3 hours of The Cure
November 2, 2024 7:04 AM Subscribe
Fat Bob and the boys saddle up!
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon at 8:51 AM on November 2 [1 favorite]
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon at 8:51 AM on November 2 [1 favorite]
Also, if you're quick (and have access to BBC Sounds) there's this.
posted by Paul Slade at 10:22 AM on November 2
posted by Paul Slade at 10:22 AM on November 2
Bad book blurb: Robert Smith and band time travel to Greece's mythic age
Book: The Cure at Troy
posted by otherchaz at 12:48 PM on November 2 [1 favorite]
Book: The Cure at Troy
posted by otherchaz at 12:48 PM on November 2 [1 favorite]
So I haven't listened yet. I've heard various tracks over the years that were supposed to be for this album (I assume most were on it) but I know he removed some tracks and put some "happier" songs in, as people told him it was relentlessly bleak.
I have been waiting so long, and I ... am a bit sad because to me the last "great" cure album was Bloodflowers. The Cure and 4:13 dream were not coherent enough, and they feel too samey. There's a great point where the Cure can balance tracks on an album, Wild Mood Swings and Top were two offenders of "way too many weird things happening" but then 4:13 dream is the opposite. Alone is my worry - that the vibes of this are going to be the whole album and it's just going to be drone with no real rhythmic interestingness, and he no longer has the cute voice at times so I think the "riffic" part of "depressarific" isn't there like it used to be.
I hope there IS some mix, but not too much. I want doom and gloom, but I worry that it's going to be just... plodding. The old doomy tracks could be plodding but they had some rhythmic drive.
Crossing fingers this is better than the last 2 releases.
Next up? Boards of Canada, it's your turn, guys.
posted by symbioid at 12:51 PM on November 2 [1 favorite]
I have been waiting so long, and I ... am a bit sad because to me the last "great" cure album was Bloodflowers. The Cure and 4:13 dream were not coherent enough, and they feel too samey. There's a great point where the Cure can balance tracks on an album, Wild Mood Swings and Top were two offenders of "way too many weird things happening" but then 4:13 dream is the opposite. Alone is my worry - that the vibes of this are going to be the whole album and it's just going to be drone with no real rhythmic interestingness, and he no longer has the cute voice at times so I think the "riffic" part of "depressarific" isn't there like it used to be.
I hope there IS some mix, but not too much. I want doom and gloom, but I worry that it's going to be just... plodding. The old doomy tracks could be plodding but they had some rhythmic drive.
Crossing fingers this is better than the last 2 releases.
Next up? Boards of Canada, it's your turn, guys.
posted by symbioid at 12:51 PM on November 2 [1 favorite]
was quite excellent.
posted by sibboleth at 12:55 PM on November 2 [1 favorite]
posted by sibboleth at 12:55 PM on November 2 [1 favorite]
I am enjoying this. This is the first Cure album since Wish that I'm really trying to like. I don't mind the gloominess, but what made Disintegration so great wasn't the doom, it was heaps of great riffs and melodies stacked on top of each other. "And Nothing Is Forever" at least has a melody. A lot of the tracks seem to have textural elements taking up space where they used to have great melodies. Also, the drums were so fantastic when Boris was in the band and now they're just ok. But I like that they're still at it and doing something that is thematically relevant to me as a middle-aged person. I'm going to keep trying to get into the album a bit more. Listening to this show is helping.
posted by snofoam at 1:34 PM on November 2 [5 favorites]
posted by snofoam at 1:34 PM on November 2 [5 favorites]
Boards of Canada, it's your turn, guys.
12 bloody years! I know, it’s not like they owe us another album, but the not knowing is painful, especially as there are continuous murmurs that one’s done and slouching towards release.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 2:06 PM on November 2 [3 favorites]
12 bloody years! I know, it’s not like they owe us another album, but the not knowing is painful, especially as there are continuous murmurs that one’s done and slouching towards release.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 2:06 PM on November 2 [3 favorites]
We checked this out last night. I'm liking the new stuff a lot, it reminds me a lot of Wish without being a Xerox of it. They haven't topped Disintegration, but it's an album worthy of the band IMO.
The performance is fantastic, the folks who got to see the performance live are lucky indeed. I hope to be able to take my fam to see The Cure live when they go out behind this album... Robert is still in fine form live.
posted by jzb at 2:41 PM on November 2 [2 favorites]
The performance is fantastic, the folks who got to see the performance live are lucky indeed. I hope to be able to take my fam to see The Cure live when they go out behind this album... Robert is still in fine form live.
posted by jzb at 2:41 PM on November 2 [2 favorites]
I love the Cure, but agree with symbioid above that Bloodflowers was the last 'sticky' Cure release for me.
Lots of people really like the new one, and I'm really happy they do, but I feel like I'm missing something -- to me, it just feels like a lot of interstitial tracks from post-Wish albums. Like you could have had these tracks in any of the last three albums, just in between other tracks, and they'd've just been there.
I'm going to try again with headphones and full focus this evening -- sometimes that 'unlocks' an album I haven't been able to get into.
posted by Shepherd at 3:23 PM on November 3
Lots of people really like the new one, and I'm really happy they do, but I feel like I'm missing something -- to me, it just feels like a lot of interstitial tracks from post-Wish albums. Like you could have had these tracks in any of the last three albums, just in between other tracks, and they'd've just been there.
I'm going to try again with headphones and full focus this evening -- sometimes that 'unlocks' an album I haven't been able to get into.
posted by Shepherd at 3:23 PM on November 3
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(Oh and the new album is excellent too!)
posted by jeremias at 8:13 AM on November 2 [3 favorites]