I believe they are even available on Spotify at this point. That album has a great cover.
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Yes! That’s how I was able to check them out. I was intrigued by Robert’s contribution to The Glove, but the fact that he didn’t sing on the album was kind of a turn off. The demos are brilliant!
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I agree although I did like the original but its been a while. Wasn’t the woman who sang on it the girlfriend or something of one of the members? Might have to listen to one of the versions tonight!
I saw the Cure in Toronto in 1981 and left after four songs. I regret it somewhat now. We got all fired up by the warmup act, John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett, after which the Cure were just slow and depressing. When they played “10:15 Saturday Night” as a downtempo dirge, we’d had enough. I lost track of the band after Pornography (they weren’t being played on California college radio), and am only now catching up (unless you count my picking up Staring at the Sea on CD).
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Some +25 years ago, I discovered The Cure through their compilation Staring at the Sea. And since that day, I still don’t whether or not I like or not their single The Caterpillar. Such a weird song.
I saw the cure more than 10 times. My favorite music for ages. This year I saw them twice, in Stockholm and in amsterdam.
The top might be related to wild mood swings. These are the more kind of crazily happy.
Japanese whispers is a compilation, the top is a weird and wild album. It has a lot of mood swings.
This Saturday (record store day) the cure releases Show on vinyl, a live album from their wish tour
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I got a Radio Shack ‘Realistic’ keyboard for Christmas when I was seven in the mid-eighties. My 10-year-older brother and I spent the day figuring out how to play The Empty World riff on it (well took me a day, probably not him)… I still remember it! Had no idea who the Cure was at the time, but eventually became a huge fan. Crazy how much influence that record had on me all things considered. Also, we lived in Alaska at the time, so my brother was probably the only Cure fan for thousands of miles… haha.
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My favorite album is Disintegration, i love pretty much every single song on that album.
The weirdest? Pornography? Just my opinion, i think they were experimenting with drum machines and efx and i don’t think they do that as much in their last few albums.
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I would struggle to choose between Disintegration and Kiss Me.
There is so much great material on Kiss Me … but Disintegration just has a sound and mood that is so beautifully consistent.
Truly a work of art!
I love their early stuff too of course
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The Cure were masters at benevolent bait and switching. I wonder how many people bought their first Cure album due to singles like Caterpillar or Pictures of You only to find the rest of the album was filled with weird, dark songs, which they never knew they were into.
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…i lost touch, once i had my head on their door…
but boy, i will never cry out in the forest, not even for seventeen seconds…
cause i’m still hangin’ in that garden ever since…
This might be late 83, after Blue Sunshine right into the Top - Sessions…
Even though it is pretty trippy, it has also a very rough and aggressive edge to it. “Shake dog shake”, “Give me it” are absolutely killing it. Listen to the live versions on the “Concert - The Cure Live” album… Never been so intense since… (Maybe except for “The Kiss” 1987 or “Promise” 2004)
Been freaked out once on some microdots mixed with speed on exactly that record. Couldn’t listen to The Cure for almost a decade. But it was the 90’… so - no problem…
Here is a nice one:
B-Side of Caterpillar
Happy the Man -The Cure
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I like this
