Have not got time to go through whole thing, but was Big ZBob a Crawley f@n? Was it Winker Williams’ assault on Our Matt that has caused his love To cease?
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[Music] The Cure
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Have not got time to go through whole thing, but was Big ZBob a Crawley f@n? Was it Winker Williams’ assault on Our Matt that has caused his love To cease?
HH Brighton
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- Jul 25, 2003
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New material sounds as good as anything they have ever produced
HH Brighton
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New material sounds as good as anything they have ever produced
Plainsong would be in my top 5. Beautifully atmospheric.
Stato
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I'm sure you're right about the Cure, but I think you misunderstand my attack. It's not that he hasn't made the obvious choice in terms of the Cure, it's that all of his music journalism is more concerned with his own self image than it is with a sheer love of music. You may be right that its his real opinion, however my reading of his all too frequent Guardian journalism makes me believe that his opinions, whether I agree or not are virtually always studied and carefully made considering all other opinions and very seldom made by his heart or his feet.
'Running Free' by the way. I preferred Iron Maiden with Di' anno. His voice may have been limited, but it had a punkier edge than Dickinson's. I know that the latter was technically a better singer and thought as a massive improvement by most of their serious fans, but I'm a sucker for a pop song and nothing else they did ever thrilled me as much as 'Running Free'.
One of the finest openers ever
On all 4 of your sets is Charlotte sometimes… stunning song - love it and it sums up the cure for me
Fair enough. I was responding in the context of these specific Guardian lists which started around 5 years ago. As an aside, I looked back over a few others and whilst the journalists change the format doesn’t e.g. they don’t always have the obvious number 1 but they always explain why. Make of that what you will.
As for Maiden, I’m torn between the two, and I had lost interest by the time Blaze Bayley joined. Running Free is a great song, and is one of just 4 songs I learn to play on my bass guitar.
BadFish
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- Oct 19, 2003
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While we're on The Cure, see:
Just like heaven: the Cure’s 20 greatest songs – ranked!
Ahead of the release of Songs of a Lost World – their first album in 16 years – we rate the best of a band who combine light and dark like no otherwww.theguardian.com
As AP states, it's all subjective and open to change. I'd certainly have Friday I'm in Love in there, probably Charlotte Sometimes too but, beyond that, pretty happy with the selection offered.
Good to see Alone there. I am thoroughly hooked on A Fragile thing at the moment too.
Good to see Catch there too, I love that song.
For me Push and How Beautiful you Are should be in there too.
And Jumping Someone Else's Train.
Honestly 20 isn't enough.
Not much from Disintegration on his list?
BadFish
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And what an album it opens!!! Same deep water as you, Disintegration, Facibation Street, prayers for Rain. Oh my.
It is getting played loud this weekend. (at the mere mention of plain song
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Silverhatch
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Open a headline set at Glastonbury with Plainsong… f***ing class
Push would definitely be on my list
CliveWalkerWingWizard
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I love homesick and it didn’t even make it onto the vinyl version of disintegration
letter to Elise is also up there as a favourite
letter to Elise is also up there as a favourite
BadFish
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Letter to Elise is one of my favourites, and from the edge of the Deep Green Sea.
Not to mention primary and play for today.
So many.
The Cure: Songs of a Lost World review – dark, personal and their best since Disintegration
The band are at an artistic peak on their first album in 16 years: movingly melancholic, with a punchy sound to match the lyrics’ emotional impact
www.theguardian.com
Glad that my fave Cure song, A Hundred Years, is at number 3.
Saw them perform it at Glastonbury in 1986 - after a scorching hot day, a thunderstorm raged overhead as darkness fell, while Robert wailed the opening line "Doesn't matter if we all die...". Sent shivers down my spine.
Saw them perform it at Glastonbury in 1986 - after a scorching hot day, a thunderstorm raged overhead as darkness fell, while Robert wailed the opening line "Doesn't matter if we all die...". Sent shivers down my spine.
Criminally underrated comment here.
Pogue Mahone
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An interesting take.One thing that's objectively true is that Alexis Petedris will never be caught picking the obvious answer, no matter how correct it is. He put Blue Monday at No 4 in the list of New Order songs. He reminds me of Lee & Herring's 'Ironic Review' parody of Julie Birchall and Tony Parsons, forever concerned more with what they want people to think they think, than with what they actually think. It always leads him to make the muso hack's easiest mistake of punishing the popular for being popular in an attempt to seem to know more than the herd. 'Just Like Heaven' at number 6?It's not that low in the list of greatest pop singles ever made, let alone in the Cure's catalogue.
He ‘will never be caught picking the obvious answer no matter how correct it is’ - this statement is odd to me. People will always have their favourites, it is never objectively ‘right’ that a certain track is a group’s best.
You use Blue Monday as your example. I wouldn’t have this in my top ten New Order songs, and I’m not trying to be cool about it.
I think his Cure top 20 is pretty good. I’d have had In Between Days at number 1 myself. Just Like Heaven would make my top 5, but his top 5 is a pretty strong choice.
I would also have had Jumping Someone Else’s Train and Killing an Arab in the top 20. And probably Let’s Go to Bed.
gazingdown
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I remember when The Cure were booked in for a gig but they couldn't make it, so Placebo turned up instead.
But no-one noticed...