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The Cure - crap/not crap

The Cure - crap/not crap

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Got 'Seventeen Seconds' on now thanks to this thread. Forgot how great this album is. I liked how they could go from sounding so sparse and minimalist on stuff like 'In Your House 'and then you'd see them do 'A Forest' live and it'd transform into this gigantic grandiose epic thing.

They should tour again. I've decided I'd love to see them again before they finally call it a day.
 
early stuff is brilliant - very original, utterly distinctive, musically sparse but fantastically atmospheric and great songs . Underated id say but got more mediocre as the 80s progressed.
 
Mrs Miggins said:
I remember almost killing a car full of people in about 1997 by getting the teacher driving the car to play my tape of Pornography when we were driving up to a science field trip in the north east. They were all in favour of The Cure but they thought - to my relish as The School Goth - that they were going to get The Love Cats and stuff like that. But oh no - The School Goth insisted on the most depressing self-indulgent music on earth. I was deeply embarrassed at how shite it actually was :D

I still love them though.
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One of my fave cure albums too! I also carved Robert smiths initials into arm when I was 14, still there! :oops:
 
This set list from Mexico last year shows four encores and 50 songs played, and there's hardly a duff track on it

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-cure/2013/foro-sol-mexico-city-mexico-13d83549.html

  1. Open

  2. High

  3. The End of the World

  4. Lovesong

  5. Push

  6. In Between Days

  7. Just Like Heaven

  8. From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea

  9. Prayers for Rain

  10. Pictures of You

  11. Lullaby

  12. Sleep When I'm Dead

  13. Play for Today

  14. A Forest

  15. Bananafishbones

  16. The Walk

  17. Mint Car

  18. Friday I'm in Love

  19. Doing the Unstuck

  20. Trust

  21. Want

  22. The Hungry Ghost

  23. Wrong Number

  24. One Hundred Years

  25. End

  26. Encore:
  27. The Kiss

  28. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep

  29. Fight

  30. Encore 2:
  31. Plainsong

  32. The Same Deep Water as You

  33. Disintegration

  34. Encore 3:
  35. Shake Dog Shake

  36. Cold

  37. A Strange Day

  38. The Hanging Garden

  39. Fascination Street

  40. Charlotte Sometimes

  41. Primary

  42. Encore 4:
  43. Dressing Up

  44. The Lovecats

  45. The Caterpillar

  46. Close to Me

  47. Hot Hot Hot!!!

  48. Let's Go to Bed

  49. Why Can't I Be You?

  50. Three Imaginary Boys
    (Robert Smith solo, no band)
  51. Fire in Cairo
    (Robert Smith solo, no band)
  52. Boys Don't Cry

  53. 10:15 Saturday Night

  54. Killing an Arab
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That's impressive at Bob's age.
 
stavros said:
I've got an mp3 of Disintegration (the song) done live and it's staggeringly good.
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The one off this?

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Some of that was recorded the night I went. I just googled it and apparently it's now a double album, all of 'Disintegration' live, basically. This was news to me. <heads off to Torrentland>
 
Voley said:
The one off this?

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I don't know where it's from, or how I came to download it way back about ten years ago, but it sold them to me, having previously only known Friday I'm in Love. Disintegration remains my favourite LP by them.
 
Outstanding band.....there are no words!!

However i will provide them for my crew - we LOVED this band - we NEVER EVER followed them, we FOLLOWED NO ONE - we were a very cool crowd in school, to my chagrin, the second coolest group in school. :thumbs:
 
Fitting your stereotype im afraid (what did 'interesting' people like then?) . Will always have a soft spot for The Cure but only really loved them in my difficult mid-teens. I sold all My Cure and Indie CD's during my 'lost' raver years :(


Idris2002 said:
I remember them as being the sort of band who were rated by the kind of people who went on to become quantity surveyors and the like.

Still, at least they weren't Depeche Mode fans.
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Spod said:
Fitting your stereotype im afraid (what did 'interesting' people like then?) . Will always have a soft spot for The Cure but only really loved them in my difficult mid-teens. I sold all My Cure and Indie CD's during my 'lost' raver years :(
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I was the only 'interesting' person in my school. I liked the Velvet Underground, the Smiths. . . in hindsight I would have been better off getting into Satanick Heavy Kettle.
 
I love Disintegration but sadly I no longer have sufficiently bad moods to really appreciate it.

Most of their other albums have quite a bit of filler material on them, but there's plenty of great stuff in there that doesn't show up on the singles compilations, like this one from The Top:

 
Snap on both of those. Quite a few of my mates were very anti-Smiths (or even more acurately, die-hard be-quiffed Smiths fans) but I could not deny the brilliance of some of their songs.
 
Voley said:
The one off this?

R184238001.jpg


Some of that was recorded the night I went. I just googled it and apparently it's now a double album, all of 'Disintegration' live, basically. This was news to me. <heads off to Torrentland>
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first album I ever bought. still love it to this day.
 
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