Shake Dog ShakeFascination StreetA Strange DayA Night Like ThisLovesongPushSinkingPictures Of YouLullabyLovecatsMaybe SomedayIn Your HouseFrom The Edge Of The Deep Green SeaMCharlotte SometimesInbetween DaysJust Like HeavenHey You!!!Play For TodayA Forest Fire In Cairo (as a 3 piece)Grinding Halt (as a 3 piece)10.15 Saturday NightBoys Don't CryI Dig You (with Porl Thompson and Frank The Postman)I'm A Cult Hero (with Porl Thompson and Frank The Postman), Close To MeLet's Go To BedWhy Can't I Be YouFriday I'm In Love
Fucking hell, just reading that through sends me into space. I'm still shellshocked.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 7 March 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:07 (twenty years ago) link
Genius.
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago) link
!!!!!!
― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 7 March 2004 23:48 (twenty years ago) link
And yes, Frank the postman showed up in all his voluminous glory, the first time they've done any Cult Hero material in (10 years according to Robert).
And was not Charlie saying some months back about how the band has fallen off recently? UNDESERVING INFIDEL! But I will not bear a grudge. Yet.
And I maintain my viewpoint, no doubt. Friday's only iffy moment came 11 songs in, when some (relatively) unfamiliar chords struck up - "What is this," I thought to myself with a grimace, "Joan Osborne's 'One Of Us'?" But no, it was in fact "Maybe Someday".
The Cure should've stopped recording new music after Wish (or more specifically, if you like, after "Fear Of Ghosts"). I love them still, but I shall not be moved on this matter.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 01:01 (twenty years ago) link
Porl, remarkably, is now jobbing as the band's guitar tech!
Wait, what? So essentially he and Perry B. have completed the circle.
Anyway. First batch of reissues in a month. EXCITED!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 01:04 (twenty years ago) link
I am naturally using all my spider-senses to procure a mixing desk feed of the show. I'll be absolutely amazed if nobody recorded it, but nothing yet. Ned, you will be the f...oooh, among the first to know when I find it!
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 01:09 (twenty years ago) link
That I had heard, seems to make sense! They and Depeche should just finally tour together. ;-)
In all seriousness, thanks for any leads you might have!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 01:33 (twenty years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 01:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 02:02 (twenty years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 03:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 03:09 (twenty years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 03:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron A., Tuesday, 9 March 2004 03:34 (twenty years ago) link
― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 03:34 (twenty years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:15 (twenty years ago) link
Actually I think Dan was born in 1974 and he went through all that shift you did except he kept loving the Cure as well. Rah!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron A., Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:27 (twenty years ago) link
― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Aaron A., Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Monday, 23 August 2004 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 23 August 2004 23:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Slim Pickens (Slim Pickens), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link
But for many of us born in or around 1974, this issue is fairly cut and dried. For a decade, The Cure made (mostly) great, emotive music to match the self-indulgent drama of teen angst. I too, found romance with a girl because of it. She was into Sylvia Plath 'n shit and thought Robert Smith was really good at painting with words in his lyrics. I felt the same. Even his terrible voice was welcomed as a strike for the blemished and the meek (read 'indie') against mainstream, hard-rock masculinity (what we call 'bogans' in Australia).
Then, as Paul and others have pointed out, we came of legal age in the early 90's and were lucky enough to be doing so right when music got a huge shot in the arm - with much better drugs and, yes, prettier girls. How convenient it was to feel disillusioned with "Wish" and all Cure work since. But my best efforts at objectivity still tell me, as they do to so many others, that The Cure are 80's classics and 90's duds. You can neatly bookend the best of this band up to and including "Disintegration".
― Stephen Stockwell (Stephen Stockwell), Friday, 27 August 2004 03:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stephen Stockwell (Stephen Stockwell), Friday, 27 August 2004 03:50 (nineteen years ago) link
I was born in 1973 and I approve this post.
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 August 2004 03:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 August 2004 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stephen Stockwell (Stephen Stockwell), Friday, 27 August 2004 05:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Robert Smith guest presents the John Peel Show tonight 11pm - 1amhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/johnpeel/index.shtml
you can listen live via the web stream.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 21 October 2004 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 21 October 2004 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), March 26th, 2001
?!?!?!?!?!?!?
― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 21 October 2004 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 October 2004 21:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Thursday, 21 October 2004 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 21 October 2004 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 October 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 21 October 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 21 October 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 21 October 2004 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Smashing Pumpkins - '1979' - (Hut)The Cure - 'Desperate Journalist' - (Fiction)Joy Division - 'She's Lost Control' - (Strange Fruit)The Pixies - 'Monkey's Gone To Heaven' - (4AD)Led Zeppelin - 'Communication Breakdown' - (Atlantic)The Deftones - 'Minerva' - (Sire)Cranes - 'Jewel' - (Wergo)Nirvana - 'Heart Shaped Box' - (Geffen)David Bowie - 'Saturday Night' - (EMI)The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - 'Swampsnake' - (Mercury)Mogwai - 'Killing All The Flies' - (PIAS)Tricky - 'Moody' - (Epitaph)Placebo - 'The Bitter End' - (Virgin)The Beatles - 'Eleanor Rigby' - (Apple)The Rolling Stones - 'Paint it Black' - (Decca)Janis Ian - 'Tea and Sympathy' - (Sony)Thin Lizzy - 'Don't Believe A Word' - (Warners)The Clash - 'White Riot' - (Sony)AFI - 'Girl's Not Grey' - (Nitro)Blink 182 - 'Down' - (Island)The Cocteau Twins - 'Lorelei' - (4AD)My Bloody Valentine - 'I Only Said' - (Sony)Sneaker Pimps - 'Low Place Like Home' - (One Little Indian)Tom Waits - 'Looking for The Heart of Saturday Night' - (Anti/Epitaph)Supergrass - 'Alright' - (Parlophone)The Cooper Temple Clause - 'New Toys' - (RCA)Scarling - 'Crispin Glover' - (Sympathy for the Record Industry)Interpol - 'NYC' - (Matador)Jimi Hendrix - 'Are You Experienced' - (MCA)
― Vic Funk, Thursday, 21 October 2004 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Underworld 9.5/10 [they mixed things up, had some special mixes, plus had the buzz of the chat room, and added humour]Siouxsie Sioux 7/10 [Siouxsie came across as a broadcasting professional, in control, measured - however i expected some more fun like when she was on 6 Music roundtable]Robert Smith 6.0/10 [too many predictable choices, reminds me of guest slot hour on Xfm]
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 21 October 2004 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link
siouxie had a patch where she was talking under something rather than over it. but nice enough. didn't like her question answering session.
underworld sounded a lot like the 3am comedy strand at times (which is itself worth a listen)
― koogs (koogs), Friday, 22 October 2004 08:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sansai, Friday, 22 October 2004 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 22 October 2004 18:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Edward Bax, Friday, 22 October 2004 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link