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The Cure

A band with so many great songs and memories of a certain time for me.

Also amongst the first bands I ever saw live and I'm sad to say they remain amongst the very worst. :(
 
spanglechick said:
Saw then at crystal palace in 1991. I was sixteen. I shouted something out* and Robert Smith answered me**. I got pushed back from the front row during a sideways surge, and a tall bloke behind me leant forward and pared the masses so I could get back to the barrier. Glorious.


Funnily enough, I'm currently in my bedroom. No more than 250 metres from that very spot.






*"can we go swimming?" In reference to the lake between stage and audience.

** "perhaps later"
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They were fucking weird them gigs with the band on the other side of the lake, weren't they? I saw The Pixies there (might have been the same time as that Cure gig, thinking about it) and some bloke tripping off his nut decided to swim over to them then try to climb onstage soaking wet with electric cables everywhere. :D Kim Deal pissed herself.
 
S☼I said:
Atomic Meldrew more like

Not really really liking at least one Cure song is bordering on perverse imo
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I did like like world war once. I listened to it recently and it was shit.

I have a fondness for some of the early stuff, but I think that's just due to nostalgia and familiarity, the same way I can enjoy Mathew wilder doing break my stride.
 
Yep, still love them too. I've seen them once, I can't remember if it was Alexander palace or crystal palace tho, it was years ago.
 
Blagsta said:
Only seen em live once, 1989 Prayer Tour, Wembley Arena. They were supposed to break up after that.
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yep I was there too!

also saw them at Glastonbury twice (1990 and 1995 I think - actually I thought it was earlier than that but I think not 1986..:confused:). I used to be so so into them - had all the records/CDs, lyrics books, posters - everything. Still love them.

eta... gonna get in touch with my friend to find out what year it was we saw them at Glastonbury that first time - all those Glastonburys just tend to merge into one for me.
 
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One of the first concerts I ever went to: May 1984 at the Hammersmith Odeon for the Top Tour. Really good - I remembered staying on past the time I was supposed to get back home because they kept playing and I was just entranced to see a band playing live. Andy Anderson's drumming was fantastic.

Saw them again at Wembley Arena (probably in 1987) - and wasn't nearly as good.
 
killer b said:
how are they underrated? Everyone loves 'em don't they??
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I always get the impression that many people could only name Friday I'm in Love if asked for a Cure song, but they'd recognise quite a few others, if not as the Cure, if they heard them. Underappreciated might be a better term.

I bought The Top quite recently and that's shite, and for some reason I still haven't picked up Pornography. However, as I said yesterday the subsequent three LPs are near perfect.
 
stavros said:
I always get the impression that many people could only name Friday I'm in Love if asked for a Cure song, but they'd recognise quite a few others, if not as the Cure, if they heard them. Underappreciated might be a better term.
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They've sold 20-odd million albums, and still sell out huge venues whenever they play. They are fucking massive.
 
I was chatting to my Mum about which was her favourite Cure song and she picked 'Lovesong' which I thought was a good choice. A band played it at a wedding she went to recently and she congratulated them on their choice apparently. Don't know if much else off 'Disintegration' goes down that well at weddings tbh.
 
Voley said:
'Pornography' might be better. 'One Hundred Years' might be good for the first dance. All together now: "IT DOESN'T MATTER IF WE ALL DIE."
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"Here come's the bride.
All dressed in white.
Rape me like a child.
Christened in blood."
 
Voley said:
'Pornography' might be better. 'One Hundred Years' might be good for the first dance. All together now: "IT DOESN'T MATTER IF WE ALL DIE."
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Fantastic album - the coldness of the production is stunning. Also well ahead of the game with the programming and use of synths. New Order rightly get credit for their groundbreaking use of technology but not the Crawley goths!
 
stavros said:
I always get the impression that many people could only name Friday I'm in Love if asked for a Cure song, but they'd recognise quite a few others, if not as the Cure, if they heard them. Underappreciated might be a better term.

I bought The Top quite recently and that's shite, and for some reason I still haven't picked up Pornography. However, as I said yesterday the subsequent three LPs are near perfect.
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Pornography is my fave- but have difficulty listening to it - painful teen depression- takes me right back there, as does joy division. I never saw them live but had a huge crush on fat bob.
When I was 14 I sent him some vitamin pills- he was looking really peaky! I also cut his initials into my fore arm- still there:oops:
 
Great band in their day and was an obsessive cure Fan when I was 16. Some of the songs still stand up (but not Friday in in Love). Would echo others on their best period - Heyday was Kiss me Kiss me Kiss me, Head on the Door and Disintegration. Some earlier stuff was ok but they came of age when they stopped trying to sounds like Joy Division so much IMO.
 
I'd add 'Wish' to the list of their best albums along with Pornography and the masterpiece that is Disintegration.

I loved Bloodflowers as well but have never met anyone else who did :(
 
What ensnared me to investigating their back catalogue initially was hearing an absolutely incredible live version of Disintegration the song. It was one of those moments you sometimes have in music.
 
kalidarkone said:
Pornography is my fave- but have difficulty listening to it - painful teen depression- takes me right back there, as does joy division. I never saw them live but had a huge crush on fat bob.
When I was 14 I sent him some vitamin pills- he was looking really peaky! I also cut his initials into my fore arm- still there:oops:
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The trilogy of 17 Seconds, Faith and Pornography are my favourites.
 
They lost me early on, loved the first album and saw them in 1979 at the Gaumont supporting the Banshees when Bob played guitar for both bands; a great great gig. But didn't really get what he was doing after that.
 
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