I FUCKING DESPAIR...The Cure 2011

[CellarOwl]

I thought Lost was one of the few bright spots on the album. At the time I really didn't like the S/T, but listening to it beside the shit sandwich that was mostly 4:13 Dream puts it in a totally different context. It could have been so much worse.

[shoegazer76]

Wish is in the top 10 albums of all time easily. Porl is a genius.

[Derekx]

Wish is in the top 10 albums of all time easily. Porl is a genius.

Fact. I grew up listening to this album. From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea is my favorite Cure song.

[CellarOwl]

Replace the weak middle section with the b-sides and it's arguably their best album.



Porl actually designed the album art after this track, but for some reason it was inexplicably left off the album.



Far fucking superior to Wendy Time or Trust.

[chiapet]

I've never liked Wish that much but I forget how many great songs are on that album... once again, there is not really a "bad" Cure album.

[microcuts]

Any Cure concert in the last 30 years stand out in your memory?

You can probably listen to it here. Jesus Christ, amazing.

http://cureforall.eklablog.com/

[sbessiso]

Any Cure concert in the last 30 years stand out in your memory?

You can probably listen to it here. Jesus Christ, amazing.

http://cureforall.eklablog.com/

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

thank you for this. thank you thank you thank you

[sacleonard]

Any Cure concert in the last 30 years stand out in your memory?

You can probably listen to it here. Jesus Christ, amazing.

http://cureforall.eklablog.com/

Wow. I'm streaming a performance from July 1996. It was the first show with my wife and my 3rd or 4th overall.

[shoegazer76]

I went to see the Wish tour in 92 at the Richfield Collesium in Cleveland. Thanks dad for taking me at the ripe ol age of 15.
R.I.P. Richfield Collesium. Too bad you got demolished.
I was so pissed they didn't play "Cut".

[shoegazer76]

I bought the all over print tee from this tour (half tye dye half silk screen). Think my mom threw it away. I haven't seen one of those shirts since.

[Pixiessp]

I have to say I haven't given the Cure much thought after the release of Disintegration. Shame on me. This doesn't mean I stopped listening to them.
Just means I did not keep up with new releases.

Here are my favorite songs from the CD's I do own.

Fire in Cairo - Three Imaginary Boys
Jumping Someone Else's Train - Boys Don't Cry
Play for Today - Seventeen Seconds
Faith - Faith
A Short Term Effect - Pornography
The Walk - Japanese Whispers
Piggy in the Mirror - The Top
In Between Days - The Head on the Door
The Snakepit - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Lullaby - Disintegration

[chiapet]

Wild Mood Swings really is great, but in a completely different direction. Though it took me a few listens to warm up to it, it's one of my favorites now. You should give it a try.

[Pixiessp]

I have 4:13 Dream. I think I gave it one listen and then filed it away.
I will give Wild Mood Swings some attention, Heidi.

[chiapet]

4:13 Dream isn't bad at all, but I just don't listen to it.

I listened to Wild Mood Swings a LOT a year or so after it came out. It's a manic blip in their bipolar discography. The first 2/3 of the album is quite good... the last bit of the album is kinda eh though.

[sbessiso]

No Bonnaroo or Lolla????

Let me into your world, Robert! What are you planning???

[CellarOwl]

Let me into your world, Robert! What are you planning???

Apparently a gig in Australia, playing all of Faith with Roger O'Donnell and maybe Lol, judging by Chain Of Flowers.

If it's more than just a one-off, I might have to put myself into a black hole of credit card debt and catch Bestival.

[darksideofkaos.]

Apparently a gig in Australia, playing all of Faith with Roger O'Donnell and maybe Lol, judging by Chain Of Flowers.

If it's more than just a one-off, I might have to put myself into a black hole of credit card debt and catch Bestival.

I remember hearing that a Faith tour was being considered but nothing was finalized.

[Mr.Trent]

also, all Orange videos on youtube have been deleted.. something official to be released maybe?

[sbessiso]

Apparently a gig in Australia, playing all of Faith with Roger O'Donnell and maybe Lol, judging by Chain Of Flowers.

If it's more than just a one-off, I might have to put myself into a black hole of credit card debt and catch Bestival.

!!!1
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[microcuts]

Lol was the one who pitched the idea of a Faith 30th Anniversary performance/tour last year. Robert's never made a mention of the likelihood of that happening. Even if it were to happen, would Lol be drumming (kicking Jason off?) or playing keyboards, and then why would Roger even need to be a component of this configuration? It all sounds like fan-wanking fantasy to me.

I think it's pretty evident that the band are performing in Sydney from around May 30-June 1, but the specific details are currently nothing more than mere speculation and vague "clues" courtesy of COF.

[suprefan]

http://pitchfork.com/news/42420-the-...lbums-in-full/

This year's Vivid Live festival takes place from May 27 to June 6 at Sydney, Australia's famed Sydney Opera House. The fest is curated by Stephen Pavlovic, head of the Modular label, and he's snagged a fairly big get to headline the whole shebang: goth-rock greats the Cure, who will perform their first three albums in their entirety for the first-- and, they say, only-- time.

The Cure's "Reflections" event will take place May 31 and June 1, and it'll feature the band playing their 1979 debut, Three Imaginary Boys, 1980's Seventeen Seconds, and 1981's Faith. The lineup will be made up of both present and past members of the Cure, and the whole thing will be recorded for a DVD. Pretty cool.

The rest of Vivid Live's lineup is pretty stacked, too, featuring a rare DJ set from the Avalanches, Spiritualized performing Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, Cut Copy, Bat for Lashes, OFWGKTA, Tame Impala, Architecture in Helsinki, 2ManyDJ's, Dom, Azari & III, WU LYF, and more. Get more info here, and listen to Faith's opening track, "The Holy Hour", below.

[chiapet]

..... now I fucking despair.
This looks amazing.

[CellarOwl]

It all sounds like fan-wanking fantasy to me.

Excuse me, but I'll be nutting all over my screen now.

[microcuts]

Three Imaginary Boys performance:
Robert Smith - voice/guitar
Simon Gallup - bass
Jason Cooper - drums

Seventeen Seconds performance:
Robert smith - voice/guitar
Simon Gallup - bass
Roger O'donnell - keys
Jason Cooper - drums

Faith performance:
Robert Smith - voice/guitar
Simon Gallup - bass
Roger O'donnell - keys/percussion
Laurence Tolhurst - keys/percussion
Jason Cooper - drums

Mystery Encore(s):
Who knows...?

[Mr.Trent]

I was seriously considering dropping money for this but since Jason is drumming I'll gladly wait for the DVD.. kthxbye

[bballarl]

Yeah, Trilogy pt. 2 please.

[sbessiso]

fuck....just fuck.

..... now I fucking despair.
This looks amazing.

said it best

[suprefan]

Yeah, Trilogy pt. 2 please.

Hollywood Bowl!!


That would be the ideal place.

[microcuts]

May 31st - Reflections 1st Night

Set 1
1. 10.15 Saturday Night
2. Accuracy
3. Grinding Halt
4. Another Day
5. Object
6. Subway Song
7. Foxy Lady
8. Meathook
9. So What
10. Fire in Cairo
11. It's Not You
12. Three Imaginary Boys

Set 2
13. A Reflection
14. Play for Today
15. Secrets
16. In Your House
17. Forever/Three
18. The Final Sound
19. A Forest
20. M
21. At Night
22. Seventeen Seconds

Set 3
23. The Holy Hour
24. Primary
25. Other Voices
26. All Cats Are Grey
27. The Funeral Party
28. Doubt
29. The Drowning Man
30. Faith

Encore 1
31. World War
32. I'm Cold
33. Plastic Passion
34. Boys Don't Cry
35. Killing an Arab
36. Jumping Someone Else's Train
37. Another Journey by Train

Encore 2
38. Descent
39. Splintered in Her Head
40. Charlotte Sometimes
41. The Hanging Garden

Encore 3
42. Let's Go to Bed
43. The Walk
44. The Lovecats

[Thisismyname]

Well fuck.