The Cure

[Jorge]

Um, maybe something like this?:

Plainsong
Snow in Summer
A Letter to Elise
Disintegration
To Wish Impossible Things
One Hundred Years
The Caterpillar
Just One Kiss
Cut Here
Strange Attraction (yes, really!)

[Lament]

Strange Attraction (yes, really!)

You've been smoking poetry again, haven't you?

[Birds in Hell]

Strange Attraction (yes, really!)

There's some absolutely great material on Wild Mood Swings and its b-sides though the album itself was admittedly a huge step down from Wish.

I'm a hell of a lot fonder of WMS than I am of Bloodflowers.

[Jorge]

Maybe top 10 is a little too much. I just really like that song a lot, it makes me smile.

[Lament]

I'm a hell of a lot fonder of WMS than I am of Bloodflowers.

Same here. Want, Jupiter Crash and Treasure are all better than anything on Bloodflowers to me. Maybe even Numb and This is a Lie too. And I've always had an irrational soft spot for Club America.

[Jorge]

I know it's played out as hell, but I still think "Close to Me" is an amazing song.

[Lament]

Either Close to Me or Inbetween Days would probably be my favorite of their radio hits.

[nyquillyn]

Either Close to Me or Inbetween Days would probably be my favorite of their radio hits.

Radio hits? I believe Just Like Heaven was their first Top 40 single in the U.S.

[Lament]

Alternative radio hits. Or "staples" I guess would be a better word. Growing up in the 90s the local alternative station still played Let's Go to Bed, The Lovecats, The Caterpillar, Inbetween Days, Close to Me, A Night Like This, Just Like Heaven, Lovesong, Fascination Street, Lullabye, and Friday I'm in Love pretty regularly well into the late 90s.

[nyquillyn]

Well, I grew up in the '80s. At the end of 85 they started to get noticed. I think 120 minutes played the videos for Close to Me and In Between Days. Then by the end of 86, everybody had Standing on a Beach. When Kiss Me came out in 87, they were huge. It was a ballsy move for them to come out with a sprawling double album at that time. I can't imagine their record label was happy. Although it was a single cassette in the U.S.

[tattooedeverything]

My top 10:

Prayers For Rain
One Hundred Years
The Figurehead
It Used To Be Me
Burn
Out of This World
Pictures Of You
A Letter To Elise
In Your House
From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea

[Iholdthepain]

Again, RM-land surprises me. This must be the Les Claypool of Cure albums 'round here, and it's definitely my #1:
...

However, my first Cure albums were found in the Best Buy bin, packaged together:



The great thing about these two together... All different songs, live, and a great baseline for knowing the music... then I got to go find the studio versions. Of those, my other favorite two studio albums are:



I guess I'm more into the moody side of The Cure. WMS was... interesting, and the old stuff just makes me uncomfortable because it makes me want to dance, but I HATE to dance!

Robert Smith is one of the very few musicians, though, that can do no wrong in my mind. Thanks for listening.

[Jorge]

I think Bloodflowers failed because Robert tried way too hard to capture that "moody side" of the band, coming across instead as contrived and inauthentic. When they did that Trilogy DVD and they played those songs after playing the whole of Pornography and Disintegration, it really showed how flimsy they are. I mean, fucking "Maybe Someday" is just the worst. There are a couple of nice songs, though-- "The Last Day of Summer" and "Out Of This World" are pretty, if skin-deep.

[Iholdthepain]

I saw Bloodflowers live in 2000, and loved it. Hated that they did like 8 encores afterwards, though.

From the onset, Robert wanted to finish a 'trilogy' of similarly-themed music with BF, and I thought it worked... Trilogy was once my Cure wet dream, but that was back in my daze of LSD and X, so I my be a bit jaded. Still,

[Birds in Hell]

I think Bloodflowers failed because Robert tried way too hard to capture that "moody side" of the band, coming across instead as contrived and inauthentic. When they did that Trilogy DVD and they played those songs after playing the whole of Pornography and Disintegration, it really showed how flimsy they are.

Very much agreed.

[Birds in Hell]

[resonance of distance]

I had the "Freakshow" CD single in the car today, I enjoy the b-side "All Kinds of Stuff" I love the Staring at the Sea compalation of coure, show is nice, as is Pornography in a sad sorta way, and Kiss Me is one of thier biggest records (I have the CD version with one track omitted so it all fits one disc).

So I like them just fine, and enjoyed when they used to come on WHFS.

[Birds in Hell]

FUCK ROBERT PALMER!
FUCK ROCK N ROLL!

[BigRedLedbetter]

I missed out on a chance to see the Cure in KC and Denver/Red Rocks in 2008. Kicking myself for that. Stupid adult priorities.

[Iholdthepain]

I missed out on a chance to see the Cure in KC and Denver/Red Rocks in 2008. Kicking myself for that. Stupid adult priorities.

Robert Smith is one of my apostles of music. He still has it in his old age. We saw them at Voodoo last year.