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Originally Posted by DarkAngel
Bong & PS.......just for discussion sake, what are the two weakest Cure full albums for you?
(don't say they are all great
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hey guys... sorry about my late posts, i was away for a week without an internet connection...
anyways, i think The Cure's two weakest albums would be "Wild Mood Swings" and "The Top." *big surprise* these two are half good, half bad; and inconsistant at best.
i know "Wild Mood Swings" was supposed to be all over the place (hence the title), but there are just too many weak songs littered throughout the album. the brilliant ones are "Want," "Jupiter Crash," "Treasure," and "Bare." i also applaud the ones where the band tries many different things with great results; i love the loungy feel of "The 13th," which sounded fresh the very day i bought the single, and still sounds fresh today. play this to a casual music listener and they will never guess it's The Cure. it also helps that it's a superbly written song that's infectiously catchy without the basic pop-song format. "This is a Lie" is also another unexpected song, something The Cure hasn't done before, with sparse arrangements and a string quartet. "Gone!" further explores the infectious jazz-bop of "The Lovecats." now the bad... with "Club America," Robert Smith has done spite better than this; "Strange Attraction" sounds like it tries too hard to be likable (although the story behind it is great), as well as "Mint Car," "Round & Round & Round," and "Return." if the weaker songs were swapped with all those excellent b-sides of the era, like "Adonais," "Home," "A Pink Dream," and "Waiting," WMS would've been an awesome album. i think i'll reburn WMS with those songs for myself, that'll easily put the album way up my preferences.
"The Top," hmm... what can i say about "The Top." it's really inconsistant, with half brilliant songs and half that falls flat. the problem was that Robert Smith is used to having input from the rest of the band. at this point, it was just him, Laurance Tolhurst, and drummer Andy Anderson. many had said that this was basically a solo album (Robert had said so himself), and there are debates whether Lol and Andy really contributed much. also, at this point in Cure history, Robert was way out of his mind for reasons or another, and also had other duties with Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Glove, as well as Tim Pope's (their video director) solo debut. somewhere in "Ten Imaginary Years," he said something about if he had more time and input, "The Top" would've been brilliant, but there was lack of time and he had to race to meet the release date. anyway... some brilliant songs are "Dressing Up," "The Catapillar," "Piggy In the Mirror," and the title track. "Bananafishbones" is just awful.
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Originally Posted by plainsong
Bong, would you say this album could be Son of Kiss Me & WMS?
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hmm... i'm sure you've gotten the new album already, but i'll have to say it's the son of "Pornagraphy" and "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me." the anger is not as poetic as on "Pornagraphy," but its there in ample amounts nevertheless. and like KMx3, there's a lot of variations and moods within the songs on the album without sounding inconsistant, something WMS suffers from.
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Originally Posted by strike
Not completely off-topic, but has anyone heard the "Lost Wishes?" I have the four tracks but they're not the highest quality (ripped from tape). Hopefully Smith will put them on the extra disc when Wish is re-released...
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i've heard the "Lost Wishes" songs. i think the tracks weren't all too striking. with the exception of the energetic "The Three Sisters," they're kinda like soft, breezy, instrumental background music. i recall i did like the naive "Off to Sleep" and "The Three Sisters." there were three more "Wish" era instrumentals that "leaked out" to the Cure community, and they were "Olde England," "Heart Attack," and "Slvvy." IMO these are better than some of the tracks on "Lost Wishes." these three instrumentals were much more striking and interesting.
anyway, it's almost past the one week mark with this new album, and i havn't stopped listening to it since. some songs are absolutely amazing, there are a few that i don't like...
