seems like they can't fix that problem...:-(
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 03:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm going to rep for "Kyoto Song" which apparently has no love here. "It's so smooth it even feels like skin" always gave me the creeps... the good creeps.
― Lostandfound, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 03:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I really love In Between Days, Push, Six Different Ways, Close to Me and A Night Like this but I think I have to vote for In Between Days.
― Chaki Demus & Pliers (ENBB), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 03:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh my god, that Bob Larson clip upthread is hilarious and classic, BlackIronPrison. I can see Negativland having a field day with that one. I'm also impressed at the sheer range of groups mentioned in the first link. I guess going after "satanic" music turns out to be a good way to get a musical education!
― Born Again Atheist (Bimble), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 03:51 (fourteen years ago) link
"A Night Like This", but this album is crowded with gems.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 06:09 (fourteen years ago) link
"In Between Days" would win for me in most polls, so...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 13:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I voted "In Between Days" too, but so many great songs.
― rentboy, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Really, the only song on here I have no time for is "Push".
― Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl (HI DERE), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
"Sinking" is really the best of their synth-gunk ballads.
― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 14:04 (fourteen years ago) link
"The Baby Screams" is so so so great.
― Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl (HI DERE), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 14:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm going with "A Night Like This," but it almost went to "Push" and "The Baby Screams." Damn tough one, this.
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
My first Cure album and concert (Radio City, November 1985). Will rep now and forever for "The Blood".
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I could very happily vote for any song on this album except for "Push".
― Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl (HI DERE), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Then why are you voting for "Push"?
― da croupier, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
don't make me find you
― Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl (HI DERE), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
voting for "a night like this" but if "close to me" was the brass mix there'd be competition.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
You know I am actually totally fine w/sax on 'A Night Like This.'
― cant go with u too many alfbrees (Abbott), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Whenever I buy a can of soda from a soda machine, the sound of the can landing reminds me of the opening of "In Between Days." Still, I'm going "Six Different Ways."
First time I heard "Close to Me," I thought it sounded like The Cars. I just realized this past weekend that it has such tight percussion versus all the reverb etc. on the rest of the album.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link
this was and still is one of my favorite cure albums. it was tough to choose, but i went with "the baby screams".
― banity 6 (tricky), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Whenever I buy a can of soda from a soda machine, the sound of the can landing reminds me of the opening of "In Between Days."
YES!!!
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 4 June 2009 01:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Not a bad song on this one. I love short albums with no filler. For me it's between "Push", "Sinking", and "A Night Like This". "The Blood" needs more love too.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 4 June 2009 14:12 (fourteen years ago) link
YES!!! (seconded)
I don't think my heart will let me vote for anything other than In Between Days. And Mrs Fiendish would kill me.
I do have a tremendous soft spot for Push, too ...
― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Thursday, 4 June 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 4 June 2009 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hprQpOdr34
― Bee OK, Friday, 5 June 2009 06:05 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIRXadMO1To
it's my birthday and this just seems right (my vote):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZZxwF6SXeQ&feature=related
― Bee OK, Friday, 5 June 2009 06:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Happy B-Day, Bee OK! Those are some damn fine clips there. Someone said you can't get In Orange on DVD now, is that right? I'm really disappointed to hear that cause I'd definitely buy it. I remember seeing it in a theater in my hometown when it came out and it was funny because the place wasn't even half full but you just knew whoever was there was cool as shit.
― Crispy Ambulance Douchebag (Bimble), Saturday, 6 June 2009 04:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 6 June 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay, wait a minute.
Did Robert Smith say at the beginning of the "Push" video "this is about when I used to wear a dress and travel on the train"?
― Sullen - 1 a: gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed (Bimble), Sunday, 7 June 2009 09:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay I've offically flipped over the version of Push on that clip. WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED FROM A MUSIC VIDEO/GROUP? What else do you need? He looks so young! Not even growing his hair long. Jesus christ.
― Sullen - 1 a: gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed (Bimble), Sunday, 7 June 2009 09:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Just when you think the song is over, he starts singing! Oh my god. This poll isn't even over yet.
― Sullen - 1 a: gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed (Bimble), Sunday, 7 June 2009 09:33 (fourteen years ago) link
AHHH NO I've flipped my lid! I've officially flipped my lid over the Cure. Why doesn't anyone here want to talk about them? Holy hell.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joHcumCAkCM
― Sullen - 1 a: gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed (Bimble), Sunday, 7 June 2009 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 7 June 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Glad "Push" did so well and that every song got votes, although "Sinking" seems pretty low.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 15 June 2009 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah - and so does "The Blood" (which is one of the overlooked gems in their catalogue)
― baaderonixx, Monday, 15 June 2009 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link
plz repost the poll results for us fail mods
― sorry i poisoned u with nachos :( (HI DERE), Monday, 15 June 2009 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Option Votes1. In Between Days 188. Night Like This 135. Push 107. Close to Me 84. Six Different Ways 66. Baby Screams 42. Kyoto Song 43. Blood 310. Sinking 39. Screw 2
― baaderonixx, Monday, 15 June 2009 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay who are the awesome ppl who voted for "Screw"??? You are my new best friends!
― sorry i poisoned u with nachos :( (HI DERE), Monday, 15 June 2009 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry, I voted for "Push."
Don't know if this is the right thread to post this on, but the other night I heard a cover version of "Just Like Heaven" on a smooth jazz station and it blew my mind.
― barney kestrel (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 June 2009 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
you know, the secret detail that makes "Inbetween Days" so amazing is Boris's immaculate drumming, particularly the open hi-hat on 3 & 4 of every other measure
― dense macabre (DJP), Thursday, 3 November 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
I love this album. This and 'The Cure In Orange' were my twin gateway into this band. I would have voted for 'Push', personally, but every single track here has something that gets my attention. Even 'Screw', which to me is probably the weakest song on that album, features that heavy bass sound!
― Turrican, Thursday, 3 November 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
I was introduced to the bulk of Cure albums via an Italian lyric book that came with a "I'm a Cult Hero"/"I Dig You" 7" flexidisc. When I read the lyrics to "Push", I thought it was going to be an angry aggro freakout with lots of shrieking and angst, so hearing the bouncy sing-songy happy skipfest that is the actual song firmly engaged the same phobic reaction that made me hate The Smiths' "Girlfriend in a Coma" and I've never been able to get over it.
― dense macabre (DJP), Thursday, 3 November 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
Hehehehe... I can see why you'd think that. Personally though, that guitar riff that opens and closes the song has to be one of my favourite Cure guitar parts of all time. It manages to sound upbeat, yet still incredibly beautiful at the same time.
― Turrican, Thursday, 3 November 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
― Chaki Demus & Pliers (ENBB), Tuesday, June 2, 2009 11:49 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark
I am still glad I did. Although I do love Push as well. Damn, this really is a great album, huh?
Awww, In Orange! I think I have a video of that concert somewhere. Like - a VHS.
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Thursday, 3 November 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, the very same! I think they only put out a laserdisc and a VHS of it... did they ever get around to putting out 'Orange' on DVD? I don't think they did, did they?
― Turrican, Thursday, 3 November 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
Push from Glastonbury '86 rules.
― sleigh tracks (1933-1969) (MaresNest), Thursday, 3 November 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
You know what I wish I still had? My Paris shirt. I only really wear band shirts to sleep in now but I still wish I had it. It was so awesome and soft and where on Earth did that go?!
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Thursday, 3 November 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DrjnffvVSQ
this is still one of my favorite Cure videos
― dense macabre (DJP), Thursday, 3 November 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
Tim Pope easily makes my top 5 favorite video directors.
― da croupier, Thursday, 3 November 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
That Top 5: Sophie Muller, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Tim Pope, Tim Newman
― da croupier, Thursday, 3 November 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
It's easy to belittle a bandmate's contributions when he jumped or was pushed at the peak of acrimony.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 June 2015 00:29 (eight years ago) link
Today is my birthday and looking at this thread sort of makes me sad as i see Bimble wished me happy birthday in this thread. RIP.
anyways some of you are so wrong, this is a classic album. the remastered version of this is incredible and made me appreciate all over again.
i voted for "Sinking" but these days my vote would be "Six Different Ways."
― Bee OK, Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:23 (eight years ago) link
Six different ways is amaaazing
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 4 June 2015 02:06 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I didn't want to start nothing, so I backed off, but this album is a stone cold classic from beginning to end.
There's some really great, nearly shoegazey live versions of 'A Night Like This' from the Swing tour in the mid 90's.
― austinato (Austin), Thursday, 4 June 2015 02:09 (eight years ago) link
Me on the 30th anniversary:
http://thequietus.com/articles/18610-the-cure-head-on-the-door-review
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 August 2015 13:38 (eight years ago) link
Nice write-up! I still hate "Push"!
― I Am Curious (Dolezal) (DJP), Monday, 24 August 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
Hahah I was almost waiting for that.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 August 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
I'll eternally find your dislike of 'Push' completely mystifying, DJP, even more so than your dislike of 'Domino Dancing'/Introspective... the guitar riff of 'Push' is just all-time for me, and it's one of those Cure songs that has stayed with me from the moment I first heard it!
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Monday, 24 August 2015 22:15 (eight years ago) link
nice Ned, thanks for the link.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:38 (eight years ago) link
The slurred introduction on In Orange sold me on Push.
― brotherlovesdub, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 01:40 (eight years ago) link
I love The Cure, I think their output up to and including Wish is pretty much unimpeachably wonderful, yet I too can't stand Push.
― Birds in Hell, Tuesday, 25 August 2015 04:10 (eight years ago) link
I can barely make out what Smith is saying in most of the song introductions on In Orange, bar the song titles!
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 16:47 (eight years ago) link
Something about wearing a dress on the train or something?
i think he says 'this is a song about when i used to wear dresses and ride the train'
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 16:54 (eight years ago) link
I think In Orange serves as a good introduction to the band as well as the first singles compilation does... it's a bit of a shame that it hasn't been re-released yet.
― Is it September 3rd yet? (Turrican), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 17:16 (eight years ago) link
NICE gonna listen to this during work today
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 17:18 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I think I'm going to give The Head On The Door a listen too... I expect I'll love it just as much as the other hundreds of times I've heard it. This album never, ever gets old for me.
― I mean, is the Pitchfork '80s list really that fucking important? (Turrican), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
Played Head On The Door last night and loved it. Followed it up with Japanese Whispers. Nice combo.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 17:45 (eight years ago) link
otm on the summer feeling of "In Between Days"
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 17:48 (eight years ago) link
xpost:
Yeah, I completely agree! I've always been incredibly fond of Japanese Whispers... I know it's a compilation, but when I listen to it, I tend to listen to it front-to-back and I think it stands up well as a mini-album.
― I don't particularly think it warrants that much discussion, to be qu (Turrican), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
Some mad genius has given 'The Cure In Orange' a once over via deinterlacing and it looks pretty decent. Not as good as a pro clean up job but you can't have everything can you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVS9EFUMUts
― piscesx, Friday, 16 April 2021 15:22 (three years ago) link
nice. love the version of 10.15 saturday night on there. push too!
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:19 (three years ago) link
Very lucky to see IN ORANGE at the Cinefamily in 35mm some years back with a great audience. The beginning with them walking in unison through a fog of dry ice like the gangstas they were at the time is just hysterical. People nearly gave a standing ovation for Lol’s 2 note keyboard solo on the “A Forest” outro
When Lol was promoting his memoir, he attended another screening (at the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood), but I didn’t catch it
― beamish13, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 05:41 (three years ago) link
That 4K interpolation looks TERRIBLE - I have a downloaded laserdisc rip which my TV upscales beautifully. Since I can't play my VHS tape any more.
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 05:58 (three years ago) link