Any fans here? I only own the albums that were released between 1987 and 2000, but I've heard mostly the other albums too. But it's kind of sad that they don't make much music as they used to do. It seems like they take four years to release a record.
Discuss.
I'm not a big fan, but I've grown into liking them somewhat
Burn is my favorite
im a fan and has been for quite some years now. they are not allways good but bloodflowers was quite a worthy finish for them i think. the best are pornography, the head on the door, kiss me and maybe faith.
My favorites are that epic triptych of Pornography, Disintegration, and Bloodflowers. I love the rest, too. But those appeal to the depressed, angst filled romantic in me more than anything else.
Listening to certain records at certain times in your life endears them to you in a certain way. My CD towers are stacks and stacks of memories; The Cure fills up a lot of the bittersweet ones.
ima fan, i like pornography best. faith and boys dont cry (or 3 imaginary boys) are also good
Quote from: GhostboyDisintegration
shit, i cant believe i forgot to mention disintegration, it's by far my favorite. second thoughts about kiss me, kiss me, kiss me is that it shouldnt be mentioned among my faves, the overall quality is just not that good. but the song just like heaven stands out as one of their best ever i think.
My favorite Cure album:
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i actually really like the acoustic disc on the greatest hits. Alot of the songs sound better acoustic. Maybe it's just me
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I LOVED The Cure as a teen. I'm not nearly so devoted now, but I still have major soft spots for:
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I wouldn't consider myself a fan. But I love Disintegration and Kiss me Kiss me Kiss me
Really like The Cure.
Really wish he would lose the makeup.
Strange, I was going to start a thread about them !
Love Disentegration, Boys don't Cry (Killin' an Arab is about The Stranger, so that's nice), and pretty much everything else.
Love their style, too
close to me
boys dont cry
just like heaven
the sad thing about the cure is their image over shadoed the fact that they wrote such fucking great songs, with super melodys
people who dont know the band that much think all their songs sound like " love song" all sad and depressed and gloomy
but no way their melodys were so fucking catchy they were bubblegum at its best
i just put on the walk album, love their early days
heh, i totally forgot about this one:
released on the 27th of january...
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Disc: 1
1. 10:15 Saturday Night
2. Plastic Passion
3. Pillbox Tales
4. Do the Hansa
5. I'm Cold
6. Another Journey by Train
7. DeScent
8. Splintered in Her Head
9. Lament (Flexipop Version)
10. Just One Kiss
11. The Dream
12. The Upstairs Room
13. Lament
14. Speak My Language
15. Mr Pink Eyes
16. Happy the Man
17. Throw Your Foot
18. New Day
19. The Exploding Boy
20. A Few Hours After This...
21. A Man Inside My Mouth
22. Stop Dead
Disc: 2
1. A Japanese Dream
2. Breathe
3. A Chain of Flowers
4. Snow in Summer
5. Sugar Girl
6. Icing Sugar (Weird Remix)
7. Hey You!!! (Kevorkian 12" Remix)
8. How Beautiful You Are (Clearmountain 7" Remix)
9. To the Sky
10. Babble
11. Out of Mind
12. 2 Late
13. Fear of Ghosts
14. Hello I Love You (Psychedelic Version)
15. Hello I Love You
16. Hello I Love You (10sec Version)
17. Harold and Joe
18. Just Like Heaven ('Chuck' Remix)
Disc: 3
1. This Twilight Garden :yabbse-thumbup:
2. Play
3. Halo
4. Scared as You
5. The Big Hand
6. A Foolish Arrangement
7. Doing the Unstuck (Saunders 12" Remix)
8. Purple Haze (Virgin Radio Version)
9. Purple Haze
10. Burn
11. Young Americans
12. Dredd Song
13. It Used to Be ME
14. Ocean
15. Adonais
Disc: 4
1. Home
2. Waiting
3. A Pink Dream
4. This Is a Lie (Palmer Remix)
5. Wrong Number (Smith Remix)
6. More Than This
7. World in My Eyes
8. Possession
9. Out of This World (Oakenfold Remix)
10. Maybe Someday (Hedges Remix)
11. Coming Up
12. Signal to Noise (Acoustic Version)
13. Signal to Noise
14. Just Say Yes (Curve Remix)
15. A Forest (Plati/Slick Version)
allmusic.com review (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDSUB040401190927402311&sql=A3m1tk6axtkrd)
They've been showing a fairly recent Cure in Berlin concert lately on the INHD channel, if anyone happens to have it.
Quote from: Pas RapportBoys don't Cry (Killin' an Arab is about The Stranger, so that's nice), and pretty much everything else.
I think "Boys don't cry" takes the price i know it's a mix of the first 2 albums but that's also in my opinion the thing about it.
I haven't seen the stranger (if it's a movie), but will try to find it if i can here in denmark, the land whit the little market.
Apart from that i wonder ? what was the point in taken the track "boys don't cry" an get another band to play it in "boys don't cry" the movie. An then not even putting it on the soundtrack !!!
I would assume he meant The Stranger, by Camus...although I wasn't aware the song was based on anything, either, so I may be wrong.
Quote from: GhostboyI would assume he meant The Stranger, by Camus...although I wasn't aware the song was based on anything, either, so I may be wrong.
Thanks for the tip, if it's the one !!!
I have just heared that when the cure released the song they where charged with the charge of being racists. But the case was dropped because the cure claimed it was based on a book, an the judge believed them.
But what about Orson Welles "the stranger" thats something with both nazi and a murder, mayby thats the one ?
Quote from: GhostboyI would assume he meant The Stranger, by Camus...although I wasn't aware the song was based on anything, either, so I may be wrong.
Yes, it is based on The Stranger by Albert Camus. Just look at the lyrics and you'll see it's quite obvious. If you didn't read this book, then do it because it is pure genius. I believe it would be the piece of art that influenced me the most, in quite subtle ways.
NEW CURE!
THE CURE will release their new album in June.
The currently untitled album has been scheduled for release on June 21. The album will be the band's first since the release of 2000's 'Bloodflowers'.
As previously reported on NME.COM, the band are working with At The Drive-In and Korn producer Ross Robinson.
The album will come out on Robinson's own I Am label (my note: distributed by interscope records).
THE CURE GET THE BALANCE RIGHT!
THE CURE's debuted their first album in four years last night (April 29) in NEW YORK and revealed that it will simply be called 'THE CURE'.
The band will also be performing the first single to be lifted from the LP, 'The End Of The World' tonight (April 30) on NBC's The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and are set to headline Californian festival Coachella on Sunday (May 2).
At the playback, singer Robert Smith said: "I think it's the best thing we've ever done."
He added: "There was a moment where we had to decide whether to do some conceptual experiment with nothing over 100 [beats-per-minute], and all of us with our heads down making a heavy, heavy album, but it wouldn't be as good. The best Cure albums have a balance."
According to Billboard, former guitarist Porl Thompson recorded parts for a couple of the tracks on 'The Cure', despite leaving the group in 1993.
Producer Ross Robinson - more well known for his work with Limp Bizkit, Slipknot and At The Drive-In - wanted the band to record the basic tracks live, echoing the approach The Cure took in their early days.
Smith explained: "Ross wanted to record us as a band, which we really hadn't done since the second album we ever made. The days would build up into these intense periods until we'd get the song. Everything was played live and I had to sing live."
'The Cure' is set to be released on June 29 in the US through Robinson's I Am imprint via Geffen.
Speaking about a summer tour, Smith said: "You'll enjoy the whole thing because it was put together by us."
The working tracklisting for 'The Cure' is:
'Lost'
'Labyrinths' (working title)
'Before 3' (working title)
'Truth Goodness and Beauty'
'The End of the World'
'I Don't Know What's Going On'
'Taking Off'
'Anniversary'
'This Morning'
'Us or Them'
'Precious Advise' (working title)
'Jason #3' (working title)
'The Promise'
'Going Nowhere'
I'm in passionate love with Bloodflowers, so I was kinda hoping they'd continue with that route, but at any rate... excited for this new one!!
Quote from: mogwaiheh, i totally forgot about this one:
(//boxset)
I lucked out and found a prestine used copy a while back. So good to have all the b-sides and rarites in a compliation. I've always been a fan of Mr. Pink Eyes, A Man Inside My Mouth (I still have them both on vinyl) and Harold & Joe.
Quote from: SoNowThenI'm in passionate love with Bloodflowers
Me too. That's one album I never get tired of -- although I love that whole triptych of albums that it completes, I think it is by far my favorite work of theirs. Maybe Someday makes me want to cry just thinking about it.
i had Friday I'm in Love in my head all last week.
I know that song doesn't represent them in any way, but i wanted to get a CD with that on it and check out some of their other stuff. i saw there is a single collection called Gallore and then a Greatest Hits that was released in 2001. which would you recommend? basically the difference amouts to 8 songs:
which 8 Cure songs would you rather have?
A----------------------------B-------------
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Catch-----------------------Boys Don't Cry
HOt!Hot!Hot!---------------A Forest
Fascination St.-------------Let's Go to Bed
Pictures of You-------------Walk
A Letter to Elise------------Lovecats
13th-------------------------In Between Days
Strange Attraction---------Cut Here
Gone------------------------Just Say Yes
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if you have some cash left, buy this one as well:
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Quote from: bigideasi had Friday I'm in Love in my head all last week.
I know that song doesn't represent them in any way, but i wanted to get a CD with that on it and check out some of their other stuff. i saw there is a single collection called Gallore and then a Greatest Hits that was released in 2001. which would you recommend? basically the difference amouts to 8 songs:
which 8 Cure songs would you rather have?
A----------------------------B-------------
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Catch-----------------------Boys Don't Cry
HOt!Hot!Hot!---------------A Forest
Fascination St.-------------Let's Go to Bed
Pictures of You-------------Walk
A Letter to Elise------------Lovecats
13th-------------------------In Between Days
Strange Attraction---------Cut Here
Gone------------------------Just Say Yes
I would rather have:
C-------------------------------
"Why Can't I Be You"
"Love Song"
"Inbetween Days"
"Just Like Heaven"
"Untitled"
"Lullaby"
"Fascination Street"
"All I Want"
The new album is something I might be interested in giving a listen to if a chance comes my way, but I'm certainly not raring for it in feverish anticipation the way I am with the new Morrissey; I won't be rushing out to buy five copies on its day of release. Such an odd coincidence that both found unlikely, up-to-the-minute American producers for their new records...
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But make sure you get the limited 2 disc edition. Disc one are the released singles. Disc two are the same songs, but done acoustically:
1. Boys Don't Cry
2. A Forest
3. Let's Go To Bed
4. The Walk
5. The Lovecats
6. Inbetween Days
7. Close To Me
8. Why Can't I Be You?
9. Just Like Heaven
10. Lullaby
11. Lovesong
12. Never Enough
13. High
14. Friday I'm In Love
15. Mint Car
16. Wrong Number
17. Cut Here
18. Just Say Yes
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C-------------------------------
"Why Can't I Be You"
"Love Song"
"Inbetween Days"
"Just Like Heaven"
"Untitled"
"Lullaby"
"Fascination Street"
"All I Want"
Awesome list ! I would just replace Why Can't I be You with The Catch, I just love that song.
hey poopsies!!
the two lists were the difference between Galore and Greatest Hits.
they share the other 10 songs.
that's why i listed it that way.
so A or B?
Quote from: bigideashey poopsies!!
the two lists were the difference between Galore and Greatest Hits.
they share the other 10 songs.
that's why i listed it that way.
so A or B?
I'd go with choice "B."
i would just like to say that inbetween days is one of the best pop songs ever written
that is all for now
THE DARK STUFF!
THE CURE are to launch the CURIOSA festival with support from INTERPOL and THE RAPTURE.
The band will also be joined on the 16-date travelling bash, which kicks off in LA, by Mogwai, Cursive, Head Automatica, Thursday, Muse, The Cooper Temple Clause and Auf der Maur.
The Cure will play material from their forthcoming self-titled album, which will be released on June 29. The tour will give many fans to hear the new material, including first single 'The End of the World', which the band played at the Coachella Festival earlier in the month.
According to posting on the band official website, more dates for the touring festival will be announced shortly.
Confirmed tour dates are:
West Palm Beach (July 24)
Tampa (25)
Nashville (28
New York (31)
Camden (August 1)
Cincinnati (3)
Cleveland (4)
Boston (7)
Detroit (11)
Chicago (12)
Dallas (14)
Houston (15)
Denver (17)
Salt Lake City (18
Los Angeles (27)
I heard the single from the new album, and I was surprised at how it absolutely failed to excite me. Maybe I need to hear it again. It sounded unmistakably like The Cure, to a fault -- there was no surprise, none of the hooks that made me love every song on Bloodflowers. I heard their show at Coachella was pretty bad, too...should they have stopped while they were ahead?
I guess I should wait and hear the whole album.
they should've stopped after the "wish" album and that's what they originally planned to. "wild mood swings" was a major let down and "bloodflowers" lacked substance.
There are more dates posted, including Toronto, which I will be attending. Yay. (http://www.thecure.com/news.html)
after much deliberation over which compilation to get, i just decided to go to Best Buy and get the first i saw of the two.
it was the Greatest Hits.
i'm glad i did get this one because it has 3 songs from the Japanese Whispers album(sort of) and those are my favorite......and they are not on Gallore.
does anyone have the complete Japanese Whispers album?
I won two tickets to The Cure, Sept. 4
QuoteI heard their show at Coachella was pretty bad, too...
Mexican fanbase of The Cure is
INMENSE, so big that they had to add two more concerts. We'll see.
I saw The Cure yesterday at the most remote corner of the mexican Sports Palace. This place has a reputation of having terrible acoustic and is known also as the Bouncing Palace. Still, it was good. They didn't play some personal favorites ('The Caterpilar' , 'Friday I'm In Love' ) but the fans seemed very very happy. It was one of those concerts where you regret not knowing the band's entire catalogue.
They didn't do that 'saying-goodbye-then-returning' routine, which pissed people a bit. It lasted around 2:30 hours.
the cure have changed their line-up.
two members of the band have left, bringing a decade old line-up to an end.
guitarist perry bamonte and keyboard player roger o'donnell are no longer with the group, leaving singer robert smith, bassist simon gallup and drummer jason cooper.
a statement on the band's official website thecure.com said: "perry bamonte and roger o'donnell are no longer in the band. the forthcoming summer shows will be performed by robert smith, simon gallup and jason cooper... and others???"
the band's first gig with their new line up will be at this year's benicassim festival in spain (august 5).
o'donnell wrote a statement on his website rogerodonnell.com saying: "what is done is done however it happened. i was in a group and now i'm not ... thanks to everyone who has emailed me, i will reply to you all and i wish the cure all the success they deserve."
a revolving door of musicians have backed smith over the band's 26 year career.
o'donnell first played with the cure between and 1987 and 1990 before being replaced with bamonte - a roadie for the group.
following the departure of porl thompson in 1993, bamonte switched to lead guitar and 'o'donnell returned to the band in 1995.
the cure have recruited their old guitarist to re-join the band's line-up.
earlier this year it was announced that two members of the band have left, bringing a decade old line-up to an end.
guitarist perry bamonte and keyboard player roger o'donnell are no longer with the group, leaving singer robert smith, bassist simon gallup and drummer jason cooper.
now, the group have revealed that porl thompson, who has played with the band on two occasions before, will be back for their summer tour.
a statement on the band's official website reads: "we are delighted to announce the return of guitarist porl thompson for the cure shows this summer! this will be porl's third time in the band - he first played from 1976 to 1978, and then again from 1983 to 1993 and it's a real pleasure to have him back once more!"
the band's first gig with their new line up will be at this year's benicassim festival in spain (august 5).
The Cure to hit studio in January
TORONTO (Billboard) - The Cure plans to hit the studio in January to record its next album, according to a post from frontman Robert Smith on the group's Web site (http://www.thecure.com).
"We are still on course for a summer release, as it's all in the preparation," he said.
The-as-yet-untitled effort will be the Cure's first since keyboardist Roger O'Donnell and guitarist Perry Bamonte left the band earlier this year (former guitarist Porl Thompson has since rejoined). It will be the follow-up to 2004's "The Cure," which has sold 317,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Smith also said that he is close to completing the next phase of the band's expanded reissue series, which will include 1984's "The Top," 1985's "The Head on the Door" and 1987's "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, as well as "The Blue Sunshine," a 1983 album Smith and Steve Severin, the guitarist with Siouxsie and the Banshees, created under the name the Glove. The sets should be out by next spring.
In addition, Smith is assembling a live DVD from the Cure's summer performances and "writing some film music," according to his message.
WTF?!? :yabbse-huh:
Now that she's finished her "Chicago" run in London, Ashlee Simpson is going back to making music. When MTV News caught up with her on Tuesday, just before the musical's celeb-packed 10th anniversary performance on Broadway in New York, the singer revealed she has a big meeting with record executives next week to discuss her third album. "I'm going to go back and figure out what I'm going to do and start writing," she said. "I love musical theater, but it's different than the music I want to do on the album." As for what direction she'd like to take, that's still up in the air, but she does have one name on her wish list of possible collaborators. "Robert Smith from the Cure came to my last show in London, and I don't know if I was more excited about him or that it was the last show! To work with Robert Smith would be an honor."
The Cure seeing double on 13th studio album
Would one expect anything less than a double album from the Cure on the occasion of its 13th studio release?
"Rather than cut it down, at the stage we're at with the band, I'm making this record because I want to enjoy the process and be proud of the finished result," frontman Robert Smith told Billboard of the as-yet-untitled effort, due in October via Suretone/Geffen. "It isn't a commercial concern for me."
"What will probably happen is that a double album will come out like a limited edition, mixed by me," he said. "A single-disc version, which I assume will be primarily chosen by the label, might get mixed by someone else in order to have a different thing. There's a concern Cure fans will feel like they have to get both, but the fact is, I've agreed to sell the double version at a single-album price, because I feel that strongly about it. It is almost impossible to get a double album nowadays. I naively thought my standing as an artist would push aside all objections, but the world gets ever more commercial as it turns."
Tracks due to make the cut include "Lusting Here in Your Mind" ("It sounds suspiciously like heavy rock to me," Smith said), "The Hungry Ghost," "The Perfect Boy," "Christmas Without You" ("That's not a very happy song," he said) and "Please Come Home."
"There are songs about relationships, the material world, politics and religion. They're very upfront and dynamic," Smith said of the new songs. "People will be surprised how stripped-down and in-your-face the record is."
Smith also trolled through his massive catalog of demos and found three pieces dating back to the '80s that the band has revamped. "They've changed quite a lot, but the basic melody and chord structure has remained," he said. "They do have a certain old Cure-ness about them."
As usual, Smith slaved over the lyrics, contributing to a delay in completing the project. "I've gone through so many revisions, probably more than all of the other records put together," he said. "I just wanted to get the tone right to reflect how I am at the age I'm at."
Smith promised that the Cure will play new material during its fall North American tour, but not too much. "A lot of people who come to Cure shows want to hear something they haven't heard before, but they also want to hear old songs," he said.
"I enjoy playing them. But the idea of going out and doing a two-and-a-half-hour show and including 10 or 12 new songs would actually be really awful, I think. A show is an experience. Anyone coming to a Cure show isn't going to go home and think about buying the album. They've already made their minds up by the fact they've bought a ticket to see us."
Cure fans are fucking freaks.
Quote from: Bethie on July 10, 2007, 02:18:51 AM
Cure fans are fucking freaks.
Like theres even such a thing anymore. They all offed themselves in the late 80's/early 90's.
The Cure record postponed again
The Cure's 14th studio record has been postponed for a second time and will not hit stores until next spring, the band's record company said on Thursday.
"The album got pushed to 2008, more like an April/May release. Robert is still recording," a Geffen Records spokeswoman said from New York, referring to the band's frontman Robert Smith.
Smith told Reuters in an interview late last year that he was struggling to come up with lyrics to some of the 33 new songs he and the band had recorded.
The new album was originally slated to be released in May this year, then was postponed until October.
Smith said last month he wanted to release two versions of the album -- a limited edition double-record mixed by him and a single CD mixed by another producer.
The Cure is currently on tour in Australia and will be playing U.S. dates in September and October.
it's like the same story every time they record a new album. i wouldn't like be robert smith's brain right now. and i don't get why they're touring when there's no album to promote. it's not like they're broke or something.
wait a minute...
(rant over)
^^
Jesus christ... *sigh*
Anyway, here's some nice news:
The Cure to issue remastered 'Disintegration' album with unreleased songs
3CD set to be released on May 24
The Cure are set to release a remastered 3CD version of their 1989 album 'Disintegration' on May 24.
The release will include previously-unreleased songs, demos and outtakes, plus a live version of the album as well as the remastered original disc.
The package was compiled by frontman Robert Smith, with the singer adding notes to a 20-page booklet that will be included in the release.
The Cure were named Shockwaves NME Awards Godlike Geniuses at last year's ceremony.
The tracklisting of the album is:
Disc One: Remastered album
'Plainsong'
'Pictures Of You'
'Closedown'
'Lovesong'
'Last Dance'
'Lullaby'
'Fascination Street'
'Prayers For Rain'
'The Same Deep Water As You'
'Disintegration'
'Homesick'
'Untitled'
Disc Two: Rarities (1988-1989)
'Prayers For Rain – RS Home Demo (Instrumental)'
'Pictures Of You – RS Home Demo (Instrumental)'
'Fascination Street – RS Home Demo (Instrumental)'
'Homesick – Band Rehearsal (Instrumental)'
'Fear Of Ghosts – Band Rehearsal (Instrumental)'
'Noheart – Band Rehearsal (Instrumental)'
'Esten – Band Demo (Instrumental)'
'Closedown – Band Demo (Instrumental)'
'Lovesong – Band Demo (Instrumental)'
'2 Late (alternate version) – Band Demo (Instrumental)'
'The Same Deep Water As You – Band Demo (Instrumental)'
'Disintegration – Band Demo (Instrumental)'
'Untitled (alternate version) – Studio Rough (Instrumental)'
'Babble (alternate version) – Studio Rough (Instrumental)'
'Plainsong – Studio Rough (Guide Vocal)'
'Last Dance – Studio Rough (Guide Vocal)'
'Lullaby – Studio Rough (Guide Vocal)'
'Out Of Mind – Studio Rough (Guide Vocal)'
'Delirious Night – Rough Mix (Vocal)'
'Pirate Ships – RS Solo, Rough Mix (Vocal)
Disc Three: Entreat Plus
'Plainsong'
'Pictures Of You'
'Closedown'
'Lovesong'
'Last Dance'
'Lullaby'
'Fascination Street'
'Prayers For Rain'
'The Same Deep Water As You'
'Disintegration'
'Homesick'
'Untitled'