shagboy wrote:i like the first cure album...

which is...... 3 imaginary boys or boys don't cry? be specific.

I like 'em both just fine.

Angriest_Dragon wrote:Just got the double disc reissue of Pornography.
The extra stuff is nice.
Need to get the other reissues now.

So far, these reissues are uniformly excellent. What is not excellent is having to buy a third copy of every Cure album.

three imaginary boys

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Angriest_Dragon wrote:Just got the double disc reissue of Pornography.
The extra stuff is nice.
Need to get the other reissues now.

So far, these reissues are uniformly excellent. What is not excellent is having to buy a third copy of every Cure album.

Well i think the reissues are pretty definitive. not much room for improvement.
bowie likes to reissue every 8 years, now that sucks. or the new art of reissuing an album 9 months later with a bonus disc with the b-sides that you bought already with special dvd content.
fuck record companies and their dirty whorish ways.

I'm at a severe crossroads with this band, alot of their fans have made me HATE them, but I like some of their songs and would be willing to invest myself into this band to see if i really like them or not.

any suggestions for a album to use as a launchpad?

ogami itto wrote:I'm at a severe crossroads with this band, alot of their fans have made me HATE them, but I like some of their songs and would be willing to invest myself into this band to see if i really like them or not.

any suggestions for a album to use as a launchpad?

1-Disintegration
2-Pornography
3-The head on the door
4-The Top
5-Wish
6-Seventeen Seconds
7-Kiss me (x3)



Start with these, in this order and watch and listen when the depression starts rolling in. Have fun!

I still love them to pieces from Boys Don't Cry to Wish and then I stop right there and listen to The Glove and then I am satisfied and maybe get out Siouxie's Hyena fer kicks.

Many teriffic albums. The Re-ishes are fab. I am in denial about their last few albums of course, but the NC> the C.

NOT CARP!

One of the few bands that I have constantly listened to since high school.

ogami itto wrote:I'm at a severe crossroads with this band, alot of their fans have made me HATE them, but I like some of their songs and would be willing to invest myself into this band to see if i really like them or not.

any suggestions for a album to use as a launchpad?

placeholder wrote:seventeen seconds, faith, and (especially) pornography

You cannot go wrong with any of these. Disintegration is probably a good starter as well.

Me thinks The Top is highly underrated. I like it better than Head on the Door.

My faves are:

(1) Faith
(2) Seventeen Seconds
(3) The Top
(4) Kiss Me...
(5) Disintegration

Wish is underrated as well.

My problem with them these days is that Robert Smith can still right a great pop song (ie. Mint Car, Strange Attraction, Go,) and is good with the mellow acoustic stuff with strings (Jupiter Crash, Catch, To Wish Impossible Things) but keeps trying to re-make Disintegration... Bloodflowers was terrible... and all of that YELLING on the last album was god-awful.

TheMilford wrote:Me thinks The Top is highly underrated. I like it better than Head on the Door.

My faves are:

(1) Faith
(2) Seventeen Seconds
(3) The Top
(4) Kiss Me...
(5) Disintegration

Wish is underrated as well.

My problem with them these days is that Robert Smith can still right a great pop song (ie. Mint Car, Strange Attraction, Go,) and is good with the mellow acoustic stuff with strings (Jupiter Crash, Catch, To Wish Impossible Things) but keeps trying to re-make Disintegration... Bloodflowers was terrible... and all of that YELLING on the last album was god-awful.

Yeah, you are right about "The Top". Piggy in the Mirror, Birdmad Girl,
Empty World. 7th grade would have been very different without this underated gem.
Do you think Rhino will reissue these (japaneese whispers/ walk e.p.?)
All the sire stuff?