The Cure S/D

After that, try "Faith," "The Head On The Door," "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me." Lather, rinse, repeat as needed.

After that I'd suggest Three Imaginary Boys (definitely a better buy than Boys Don't Cry if you've already got the first singles comp.) and The Head On The Door.

I was a fan all the way up to Disintegration, but the Faith-era material still reigns supreme in my book.

Based on your reaction to the singles, I would strongly recommend _Three Imaginary Boys_/_Boys Don't Cry_ (they're really the same album). Most of their albums are urgent and key, but since you seem to be responding more to their early period I'd focus on _Seventeen Seconds_, _Faith_ and _Pornography_ for now.

Then there's the unholy one-two combo of "Mint Car" and "Return". Given a choice between hearing those two songs again and getting jabbed in the eyes with sticks, I'd listen to the songs BUT I'd have to spend several minutes thinking about it first.

i say pick up: kiss me kiss me kiss me.
its a long?double album, more ash for your cash at least..

if you just want the early punkish stuff (boys dont cry, jumping.., killing an arab) pick up 'boys dont cry' & maybe a buzzcocks album

take wild mood swings & hang it on your rearview- g thing. dowload the live version of "want" (& "push) from the 2000 tour.

Jesus. Fuck. I missed this too.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ChainofFlowers/TrilogyRecto.jpg

This looks amazing - I knew one day there'd be a reason to invest in a DVD player...

Buy this, Milo, and if not, do what others have already suggested and get hold of something along the lines of Seventeen Seconds, Pornography, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me and Disintegration for the time being. And Galore (the second singles comp) too!

Bloody hell, The Cure eh? Splendid.

You have no idea. There are a slew of performances on there that I would happily and without hesitation describe as definitive, even better than the original studio recordings.

One thing that I don't understand is that the Cure were meant to split at the end of 2000: how come they're still touring and releasing live LPs?

I might be underrating _WMS_ but only slightly, as I said, it's a good album that seems worse when compared to the other Cure albums (which range from amazing to astonishing for me).

Trilogy Easter Eggs
On Disc 1

Go to the Disintegration set menu, highlight Plainsong, and click to
the left. Click on that and see a split screen version of Plainsong
from both nights, shot by Robert's handheld camera.

Still on the Disintegration set menu, highlight Same Deep Water As You,
and click to the left. Click on that and watch Same Deep Water As You
from the "Robertcam" (much like the Sinkingcam on the Dream Tour).

On Disc 2

Go to the Interview menu, highlight End Of An Era?, and click to the
left. Click on that and you get some outtakes from the interviews.

Hey mister a review
A word for salad
Is written by my friend
In penman

He uses long words
Like semiotics and semolina
But I counted
With
Enigma and metropolis

The lads go rampant on insignificant symbolism
And compound this with rude soulless obliqueness

Everything's coming to a grinding halt
I use such long words

It's all clever stuff
All this charming childish fiddling about aims for the anti-image
But it naturally creates the perfectly malleable image

Tantalizing enigma
Of the Cure
They try to take
Everything

But the Cure really
They're just trying to sell us something
Their product is more artificial than most
This is perhaps part of their
Masterplan
But it seems more like their naivity

Everything's coming to a grinding halt
Everything's coming to a grinding halt
Everything's coming to a grinding halt

Note how really songs what are made of (?)
Murk and marshes
Tawdry images
Inane realisations
Dull dull dull epigrams
Sometimes they sound like an avant-garde John Otway
Or an ugly spirit

Toy drumming
Sprightly bass
Limited guitar riff

Check the sheet out of my favorite book

People don't forget the penman
It's just that in 1979 people shouldn't be allowed to get away with things like this

I say.

(he is neither desperate nor lonesome nor dead)

My appreciation of them has just gone up another notch. This is a must buy for any semi-serious Cure fan. It makes stuff like "Mint Car" all the more puzzling. And hell, is Simon Gallup the coolest fookin bass player ever, or what?

Destroy: Nothing in particular. I see "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me" as their weakest album, but that one contains such great tracks as "Just Like Heaven" and "Catch" and it would be too bad to destroy those.

I also like the way the B-sides echo the A-sides' sounds so clearly.

?!?! Actually, did you hear the remaster or not?

I'd say that the "Fascination Street" single comes close as total package, in that the long mix of the song is great, "Babble" is astounding chaos and "Out of Mind" -- especially the remastered version on the box set -- is just flat out insane.

Yes yes, but it is at home where I am not.

You think that because "The Exploding Boy" IS better than "Inbetween Days".

Anyway, I still like 'A Few Hours After This' more than either of them. Do I? Maybe I do!

ummm...here the UK/US divide is shown...those were the lullaby b-sides here in engerland! thus making the uk 12" of lullaby perhaps my favourite cure release evah!

So OTM. Finally someone admits it.

I just realized -- I'm wearing my Cure tour shirt from 1992, from the Rose Bowl show. And a fine show it was...

"Descent" is just as good as "Primary", so I'll grant you that one.
"Splintered In Her Head" pwns "Charlotte Sometimes".

This is whack. I say the 'Lovesong' b-sides own the a-side, same for all the Wish b-sides and most of the Wild Mood Swings one (except "The 13th" which is k-klassik)

Destroy: anything after Disintegration, really, with the exception of the odd EP ("The Big Hand", one of the B-sides from the Wish era, is rather nice). Certainly avoid Bloodflowers: it's a tedious exercise in laboured rehashing of half-remembered angst, all the songs stretched out to boring stadium-rock numbers with excessive guitar solos, and Robert Smith's vocals sounding particularly leaden.

You're fired. (Please to see above for various gently forceful repudiations.)

This is maybe the most asinine thing I've read today, and I just spent some time reading a thread where someone was asking if it was wrong to masturbate in front of a baby.

I adore the first song on *Bloodflowers*

thinking of it makes me think of croissants

I'm all about the second and penultimate tracks of that album, but I haven't really given the first one much of a chance yet

"Out Of This World" is a gorgeous song but my fave from that album is "The Loudest Sound".

I no longer believe that "39" wastes the potential of its first two minutes. I think it's pretty damn good all the way through.

OK, now that I remember what it's called, 'Out Of This World' must actually be one of my very favourite of all Cure songs ever.

It was such a surprise, so breezy and easy, hurt and battered yet cruising, an amazing achievement by that point, I thought, as I first played the CD. It's always seemed to me to have something the earlier work didn't have (maybe just more time, more perspective), while being totally true to it. And the instrumentation, the endless gliding guitar all the way through and the harmonizing pianos that chime in later - as sweet as anything I can think of by this band.

It is kind of too bad that The Curr squandered so much capital with the relentless mediocrity of WMS because they really have put out some fantastic stuff since then that no one seems to want to give a chance. Both The Cure and 4:13 Dream contain some fantastic songs but I feel like half the people who hear them don't actually listen to them; they just go "oh a Cure song, LOL they old now" and shut off their ears.