DOV: The Cure

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Let's test the Discard Only Five challenge on the Cure. In my case, I will make it more difficult by ignoring Wild Mood Swings altogether:

-Doubt
-Give Me It
-Fight
-39
-Cut

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

In my case, I will make it more difficult by ignoring Wild Mood Swings altogether

Evil man. ;-)

Including their ENTIRE catalogue, the five I would drop would be:

Mint Car
Return
Sugar Girl
Push
A Thousand Hours

It really pains me to leave "So What?", "It's Not You", "Strange Attraction", "Closedown" and "Where The Birds Always Sing" off of this list. Actually, fuck it, replace "Sugar Girl" with "So What?"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

'It's not You' and 'Closedown'? Dude those are nowhere near the bottom pit! I'm kind of also tempted to put 'Trust' on that list..

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"It's Not You" (and "Object") suffer because they are not the vastly superior "See The Children". "It's Not You" gets extra penalty for having a clumsy transition from verse to chorus.

"Closedown" is an exercise in throwing together a bunch of sounds that don't mesh or work together mixed in with appalling drumming.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm, my main problem with "Closedown" is the keyboard and its prominence in the mix. Also, the song doesn't really go anywhere. BUT, lyrically, I find it to be one of the stronger tracks on the album.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 06:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Watching Me Fall
Speak My Langauge
Scared as You
The Weedy Burton
Torture

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

What's the Weedy Burton?
'Scared as You'? That's one of my faves of the Wish era

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm trying to think of a _Wish_-era song that I would cut loose and am coming up blank. There was a time when it would have been "Trust" but I've since grown to love that song.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Trust, Halo and the album version of Cut (love the Away version though) are all good for the recycling bin.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"Halo"??? Are you mad? If I was going to pick a b-side, it would HAVE to be "A Foolish Arrangement"!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I cringe whenever I detect some corniness in a Cure track and 'Halo' falls in that category (not helped by how heavily KROQ tried to push it as a new 'single' at the time..). 'A Foolish Arrangement' is somewhat unmemorable.

Ok - DOV Cure B-sides!
1. Halo
2. Home (*ducks*)
3. Babble
4. Sugar Girl
5. A Japanese Dream

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Cure B sides DOV

1) Descent
2) Happy the Man
3) Just Like Heaven remix
4) Out of Mind
5) pillbox tales

Always thought Halo was the Cure's attempt at circa 1987 Primal Scream (probably taking lyrically here). I liked it.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and the Weedy Burton is the "hidden" track on 3IB.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Happy the man?? That's in my POV!!

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I am boggling that you picked "A Japanese Dream". That bass line is MONSTROUS!

1. "Happy The Man"
2. "Sugar Girl"
3. "A Foolish Arrangement"
[now it gets tough]
4. "Do The Hansa"
5. "The Upstairs Room"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

(Actually, my D pick from _Wish_ would be "A Letter To Elise", not "A Folish Arrangement".)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

(_Wish_-era, that is)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

All u hataz have to go and give another spin to "Happy the Man" really..
Yeah "A Letter to Elise" is pretty nauseous. As with all of those tracks, the Play Out version was far superior (the re-working of Wendy Time being the ultimate sacrilege of those sessions)

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I think A Letter to Elise is really quite lovely and possibly the best thing on Wish. Why do you think its nauseous? Surely that would be "Doing the Unstuck" if anything? (Always thought Bob doing pretend happy was pretty yucky. See also Mint Car, Friday I'm in Love)

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Nauseous as in a bit too sugary for my taste. I'm usually suspicious of what I see as catering to romantic high-school girls. Doing the Unstuck is pretty spontaneous and uplifting I'd say (as opposed to say Mint Car which comes across as pretty contrived)

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"Doing The Unstuck" isn't a happy song at all! It's a manic and disturbing rant that ends in the narrator's suicide! "Friday I'm In Love" is also a much more genuine and affecting song than "Mint Car" could ever be, plus the music hangs together much better than "Mint Car" (whoever listened to that guitar/bass arrangement and said "YEAH THAT'S IT!" should lose their job).

"A Letter To Elise" is deeply wishy-washy and was the starting point IMO of Robert going into his "I am obsessed with lyrics that don't actually fit the meter of the song I have put them in" mode that resulted in him thinking that "Strange Attraction" was not only good enough to be released on an album, but that it was single material.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

how about DOO proper singles? or DOV, even.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

DOn't have to think for a sec on the DOO single: Strange Attraction

DOV
1. Strange Attraction
2. Letter to Elise
3. Gone!
Hmm.. gets a bit tough now..
4. Mint Car
5. Friday I'm in Love

Jeez, I really sound like a no-fun high-school fan...

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan, Doing the Unstuck maybe a manic rant but he's talking hardly commiting suicide at the end. The song is about "acting now" and not putting things off for another day.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Talking hardly = hardly talking. whoops.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

DOV A-sides:

1. Mint Car
2. Strange Attraction
3. A Letter To Elise
[my GOD do I have to pick 5? I like all of the others!]
4. The Caterpillar
5. Wrong Number

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

kick out the gloom
kick out the blues
tear out the pages with all the bad news
pull down the mirrors and pull down the walls
tear up the stairs and tear up the floors
oh just burn down the house!
burn down the street!
turn everything red and the beat is complete
with the sound of your world
going up in the fire
it's a perfect day to throw back your head
and kiss it all goodbye!

Do you seriously not see the suicide reading in that?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

DOV a sides

1. Wrong Number
2. Strange Attraction
3. cut here
4. Mint Car
5. Gone

Can we do album tracks that should've been singles now

Mine: POV Cure album tracks that should've been released as singles

1. Treasure
2. Screw
3. grinding halt
4. The last day of summer
5. Banafishbones

The b sides, Harold and Joe, 2 Late, Man Inside My Mouth and Stop Dead would have also made great Cure singles, IMO. Just think what the videos could have been like!

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

-- Dan Perry (djperr...) (webmail), October 15th, 2003.

Sorry, no. It sounds to me as though he wants to go out and get really pissed. I also read an interview at the time where he suggested the song was about making the most of one day, about experiencing something new, even if it didn't necessarily make you happy. It was the first song they recorded for Wish and he stuck the lyrics on the wall to set the "atmsophere" for the album.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

He wants to burn his bridges and destroy his world, dreams about turning everything red and ends off with wanting to kiss everything goodbye.

Also, with respect to authorial intent, we're talking about someone who claims that "Untitled" is an uplifting song.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

(On a more synergious note, your POVE album tracks rock mightily.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Untitled IS an uplifting song!!
POV album, tracks:
1. Maybe Someday (that would be up there in the singles pantheon)
2. Stop Dead
3. Last Dance
4. Piggy in the Mirror
5. 100 Years

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to discard FIVE? Bah, far too many.

Ok...

~ Dredd Song (how has this not been mentioned yet?)
~ Another Day (i'm not thrilled by this, dunno why)
~ Subway Song (just because that damn scream always makes me jump, really)
~ The Snake Pit (outstays its welcome by a couple of minutes)
~ Umm.. can I have their 'Purple Haze' cover? That wasn't exactly great.

Also, 'The Big Hand' should have been on 'Wish'. They even have that (ever-so cool) picture of a large hand on the outside of the cd booklet. IT WAS MEANT TO BE!

'To the Sky' should be on something too.

The b-sides & other things collection cannot be released soon enough!

― Muppet Boy, Wednesday, 15 October 2003 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd forgotten about Dredd Song (must resist lame-ass pun..) and that god-awful X-File song..

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

HAHAHAHA I had completely blocked "Dredd Song" from my mind! "Sugar Girl" gets a reprieve from my list!

(Dammit now I want those halcyon days where I'd completely forgotten about "Dredd Song" back CURSE YOU MUPPET BOY) (also "Another Day" is far and away my favorite 3IB/BDC song, you big meanie)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh dear. I have inadvertantly unleashed horror in people's minds by invoking Dredd Song!

I quite like 'More Than This' though (the X-Files one).

― Muppet Boy, Wednesday, 15 October 2003 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"Burn" would have been a pretty cool single though..

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

(xpost) "that god-awful X-File song" = "More Than This" and I like that one too, you big meanie!

Also, when was the last time you looked at the lyrics to "Untitled"?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

well..
a. I find that the keyboard has a resigned yet slightly optimistic feel to it
b. lyrically, for me it feels like he's putting an end to something but at the same time getting ready for something new.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I was a bit gutted that 'Burn' wasn't on the latest Greatest Hits collection, really. Would have been nice to finally have it on a Cure cd. I suppose it wasn't really a 'hit' as such though.

Presumably pseudo-single 'Maybe Someday' was missing for the same reason.

I would play DOV Cure b-sides, but I honestly can't come up with five that I can live without!

― Muppet Boy, Wednesday, 15 October 2003 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone know the track listing for Join the Dots yet?

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Thursday, 16 October 2003 08:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope. It's supposed to be a 4CD affair, scheduled for Jan.-Feb.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Thursday, 16 October 2003 08:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Harold and Joe is lovely (and is it only me that assumes it's inspired my Neighbours - Joe Mangel and Harold were the 2 main heroes of the show at the time...)

DOV=Discard 5, right?

Heroin Face
Do the Hansa
Never Enough
Close to Me Remix
Fascination Street

― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Thursday, 16 October 2003 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Fascination street??

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Thursday, 16 October 2003 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, I know, but I never liked FS at all. It just annoys me.

― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Thursday, 16 October 2003 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

NEVER ENOUGH?????

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 October 2003 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Never Enough should be on that other thread (best new songs on greatest hits). My only problem with it is that it never sounds good when played live.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Thursday, 16 October 2003 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

RE: Never Enough.

Harold and Joe should have been the a side. Never Enough is the Cure doing baggy. It's okay.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Thursday, 16 October 2003 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Never Enough is just dull, and was hugely disappointing (as was the whole of Mixed Up). Especially because when they debuted it at the big Crystal Palace gig, with the fireworks and everything, it sounded brilliant.

― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Thursday, 16 October 2003 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Bloody hell, I just decided to buy Kiss Me... on CD, only todiscover it doesn't have "Hey You!" on. Which is surely one of the best songs on the record.

― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Thursday, 16 October 2003 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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There was, but I don't remember what it was called. It came out at about the same time as _Entreat_.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 October 2003 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"Am I misremembering, or was there a huge "all the albums" Cure box set around 1990? "

The only box set type thing I know of from around that time was the Integration box, which I believe was Disintegration plus the all the single from the album.

― boldbury, Friday, 17 October 2003 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Long googling around french (all the Cure otaku are French, it appear) fansites, it's a French (told you) 12-CD Set http://offisual.givemeit.de/misc/othermisc/12cd_assemblage_fr_5111242.html

There's a copy on eBay for $103, which sounds a bargain, but I can't find the link.

― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Friday, 17 October 2003 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

_Entreat_ pissed me off - I bought new copies of Faith and Pornography to get that, then the fuckers released it for cash. I was such a sucker.

― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Friday, 17 October 2003 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I remember seeing the box set in France. Not much point getting it if you had most of the albums already.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Friday, 17 October 2003 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The "all the albums" box set was called Assemblage and came out around 91-92 IIRC.

― Seb, Friday, 17 October 2003 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

1) Throw Your Foot Away
2) Hey You!
3) Friday, I'm in Love
4) The Kiss
5) Wrong Number

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 18 October 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, are you destroying "The Kiss"?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 18 October 2003 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

1) Friday I'm in Love
2) Mint Car
3) A Forest
4) Where the Birds Always Sing
5) The Loudest Sound

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Saturday, 18 October 2003 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Wrong Number

Hey, this song made me laugh, and was worth even half of the rest of the CD!

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Saturday, 18 October 2003 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, are you destroying "The Kiss"?
No, I'm relegating it to an obscure B-side. But the others, especially "Friday, I'm Written by a Lazy 4-Year Old" has to be hunted down like a rabid werewolf and annihilated.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 18 October 2003 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha! Best succinct review ever....better cause tis true

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Saturday, 18 October 2003 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I think we all know that an album of songs written by lazy 4 year olds would potentially be UTTER GENIUS!

― Muppet Boy, Sunday, 19 October 2003 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

3) A Forest

*passes out*

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Sunday, 19 October 2003 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I think we all know that an album of songs written by lazy 4 year olds would potentially be UTTER GENIUS!
Only if the lazy four-year-old is Taco the Wonder Dog

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 20 October 2003 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

A forest? Are you kidding? It's their best song.

― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Monday, 20 October 2003 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I far prefer the version of A Forest on the mixed up album. It's more interesting and more like the live version. (And it sounds better in clubs.)

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Monday, 20 October 2003 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

_Mixed Up_ doesn't get the love it deserves. The versions of "A Forest", "Pictures Of You" and "Inbetween Days" alone make it super-classic. (Would have been even more classic if the "Let's Go To Bed" remix had made it on there, though.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

'The Walk' remix sounded good when it came out. I don't know how well it's dated though. The Inbetween Days remix is a monstrosity, as Caterpillar. You're right about the classic LGTB, which also changed my perception of the original (like those little flute sounds which I previously hadn't heard..)

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Monday, 20 October 2003 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how the remix of "Prayers for Rain" (on Mixed Up) tries desperately to make the song sound chipper and upbeat.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 20 October 2003 14:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Custos, what are you smoking?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 October 2003 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

dancy beat does not a happy song make.
And "Prayers for Rain" is a bummer of a song.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 20 October 2003 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

(*hands Dan Perry a big, suspicious-looking spliff*)

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 20 October 2003 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"Prayers For Rain" is nowhere near _Mixed Up_. Are you thinking of "Pictures Of You" and that fucking genius juxtaposition between the guitars and the dub bassline/drum machine?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 October 2003 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Hold on, lemme check something.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 20 October 2003 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah. The copy my ex-girlfriend made for me had a bunch of stuff tacked on the end, including a crummy remix of "Prayers for Rain"
But Dan Perry is right. It's not on the actual version you can get in a record store.
If you want to be appalled go to your local Napsterclone and look for the "House Remix" of "Prayers for Rain"

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 20 October 2003 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

On an only slightly related note, it would have been more interesting for some of the lesser known songs to have been remixed on MU. It would have been good to have let Sabres of Paradise loose on "All Cats are Grey" "100 Years" or indeed "Prayers For Rain" and seen what they came up with.

*Exhales spliff*

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Monday, 20 October 2003 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

or the dfa!

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 20 October 2003 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The great lost "Pornography" DFA mix and the Timbaland "Shake Dog Shake - Shakedown mix" ..?
Actually, that makes me think that a Mixed Up project could be brillaint these days..

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Monday, 20 October 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd love to hear Robert Smith's cover version of P!nk's "Get the Party Started"

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I go on vacation and I miss this thread. Hm.

There are a couple of Cure songs I could miss like "Mint Car" and all that. There, see how I miss them? The rest I'll have removed from my cold dead brain.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 October 2003 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

WHO IS THIS WICKED ZOMBIE AND WHAT HAS HE DONE WITH NED???

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you on crack or am I not explaining myself correctly? I'm trying to say "Ditch a couple of songs, yes, but KEEP THE REST."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I had also written you off as a wicked zombie myself..

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

So we've moved from ganja to crack?
This neighborhood is going downhill to damned fast.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't trust you and your cold, dead brain. You want to eat my lovely warm brain!

http://www.blankandjones.de/aforest/

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Brains!
by Voltaire
Well, hello there, little boy, don't be shy,
Step right up; I'm a reasonable guy!
Don't be frightened by the look in my eye,
I'm just your average evil meteor from out of the sky.
Well, I'm just shy and scared of this place--
I'm just a fish out of water from outer space.
You can see that the trip has left me tired and drained,
So why don't you be a pal -- and bring me some brains?
Go down to your neighbor's place.
See the dull expression on his face?
You'd doing him a favor if you brought him to me,
He ain't using his brain, he's just watching TV.
Go down to Mr. McGee's,
He hasn't had a thought since '43,
His brain is the portrait of atrophy,
He ain't using it, why not give it to me!
Brains, brains, I won't lie,
I'll eat their brains 'til they're zombified.
Sure, they might think it's deranged,
but they won't give it a thought after I've eaten their brains.
Brains, brains, it's okay -- it's not matter if it isn't grey
and if, at first, they think it's strange,
they won't think twice if they don't have a brain.
Go down to the won-ton shop,
My fortune cookie says that I just can't stop.
I'll suck the noodle right out of their heads,
And half an hour's later I'm hungry again.
Creep into the Donut Stop
Sneak in, tiptoe past the cop.
Pick me up a cruller and a cupful of tea
And any other sweetbreads you happen to see!
Brains, brains, I won't lie,
I'll eat their brains 'til they're zombified.
Sure, they might think it's deranged,
but they won't give it a thought after I've eaten their brains.
Brains, brains, it's okay -- it's not matter if it isn't grey
and if, at first, they think it's strange,
they won't think twice if they don't have a brain.
Brains, brains, I love 'em, I need 'em
my tummy jumps for joy when I eat 'em
Big ones, fat ones, short ones, tall ones,
They're so delectable, especially the small ones.
No time to cook 'em in a skillet,
my belly's rumblin', and I got a need to fill it
I don't fry 'em, the heat would only shrink 'em,
I just grab myself a straw and I drink 'em. Oh!
You've been swell to go around
and bring me every single brain in town.
But with all these brains I can't help but think
that there isn't one left out there to drink.
Now 'fess up, boy, come on, heck,
is there someone that you're trying to protect?
Bring her down here to meet her end
and I promise I'll be your bestest friend.
Brains, brains, I won't lie,
I'll eat her brain 'til she's zombified.
Sure, she might think it's deranged,
but she won't give it a thought after I've eaten her brain.
Brains, brains, it's okay -- it's not matter if it isn't grey
and if, at first, she thinks it's strange,
she won't think twice if she don't have a brain.

Brains!
Bring me her brain!
Bring me her brain!
Bring me her brain!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

In any case, surely wicked zombies would love The Cure!

― Muppet Boy, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i suppose im in the minority in adoring "friday i'm in love", thinking "letter to elise" is the best breakup song ever, and holding a special place in my heart for "cut" for being the best song to jam along to until i found jason pierce's catalog.

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

Just gave a spin to Wish and to this day I'm still expecting him to rhyme 'it's a perfect day for doing the unstuck ... and you don't give a fuck'

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Sunday, 11 January 2004 12:20 (twenty-one years ago)

What a painfully coy setup..."fffff-urther thought," my spine coils.

If you include the post-Wish material, or B-sides, a DOV is too easy. I'd destroy all but three tracks on Wild Mood Swings. DOV from Wish back, no B-sides:

1.Fight
2.The ballads on Wish: Trust (near-Queensryche; the breaking point in my life as a Cure fan), Apart (sub-"Prayers for Rain" drivel), and the dinky-doo Letters to Elise, which hasn't been worth a shit since the promising T&C preview.
3.The Empty World
4.Prayers for Rain (Goth keyboard metal)
5.Homesick (seven minutes that feel like thirty)

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Sunday, 11 January 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

Wow, I just saw Chris's completely mental post and all I have to say is that if we ever actually meet, the world will implode in a cataclysmic meeting of matter and anti-matter.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 28 May 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard a remix of "Lullaby" w/the drums forked up something awful. It was terrible.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 29 May 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

1. "Why Can't I Be You?"
2. "Mint Car"
3. " Sinking"
....and, er, the entirety of Bloodflowers.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 29 May 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

ha um, please. homesick? prayers for rain? FASCINATION STREET? LETTERS TO ELISE?

my 5 (excluding the last godawful s/t one):

club america
snakepit (a couple of other selections from km,km,km almost make the cut as well)
39
the 13th
the top

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

Hard call as I haven't really noticed their worst. But "Never Enough" will be in there, as will also "Fire In Cairo" and "Foxy Lady".

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

And I wouldn't have included anything from "Wild Mood Swings" anyway. That is one of my favourite Cure albums after all.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

this thread is full of absolutely fucking deranged ppl

― acoleuthic, Monday, 23 August 2010 15:31 (fifteen years ago)

like, Give Me It AND 39 in the first post? Watching Me Fall in the third? A Forest? THE TOP?

― acoleuthic, Monday, 23 August 2010 15:33 (fifteen years ago)

Never seen this thread before

A Thousand Hours? Crazy!

― nate woolls, Monday, 23 August 2010 15:34 (fifteen years ago)

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