THE CURE - RM votes for Plainsong!

[Birds in Hell]

I have very little idea what I'm doing, some patience may be required at times.

Because of how many songs this will involve, I'm proposing a "super bracket" (? I have no idea) for the first few rounds where four songs compete with only one song progressing further - let me know if you think that's a terrible idea.

The scope of the tournament is the Cure's core single and album output from 1978 through 1997 (b-sides excluded for the sake of keeping this manageable):

THREE IMAGINARY BOYS (1979)
10:15 Saturday Night
Accuracy
Grinding Halt
Another Day
Object
Subway Song
Foxy Lady
Meathook
So What?
Fire In Cairo
It's Not You
Three Imaginary Boys

SEVENTEEN SECONDS (1980)
A Reflection
Play For Today
Secrets
In Your House
Three
The Final Sound
A Forest
M
At Night
Seventeen Seconds

FAITH (1981)
The Holy Hour
Primary
Other Voices
All Cats Are Grey
The Funeral Party
Doubt
The Drowning Man
Faith

PORNOGRAPHY (1982)
One Hundred Years
A Short Term Effect
The Hanging Garden
Siamese Twins
The Figurehead
A Strange Day
Cold
Pornography

JAPANESE WHISPERS (1983)
Let's Go to Bed
The Dream
Just One Kiss
The Upstairs Room
The Walk
Speak My Language
Lament
The Love Cats

THE TOP (1984)
Shake Dog Shake
Bird Mad Girl
Wailing Wall
Give Me It
Dressing Up
The Caterpillar
Piggy in the Mirror
The Empty World
Bananafishbones
The Top

THE HEAD ON THE DOOR (1985)
In Between Days
Kyoto Song
The Blood
Six Different Ways
Push
The Baby Screams
Close To Me
A Night Like This
Screw
Sinking

KISS ME KISS ME KISS ME (1987)
The Kiss
Catch
Torture
If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
Why Can't I Be You?
How Beautiful You Are...
The Snakepit
Hey You!!!
Just Like Heaven
All I Want
Hot Hot Hot!!!
One More Time
Like Cockatoos
Icing Sugar
The Perfect Girl
A Thousand Hours
Shiver and Shake
Fight

DISINTEGRATION (1989)
Plainsong
Pictures of You
Closedown
Love Song
Last Dance
Lullaby
Fascination Street
Prayers for Rain
The Same Deep Water as You
Disintegration
Homesick
Untitled

WISH (1992)
Open
High
Apart
From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
Wendy Time
Doing the Unstuck
Friday I'm in Love
Trust
A Letter to Elise
Cut
To Wish Impossible Things
End

WILD MOOD SWINGS (1996)
Want
Club America
This is a Lie
The 13th
Strange Attraction
Mint Car
Jupiter Crash
Round & Round & Round
Gone!
Numb
Return
Trap
Treasure
Bare

NON-LP SINGLES
Killing An Arab (1978)
Boys Don't Cry (1979, 1986)
Jumping Someone Else's Train (1979)
Charlotte Sometimes (1981)
Never Enough (1990)
Wrong Number (1997)

[wease]

This is going to be interesting. I couldn’t tell you if I’ve EVER heard one of these songs. This’ll be as objective as it gets.

[Anders]

This is going to be interesting. I couldn’t tell you if I’ve EVER heard one of these songs. This’ll be as objective as it gets.

Friday I'm In Love?

[Birds in Hell]

Just highlighting this for people's thoughts:

Because of how many songs this will involve, I'm proposing a "super bracket" (? I have no idea) for the first few rounds where four songs compete with only one song progressing further - let me know if you think that's a terrible idea.

Open to any other suggestions, ideas, etc. too.

[epilogue]

Just highlighting this for people's thoughts:

Because of how many songs this will involve, I'm proposing a "super bracket" (? I have no idea) for the first few rounds where four songs compete with only one song progressing further - let me know if you think that's a terrible idea.

Open to any other suggestions, ideas, etc. too.

I think you should do whatever makes it easiest on you as the event organizer. I'm down with a long, head-to-head tournament. But I know that's daunting for you and for the general attention span of RM. So, I think you're "super bracket" idea makes a lot of sense.

You should reach out to Stip and see if he has any suggestions since he's run so many of these.

[Birds in Hell]

Just highlighting this for people's thoughts:

Because of how many songs this will involve, I'm proposing a "super bracket" (? I have no idea) for the first few rounds where four songs compete with only one song progressing further - let me know if you think that's a terrible idea.

Open to any other suggestions, ideas, etc. too.

I think you should do whatever makes it easiest on you as the event organizer. I'm down with a long, head-to-head tournament. But I know that's daunting for you and for the general attention span of RM. So, I think you're "super bracket" idea makes a lot of sense.

You should reach out to Stip and see if he has any suggestions since he's run so many of these.

Yeah, my main concern is trying to keep things moving at a reasonable pace lest it become a boring slog for everyone who isn't a Cure superfan.

[epilogue]

Just highlighting this for people's thoughts:

Because of how many songs this will involve, I'm proposing a "super bracket" (? I have no idea) for the first few rounds where four songs compete with only one song progressing further - let me know if you think that's a terrible idea.

Open to any other suggestions, ideas, etc. too.

I think you should do whatever makes it easiest on you as the event organizer. I'm down with a long, head-to-head tournament. But I know that's daunting for you and for the general attention span of RM. So, I think you're "super bracket" idea makes a lot of sense.

You should reach out to Stip and see if he has any suggestions since he's run so many of these.

Yeah, my main concern is trying to keep things moving at a reasonable pace lest it become a boring slog for everyone who isn't a Cure superfan.

Totally legit concern.

I think your super bracket is a good call, then.

[chewm]

I support the super-bracket idea.

I'll try to make my way through most of these albums quickly. I've always really digged these guys but I'm actually unfamiliar with most of their catalog

[epilogue]

I literally know 2 Cure songs off the top of my head. This tournament is gonna be fun for me because I really want an excuse to get to know their work and to hear how others experience the band.

[chewm]

Why isn't Boys Don't Cry in this?

[Birds in Hell]

Why isn't Boys Don't Cry in this?

Oh no! That's an oversight, it should be in the non-album singles list. This may require some adjustment.

[Birds in Hell]

I think your super bracket is a good call, then.

I support the super-bracket idea.

It's morning here now, I'll try to get this going later tonight.

You should start the tournament at 10.15 Saturday night

Probably won't be far off.

[Anders]

Top The Cure songs on Spotify:
1. Friday I'm In Love
2. Boys Don't Cry
3. Close To Me
4. Just Like Heaven
5. Lovesong

[wease]

This is going to be interesting. I couldn’t tell you if I’ve EVER heard one of these songs. This’ll be as objective as it gets.

Friday I'm In Love?

Just looked it up on YouTube. Never heard it before

[Anders]

This is going to be interesting. I couldn’t tell you if I’ve EVER heard one of these songs. This’ll be as objective as it gets.

Friday I'm In Love?

Just looked it up on YouTube. Never heard it before

Wow. I haven't been able to escape it, probably heard it hundreds of times, without putting it on myself. Good song though.

[wease]

Top The Cure songs on Spotify:
1. Friday I'm In Love
2. Boys Don't Cry
3. Close To Me
4. Just Like Heaven
5. Lovesong

Of these, the only one I’ve heard before is Just Like Heaven.

[96583UP]

can we first get clarity on why the hair is the way it is

[evenslow]

Psyched!

I'm just gonna be a dick and say if "In Between Days" doesn't win this whole thing is invalidated.

[Jorge]

"In Between Days" is a solid but mid-tier Cure song

[Jorge]

can we first get clarity on why the hair is the way it is

Depression