Random Music Talk CXXIII: Cilantro Lover's Club

[Axver]

Ahh, but is anybody with me on the need for a good breeze?

I fucking love it when people move to Wellington and complain about the wind. Harden up. It's nice to have a good breeze to remind you you're alive, and I say this as a person with reasonably long hair.

(Note: Chicago, you are not windy. Stop lying.)

 

[IWasBored]

It’s pretty necessary when it’s hot out. Not so much when it’s cold.

 

[lazarus]

So the new Yo La Tengo just came and went? Don't recall seeing much of a response on here.

I bought tickets to see them at Pappy & Harriet's 2 days after I get back from Paris so I really should listen to it beforehand.

 

[Axver]

So the new Yo La Tengo just came and went? Don't recall seeing much of a response on here.

I bought tickets to see them at Pappy & Harriet's 2 days after I get back from Paris so I really should listen to it beforehand.

Wow, what a get by Cobbler. His girlfriend's going to be surprised about Harriet though.

 

[Mack_Again]

I knew about new Yo La Tengo record but I honestly have no interest listening to it

 

[iron yuppie]

So the new Yo La Tengo just came and went? Don't recall seeing much of a response on here.

I liked it. Very breezy and pleasant, much in keeping with their last few albums. I didn't realize Kaplan is over 60 years old though. They have been at it a very long time.

 

[martha]

Fuck cold weather.

Hotter = better.


Sent from my iPad using U2 Interference

 

[bono_212]

That I posted, thanks for nothing, gump.

All you lot are the same.

So the new Yo La Tengo just came and went? Don't recall seeing much of a response on here.

I bought tickets to see them at Pappy & Harriet's 2 days after I get back from Paris so I really should listen to it beforehand.

I liked it, but I wasn't blown away by it. Just was saying the other day I need to hear it again soon, as I barely remember even hearing it.

 

[Axver]

Fuck cold weather.

Hotter = better.

This is, by a country mile, your worst opinion.

I like not being sweaty and uncomfortable.

 

[Mack_Again]

https://www.npr.org/sections/therec...arist-and-producer-of-madonnas-debut-has-died

actually its so weird that yesterday I listened to Reggie's solo on Miles' Pangaea without knowing this news. man, as I said couple of months ago, those records Reggie played on are underrated as fuck

 

[nielsgov]

This thread has it all now that we moved on from Various Veggie Vitriol to The Return of Random Weather talk.

Almost.

Unpopular opinion (I think): Wish is the second best The Cure album.

 

[gump]

I liked it. Very breezy and pleasant, much in keeping with their last few albums. I didn't realize Kaplan is over 60 years old though. They have been at it a very long time.

My feelings exactly. Their last record that I really loved was Popular Songs, but at they same time they haven't put out anything that I didn't like.

 

[bono_212]

Almost.

Unpopular opinion (I think): Wish is the second best The Cure album.

Dear God.

 

[iron yuppie]

My feelings exactly. Their last record that I really loved was Popular Songs, but at they same time they haven't put out anything that I didn't like.

They are one of the most consistent bands ever. "Listenable" doesn't sound like a compliment, but it is one when applied to them. Rewarding as both background music and intensive listening.

Dear God.

x2

 

[IWasBored]

there it is.

 

[lazarus]

Almost.

Unpopular opinion (I think): Wish is the second best The Cure album.

I'd probably go:

1. Kiss Me x3
2. Head on the Door
3. Wish

But yeah Wish is sorely underrated by the Cure fanbase. I guess they consider Friday I'm In Love to be some kind of Shiny Happy People type atrocity (personally I always preferred it to the bland Love Song) but regardless you have some really epic stuff like From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea, phenomenal lead track with Open, blistering rocker with Cut, and a superior remake of Pictures of You with A Letter To Elise.

 

[iron yuppie]

I think it comes down to whether you prefer the raw post-punk phase or the more pop-leaning second phase. For me it's definitely the former. I would put Seventeen Seconds and Pornography as their top two, with probably Head on the Door at three.

 

[Mack_Again]

isn't it kinda interesting that touring guitarist of pre-hiatus Miles Davis wrote Madonna's Borderline?

 

[lazarus]

I think it comes down to whether you prefer the raw post-punk phase or the more pop-leaning second phase. For me it's definitely the former. I would put Seventeen Seconds and Pornography as their top two, with probably Head on the Door at three.

Well that kind of split makes sense but that doesn't account for Disintegration, which has a couple poppier tracks but is overall pretty dense and gloomy; it's cut from a different cloth than Kiss Me and Wish. Isn't it compared often to Pornorgraphy?

I love the earlier work too but it's more individual tracks than whole albums. My fav LP from that period is probably Boys Don't Cry, which I've heard a lot more than the others.

 

[iron yuppie]

I think Smith said once that Pornography - Disintegration - Bloodflowers was supposed to be a trilogy.

 

[U2inUtah]

I need to listen to the Cure more. I don't know the whole discography well enough to rank albums. Bloodflowers is probably the one I've heard the most actually

 

[nielsgov]

I think it comes down to whether you prefer the raw post-punk phase or the more pop-leaning second phase. For me it's definitely the former. I would put Seventeen Seconds and Pornography as their top two, with probably Head on the Door at three.

I love Wish mainly for its epic tracks, a couple of which Laz mentioned previously so I'm not sure that's necessarily the case. I'd probably rank Seventeen Seconds and definitely Pornography above Head on the Door for instance.

I just think it has a really good mix of different facets of The Cure. The Edge of the Deep Green Sea is also my favorite The Cure song.

 

[lazarus]

 

[Axver]

Yeah, I don't see why ranking Wish so highly should be cause for a "dear god" or two. It's a strong album, and Friday I'm in Love is a legit banger.

Faith is, for my money, not only the best Cure album but one of the five best albums of all time. And I also prefer Seventeen Seconds, Disintegration, and probably Pornography to Wish. But there really is no denying songs like Deep Green Sea.

 

[martha]

Random Cure Talk.

Again.

Get a room thread.

 

[Mack_Again]

well, CHVRCHES' album would come out in a few days apparently but I dont have a lot of hope for that album rn

 

[Axver]

Get Out is a banger.

But I've only listened to that song with the dude from The National once.

 

[bono_212]

Yeah, I don't see why ranking Wish so highly should be cause for a "dear god" or two. It's a strong album, and Friday I'm in Love is a legit banger.

Faith is, for my money, not only the best Cure album but one of the five best albums of all time. And I also prefer Seventeen Seconds, Disintegration, and probably Pornography to Wish. But there really is no denying songs like Deep Green Sea.

To be honest, at the time I mixed it up with Wild Mood Swings, lol.

 

[Mack_Again]

Get Out is a banger.

But I've only listened to that song with the dude from The National once.

other singles are absolutely drab

 

[Mack_Again]

also when I saw that CHVRCHES have songs named "Never Say Die" and "Heaven/Hell"in their tracklist of a new album, I thought they'd do some Sabbath covers