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The Cure- album suggestions?
Well, I recently got into The Cure & usually when I get into an older band, I get all the albums but seeing as my laptop space is getting low, I've to do it slowly with them considering they've a big back catalogue
![]() So far I've got; Pornography Disintegration Wish What do you recommend I should get next? Baring in mind I'm more of a fan of the downbeat stuff? Thanks
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I like Bloodflowers, I think that's got a similar downbeat feel to Disintegration but isn't as good (but then few things are.)
The Head On The Door is a great album as well but that's more poppy/commercial I guess with tracks like Close To Me and Inbetween Days. |
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I would recommend you get Faith.
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Well, I recently got into The Cure & usually when I get into an older band, I get all the albums but seeing as my laptop space is getting low, I've to do it slowly with them considering they've a big back catalogue
![]() So far I've got; Pornography Disintegration Wish What do you recommend I should get next? Baring in mind I'm more of a fan of the downbeat stuff? Thanks ![]() I was a bundle of laughs as a teenager.
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Anything after Wish is a bit of a disappointment. Everything between Faith and Disintegration is worth getting.
Faith is pretty depressing and contains some of their finest misery songs like the Drowning Man and All Cats Are Grey. Pornography marks the real low point in Smith's moods and a point at which he was convinced he was going to die. When he didn't die he cheered up a bit and released a clutch of more upbeat singles (including the Lovecats) which were compiled on the Japanese Whispers album. Drugs then made things really weird and The Top was the result, which is a really trippy album. After a clean-up on the psychological front The Head on the Door was a more straightforward, largely poppy album and it's probably their most commercial effort, containing the hit singles Close To Me and Inbetween Days. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me came out after a long delay and contained a mix of upbeat, poppy tracks (like Hot Hot Hot) and a handful of their more morose songs (like A Thousand Hours) and probably their only real love song, Just Like Heaven. Disintegration is widely regarded as the band's masterpiece and rightly so. Every track is just perfect. Wish went back to Kiss Me Kiss Me territory with a mix of poppy songs like Friday I'm in Love and sad ones like From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea. |
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I quite like 4:13 Dream
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My favourite after Disintegration is Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, and then Faith/The Head on the Door.
To be honest everything from The Head on The Door to Wish is a safe bet. There are some good songs on Wild Mood Swings (like 'Want' and 'Mint Car') but they're few and far apart imo. Bloodflowers is great, The Cure (the self-titled album) is not. I'm not yet made my mind up about 4:13 Dream though.. really like 'Underneath the Stars' I also like The Top..... But it's best you not listen to that till you're fully used to the Cure (it's positively wacky). Disintegration is definitely they're best work, not because all the other albums are bad, because they're not at all, but becaue it's very nearly perfect - 'Plainsong' and 'Untitled' are my favourites. When you're used to the Cure then try Join the Dots which is a collection of generally very good rarieties and B-sides. Some B-sides are my favourite Cure songs. |
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Anything after Wish ...snipped just to save space.....Deep Green Sea.
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Thanks for all the suggestions guys
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I suppose I should go through the rest:
Three Imaginary Boys is much as you would expect for the début from a young band - full of energy and clearly influenced by the post-punk New Wave - much like early Bloc Party. It's definitely The Cure with Smith's unmistakable vocals, if a little young and rough around the edges, but that's part of 3IB's charm. A better introduction is Boys Don't Cry, which was the début album repackaged for the European market. It includes the early singles "Boys Don't Cry", "Killing an Arab" and "Jumping Someone Else's Train" and gets rid of a few substandard tracks from Three Imaginary Boys, making it a more satisfying album overall. Seventeen Seconds sees the band beginning to mature and relax into their unique sound. Songs slow down and become stretched, sounds are dissonant, alien and sparse. This is as close as The Cure would come to sounding as if they were produced by Martin Hannett. The album contains the early classic "A Forest" Then came Faith, Pornography, Japanese Whispers, The Top, The Head on the Door, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, Disintegration and Wish. After Wish came Wild Mood Swings in 1996. This represented the creative low point for the band and is regarded by some to be their worst effort in the entire catalogue. I don't have anything positive to say about it, I'm afraid. Bloodflowers came next and was Smith's attempt to create the final part of a trilogy of depressing albums, with Pornography and Disintegration being the other two. It only works partially. It's certainly morose and hard-going but it's lacking the bitterness and fury of Pornography and the tunefulness of Disintegration. The self-titled The Cure was an improvement of sorts, featuring a more balanced mix of up- and downbeat tracks but by now the band were in danger of almost parodying themselves rather than drawing on the influence of their past material. Smith occasionally sounds as if he's starting to get bored with his own sound. Producer Ross Robinson kept things alive with a "heavy" production but it's still way below par in comparison with their earlier output. The most recent album 4:13 Dream is largely upbeat and contains some songs which have been hanging around unreleased for years, so there's a curious mix of old-style Cure in there as well as hints of the new. There's little to get excited about here, though. They sound like a Cure tribute band rather than the real thing. One more essential purchase, though is the "Join the Dots" compilation, which gathers together all the band's B-sides and contains some excellent tracks. |
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