What Cure album should i listen to next?

[FoolofaTook]

i'm saying i had a slow start, that's all

also i tend to get bogged down ha

[Mals Marola]

bogged down eh? who else do i know who's liable to find themselves in such a situation...

[FoolofaTook]

Stapleton in the Grimpen Mire at the end of the Hound of the Baskervilles?

[NovaFritz]

Originally Posted by houseofglass11

this is how I'd rate their catalog:
1. Disintegration
2. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
3. Pornography (would probably rate it 2 but it's so dark I can't listen to it all the time)
4. Wish
5. Faith
6. Seventeen Seconds
7. The Head On the Door
8. The Top (underrated)
9. Bloodflowers (great abum it's just that there's eight other classics ahead of it)
10. Wild Mood Swings (people make it out to be some terrible album and it's not)

Where would you rank the singles compilation album Japanese Whispers?

[NovaFritz]

1. Head On the Door
2. Faith
3. Disintegration
4. Japanese Whispers
5. Boys Don't Cry (US edition w/ period singles)
6. Kisses
7. Wish
8. Pornography
9. 17 secs
10. The Top

Basement of why-would-you-ever-listens?

11. Bloodflowers
12. WMS
13. The Cure
14. 4:15 dream or whatever
15. Mixed-up

[Dogfighter28]

1. Disintegration
2. Pornography
3. Bloodflowers
4. The Head On the Door
5. Faith
6. Wish
7. Seventeen Seconds
8. Japanese Whispers
9. Kiss Me
10. Three Imaginary Boys

Not particularly fond of the rest. But all of these are top quality and it’s flabbergasting to type it out and take stock.

[Mals Marola]

i still rate the s/t (specifically, the Japanese version that includes outtakes which were among the best of the era, easily) pretty highly. Doesn't hurt that I first saw the End of the World vid on MTV-U at a summer camp as a teenager, but even so!

[FoolofaTook]

imma listen to faith again today (can't wait, i really enjoyed it a couple of days ago), and then check out 17 secs for the second time.

[FoolofaTook]

i have the feeling that faith/porno will probably end up being my fav cure era.

[Shadaloo]

1. Disintegration
2. Pornography
3. Faith
4. Seventeen Seconds
5. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
6. The Head On The Door
7. Wish
8. Japanese Whispers
9. The Top
10. Three Imaginary Boys/Don't Cry
11. The Cure
12. Bloodflowers
13. Wild Mood Swings
14. 4:13 Dream

[Shadaloo]

Originally Posted by FoolofaTook

i have the feeling that faith/porno will probably end up being my fav cure era.

Get yourself a Carnage Visors listen if you haven't yet. Faith era long instrumental that accompanied a movie played before the show during the era. Amazing stuff.

[FoolofaTook]

oh i noticed that at the end of some of the versions of faith up on soulseek.

thanks for the heads up. will def check out.

[Mals Marola]

1. Brotherhood
2. Technique
3. Low-Life
4. Get Ready
5. Power Corruption & Lies
6. Lost Sirens
7. Republic
8. Waiting for the Siren's Call
9. Music Complete
10. Movement

[FoolofaTook]

Wham top ten?

[Mals Marola]

You betcha!

[Mals Marola]

[NovaFritz]

Originally Posted by Mals Marola

1. Brotherhood
2. Technique
3. Low-Life
4. Get Ready
5. Power Corruption & Lies
6. Lost Sirens
7. Republic
8. Waiting for the Siren's Call
9. Music Complete
10. Movement

seriously, brotherhood?

[NovaFritz]

these beats are similar, but only one of these songs is good

[houseofglass11]

Originally Posted by NovaFritz

Where would you rank the singles compilation album Japanese Whispers?

It's a compilation. But if I were to rank SP albums, I'd put Pisces Iscariot at #4.

[Mals Marola]

Originally Posted by NovaFritz

seriously, brotherhood?

yes, it's the perfect display of both sides of their sound at the peak of their career. what's not to get

but by all means, continue making these arbitrary posts about people ranking certain albums higher in a discography then you personally would, it's really doin' some damage

[NovaFritz]

Originally Posted by Mals Marola

yes, it's the perfect display of both sides of their sound at the peak of their career. what's not to get

but by all means, continue making these arbitrary posts about people ranking certain albums higher in a discography then you personally would, it's really doin' some damage

Sorry, what exactly are we supposed to be doing here? I didn’t mean to damage you.

I always think I should like Brotherhood more than I do, but the songs just aren’t as strong as some of their other stuff. Movement is also underrated.

[NovaFritz]

Originally Posted by houseofglass11

It's a compilation. But if I were to rank SP albums, I'd put Pisces Iscariot at #4.

In a list of cure albums??

[FoolofaTook]

pisces is #3

sorry adore

[Mals Marola]

Originally Posted by NovaFritz

Sorry, what exactly are we supposed to be doing here? I didn’t mean to damage you.

I always think I should like Brotherhood more than I do, but the songs just aren’t as strong as some of their other stuff. Movement is also underrated.

no i was being sarcastic with the last thing. as i said before, that list is my personal ranking, but as with all my rankings i like to think there's at least a bit of objectivity involved. Brotherhood to me, aside from Substance, is the perfect introduction to New Order, especially for someone who was already into Joy Division. That first half is them in "rock band" mode which is a pretty good transition off the JD stuff, but then from Bizarre Love Triangle onward it's the stuff that truly set them apart

Movement to me, on the other hand, is just a "lite" version of Closer. Not horrible or anything, but it has none of the charm or character that really made N.O. their own band, and the best stuff from that time was the singles (Ceremony, Temptation, Everything's Gone Green) imo

[Mals Marola]

i guess it's also worth noting that I got into N.O. almost at random via the Siren's Call album when I was like 14, before I ever knew who JD were, so I have more of a proclivity for the actual New Order sound vs. just the band that followed up JD as some seem to see them as. I went into them with completely different mindsets and had no expectations for one over the other, only finding out about the connection later on

[NovaFritz]

Originally Posted by Mals Marola

no i was being sarcastic with the last thing. as i said before, that list is my personal ranking, but as with all my rankings i like to think there's at least a bit of objectivity involved. Brotherhood to me, aside from Substance, is the perfect introduction to New Order, especially for someone who was already into Joy Division. That first half is them in "rock band" mode which is a pretty good transition off the JD stuff, but then from Bizarre Love Triangle onward it's the stuff that truly set them apart

Movement to me, on the other hand, is just a "lite" version of Closer. Not horrible or anything, but it has none of the charm or character that really made N.O. their own band, and the best stuff from that time was the singles (Ceremony, Temptation, Everything's Gone Green) imo

Agree that their early singles/ EGG EP is better than Movement. In fact I think that it the best stuff that they ever did. I just think that Brotherhood sounds like cocaine music. Way to frantic to be that enjoyable. I think their best rock stuff is the early post-punk music and maybe Get Ready.

[NovaFritz]

Originally Posted by Mals Marola

i guess it's also worth noting that I got into N.O. almost at random via the Siren's Call album when I was like 14, before I ever knew who JD were, so I have more of a proclivity for the actual New Order sound vs. just the band that followed up JD as some seem to see them as. I went into them with completely different mindsets and had no expectations for one over the other, only finding out about the connection later on

i certainly see them as separate bands, even the early NO stuff is way more experimental with synths than JD ever were. that being said, i still think that movement is underrated. it has some good songs, yet it meanders and feels monotone. But how could anyone deny Dreams Never End? that song is better than most of their catalog, in my opinion, and sounds very little like JD

also, I am a big Technique fan, that album has a good balance and pace

[Mals Marola]

Originally Posted by NovaFritz

Agree that their early singles/ EGG EP is better than Movement. In fact I think that it the best stuff that they ever did. I just think that Brotherhood sounds like cocaine music. Way to frantic to be that enjoyable. I think their best rock stuff is the early post-punk music and maybe Get Ready.

some of it is frantic to the point of almost sounding like it's going to fall apart, but it never does so to me it just comes off as exciting. "Weirdo" is a perfect example, and that's one of my favorite N.O. songs

[Mals Marola]

also I feel like Bernard got better as a singer between Low-Life and that one, so it has that going for it as well without losing the edge or not-completely-refined nature of their sound

[Raskolnikov]

Loved this, classic Robert Smith action here: