.

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« Reply #96 on: November 28, 2015, 05:11:26 PM »
The Cure formed in 1976 - which is longer than i've been alive :lol


And i'm 37.

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« Reply #97 on: November 28, 2015, 07:06:40 PM »
I didn't realize they were still so big. Doing a couple arena dates here in the U.S. and in Europe as well? Good for them.

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Re: The Cure
« Reply #98 on: November 29, 2015, 08:59:04 AM »
The Cure formed in 1976 - which is longer than i've been alive :lol


And i'm 37.

Mind you that's nothing compared to The Rolling Stones who have been a BAND for over 50 years.  :eek :eek

U2 also formed in 1976 and they've been the same line up since Boy.

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« Reply #99 on: February 24, 2016, 11:59:17 AM »
Mind you that's nothing compared to The Rolling Stones who have been a BAND for over 50 years.  :eek :eek

U2 also formed in 1976 and they've been the same line up since Boy.

There's this band from Buenos Aires that I like a lot called Les Luthiers, who have a long career too: they formed in 1967, and since then they haven't taken a year off from playing their music. They were already playing when my mother was a baby! Les Luthiers is actually a group of musicians/actors, so their shows are full of humorous sketches with a lot of music.

Anyway, back on topic: I like The Cure a lot. I discovered them in 2004 - MTV was promoting the self-titled album, but another TV channel showed older videos from the '80s/'90s, so I got to listen to the band's music in its various incarnations. In October I bought Greatest Hits, and in Christmas Disintegration. I've never understood the love for that album - I love the first two songs, but other than that it sounds weak to me (maybe it's the CD mix or something).

Later on, I bought The Head..., Kiss Me... and Wish (all on the same day). This last one I absolutely adore. Only 2 out of the 12 songs I skip - the rest is amazing to me: such beautiful music, which trigger so many emotions! I also like 4:13 Dream a lot - some of the heavy tracks I don't enjoy, but there are various gems in there.

These are my 10 favourite Cure songs:

1 This. Here & Now. With You (4:13 Dream)
2 The 13th (Wild Mood Swings)
3 Bloodflowers (Bloodflowers)
4 Lost (The Cure)
5 A Letter To Elise (Wish)
6 Plainsong (Disintegration)
7 Doing The Unstuck (Wish)
8 Freakshow (4:13 Dream)
9 Cut Here (Greatest Hits)
10 The Perfect Girl (Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me)

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Re: The Cure
« Reply #100 on: February 25, 2016, 06:57:40 AM »
I won't sugarcoat it:  for a kid growing up in the mid- to late-80's loving Sabbath, Kiss, Zeppelin, Purple, Priest, Scorpions, and basically anything that had the "NWOBHM" tag (Maiden, Leppard), The Cure were not my thing, to say the least.  The closest I came was a closet admiration for REM. 

Then I went and saw Page and Plant live in 1995, and Porl Thompson was the second guitar player, and two things happened:  one, the band played an absolutely mesmerizing "The Song Remains The Same" (and I don't exagerate; after the song, I felt like I had blacked out and I looked at my friend and said "What the hell was that??" and he felt it too.  We were literally transported by the music, I shit you not.), and two, P&P played this weird song I had never heard of (turned out it was "Lullaby"). 

I did a little investigation and found out who it was, and bought the album (Disintegration).

Then I got stuck (literally - I bought them for a friend and he bailed; well, his girl bailed and then so did he) with tickets to see The Cure in Hartford in the fall of '96 and figured, what the hell.

I was BLOWN AWAY.  They were SO good live.  Almost three hours, and although I only recognized about three songs, it was captivating.  Robert Smith wore a Hartford Whalers jersey all show and while that is usually a lame cliché, it was cool and they played so well.  With the music and the lights and the atmosphere... even though I don't care for some of their earlier stuff, and I'm only familiar with maybe 20 or 25% of their catalogue, I do consider myself a big fan. 

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Re: The Cure
« Reply #101 on: March 20, 2016, 07:32:24 PM »
They announced their first show in Minnesota in 20 years and it sold out in a matter of minutes. The band announced that they were going to push the stage back further to accommodate for more seating. That's crazy to think about. Regardless, I got my tickets and am pumped to see them in June!
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« Reply #102 on: March 20, 2016, 09:22:53 PM »
They announced their first show in Minnesota in 20 years and it sold out in a matter of minutes. The band announced that they were going to push the stage back further to accommodate for more seating. That's crazy to think about. Regardless, I got my tickets and am pumped to see them in June!
Yeah, I think it's sort of surreal. When I read that a few days ago, I had a similar reaction to the one I had when I followed the live tweets of their show in 2013 in Mexico for Robert's birthday. The band just kept playing, and they ended up playing 50 songs over 4 hours. It was like - "Holy shit, how larger can a show get?". Well, the same for Minesotta, right?

Good for you that you get to see them! I missed my chance when they came to Argentina in 2013. I wasn't living in Buenos Aires and didn't have enough money to spend on travel/tickets. The Rolling Stones are still touring around these places, so I guess there is still hope of another visit? (Probably not...)

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« Reply #103 on: March 20, 2016, 10:04:33 PM »
Man, I wish they did that show they did in Mexico. I even looked up to see if any band members had a birthday before the show and Simon and Reeves have birthdays the week before the show.. So close!

But yeah, the arena they are playing in already holds about 15,000 for a concert, and with the additional seats, should be closer to 17,000 or so. It's amazing to me that they still are selling out the arenas that they do, but the fanbase is dedicated. And when you haven't played in a state since 1996, people are probably very excited to see you again.

And I wouldn't count the Stones out yet. I saw them last June and I don't think they're stopping anytime soon
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« Reply #104 on: March 21, 2016, 12:23:39 AM »
And I wouldn't count the Stones out yet. I saw them last June and I don't think they're stopping anytime soon
Oh, sure. In fact, they played 3 sold out shows in Bs. As. last month. What I meant is that, if The Stones continue touring after more than 50 years, there's the chance that The Cure will too (and therefore they'll come back somewhere in the not too distant future).

I also agree with your post about how great an album Wish is. The whole sequence of songs from "Doing The Unstuck" to "Trust" is pure gold. The only song I don't like on the album is "Wendy Time" - quite possibly my least favourite Cure song.

Wish was an album I was obsessed about wanting to discover when I was 15, because I knew it featured "Friday I'm In Love", and I loved that song since the first time I listened to it. For some time I assumed the whole album would be like that, so I was amazed to find out I was wrong a few years later! 'There are heavy tracks too!'.

Wish in particular has always been an album I feel like listening to when I'm falling in love with a girl, or when I'm feeling heartbroken. The same with some songs on Bloodflowers, too. In fact, in 2012 I e-mailed Roger O'Donnell and told him exactly that (and a few other things - such as 'Please come to Argentina! It's safe now! :P). He actually answered. One of the coolest things ever!