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Instead of discussing Cure in the Billy Joel thread (a bit weird to discuss them there, I would say), I'll do an OP10 on them instead:

1. Let's Go To Bed
2. Friday I'm In Love
3. A Night Like This
4. Mint Car
5. Just Like Heaven
6. Mint Car
7. Kyoto Song
8. Boys Don't Cry
9. High
10.The Funeral Party

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 18 April 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

OP10 is dead.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 April 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Geir you madman, you picked "Mint Car" TWICE!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 18 April 2003 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops.

A good song it is though. :-)

Anyway, remove the 6 and let "In-Between Days" enter the list at #10.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 18 April 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Then I'm a necrophiliac! Humpa humpa!

Why Can't I Be You? [possibly the best vocal performance evah]
Just Like Heaven
Close To Me
A Night Like This
The Perfect Girl [an album track! eeek!]
Lovesong
Mint Car
Boys Don't Cry
High
Three Imaginary Boys [ANOTHER album track! egad!]

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 18 April 2003 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"High" = great pick

― Aaron A., Friday, 18 April 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm trying to figure out which ten I should list. It's probably something like:

Siamese Twins
The Kiss
Like Cockatoos
The Same Deep Water As You
High (DEEPLY UNDERRATED SINGLE)
All Cats Are Grey
New Day
The Hanging Garden
This Twilight Garden
The Exploding Boy

Honestly, it changes every week.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 18 April 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I must confess I don't get "The Hanging Garden." Does the drumming remind you of Phil Collins?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 18 April 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

1. "A Night Like This"
2. "Cold"
3. "All Mine" (from Curiosity)
4. "Charlotte Sometimes (live version from Concert)
5. "Babble"
6. "All Cats are Grey"
7. "Push"
8. "Shiver & Shake"
9. "Pictures of You" (live version from Entreat)
10. "Man Inside My Mouth"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 April 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess Lol Tolhurst had spent the last year listening to "Face Value". :-)

In fact, I don't think so. Collins' drumming is less out-of-controll than Tolhurt's drumming on that album. I've grown to appreciate the "Pornography" album over time though.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 18 April 2003 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

rough draft from my head:

homesick (my OPO)
high
disintegration
boy's don't cry
a night like this
in your house
all cats are grey
the kiss
just like heaven
2 Late

― Aaron A., Friday, 18 April 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

What makes "High" underrated?

A great single, but, I mean, they haven't had that many UK Top 10 singles, but "High" was one of them.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 18 April 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

1. "All Cats are Grey"

Uhm. . .

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 18 April 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"High" went nowhere in the US, though. That's the context I was thinking of.

Honestly, I'm never talking about Genesis again. Grrr. But yes, the frenetic drumming is perfection, plus that BASSLINE!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 18 April 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

High made the top 40 in the US. Kasey Kasem introduced it to me for a couple weeks. He even told a story about a girl getting to see the video early thanks to the make-a-wish-foundation. The Cure even sent her a special birthday message! And now on with the countdown...

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 18 April 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

IT DID?????? Where the fuck was I?

STUPID FUCKING FRESHMAN YEAR OF COLLEGE.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 18 April 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"A Forest"
"Charlotte Sometimes"
"Other Voices"
"The Holy Hour"
"Let's Go to Bed"
"The Last Day of Summer"
"Why Can't I Be You?"
"Jumping Someone Else's Train"
"Inbetween Days"
"Pictures of You"

Plus a few extra "I'm cheating here" songs:

"Mint Car"
"The Walk"
"Just One Kiss"
"The Hanging Garden"
"The Figurehead"
"Primary"
"A Reflection"

*sighs* That was so hard to do, narrowing it down to *that*. And now I must depart to listen to "Bloodflowers" once again.

I *BIG HEART* THE CURE.

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 19 April 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Hurrah for Dee! Dan and I, the Cure happy fanatics of this place, welcome you to our coterie. We must fight vigilantly against those who would mock.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 April 2003 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Killing an Arab
One Hundred Years
A Strange Day
Cold
Lovesong
A Forest
Friday I'm In Love
Just Like Heaven
Pictures Of You (or at least the guitars on it)
M

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 19 April 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan's is OTM for me, substituting "A Strange Day" for "Hanging Garden", though. But all GREAT picks, Dan.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Saturday, 19 April 2003 01:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Nah, can't be lazy about this - Here's my (current) list:

A Strange Day
Like Cockatoos
Just One Kiss
All Cats Are Grey
Play For Today
The Same Deep Water As You
The Exploding Boy
Fascination Street
The Blood
The Perfect Girl

gonna go and play all these right.now.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Saturday, 19 April 2003 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I have to add to mine:
- "How Beautiful You Are"
- "Like Cockatoos"
- "Fire in Cairo"
- "Funeral Party"
- "I'm Cold" (the b-side)
- "Doubt"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 19 April 2003 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Now I want to swap out "The Hanging Garden" for "A Strange Day" too!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 19 April 2003 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

10:15 Saturday Night
A Forest
Charlotte Sometimes
The Hanging Garden
Let's Go To Bed
Why Can't I Be You?
Lovesong
Last Dance
Pictures of You
High

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Saturday, 19 April 2003 05:37 (twenty-two years ago)

at night
just like heaven
other voices
if only tonight we could sleep
the blood
all mine
forever
like cockatoos
in your house
piggy in the mirror

you can tell i petered out after a while. although i do have disintegration and wish. also had to rep for the top, cuz it gets a bad rap. i feel kind of dirty for posting this

― ron (ron), Saturday, 19 April 2003 06:01 (twenty-two years ago)

someday, when my homosexuality is confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt, i'll trace my but-i'm-a-cheerleader root back to the summer of "friday i'm in love".

i owned "disintegration" and "kiss me, kiss me, kiss me" at one point but i can't remember anything about them now...

― brian badword (badwords), Saturday, 19 April 2003 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)

A Forest
Plainsong
Fascination Street
Disintegration
The Snakepit
Watching Me Fall
Bloodflowers
Primary
Faith
Jumping Someone Else's Train
The Walk

Okay. So i cheated. SO what?

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Saturday, 19 April 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

faith (live)
babble
pornography
the funeral party
10:15 saturday night
the same deep water as you
push
other voices
plainsong
the kiss

― kephm, Saturday, 19 April 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

take 2

M
la ment
all cats are grey
fire in cairo
plastic passion
in your house
icing sugar
homesick (entreat)
the exploding boy
kyoto song

― kephm, Saturday, 19 April 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

ONly PIck ten CURE Videos:
1. Charlotte Sometimes - because I had a crush on whoever the bassist was at the time. Holy hannah. And I know he looks like Morpehus here but that's alright with me. And the girl's acting is pretty endearing in an amateurish way. And man, a haunted boarding school is such a prefect idea.
2. Why Can't I Be You? - Why is Tolhurst in blackface? Why is Rob dessed as Humpty Dumpty? Why is Tolhurst mugging in that bee suit? Man, why did they even let him in the videos?
3. The Lovecats - Rob at his peak of adowability. Their kind of mid-period videos (after they started wearing makeup but before the plot synopsis reads "throw glitter and hearts everywhere and act like a floppy tart") avoid the imminent threat of corniness by virtue of their spare sweetness, and also the greatness of the songs from that time.
4. Lullaby -Rob gets eaten by a big cunt.
5. The Walk - More videos need old ladies signing out the lyrics. What was Rob's deal with all the old ladies? He seemed to have a thing for them. I mean, he had some pretty questionable taste in a lot of things, ie Betty Boop. Anyway, this video is noteworthy as the one exception to Tolhurst's general state of being totally embarrassing.
6. Caterpillar - For its silliness, those guys are ROCKIN' OUT in that greenhouse!
7. Let's Go To Bed - My very favorite video and a favorite song, too.
8. Jumping Someone Else's Train - I saw this as a kid at the same time I was watching Shining Time Sation pretty frequently, so they are intertwined in my mind.
9. 10:15 Saturday Night - They are so young and they look so unsure of themselves. Then they DISAPPEAR at the end.
10. Hanging Garden - That bassist again, yes. And once again the sort of sweet, spare, low-budget weirdness in the masks and stop motion.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Saturday, 19 April 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

1. homesick
2. untitled
3. from the edge of the deep green sea
4. cold
5. bird mad girl
6. m
7. plainsong
8. jumping someone else's train
9. just like heaven
10. a forest

― kyle, Saturday, 19 April 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Just Like Heaven
2. Inbetween Days
3. Close to Me
4. Pictures of You
5. Catch
6. Let's Go To Bed
7. Why Can't I Be You?
8. Fascination Street
9. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
10. Friday I'm In Love

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 19 April 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

a few hours after this
boys don't cry
jumping someone else's train
primary
catch
the caterpillar
just like heaven
lament
icing sugar
disintegration
the exploding boy
from the edge of the deep green sea

― tia, Saturday, 19 April 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

All Cats Are Grey
Faith
Shake Dog Shake
Fascination Street
Adonais
End
A Forest
If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
Disintegration
Push

― paul cox (paul cox), Saturday, 19 April 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Needlessly reactivating this thread I'd pick:

1)If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
2)Like Cockatoos
3)All Cats Are Grey
4)Primary
5)The Drowning Man
6)One Hundred Years
7)Siamese Twins
8)Close To Me
9)A Forest
10)Killing An Arab

― Jamie Fake (the pirate king), Friday, 28 May 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

oh boy, there's something about this OPX that I feels like...hmm, exhuming something that is either pre-determined, or just odd, or just high-school note-pad-ish, or break-up letter-ish, or just unnecessary.
No disrespect to the thread, but naming "Charlotte Sometimes" as a favourtite Cure song just feels a little...

grr. someone try to explain what I'm getting at.

― paulhw (paulhw), Friday, 28 May 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

1. M
2. The Lovecats
3. Fire in Cairo
4. See the Children (Don't know if this counts since it's technically by The Easy Cure, but I fucking love this song.)
5. Three Imaginary Boys
6. A Strange Day
7. All Cats Are Grey
8. Plastic Passion
9. Boys Don't Cry
10. 2 Late

Weirdly enough Disintegration is one of my favorite records but none of the songs from it would get into the top 10 for me if it's just down to judging on songs by themselves.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 28 May 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Ok I'll play:

1. All Cats Are Grey
2. Lament
3. Sinking
4. M
5. Push
6. Like Cockatoos
7. New Day
8. A Strange Day
9. Shake Dog Shake
10. In Your House

― Seb (Seb), Friday, 28 May 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

a night like this
same deep water as you
lovesong
pictures of you
to wish impossible things
how beautiful you are
lullaby
just like heaven
the figurehead
inbetween days

as u get older it's the pop ones that seem to get better and the adolescent-poetry-set-to-music ones seem well, like adolescent poetry, set to music.

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

Other way round for me.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

i can't remember if i did this, so i'm gonna torture myself

disintegration
the drowning man
from the edge of the deep green sea
m
a strange day
untitled
all cats are grey
charlotte sometimes
a night like this
boys don't cry

songs that somehow missed the cut: end, a forest, the same deep water as you, if only tonight we could sleep, lovesong, siamese twins, etc. etc.

― Charlie Howard, Sunday, 13 May 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

my list is scarily similar to CH's!!!

oh fuck!

The Drowning Man
End

that ^^^ is how it ends, beyond a shadow of a doubt.

erm, other definites:

A Strange Day
The Figurehead
Homesick
The Top
All Cats Are Grey
From The Edge of The Deep Green Sea

right. i think we need another one from 'the top'.

The Caterpillar

that was easy. although 'bananafishbones' came fucking close.

erm

Bananafishbones

hooray!

let's turn that into a proper tracklist, then...dammit, most of these are either closers or penultimates, or at the very most middle-order grafters. hey-ho.

The Figurehead
Bananafishbones
From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
All Cats Are Grey
The Top

-

The Caterpillar
A Strange Day
Homesick
The Drowning Man
End

awesome

― Just got offed, Sunday, 13 May 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

I was this close to chucking 'Labyrinth' or 'The Promise' in, btw. Sure, 'The Cure' ain't too hot, but those two are absolute diamonds amongst the muck. 'Lost' isn't bad either.

― Just got offed, Sunday, 13 May 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

I also like 'Us And Them'.

― Just got offed, Sunday, 13 May 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

There's also "Anniversary", "Before 3", "Truth, Happiness and Beauty", "Fake" and "Going Nowhere" (I seriously don't understand why they didn't use the Japanesse version as the main version everywhere because the three extra songs make a masive difference tot he pacing and feel of the whole album).

― HI DERE, Sunday, 13 May 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

'Anniversary' reminds me too much of Pink Floyd's 'Wearing The Inside Out' (from 'The Division Bell') for me to appreciate it much. Listen to them both and you'll see what I mean.

Before Three and Going Nowhere I don't really like, unfortunately, and the other two I haven't heard.

― Just got offed, Sunday, 13 May 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

Siamese Twins
Homesick
Prayers for Rain
All Cats are Grey
Piggy in the Mirror
The Kiss
If only tonight...
Happy the Man
Last Dance
Just One Kiss

― baaderonixx, Sunday, 13 May 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

i wanted to include something from the top. but at most i think i'd probably have two songs from it in a top 20.

'dressing up' might slot into the top 15

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 14 May 2007 07:04 (eighteen years ago)

Top 10

01. Just Like Heaven
02. Close To Me
03. Catch
04. a few hours after this
05. A Forest
06. Play For Today
07. 10:15 Saturday Night
08. Piggy In The Mirror
09. Six Different Ways
10. Primary

also favorites:

A Night Like This
All Cats Are Grey
All I Want
Bananafishbones
Boys Don't Cry
Fire In Cairo
Give Me It
Grinding Halt
Hey You!
High
Hot Hot Hot!!!
How Beautiful You Are...
In Between Days
In Your House
Jumping Someone Else's Train
Killing An Arab
Kyoto Song
Lullaby
M
Mint Car
One Hundred Years
Pornography
Push
Seventeen Seconds
Shake Dog Shake
Sinking
Subway Song
The Baby Screams
The Blood
The Caterpillar
The Hanging Garden
The Perfect Girl
Why Can't I Be You

― nicky lo-fi, Monday, 14 May 2007 07:59 (eighteen years ago)

the rendition of 'the figurehead' on paris is magnificent.

more sterile sounding on pornography, but still classique

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 14 May 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

Skipping 23 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

...which is throwaway done-this-a-million-times-better-before crap! :-D

cure fans, so divided

xpost

― Just got offed, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Sinking
Happy the Man
A Night Like This
High
Boys Don't Cry
Jumping Someone Else's Train
This Twilight Garden
Untitled
Lullaby (remix on Mixed Up)
A Forest

(this will change tomorrow)

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

Ahh, finally somebody shares my love for 'Happy the Man'!

― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

"The Promise" is better than "Watching Me Fall" because its ebb-and-flow control between the choruses and verse is a more interesting contrast than "WMF"'s all-out assault; sonically, "WMF" is closer in spirit to "Us and Them" (which I didn't think worked as well because it didn't really feel like it went anywhere, plus it contains the unfortunate "the doleful cant of a bigot" line).

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

The Promise wins because the guitar effects are astoundingly good, and the build-ups are superbly managed. Each chorus feels like a massive hill has been climbed and a nuclear-torn city lies beneath on the other side.

'Watching Me Fall' is closer in spirit to Disintegration, I'd say, with less emphasis on climax and more on a continual state of despair. Pornography (the song, and the album) use the 'climax' motif, which is why I prefer it to Disintegration, and why I prefer 'The Promise' to 'Watching Me Fall' (and the rest of 'The Cure'). It's more interesting, and they do it better.

― Just got offed, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

'Labyrinth' is like a mini version of 'The Promise', except the climax comes at the start of the final verse, rather than the chorus.

― Just got offed, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

"Disintegration" is ALL about climax; it is carried throughout the vocal, both in terms of structure (each successive adds four couplets to the previous verse's length) and in delivery as well as in the additional glass-crashing sound effects introduced throughout the third verse and the increasing musical variations in the band's arrangement as the song goes on.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

climax = "it's easier for me / to get closer to heaven / than ever feel whole again"

― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

I just realized that I intended to write "Disintegration" is ALL about building to climax but left out the "building to" part.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't mean the song, I meant the album! Generally, the album as a whole describes a state of being, and although there are miniature climaxes, they're subtle and they don't (on the whole) wrench your head off. The album's brilliance comes from its manipulations of mood, not from its wholesale shock and awe. The song 'Disintegration' itself does the whole 'climax' thing more than most on that album, whilst my very favourite song on the whole record (apparently NOT on the original release for reasons of space), 'Homesick', orchestrates by far the most blatant 'build', which is then complemented by an equally graceful fade-out.

― Just got offed, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

louis, have you heard the rest of bloodflowers yet?

for me, 'watching me fall' is definitely the highlight. it's just so massive - the whole time threatening to suck you into a massive vacuum. reminds me of the bliss of 'from the edge of the deep green sea' in that respect.

― Charlie Howard, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:26 (seventeen years ago)

I HAVE all of Bloodflowers, but whenever I consider playing it, I just listen to "Watching Me Fall" again. :D

― Just got offed, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:29 (seventeen years ago)

oh man what the FUCK was i talking about a year ago

― Just got offed, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:36 (seventeen years ago)

that's sort of my story with the record these days too. i have a special fondness for the first two tracks but then i can barely be bothered letting the rest of it play through. i do like the guitar hook in 'maybe someday' though

― Charlie Howard, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:37 (seventeen years ago)

actually, i thought you made a lot of sense on this thread (though i wonder if you still like 'the top' now as much as you seemed to back then...)

― Charlie Howard, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:40 (seventeen years ago)

This is the sentence I was taking particular issue with: 'Watching Me Fall' is closer in spirit to Disintegration, I'd say, with less emphasis on climax and more on a continual state of despair.

And yeah, "The Top" is still the fucking bomb. That Cure closing tracks poll was fucking tough. I voted for "The Promise" in the end (ha!) because it's fucking immense and I figured it would be underappreciated, but "End" is probably the best closer, "The Top" their most chilling song, and "Pornography" their most psychotic.

― Just got offed, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:43 (seventeen years ago)

i think i went the safe route and voted for 'untitled' in that poll. but i should have gone with 'end' or 'faith'. i think i need to remind myself how 'the promise' even sounds ;)

you're right about 'pornography' being their most psychotic track. it brings a bleak, harrowing close to one of the most isolating and isolated records i can think of.

and yeah, disintegration has climax written all over it. the title track is just one giant, swelling climax in itself really.

― Charlie Howard, Friday, 6 June 2008 01:54 (seventeen years ago)

Don't sleep on "The Loudest Sound".

― HI DERE, Friday, 6 June 2008 02:18 (seventeen years ago)

I gave "The Promise" another try the other night and I already can't remember what it sounds like.

― baaderonixx, Friday, 6 June 2008 07:45 (seventeen years ago)

Weird, some people hate it (Mark Prindle describes it as "aggressively boring") but I can remember virtually the entire thing.

I've said it before but "Pornography" was my favourite album of all time when I was about 8 years old, lol was I gonna be one crazy customer. It's still by far my favourite Cure record. I don't find it so isolating, perhaps, as independently impressive; it creates its very peculiar edifice of sound and emotion, building it along subtly varying paths until the cacophonous collapse.

― Just got offed, Friday, 6 June 2008 10:44 (seventeen years ago)

the best thing about Pornography is the sense of bleak fury sustained throughout the album; when Robert sings " is it always like this?" at the end of " Siamese twins" it's a real gut-wrenching moment that you think is the height of despair, but no, you have the entire second side left just in case you weren't ready to spray arterial blood all over the walls.

― HI DERE, Friday, 6 June 2008 19:27 (seventeen years ago)

The Figurehead is the most effective piece of theatre on that album IMO. When the music suddenly drops out and RS sings "I could lose myself in Chinese art and American girls" it's one of the most wonderful evocations of utter self-abandon on tape. I mean "A Strange Day" is fucking NECESSARY after that song, because at least we have the comfort of unrelenting beauty to stay the killing hand. The whole thing is sequenced magnificently.

― Just got offed, Friday, 6 June 2008 19:32 (seventeen years ago)

the sequencing of most of their albums is impeccable; I think wms is the only one that really falters and a lot of that is because the songs aren't strong enough.

― HI DERE, Friday, 6 June 2008 19:45 (seventeen years ago)

this is absolutely true, and they are an "albums" band more so than most; that i was brought up on them has probably shaped me into an "albums" sort of person. maybe.

― Just got offed, Friday, 6 June 2008 19:51 (seventeen years ago)

i agree that they have a fine knack for sequencing and most of the albums, due to the uniform quality of the songs throughout, do suggest that they are indeed and "albums" band. however, albums like 'kiss me, kiss me' and the mostly brilliant 'wish' have a number of weaker tracks on them that somewhat tarnish the pursuit of cohesiveness and unity of those albums.

― Charlie Howard, Saturday, 7 June 2008 06:21 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

* 10.15 Saturday Night
* A Forest
* Play for Today
* M
* Boys Don’t Cry
* Just Like Heaven
* Close to Me (Mixed Up)
* Untitled
* A Letter to Elise
* Friday I’m in Love

― alex in mainhattan, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 21:08 (sixteen years ago)

The Figurehead
Bananafishbones
From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
All Cats Are Grey
The Top
-
The Caterpillar
A Strange Day
Homesick
The Drowning Man
End
― Just got offed, Sunday, 13 May 2007 20:55 (2 years ago) Bookmark

One Hundred Years
Watching Me Fall
All Cats Are Grey
In Your House
The Top

The Figurehead
The Promise
39
The Drowning Man
End

is how I'm feeling today. Am beginning to realise that I might like The Top as much as Pornography (whose songs are best suited by each other's company). Shake Dog Shake, Wailing Wall, Give Me It and The Caterpillar were all STRONGLY considered for inclusion. I also wanted to include The Baby Screams but seriously there's so much good stuff here. Not even A Strange Day survived the cull.

― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 22:02 (sixteen years ago)

I've never spent so long deliberating over a single OP10, I hope The Cure feel proud of themselves

― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 22:03 (sixteen years ago)

The only *absolute* dead-certs were The Top, The Figurehead, The Drowning Man and End. Which must make them The Cure's best songs, or something. Although when I listened to In Your House again that became a dead-cert pretty much instantly.

― the hubby space veggiescope (country matters), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 22:06 (sixteen years ago)

I'm trying to think of what my current list is. Something like this:

The Same Deep Water As You
Lament
Home
This Twilight Garden
New Day
Like Cockatoos
It's Over
Three Imaginary Boys
The Lovecats
A Strange Day

― I am over wieght and I have angelical quilities (HI DERE), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 22:43 (sixteen years ago)

Plainsong
A Strange Day
Like Cockatoos
A Forest
Prayers for Rain
A Night Like This
In Between Days
All Cats Are Grey
M
If Only Tonight We Could Sleep

I'm pretty happy with this list. Its not too daring but for me its the truth.

― gman59, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 05:44 (sixteen years ago)

Tough one (esp. to distinguish btw initial nominees included in my list for "historical" reasons and those that I would actually play today)

All Cats Are Grey
Other Voices
The Figurehead
Just One Kiss
Piggy in the Mirror
Like Cockatoos
Prayers for Rain
Untitled
Happy the Man
New Day

― Gigolo Grasiento (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 12:13 (sixteen years ago)

pretty astonishing for me not to include Siamese Twins or Homesick in the final list

― Gigolo Grasiento (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 12:15 (sixteen years ago)

I "get" The Hanging Garden now. no particular order.

High
Doing The Unstuck
Pictures Of You
Just Like Heaven
A Night Like This
Close To Me (Single Edit)
One Hundred Years
A Strange Day
The Funeral Party
A Forest
In Between Days

― da croupier, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 12:34 (sixteen years ago)

six months pass...

after listening to b-sides all day:

Lament
A Man Inside My Mouth
New Day
Splintered In Her Head
This Twilight Garden
To The Sky
The Big Hand
Home
A Chain of Flowers
The Big Hand

― your extra awesome blossom (HI DERE), Friday, 12 February 2010 21:40 (fifteen years ago)

booming post

― you live in a space battle homo cave (sic), Friday, 12 February 2010 22:26 (fifteen years ago)

six years pass...

pictures of you
faith
boys don't cry
inbetween days
all cats are grey
a forest
the perfect girl
just like heaven
a reflection
closedown

― flappy bird, Friday, 12 August 2016 03:34 (nine years ago)

fascination street
homesick
a night like this
a forest
just like heaven
in your house
like cockatoos
play for today
the kiss
2 late

― no poke balls (rip van wanko), Friday, 12 August 2016 03:56 (nine years ago)

From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
Siamese Twins
Three Imaginary Boys
The Upstairs Room
How Beautiful You Are...
Open
10:15 Saturday Night
A Man Inside My Mouth
Harold & Joe
Plainsong

― Bee OK, Friday, 12 August 2016 04:43 (nine years ago)

Shake Dog Shake
Lullaby
Just Like Heaven
Fire in Cairo
Disintegration
The Figurehead
Play for Today
Give Me It
Babble
Koyto Song

― Bee OK, Friday, 12 August 2016 04:47 (nine years ago)

Primary
Charlotte Sometimes
Another Journey By Train
Like Cockatoos
Play For Today
Just One Kiss
A Few Hours After This
A Night Like This
A Forest
In Your House
Close To Me Remix

― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 12 August 2016 05:20 (nine years ago)

From my Cure Poll ballot a couple of years ago:

1) All Cats Are Grey
2) Like Cockatoos
3) M
4) Charlotte Sometimes
5) A Night Like This
6) If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
7) Lament
8) A Strange Day
9) The Drowning man
10) Push

― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 12 August 2016 17:55 (nine years ago)

In Your House (curiosity version)
All Cats Are Grey
At Night
The Funeral Party
Push (Glastonbury '86)
Six Different Ways
Speak My Language
Pictures Of You
The Baby Screams
Sinking (Glastonbury '86)

― MaresNest, Friday, 12 August 2016 21:34 (nine years ago)

a forest
seventeen seconds
other voices
homesick
untitled
open
scared as you
jupiter crash
treasure
bare

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 12 August 2016 23:45 (nine years ago)

Close To Me Remix

which one tho

― Shakey δσς (sic), Saturday, 13 August 2016 00:07 (nine years ago)

the one from Mixed Up, the A side on the 12" that says Close To Me Remix on the cover. Not sure if that's the Closer or Closest mix without pulling it out.

― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 13 August 2016 01:27 (nine years ago)

regular version on Head On The Door
Remix on the 7" (and video and Standing On A Beach)
Extended Remix on the 12"
Closer Mix on Mixed Up, also Close To Me Remix 12"
Closest Mix on Close To Me Remix 7" (and Galore)

you can see why I asked

― Shakey δσς (sic), Saturday, 13 August 2016 08:59 (nine years ago)

A Night Like This
All Cats Are Grey
Open
Plainsong
Love Song
M
Push
How Beautiful You Are
This Twilight Garden
Play For Today

― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 13 August 2016 19:35 (nine years ago)

I left out Dressing Up

― no poke balls (rip van wanko), Saturday, 13 August 2016 19:49 (nine years ago)

Grinding Halt
How Beautiful You Are
Play for Today
Catch
A Few Hours After This
Plainsong
High
The Caterpillar
Pictures of You
A Thousand Hours

― nate woolls, Saturday, 13 August 2016 19:59 (nine years ago)

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