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Post by brettj on Apr 17, 2023 9:40:18 GMT
April (2) 2023 - The Cure - Faith 1981
I find this a challenge each time the Album Choice ticks over.
Had considered Marquee Moon last time, but a challenge to entice our guitar hero was too great an opportunity to miss.
Which Cure album?
A long walk over the weekend meant I could listen to the first three.
Faith is the album I play most often. Listen at least monthly.
A memorable walk near midnight in Christchurch a year after the devastating earthquake in 2011, the most haunting.
I moved away from them after that.
Not a direction I enjoyed, with their dour next release.
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 17, 2023 16:44:31 GMT
Hi Brett, thanks for your choice!
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Post by Tim on Apr 17, 2023 17:07:29 GMT
Can't say I've ever really explored them that much, never really grabbed me, but my best mate from school days absolutely loved them, obsessional even. So much so they played a part in his marriage breakdown! So I'll give it a go  |
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Post by MartinT on Apr 17, 2023 17:43:03 GMT
Promising opening but the vocals are so disappointing. Why is he mixed as if singing from behind the band? There's also a relentless whining screechy character to the singing. It ends up sounding like jangly guitars and the same vocals over everything. Is it post-punk or did they ever leave punk behind?
Sorry, Brett, this is doing absolutely nothing for me. Others have tried and failed to get me to like them, so you're in good company. 1/4
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Post by Tim on Apr 17, 2023 21:24:30 GMT
I didn't mind this, not something I'd ever play as punk passed me by as a prog rocker in my yoof and it's not something I've ever got into since then. Closest I've ever got to punk is Joy Division, who I love . . . . timeless music and a one of a kind band. In fact I'd say a lot of the bass lines in this were heavily influenced by (ripped off from) Hooky' s style.
It's worth a 2 I reckon.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 18, 2023 5:01:43 GMT
Joy Division were different. Massively creative and influential, they also knew how to play emotionally drenched quiet songs such as Atmosphere.
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Post by user211 on Apr 19, 2023 3:37:00 GMT
Saw Joy Division live supporting the Buzzcocks at the Hemel Hempstead pavillion. Harrowing experience. The Ian Curtis dance in the flesh was just disturbing, to say the least. Like an animal struggling to get out of a cage, with an other worldly look in his eyes. A few months later, he released himself.
The first Cure album is my fave. I can play more Cure songs on the guitar than any other band. Robert Smith is a good guitar player, up there with my top rated players.
All Cats Are Grey, Other Voices and Faith are at least the atmospheric equal of JD's Atmosphere IMHO. In fact I think this album is the closest The Cure ever got to sounding like Joy Division.
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 19, 2023 4:17:51 GMT
I'm not actively a fan of The Cure but did hear magic from them once in a live recording, I think in Paris, of 'Pictures Of You'.
Only able to listen to this on phone speakers so far so will give another go on the soundbar at home.
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Post by Barrington on Apr 25, 2023 12:09:36 GMT
Played this three times to let it sink in , not bad in parts , very dark and a lot slower than Disintegration which I chose a while back . 4/5 Revised 3/4 , can't count  |
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Post by Slinger on Apr 25, 2023 13:09:58 GMT
The Cure were a large part of the eighties' musical landscape, but a part that, apart from the odd single, I never really visited. I thought "The Lovecats" was good, but I think my favourite track of theirs was "Friday I'm in Love," which was actually from 1992. I get the feeling that Robert Smith's voice is going to lose its appeal for me rather quickly, almost certainly before 24 tracks are up, but I'm happy to give it a go.
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Post by Tobias on Apr 25, 2023 13:41:16 GMT
I think The Cure is an intersting band that had something that was much bigger than their music alone. They really manage to hit a sentimental string amongst the people that where into them.
They have something that appeals to me as well, I must admit.
I have seen them a couple of times on festivals, and I really liked them in the early 90s. But for some reason I never got into them enough to discover their full catalogue.
This was the first time hearing this album and I am glad I now did, even if I don´t think it is any of their best albums, for me personally.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 25, 2023 15:03:30 GMT
Interesting. I lasted the whole 8 tracks of the original release. Like Tim, I thought of Pete Hook, as their whole sound is underpinned by "that" bass. It's sort of "Hooky-Lite," though. Not something that makes me want to explore them further, but it passed the time reasonably pleasantly. 3/ 4 although 2 1/ 2 would be closer. |
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 25, 2023 19:53:44 GMT
Interesting to listen to once or twice. Maybe it was three times, actually.
Not enough to make me want to bother again, though.
3 out of 4 from me.
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Post by ajski2fly on Apr 26, 2023 9:25:30 GMT
Not one of The Cures better albums IMHO, they had probably been listening to and were influenced by Joy Division, who were proficient in this genre. Quite a tedious album IMO.
So it just scrapes 2/4, and I do like them but not this.
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Post by nicholas on Apr 26, 2023 13:28:25 GMT
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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 29, 2023 9:25:54 GMT
One of my favourite Cure albums
Starts off as 8 out of 10
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