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Band: The Cure
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 11:21 am
by TheMilford_Archive
I think The Top may be my favorite these days.
Such a strange record.
Band: The Cure
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 7:30 pm
by tinycorkscrew_Archive
tmidgett wrote:
I mostly like the middle stuff--not too overwrought, not too pop:
A Forest (live version)
The Walk
In Between Days
Just Like Heaven
Pictures of You
Lovesong
Fascination Street
Boy, I don't know. Is that enough? Three of those songs are from Disintegration, and I don't even think that is that great of a record.
That's the Cure era that I like, too. However, I believe that
Disintegration is a great record. I've always wanted to be in a band that sounded like a cross between Rodan and late 80's Cure.
Band: The Cure
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 8:38 pm
by Ekkssvvppllott
Last time I heard Disintegration, when I was at my folks' house in November and reading chapters here and there of the Cure biography I bought my mother the previous Christmas, I thought the album's sonics were particularly lousy. Granted the CD of it that I was listening to was mastered back when the technology to do so and the standards with which this was done were notoriously substandard, but STILL...most of what came out of the speakers sounded altogther bad - not unflattering, but fuckin' bad.
Just me? I'm not a seasoned appreciator of sonics, and I only know what little I know via merely listening to things over and over, but from a production standpoint Disintegration sounded weak, and not weak in the obvious non-masculine sense (which is to say, because it was simply a Cure record).
Band: The Cure
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 8:50 pm
by tinycorkscrew_Archive
Ekkssvvppllott wrote:Last time I heard Disintegration, when I was at my folks' house in November and reading chapters here and there of the Cure biography I bought my mother the previous Christmas, I thought the album's sonics were particularly lousy. Granted the CD of it that I was listening to was mastered back when the technology to do so and the standards with which this was done were notoriously substandard, but STILL...most of what came out of the speakers sounded altogther bad - not unflattering, but fuckin' bad.
Just me? I'm not a seasoned appreciator of sonics, and I only know what little I know via merely listening to things over and over, but from a production standpoint Disintegration sounded weak, and not weak in the obvious non-masculine sense (which is to say, because it was simply a Cure record).
It sounds better when you're making out with your teenage girlfriend in the back of a car.
Band: The Cure
Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 11:24 pm
by Ekkssvvppllott
Hah, I figured as such.
Hindsight, you have no mercy.
Band: The Cure
Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 2:01 am
by that damned fly_Archive
Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:Sorry, fellas, I hope this doesn't make your eyeliner run: CRAP.
Band: The Cure
Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 3:56 am
by fishingrhod_Archive
NOT CRAP except for Kiss Me.
Pornography is a fine piece of work and still love the video to Inbetween Days.
Band: The Cure
Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 4:09 am
by steve_Archive
First four albums, early Peel sessions all great, great, great. There's a long-form instrumental thing "Carnage Visors" that was issued as the B-side to the Faith album cassette, and that's great too.
Everything else is total bullshit. Don't really know what happened, but they hit the wall and there's a bright line between "awesome unique brilliant" and "dreadful shit."
Band: The Cure
Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 4:11 am
by Nina_Archive
Didn't you write for a Cure fanzine at one time, Steve, or am I confusing you with someone else?
Band: The Cure
Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 4:13 am
by steve_Archive
That must be someone else. I'm sad, but not that sad.