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Let's do this!
The Kiss is such a badass album opener. I love the psychedelic feel to this album, its way more prominant than say, The Top, which most people consider their "psychedelic" album. That album is just weird (however great).
liking what I'm hearing so far....
YES!!! Get ready for liftoff!!!!
The Kiss is the way I like my Cure. The band lays down the intro by creating this spacey sonic atmospheric dreamscape and then Robert's voice cuts in and you immediately know he's the god of this realm that the music has created. Spark em if you got em!!!
Simons bass lines on this album are fucking killer. Well, they pretty much always are, but still...
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The first record that ever showed me how powerful the effect marijuana and music could have on each other was "Show"
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Yes, The Kiss is a great opener. Never saw them live, but I imagine this would kick some ass as an opening song live...
IF ONLY TONIGHT WE COULD SLEEEEEP, IN A BED MADE OF FLOWERS!!! This is what I mean by tbe Psychedelic Cure that I love.
Catch always reminds me of Felt which was one of my favorite bands from that era.
Quote from: sweatboard on Sep 21, 2011, 09:34 PM
The first record that ever showed me how powerful the effect marijuana and music could have on each other was "Show"
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Show_(Cure_album).jpg)
Show rules! However, I prefer Paris.
Quote from: Ghosts_on_TV on Sep 21, 2011, 09:31 PM
Simons bass lines on this album are fucking killer. Well, they pretty much always are, but still...
This is the ultimate Cure lineup. Each member both takes turns being mind-blowing stars and being them together....creating a milky way of minblowingness.
What is the guitar tones that they and other 80's bands use to make them sound, well, 80's I guess? it sounds clean but it also sounds like there is some mighty reverb involved.
Nice use of a horn section on Torture...
If all Cure was as badass as The Kiss, I'd be a huge fan. One thing I get from listening to this album for the 1st time is how ahead of the time they were. All the 2000's indie rock that I despised owe so much to this and can't hold shit to it.
And yeah, I'm totally a slut for killer upfront basslines. Simon kills on Torture and How Beautiful You Are
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Quote from: sweatboard on Sep 21, 2011, 09:34 PM
The first record that ever showed me how powerful the effect marijuana and music could have on each other was "Show"
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Show_(Cure_album).jpg)
Show rules! However, I prefer Paris.
Interesting that you pick this album then. I always thought of Paris as being more Faith, Pornography, 17 seconds. Which is sort of a diffrent Cure, than Wish, Kiss Me, Head on the Door.
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Quote from: Ghosts_on_TV on Sep 21, 2011, 09:31 PM
Simons bass lines on this album are fucking killer. Well, they pretty much always are, but still...
This is the ultimate Cure lineup. Each member both takes turns being mind-blowing stars and being them together....creating a milky way minblowingness.
Except Lol, who really didnt do anything but get wasted by this point. This was his last album. He is credited on Disintegration, but actually he didn't to anything on it. He barely did on this.
If only tonight we could sleep --- already had candles lighting my den, this brings that choice to a whole new level. :thumbsup:
Quote from: wolof7 on Sep 21, 2011, 09:46 PM
If only tonight we could sleep --- already had candles lighting my den, this brings that choice to a whole new level. :thumbsup:
Absolutely love the layering on this song! Great production! So atmospheric
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Quote from: sweatboard on Sep 21, 2011, 09:39 PM
Quote from: Ghosts_on_TV on Sep 21, 2011, 09:31 PM
Simons bass lines on this album are fucking killer. Well, they pretty much always are, but still...
This is the ultimate Cure lineup. Each member both takes turns being mind-blowing stars and being them together....creating a milky way minblowingness.
Except Lol, who really didnt do anything but get wasted by this point. This was his last album. He is credited on Disintegration, but actually he didn't to anything on it. He barely did on this.
Well, I'm really fascinated by the keyboard duties on this and disintegration. I actually think they are REALLY amazing. I was listening to this today thinking, "man this has to be the same guy from disintegration" but he wasn't credited on wiki for Disintegration which really confused me. I think he is really atmospheric and beautiful, like the keys on Disintegration. Like MMJ's first keyboard player, who I always thought must have been big
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Quote from: Ghosts_on_TV on Sep 21, 2011, 09:37 PM
Quote from: sweatboard on Sep 21, 2011, 09:34 PM
The first record that ever showed me how powerful the effect marijuana and music could have on each other was "Show"
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Show_(Cure_album).jpg)
Show rules! However, I prefer Paris.
Interesting that you pick this album then. I always thought of Paris as being more Faith, Pornography, 17 seconds. Which is sort of a diffrent Cure, than Wish, Kiss Me, Head on the Door.
I was thinking about Pornography. I love all sides of the cure. I love that Paris starts with the figurehead and has Letter to Elise and Dressing up on it. For this I wanted something a little more, i don't know....deminsonal? Pornography (while I love it) is straight up morbid, this has more sides to it.
How beautiful you are is my favorite so far....talkin layering and preduction
Quote from: wolof7 on Sep 21, 2011, 09:52 PM
How beautiful you are is my favorite so far....talkin layering and preduction
Especially when compared to the actual first single off this album the song before.
Why is a nice song, but a bit to synthy and poppy for my taste. How
Beautiful really captures all of the sounds of this band so well.
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Quote from: Ghosts_on_TV on Sep 21, 2011, 09:37 PM
Quote from: sweatboard on Sep 21, 2011, 09:34 PM
The first record that ever showed me how powerful the effect marijuana and music could have on each other was "Show"
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Show_(Cure_album).jpg)
Show rules! However, I prefer Paris.
Interesting that you pick this album then. I always thought of Paris as being more Faith, Pornography, 17 seconds. Which is sort of a diffrent Cure, than Wish, Kiss Me, Head on the Door.
I was thinking about Pornography. I love all sides of the cure. I love that Paris starts with the figurehead and has Letter to Elise and Dressing up on it. For this I wanted something a little more, i don't know....deminsonal? Pornography (while I love it) is straight up morbid, this has more sides to it.
Great point, this pretty much hit's about three or four dimensions The Cure is able to create. Disintegration is my favorite but they really just hold steady in one universe for that one
How Beautiful You Are Has Accordion?
This record really does an amazing job of using Strings, Brass, Woodwinds, etc... in just the right places without being cheesy or lame.
and the lyrics.....
And in the road before us
Stood a weary greyish man
Who held a child upon his back
A small boy by the hand
The three of them were dressed in rags
And thinner than the air
And all six eyes stared fixedly on you
The father's eyes said "Beautiful!
How beautiful you are!"
The boy's eyes said
"How beautiful!
She shimmers like a star!"
The childs eyes uttered nothing
But a mute and utter joy
And filled my heart with shame for us
At the way we are
I turned to look at you
To read my thoughts upon your face
And gazed so deep into your eyes
So beautiful and strange
Until you spoke
And showed me understanding is a dream
"I hate these people staring
Make them go away from me!"
The synthy drums on Snakepit are iffy for me. Yeah, so far the Kiss, Torture and TOnight work for me.
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Quote from: Ghosts_on_TV on Sep 21, 2011, 09:43 PM
Quote from: sweatboard on Sep 21, 2011, 09:39 PM
Quote from: Ghosts_on_TV on Sep 21, 2011, 09:31 PM
Simons bass lines on this album are fucking killer. Well, they pretty much always are, but still...
This is the ultimate Cure lineup. Each member both takes turns being mind-blowing stars and being them together....creating a milky way minblowingness.
Except Lol, who really didnt do anything but get wasted by this point. This was his last album. He is credited on Disintegration, but actually he didn't to anything on it. He barely did on this.
Well, I'm really fascinated by the keyboard duties on this and disintegration. I actually think they are REALLY amazing. I was listening to this today thinking, "man this has to be the same guy from disintegration" but he wasn't credited on wiki for Disintegration which really confused me. I think he is really atmospheric and beautiful, like the keys on Disintegration. Like MMJ's first keyboard player, who I always thought must have been big
Porl actually did most of the keyboard parts on this.
Porl and Robert take Snakepit OVER!!!!!! What great guitar interplay. What a perfect sound for a song called snake pit. Hypnotize.
This is how I like My Cure
Quote from: Ghosts_on_TV on Sep 21, 2011, 09:36 PM
IF ONLY TONIGHT WE COULD SLEEEEEP, IN A BED MADE OF FLOWERS!!! This is what I mean by tbe Psychedelic Cure that I love.
OH MY GOD....this.....i used to listen to this (cassette) over and over and over at nite, and usually fall asleep to it.............
The Cure has always been a band that I definitely need to be in the right mood and mindset for, but this album alway works for me.
Sorry, is this a private club?
so who really did keys on disintegration?
Quote from: sweatboard on Sep 21, 2011, 10:02 PM
Porl and Robert take Snakepit OVER!!!!!! What great guitar interplay. What a perfect sound for a song called snake pit. Hypnotize.
This is how I like My Cure
Yeah. Agreed! Total psychelics on that one...
But yeah, as I make it through Snakepit, this song is pretty sick! How do these songs translate live? This would be awesome!
Just Like Heaven makes me want to just get up and jump around the room. Such a happy song!
Quote from: Ruckus on Sep 21, 2011, 10:05 PM
But yeah, as I make it through Snakepit, this song is pretty sick! How do these songs translate live? This would be awesome!
Never seen Snakepit live but, they know what they are doing live. I wasn't sure if it was the intensity of the lights or the wall of sound, or just to be in the same place on the planet as Robert.....but I was in tears by the middle of the first song.
Quote from: iLikeBeer on Sep 21, 2011, 10:07 PM
Just Like Heaven makes me want to just get up and jump around the room. Such a happy song!
Exactly, I hate when people say The Cure is depressing. He writes the most beautiful and uplifting songs about BEING IN LOVE. Just Like Heaven is one of the greatest songs written. Period.
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Quote from: iLikeBeer on Sep 21, 2011, 10:07 PM
Just Like Heaven makes me want to just get up and jump around the room. Such a happy song!
Exactly, I hate when people say The Cure is depressing. He writes the most beautiful and uplifting songs about BEING IN LOVE. Just Like Heaven is one of the greatest songs written. Period.
agree with all of this....they are not even close to the most depressing band I've ever heard. I feel Elliot Smith and even Joy Division has them beat in that dept....I always felt that depressive music got a bad rap anyways.
So, Hot Hot Hot and One More Time make me wonder if Prince was influenced by the Cure or vice versa. I need to look that up. :)
All I Want is another of those songs on this album that has it all. The haunitng guitar riffs mixed with the keyboards and bass lines. Beautiful song...
Quote from: sweatboard on Sep 21, 2011, 10:17 PM
So, Hot Hot Hot and One More Time make me wonder if Prince was influenced by the Cure or vice versa. I need to look that up. :)
LOL! :)
All I Want rocks with great balance between the keys and guitar, I guess much like the others.
Are there three guitars going in HHH? I guess it's natural to compare this to the Talking Heads?
Yeah. The Kiss is a great opener. The guitar on this album is fantastic. The Snake Pit is great. Why Can't I Be You is excellent. Hot Hot Hot is great.
One more time makes me want to slow dance with my high school girlfriend in some gymnasium in space.
What are the odds Ghost is getting laid right now?
Quote from: Ghosts_on_TV on Sep 21, 2011, 10:21 PM
One more time makes me want to slow dance with my high school girlfriend in some gymnasium in space.
I thought we lost you there :)
Best Sex Ever....The Cure, A Blacklight, and some glow in the dark lube.
Mmmm, weightless bungie cord sex
Quote from: Ghosts_on_TV on Sep 21, 2011, 10:21 PM
One more time makes me want to slow dance with my high school girlfriend in some gymnasium in space.
Perfect!!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :)
Quote from: Ghosts_on_TV on Sep 21, 2011, 10:21 PM
One more time makes me want to slow dance with my high school girlfriend in some gymnasium in space.
Totally! :beer:
Excuse me while I go burn one... 8)
I've always thought Jim and Robert have so much in common. If you can write a song about the beauty of love, you can then write about the devastation of love leaving.
Icing Sugar is an amazing track....they're giving off a jungle, blade runner vibe/sound with an alleyway saxophonist tearing it up
Perfect Girl is a fun track as well
Quote from: sweatboard on Sep 21, 2011, 10:22 PM
What are the odds Ghost is getting laid right now?
;D
You could probably bust out some killer moves during a song like hot hot hot!
Quote from: iLikeBeer on Sep 21, 2011, 10:27 PM
Excuse me while I go burn one... 8)
Ha, The Cure!!!!!!
Like Cacatoos, remindes me of The Head on the Door, another great one. They really do span the spectrum on this record. Great Choice Ghosts!!!!
Hot Hot Hot can make you wake up with glow in the dark lube all over your walls.
Quote from: wolof7 on Sep 21, 2011, 10:28 PM
Icing Sugar is an amazing track....they're giving off a jungle, blade runner vibe/sound with an alleyway saxophonist tearing it up
Perfect Girl is a fun track as well
Boris and Simon!!!!
Oh, Brian, forgot to post it before, but Roger O'donnel played keys on Disintegration.
Quote from: sweatboard on Sep 21, 2011, 10:35 PM
Quote from: wolof7 on Sep 21, 2011, 10:28 PM
Icing Sugar is an amazing track....they're giving off a jungle, blade runner vibe/sound with an alleyway saxophonist tearing it up
Perfect Girl is a fun track as well
Boris and Simon!!!!
Boris's drums on icing sugar are sick!
Quote from: sweatboard on Sep 21, 2011, 09:59 PM
How Beautiful You Are Has Accordion?
This record really does an amazing job of using Strings, Brass, Woodwinds, etc... in just the right places without being cheesy or lame.
and the lyrics.....
And in the road before us
Stood a weary greyish man
Who held a child upon his back
A small boy by the hand
The three of them were dressed in rags
And thinner than the air
And all six eyes stared fixedly on you
The father's eyes said "Beautiful!
How beautiful you are!"
The boy's eyes said
"How beautiful!
She shimmers like a star!"
The childs eyes uttered nothing
But a mute and utter joy
And filled my heart with shame for us
At the way we are
I turned to look at you
To read my thoughts upon your face
And gazed so deep into your eyes
So beautiful and strange
Until you spoke
And showed me understanding is a dream
"I hate these people staring
Make them go away from me!"
Remindes me of these lyrics by wolf parade.....
You said you hate the sound
Of the busses on the ground
You said you hate the way they scrape their brakes all over town
I said pretend it's whales
Keeping their voices down
Such were the grounds for divorce I know
Quote from: Ghosts_on_TV on Sep 21, 2011, 10:36 PM
Oh, Brian, forgot to post it before, but Roger O'donnel played keys on Disintegration.
Thanks Dave. I'm so shocked that it was someone new to the band. The keys really are amazing on that record.
A Thousand Hours *Rips Heart Out Of Chest*
You can't listen to this song and tell me you don't hear the similarities between Robert and Yim.
Also, people that say the cure is depressing just don't really know the cure. Can they be? Sure. But listen to Just Like heaven, like you guys were saying, or a song like Mint Car from wild mood swings. Thats like the happiest song ever.
Quote from: Ghosts_on_TV on Sep 21, 2011, 10:43 PM
Also, people that say the cure is depressing just don't really know the cure. Can they be? Sure. But listen to Just Like heaven, like you guys were saying, or a song like Mint Car from wild mood swings. Thats like the happiest song ever.
Friday I'm In Love.....Actually THE HAPPIEST SONG EVER WRITTEN.. FACT!
Just finished the album....that was a lot to take in, will indulge in another listen or 2 this week...really liked what I heard. first impression score 7.4.... but I am a man who knows a quality/classic album when I hear one....with more time I'm sure I'd put it round and 8.5 or higher, great choice Ghosts...
...gotta early rise tomorrow gentlemen, I'm off....can't wait to see what #5 will be.
Quote from: sweatboard on Sep 21, 2011, 10:42 PM
A Thousand Hours *Rips Heart Out Of Chest*
You can't listen to this song and tell me you don't hear the similarities between Robert and Yim.
I know! Gorgeous!
The Cure can make anyone with a heart, even middleaged men :) want to dance around like a teenage girl alone in her bedroom.
Quote from: wolof7 on Sep 21, 2011, 10:44 PM
Just finished the album....that was a lot to take in, will indulge in another listen or 2 this week...really liked what I heard. first impression score 7.4.... but I am a man who knows a quality/classic album when I hear one....with more time I'm sure I'd put it round and 8.5 or higher, great choice Ghosts...
...gotta early rise tomorrow gentlemen, I'm off....can't wait to see what #5 will be.
Glad you dig!
Quote from: Ghosts_on_TV on Sep 21, 2011, 10:44 PM
Quote from: sweatboard on Sep 21, 2011, 10:42 PM
A Thousand Hours *Rips Heart Out Of Chest*
You can't listen to this song and tell me you don't hear the similarities between Robert and Yim.
I know! Gorgeous!
What a beutiful song that is indeed...
I never perceived the Cure to be depressing. I just was never a fan of Robert Smith. For those diehards that standby this album, do you wish that the album was split? It's just all over the place. From the psych explorations to the bouncy dancy to the rockin' closers and everything in between?
Quote from: Ruckus on Sep 21, 2011, 10:53 PM
I never perceived the Cure to be depressing. I just was never a fan of Robert Smith. For those diehards that standby this album, do you wish that the album was split? It's just all over the place. From the psych explorations to the bouncy dancy to the rockin' closers and everything in between?
That's been the rub on this album is how all over the place it seems to be. IMO, most of the songs fit so I wouldn't see the need to split the album.
Quote from: Ruckus on Sep 21, 2011, 10:53 PM
I never perceived the Cure to be depressing. I just was never a fan of Robert Smith. For those diehards that standby this album, do you wish that the album was split? It's just all over the place. From the psych explorations to the bouncy dancy to the rockin' closers and everything in between?
See, I like that about it. It's definitely on purpose, as they know how to make a cohesive album as good (or better) as anybody. See Pornography or Disintegration.
Quote from: iLikeBeer on Sep 21, 2011, 10:56 PM
Quote from: Ruckus on Sep 21, 2011, 10:53 PM
I never perceived the Cure to be depressing. I just was never a fan of Robert Smith. For those diehards that standby this album, do you wish that the album was split? It's just all over the place. From the psych explorations to the bouncy dancy to the rockin' closers and everything in between?
That's been the rub on this album is how all over the place it seems to be. IMO, most of the songs fit so I wouldn't see the need to split the album.
Gotcha. Definitely gave me a newfound respect for this band for sure.
Quote from: Ruckus on Sep 21, 2011, 10:59 PM
Quote from: iLikeBeer on Sep 21, 2011, 10:56 PM
Quote from: Ruckus on Sep 21, 2011, 10:53 PM
I never perceived the Cure to be depressing. I just was never a fan of Robert Smith. For those diehards that standby this album, do you wish that the album was split? It's just all over the place. From the psych explorations to the bouncy dancy to the rockin' closers and everything in between?
That's been the rub on this album is how all over the place it seems to be. IMO, most of the songs fit so I wouldn't see the need to split the album.
Gotcha. Definitely gave me a newfound respect for this band for sure.
Awesome!!
I even think Head On The Door is cohesive, even though they are all weird and different songs (I guess that's what's cohesive about it). I think kiss me was an album made when they knew they could do a Varity of things well.
It's my pick and I'm torn between two albums for next week.
Head over to the Forum Album Club thread to vote. I'm going to rely on you fine folks to help me with the verdict.
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Quote from: Ghosts_on_TV on Sep 21, 2011, 09:36 PM
IF ONLY TONIGHT WE COULD SLEEEEEP, IN A BED MADE OF FLOWERS!!! This is what I mean by tbe Psychedelic Cure that I love.
OH MY GOD....this.....i used to listen to this (cassette) over and over and over at nite, and usually fall asleep to it.............
The Cure has always been a band that I definitely need to be in the right mood and mindset for, but this album alway works for me.
Sorry, is this a private club?
You could join us Trish! :)
Quote from: sweatboard on Sep 21, 2011, 11:08 PM
It's my pick and I'm torn between two albums for next week.
Head over to the Forum Album Club thread to vote. I'm going to rely on you fine folks to help me with the verdict.
So, how long are you going to make us wait to see who we're voting on? ;)
Nice album choice toinght Ghosts!
Always like the old-school selections.
Quote from: iLikeBeer on Sep 21, 2011, 11:23 PM
Quote from: sweatboard on Sep 21, 2011, 11:08 PM
It's my pick and I'm torn between two albums for next week.
Head over to the Forum Album Club thread to vote. I'm going to rely on you fine folks to help me with the verdict.
So, how long are you going to make us wait to see who we're voting on? ;)
Nice album choice toinght Ghosts!
Always like the old-school selections.
Sorry,
http://www.mymorningjacket.com/forum/index.php?topic=15455.100 (http://www.mymorningjacket.com/forum/index.php?topic=15455.100)
Got a late start on this and it's a long album, will have to continue with this in the next few days. I've always liked The Cure songs I knew from the radio, but never took the time to get to know them more.
Quote from: ManNamedTruth on Sep 22, 2011, 01:19 AM
Got a late start on this and it's a long album, will have to continue with this in the next few days. I've always liked The Cure songs I knew from the radio, but never took the time to get to know them more.
I know what you mean, I hate the radio, it's NEVER a good way to get to know a band. It's just always a bend for great bands, and a suction for shitty ones
I just read that Porl isn't in the band again! That sucks!
So I just got done listening to The Top. Man, that really is a fucking weird album.
This is probably my favorite Cure song, Halo. It's a Wish b side. Excuse the cheesy fan made video.
The Cure - Halo (lyrics) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmqJBm72WP8#)
Wow, this is 1 of those albums that is hard to describe. Ive never listened to The Cure outside of hearing them on the radio now and again. I can appreciate the music, but a lot of this album just feels repetitive to me. Im sure if I listened multiple times I could distinguish things, but musically I want to get into the next song but mostly cant because it all sounded so similar.
I dont know enough about the band, but this strikes me as something nostalgic where its great if you liked it then or grew up in the 80's, but otherwise, its harder to enjoy/appreciate (I realize thats not the case, just how it struck me). A lot of songs blurred into each other. I never thought it was depressing as some people said, but this struck me as music that took advantage of when it was released because most 80's music sucked. I thought the musicianship was better than expected, I especially liked the songs that had an opening buildup, but overall I felt like the songs really blur together and sound similar.
I like the Talking Heads a good bit, and I just feel like they stand up to the test of time more than what Im hearing here, but that might be personal preference.
Favorite Tracks:
1) The Kiss
2) If Only We Could Sleep?
3) The Snakepit