why did it take me so long to listen to the cure

[Elphenor]

It's great

Plastic Passion
Do the Hansa
The Upstairs Room
Speak My Language
Fear of Ghosts

[Dogfighter28]

and Bloodflowers sucks, really? I completely disagree. It's easily in my top 5 cure albums.

[Dogfighter28]

I mean I guess I understand if you don't like their slow jams but what

[The exploding boy]

Best cure b-side is 2 Late.

That it DIDN'T make it on Disintegration is criminal. Well, surely something about pace or whatever but still. It wouldn't have been more out of place than say, Lovesong.

I remember in like 2000 i spent weeks trying napster and other file sharing programs to find all the cure rarities and bsides i could and it took me a long time to assemble a pretty impressive folder full of them. And THEN a few years later The Cure conveniently releases most of this shit on record.... It kinda annoyed me. Though there's probably 80's cure fans who would read this and think fuck you i actually had to go to independent record stores or exchange bootlegs through the mail to get those. Still though, i've got stuff they never released.

[Elphenor]

Bloodflowers is pretty boring

Edit: At least in my opinion

[Dogfighter28]

Can we at least all agree that Wild Mood Swings is pretty much the worst thing ever

I think the Teargarden songs might be the only thing that sinks lower

[Elphenor]

Yeah Wild Mood Swings does indeed suck

[Dogfighter28]

Ok here's my top 5

1. Pornography
2. Disintegration
3. Faith
4. The Head on the Door
5. Bloodflowers

I lied, it wasn't easy. I could just as easily list Seventeen Seconds there. Wish would be just behind that one.

[slunken]

Originally Posted by Dogfighter28

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...oinTheDots.jpg


Favorite b-sides?

sugar girl

[null123]

The Kiss is a banger

[The exploding boy]

My ranking would be like

1 - Disintegration
2 - 17 seconds
3 - The head on the door
4 - KMKMKM (despite finding nearly half of it nearly unlistenable, I just pretend its a ten songs record)
5 - Faith
6 - Pornography
7 - Wish
8 - Three imaginary boys
9 - The top
10 - WMS
11 - Bloodflowers
12 and on- whatever other bullshit they released after that


Pretty much after Three imaginary boys it doesn't matter that much to me. Even if the top has its moment. Also depending on the days i mght rate wish lower or even maybe higher. It IS the record that got me into The Cure so... It was still their last good record. Not great but good. But some songs on it havent aged well for me.

I don't care how GAY it is but i like the 13th on WMS. And at the time i thought Mint car was alright if also a little bit too GAY.

Originally Posted by slunken

sugar girl

I don't suppose you'll ever know the how to keep her, amirite?

[slunken]

i was trying to think of my cure album purchase chronology and i think it's something like:

bloodflowers when it comes out
disintegration
kiss me x3 on vinyl a few year later used
boys don't cry
head on the door
japanese whispers
the vhs singles thing
join the dots

by that time i was purchasing the deluxe reissues of the first 3 or 4 albums so like whenever the reissue of 17 seconds came out that was the first time i heard that album. as an example.

[toase]

so much love for japanese whispers

[slunken]

my favorite cure material is still that speed-pop sound.

it's timeless.

[slunken]

[Dogfighter28]

The Walk is my jam

[Elphenor]

God Tier

1. 17 Seconds
2. Disintegration

A+

3. Faith
4. Pornography
5. KMKMKM
6. Head on the Door

A

7. Three Imaginary Boys
8. The Top
9. Wish

B

10. 4:13 Dream

Ranking just the albums that matter

[Elphenor]

Words can't express my love for the songs that go all Jazzy though ie Lovecats and Speak my Language

[Mals Marola]

17 seconds is so overrated

faith & pornography both trump it easily, i mean the forest and assorted other tracks are cool but come on

i got join the dots as a christmas present in high school & obv that was one of the coolest christmas presents i ever got, still don't think i've made it through the whole thing though but damn what a cool release. some beautiful stuff on there, in retrospect this one in particular stuck out to me for whatever reason, without having the tracklisting or anything in front of me

[Dogfighter28]

At Night is so underrated tho

[Elphenor]

Originally Posted by Mals Marola

17 seconds is so overrated

faith & pornography both trump it easily, i mean the forest and assorted other tracks are cool but come on

No no no

If the only album The Cure ever released was 17 Seconds they'd still be one of the greatest bands ever

[Mals Marola]

i know people could say this for all the albums but that is one to me that sounds truly, truly better live than on the record

actually i kinda wanna compile or maybe find a show where they played the whole thing (i.e. pornography, disintegration, bloodflowers? was that done for 17 seconds ever? i feel like it was but that coulda been a dream) and just listen to that when i'm hankerin' for the 17 sec

[The exploding boy]

I think al songs on seventeen secons are good. Well except maybe the final sound which actually was supposed to be much longer but they ran out of tape...


I do find Pornography a bit overrated and the thing is, all the songs on it are so much better live, to an extent that it makes it harder for me to enjoy the record versions. Like one hundred years and the figurehead are so much better on Paris. It's a shame Charlotte Sometimes isn't on it (also a song that is loads better live). This is probably my favorite early 80's cure song. At least in all those released between 79 to 85. Faith is better than Pornograhy I feel.

[Elphenor]

It's not only the greatest Goth album of all time, but it manages to also be the greatest New Wave album of all time as well. It's the perfect blend

Edit: talking about 17 seconds

[Mals Marola]

Originally Posted by Elphenor

No no no

If the only album The Cure ever released was 17 Seconds they'd still be one of the greatest bands ever

yeah not really, it's a notable reaction to joy division at best with some cool singles

faith was better and pornography just set it all in stone, they were their own thing

Originally Posted by Elphenor

It's not only the greatest Goth album of all time, but it manages to also be the greatest New Wave album of all time as well. It's the perfect blend

Edit: talking about 17 seconds

it's just always sounded kinda limp and transitional to me, a preparation for the greatness to come

[The exploding boy]

Originally Posted by Mals Marola

i know people could say this for all the albums but that is one to me that sounds truly, truly better live than on the recordc

Ah. yeah see that's the problem i have with pornography as i just said.

And yes 17 seconds was played live in its entirety. They ended up doing this for all their records i think?

[Mals Marola]

i think there was an "alternate trilogy" thing where they did seventeen, faith, and pornography or something, after the original p, d, & bf thing they did

[Elphenor]

It's great live too

Play for Today is the greatest song Smith ever wrote

[Mals Marola]

in short: gotta find one of the better boots of that thing asap

[Mals Marola]

Originally Posted by Elphenor

Play for Today is the greatest song Smith ever wrote

it's a cool song but cot-damn if that ain't an insult to the guy's career