THE MADNESS CONTINUES! (Cure b-side: the also-rans)

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What is your favorite of these b-sides which garnered 0 votes in this poll: WILL THE MADNESS NEVER STOP??? (The Cure B-Side poll)

Poll Results

Option	Votes
The Exploding Boy (Smith) – 2:54	4
Plastic Passion (Dempsey/Smith/Tolhurst) – 2:16	2
A Foolish Arrangement (Bamonte/Gallup/Smith/Thompson/Williams) – 3:51	2
Fear of Ghosts (Gallup/O'Donnell/Smith/Thompson/Tolhurst/Williams) – 6:51	2
Happy the Man (Smith) – 2:47	2
Snow in Summer (Gallup/Smith/Thompson/Tolhurst/Williams) – 3:27	1
Do the Hansa (Dempsey/Smith/Tolhurst) – 2:40	1
A Japanese Dream (Gallup/Smith/Thompson/Tolhurst/Williams) – 3:29	1
Adonais (Bamonte/Cooper/Gallup/O'Donnell/Smith) – 4:11	0
Ocean (Bamonte/Cooper/Gallup/O'Donnell/Smith) – 3:29	0
It Used to Be Me (Bamonte/Cooper/Gallup/O'Donnell/Smith) – 6:50	0
Home (Bamonte/Cooper/Gallup/O'Donnell/Smith) – 3:24	0
The Dream (Smith) – 3:12	0
Waiting (Bamonte/Cooper/Gallup/O'Donnell/Smith) – 3:34	0
A Pink Dream (Bamonte/Cooper/Gallup/O'Donnell/Smith) – 3:44	0
This Is a Lie [Ambient Mix] (Bamonte/Cooper/Gallup/O'Donnell/Smith) – 4:32	0
The Big Hand (Bamonte/Gallup/Smith/Thompson/Williams) – 4:53	0
Another Journey by Train (Gallup/Hartley/Smith/Tolhurst) – 3:06	0
Scared as You (Bamonte/Gallup/Smith/Thompson/Williams) – 4:12	0
Play (Bamonte/Gallup/Smith/Thompson/Williams) – 4:36	0
Descent (Gallup/Smith/Tolhurst) – 3:09	0
Out of Mind (Gallup/O'Donnell/Smith/Thompson/Tolhurst/Williams) – 3:51	0
Pillbox Tales (Dempsey/Smith/Tolhurst) – 2:56	0
Stop Dead (Smith) – 4:02	0
Splintered in Her Head (Gallup/Smith/Tolhurst) – 5:17	0
Wrong Number [P2P Remix] (Smith) – 8:14	0

― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Monday, 13 June 2011 19:41 (fourteen years ago)

do the haaaaaaaansa

― The best solid love doll Candysteen (absolutely clean glasses), Monday, 13 June 2011 19:44 (fourteen years ago)

"A Japanese Dream", or "Fear Of Ghosts", or "The Big Hand". Probably FOG.

― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 13 June 2011 20:08 (fourteen years ago)

Wanted to do Another Journey, which I love, but it has to be Plastic Passion for the great solo.

― broom air, Monday, 13 June 2011 20:32 (fourteen years ago)

There are few Cure songs I like better than Exploding Boy, and none of them are on this list.

― Spectrist, Monday, 13 June 2011 20:40 (fourteen years ago)

there are some monstrous songs on this list, as well as some underrated ones ("Ocean" and "Home" in particular never get the props they deserve)

― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Monday, 13 June 2011 20:41 (fourteen years ago)

"Happy the Man", with "Play" some way behind

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 19:28 (fourteen years ago)

'Splintered' 'Happy The Man' 'Fear Of Ghosts' are legit great as far as I'm concerned. Also 'Plastic Passion' for the way Robert sings 'scandal' if nothing else. Jeez AND 'Do The Hansa' obv.
Um..gah! 'Exploding Boy' okay i'll go with that! Too Hard!

― pandemic, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 12:18 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 23 June 2011 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

toss-up between Exploding Boy and Happy the Man... chose Exploding Boy, but on a different type of day could have easily chosen Happy the Man. Both are up there with my favorite Cure songs ever.

― rockapads, Thursday, 23 June 2011 23:13 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DXJIJOVNeG5w

― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 23 June 2011 23:18 (fourteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Friday, 24 June 2011 23:01 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

I remember when "The Big Hand" came out as an instrumental for the credits on The Cure: Picture Show VHS. We were so excited about it. It sounded amazing and we were thrilled that this was going to be the direction they were going in with the next album.

Then Wish came out and it wasn't even on it and we had to wait for the third single to get it as a B-Side ! Unfortunately, it didn't live up to the promise it had in that instrumental. It's not bad at all but something's missing. Can't quite figure out what though. I guess it's why the band didn't include it on the album in the end.

Still, most bands wish they had a song that good to put on their album, let alone discard it as a B-Side.

― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 11 October 2013 21:47 (twelve years ago)

Oops, wanted to post this on the other thread. Oh well..

― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 11 October 2013 21:48 (twelve years ago)

yeah that describes exactly my own experience with that song - the instrumental demo sounded so autumnal and subtle, and then the vocals and the sparkling production managed to kill the magic in that song.

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 13:13 (twelve years ago)

I still think that opening guitar riff is one of the best things to come out of the Wish recording sessions

― Bitch Fantastic (DJP), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 15:11 (twelve years ago)

oh hey this crowd might care about this; I put together a set list for a hypothetical Cure B-side concert:

https://twitter.com/djperry1973/status/388728705658286080
https://twitter.com/djperry1973/status/388729012228354048
https://twitter.com/djperry1973/status/388729234958458880
https://twitter.com/djperry1973/status/388730916161343488

I then made a Spotify playlist out of what I could find online (thank you Spotify for finally putting up Join the Dots in the US):

http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/1mid7lhfARfBfoEbzDG075

― Bitch Fantastic (DJP), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 15:30 (twelve years ago)

cool - might be interesting to do a comp of b-sides which have been played live (quite a few good ones now to choose from!)

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 15 October 2013 15:34 (twelve years ago)

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