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I seriously, seriously hope this is not because of their newest album.

Me too. And I wouldn't mind lovin Robert Smith either.

--->goes to put on Close To Me and Disintergration after.

smokeverbs said:

I heard the new one isn't very good. And those who love it are only trying to fool themselves into liking it because it's a new Cure album. The first songle didn't grab me at first but now I'm not so sure when I heard it somewhere on an ad.

i do think the latest album is kinda weak, but at the same time i can enjoy listening to it whereas i cannot abide listening to "high" or "wild mood swings". i think the latest cure album was made more for themselves than it was for mainstream pop consumption, and i think it's also a testament to the fact that the cure is getting up there in years - they still have somewhat of an edge, but at the same time, there's something kind of refined and oddly balanced to the newest album's sound.

is it "head on the door" or "kiss me"? heavens no. is it "disintegration"? oh, not even hardly! but i think there's a lot of sincerity in the latest album, and hearing that makes it a bearable listen to me.

smokeverbs said:

No, not at all. I mean, the album is good, but nowhere near as good as their 80's works.

But you know, Fat-ass Bob did say that if you don't like the latest album, then you just don't like The Cure.....whatever that means.

But the new album doesn't sound like a typical Cure album. I'd pick Bloodflowers over the new one any day.

NWF said:

I agree-I absolutely love Bloodflowers, but the new one I listened to a couple times, and just haven't been in a hurry to repeat the experience.

Not horrible, just not up to par.

I still love "Pirate Ships" more than anything on the new one.

Join the Dots as well.

I want this sooooo bad.



love it!

Chico319 said:

oooh, you need to get it.

Anxiety said:

!!!

"Let me forget, let me forget/Oh let me go, let me go/St-st-st-st-stop dead, STOP DEEEEAAAAAD/St-st-st-st-stop dead....."

subhuman09 said:

Don't rub it in!


I've heard it several times Anxiety. I love it. I have a couple Cure albums, but this would be all I'd need.
Anyone who has this? Care to trade? I've got a rare Britney Spears single to swap it with.

BUT I MISSED THEM LIVE!!!!!

NWF said:

Here ya go.

Chico319 said:

Alright! It's Bob before the weight got the better of him.

Robert looks good heavy.

smokeverbs said:

Hehehe. You really dislike it? I kinda like it. It is a bit of old Cure with some more guitar. It's different. It is easy to just want a new album to sound like their best old work, but that would be boring for The Cure as well as for you.

I love Lost.

In honor of this thread I will listen to Join The Dots AND the new album!

DiamondGirl said:

Nice to meet you; I love you already.

So that pretty much makes you a goth.

I also wasn't thrilled with the last album (never gave it much of a chance, though). Besides that, most everything else I've heard from them has been really good.
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I REALLY like the new album. It took it a while to grow on me, but now I adore it. Is that bad?

endorphin74 said:

Nope. It's fucking great.

endorphin74 said:

BANNED!!!

GangstaFam said:

thank you!


Finally, SOMEONE With sense in this place!

heh heh heh

Here are the tracks that I liked on the new album:

Taking Off (or as I like to call it, "Jacking Off" )
The End Of The World
Before 3
alt.end
Us Or Them
I Don't Know What's Going On
Never
The Promise

I don't like the new album much at all, but it's not because i want them to sound like 1989; i don't.

lost and teotw are great, but the best songs on the album are not included in the u.s. pressing.

"going nowhere" is beautiful! why, why, why (are you letting me go she said.....oops sorry) why wasn't it included in american pressings?

Join the dots = the box set i've been hoping for, for ages!

"it's got to be jazz, that's what she wants...."

The US version is different? Why's that? I think the album is definitely a grower, plus it's a much more coherent effort than "Wish" and "Wild Mood Swings". "Bloodfowers"? At least it was as good as a tired-sounding album about being tired is ever likely going to get.

endorphin74 said:

im with you 2 too!! i LOVE the new album!

NWF...how come you miss all the good live shows man???

not that we dont all miss a few here and there....unless your endo or gangstafam