The Cure: 4:13 DREAM

[u2popmofo]

I don't know if The Cure have a single album cover I like. Sometimes I'll start to think I like some of the covers (Seventeen Seconds for example), then I'll realize I have no idea what the cover is, and that I'd probably think it sucks if it wasn't a Cure album.

 

[LemonMelon]

I always just assumed it was a head on a door, just so I could sleep at night.

Same with Peter Gabriel's Security cover. Not sure I want to know what's on that one though.

 

[u2popmofo]

In related news, i just got a "SITE BLOCKED" message when trying to look up the album cover for Pornography on Wikipedia at work. Uh ohssss!!!

 

[LemonMelon]

It is pretty fugly.

 

[iron yuppie]

It is pretty fugly.

Really? That's one of my favorite album covers ever.

 

[LemonMelon]

Really? That's one of my favorite album covers ever.

It's one of those images where I can tell what they did to make it, and it just seems really silly. It's three guys with awful 80s hair, camera tilted slightly to the right to make it a hair off-kilter, then run through an ass-load of effects and turned this awful magenta color. Nothing really profound happening. I will say that it suits the music, but I don't find it as engaging to look at as Seventeen Seconds or Disintegration. The former, outside of that hideous, Metallica-esque early font of theirs (what were they thinking?!?!?), is such a perfect summary of the album's sound.

 

[iron yuppie]

I really like the early logo as well. Guess we're just on different aesthetic wavelengths here.

 

[LemonMelon]

WE ARR THE_C_URE RARRWWWRRR POST PUNK BADDASSS SHIT RIGHT HERRREEE! NO FEELINGS OR NOTHING! OH LOOK THE C IS LEAVING FOR SOME REASON PRETTY SOON WE'LL JUST BE THE URE!!!

...Yeah, I suppose we are. I'll fight anyone who doesn't think the rest of that cover is awesome though.

 

[iron yuppie]

I'll give you this: that's probably the strongest reaction that I have ever seen to a band logo.

 

[bono_212]

You're even going through the deluxe bonus material, huh? Now that's devotion.

I really don't think that there is a weak track on Head on the Door. My personal favorites from it are The Blood and Sinking, although Kyoto Song also makes a strong case for one of those slots. Come to think of it, the only thing that I do not like about the album is the cover - I have spent more time than I would like to admit trying to figure out what the hell that image is supposed to be.

I don't think I've actually listened to much of the material on the bonus discs (I think once I accidentally left it going, but was enjoying myself so much, I didn't bother to turn it off, but I can't remember which album that was for. Might have been THOTD), though I have heard Join the Dots once. No, In Between Days RS Home Demo is the first track after the album ends, and it has endeared itself to me so much, I get silly emotional when it comes on. When his wife goes, "Have you finished yet?" at the beginning, I'm all eeeeeee!

 

[u2popmofo]

To add to the festival performance Bonoz2012 mentioned:

This year's Vivid Live festival takes place from May 27 to June 6 at Sydney, Australia's famed Sydney Opera House. The fest is curated by Stephen Pavlovic, head of the Modular label, and he's snagged a fairly big get to headline the whole shebang: goth-rock greats the Cure, who will perform their first three albums in their entirety for the first-- and, they say, only-- time.

The Cure's "Reflections" event will take place May 31 and June 1, and it'll feature the band playing their 1979 debut, Three Imaginary Boys, 1980's Seventeen Seconds, and 1981's Faith. The lineup will be made up of both present and past members of the Cure, and the whole thing will be recorded for a DVD. Pretty cool.

http://pitchfork.com/news/42420-the-cure-to-play-first-three-albums-in-full/

 

[iron yuppie]

Wow, that is awesome. I really love those early albums, and they do (or did) some epic things in the live setting with songs like A Forest and Faith.

 

[u2popmofo]

Yeah, I seriously lost it when they did just a small 4 song set (At Night, M, Play For Today, A Forest) of Seventeen Seconds songs when I saw them on their last tour. It was definitely the highlight of the night for me. Seeing all of Seventeen Seconds and Faith would be crazy.

 

[iron yuppie]

I really cannot express how much I love Seventeen Seconds. Every time that I listen to it, I am amazed at how something so austere and sparse in terms of song-craft can convey such great emotion. It's a great credit to Smith's prowess as a songwriter.

 

[bono_212]

I'd rather they play Boys Don't cry, but otherwise...sweeeeeee! I need to pick up both that and Trilogy.

 

[bono_212]

The lineup will be made up of both present and past members of the Cure, and the whole thing will be recorded for a DVD.

The way this is said in passing as if it's just people who had one off memberships in The Cure neglected the major announcement in this news.


LOL IS BACK (at least for Faith!!!!

From Lol on Facebook: "thank you everyone for your kind words! Yes I am really looking forward to seeing everyone again and playing these wonderful songs in such a beautiful place! Truth is truly stranger than Fiction!"

 

[bono_212]

I arrived at Disintegration the other night. Hoooooo shit. "Plainsong" is just so sonically brilliant and it just stays great until the end. I seriously think I love every single moment of that album. Every. Single. Moment.

 

[Axver]

I ... think I may just make the trip up to Sydney for this.

 

[LemonMelon]

Ranking Cure albums, because I can:

1. Disintegration
1. The Head On The Door

Yeah that's no typo. Definitely a tie, as my preference depends completely on my mood.

3. Faith
4. Seventeen Seconds
5. Boys Don't Cry
6. Bloodflowers

7. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (yeahhh...good, but I feel no desire to listen to it in full again)
8. Pornography (would be above Bloodflowers if it weren't for the lyrics...holy shit, he needed a cookie or something)
9. Wish

10. The Top
11. 4:13 Dream

 

[bono_212]

I ... think I may just make the trip up to Sydney for this.

: despair:

I really am just trying to be optimistic and believe that this means SOMETHING is in the works.

 

[bono_212]

Guh, I never feel like I can do a very good list of Cure albums. How I feel right now:

Absolute Favorite:
Disintegration

Closely followed by:
The Head on the Door
The Top

Still Great:
Pornography
Faith
Bloodflowers
Boys Don't Cry
Seventeen Seconds
4:13 Dream

Good, but not albums I frequently return to:
Wild Mood Swings
KMKMKM

Albums I never listen to:
Wish
The Cure

 

[Axver]

Well if we're ranking Cure albums:

Exceptional Cure Listening
1. Faith

Very Fine Cure Listening
2. Pornography
3. Disintegration

Fine Cure Listening
4. Seventeen Seconds
5. Boys Don't Cry/Three Imaginary Boys/whatever

Decent Cure Listening
6. The Head On The Door
7. Bloodflowers

Mediocre Cure Listening
8. Kiss Me etc.

Pissweak Cure Listening
9. The Top

What I've heard from most of the other albums hasn't inspired me to exactly run out and hear them in full.

 

[bono_212]

I actually should have had Wild Mood Swings under that last header as well. I like the album a bit more than average, far as I can tell, but I never seem to return to that one either.

 

[LemonMelon]

Outside of your silly THOTD placement, we agree, Axxo.

 

[Axver]

Outside of your silly THOTD placement, we agree, Axxo.

THOTD partly gets marked down severely because of how much I despise Close To Me. Inbetween Days, Push, and A Night Like This are awesome, but I rarely listen beyond them.

 

[bono_212]

Oh you have made me sad. "Close to Me" is just such a fun fun song.

 

[Axver]

I remember when Close To Me was on the radio often when I was a kid and I hated it, but had no idea who did it. Well, imagine my surprise when I was working my way through The Cure's discography for the first time and discovered they did it! Had I known that, I probably never would have listened to The Cure in the first place. I find the song creepy and utterly nauseating; everything about it is off-putting. You may think I'm exaggerating but I have such a viscerally negative reaction to the song that I can barely sit through 30 seconds of it.

These days I keep confusing its title with Come To Me, the song Bobert did with 65daysofstatic that is, fortunately, awesome.

 

[lazarus]

 

[LemonMelon]

Quality disappointing bump.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Quality disappointing bump.

...said Dalton to Lance's Mom.