In Between Days vs. Close to Me

The extended mix of Fascination Street is still one of my favorite guitar epics, probably introduced me to feedback as a pleasing sound.

Agreed that the Just Like Heaven mix is a considerable letdown.

yep

mixed up?????

more like MIXED BAG!!!!!

(thank you, i know i'm the first person to have ever made that joke. ever.)

12" fascination street mix is an alltimer for me. BRING BACK THE EXTENDED MIX!

speaking of, here's the seldom heard original extended mixes for

"close to me":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ussTNG-dyL0

+ "in between days"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoA8BSPK7FM

dance. it's fun.

Close To Me is not what I look for with The Cure, it's In Between Days all the way

i *really* like the mixed up version of 'close to me'

but it's still in between days

I'm against the consensus here, but I far prefer "Close to Me" in its intimate, feverish claustrophobe form rather than party-extrovert.

Close To Me is not what I look for with The Cure, it's In Between Days all the way

I think this is a good and strong argument, CtM is a bit of an outlier while IBD is quite similar to something like Just Like Heaven

but CtM seems to be the poll favorite

THOTD is full of songs that don't sound like Cure songs

CtM 7" version with horns feels more in line with the weird-pop vibe of the previous run of singles/recordings from Japanese Whispers and the Top, which is why IBD, to me, is one of those crucial key left-turn signals from Bob: "We are now occasionally pure pop again. In fact our next recording will be to redo the vocals on Boys Don't Cry. And our next release will be a greatest hits. We are more than just goth (cure phase 1) or just weird (phase 2)." CtM without the horns feels unfinished, a bit like a really good demo. The horns were kept in the Mixed Up version which implies that the horns version is definitive.

I don't like IBD as much as CtM but I appreciate its pop appeal beyond the stunning strum und drum, it feels simultaneously bland and electrifying to me. Besides Temptation and Love Will Tear Us Apart, and maybe lots of other New Order songs like Age of Consent, what other songs does it recall? I have a hard time putting my finger on it. A better Flock of Seagulls? A rewrite of William It Was Really Nothing with all the strangeness and wit removed...

CTM would slot into The Top or even Japanese Whispers pretty smoothly. But yeah Head is their singles compilation from an alternate universe.

oops snap!

Hahaha

What would have been the 4th single off Head, Push? Six Different Ways? It's a stranger album than it seems shelved next to other Cure records. It's like their normal album, but still pretty weird to me, when you focus on Kyoto, Blood, Baby Screams and Screw.

The New Order song IBD recalls is "Dreams Never End" after the long intro if you add a chorus and synths.

Such a taut little album. "Sinking" makes most of Disintegration a redundancy.

Whenever I get a can of soda from a soda machine, it feels like the opening of IBD when the can tumbles and drops.

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brilliant Eazy

“Close to Me” is my favorite Cure song after “A Forest”. Even the Paul Oakenfold remix is good.

“Close to Me” is my favorite Cure song after “A Forest”. Even the Paul Oakenfold remix is good.

"IBD" for me. "Love Cats" and "Let's Go To Bed" had felt like substantial hits here while I was still only half attentive to pop music. "When Doves Cry" marked the point where became actively interested so I was therefore primed for "In Between Days" feeling like an actual big event in real time.

Though they still seemed pretty weird to this 9 (?) year old. Faintly unsettling glow-in-the-dark faces. Lyrics that seemed, at that age, to want to be mistaken for nursery rhyme fodder. The keyboard and vocal melody similarly seemed kinda untutored and willfully stoopid. But that strummy guitar driving it all forward, OMGOMG, etc. I had a delayed "wait, actually, this is brilliant" moment. It basically served as my Indie Aesthetics 101, in other words lol.

xp Agree that "A Forest" is the best ever Cure song, second place for me is harder for me to decide

many xps: dammit, Alfred

many xps: dammit, Alfred

Damn which part?

I'd vote for "Inbetween Days"

Amber&Alice would vote "Close to me" but "only the remix version" says Alice

alice otm.

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Surprising result.

BOOOOOOO

(i'll still dance if "in between days" comes on though)

otm

yeah that's surprising

but nice

great turnout!