Is this what Robert Smith meant by "heavier"? (Cure fans beware - this is not pleasant, but you should know about it nonetheless)

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http://www.wea.de/playMediaExtern.jsp?mid=231920

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck me gently with a chainsaw, this is *painful*. I know it's one of the all-time greatest riffs (uh-huh) - in fact, it's the riff that got me into the band in the first place, drifting across a courtyard from a schoolmate's window, one evening in 1989 - but still...gah! Horrible.

All together now: Robert, what were you thinking?$?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:15 (twenty-three years ago)

My work computer is being repaired and I can't listen right now. Dan to thread immediately for a judgment!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll tell you what it is if you like, but really you should see/hear the full horror for yourself...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

What is that? What's the point? Annoying.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Fucking hell, it's VNV Nation!

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 24 October 2003 13:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, that's not a bad thing!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 October 2003 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't get this. What do you do with this link?

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Friday, 24 October 2003 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Eat it, I guess.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

This link won't play for me at all. In fact, RealPlayer crashes every time I click on it. So clearly ROBERT HOW DARE YOU etc etc etc.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

(I totally thought this was going to be a thread full of FatBob pics, BTW.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

http://wake-zine.com/Reviews/thecur2.gif

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

This is taking ages to load, Charlie.

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ChainOfFlowers/robpark.jpg

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.vh1.com/shared/media/news/images/c/Cure_The/sq-robert-strumming-elk.jpg

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ChainOfFlowers/robert02.jpg

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Seen it now.

dear or dear oh dear oh dear that's awful. I can see Dan Perry kind of liking it, though.

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:28 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.releasemagazine.net/Pictures/cure2001robert.jpg

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

http://webmag.de/av_img/w/9/8/12598.jpg

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

http://thecure.serw.com.pl/memorabilia/memorabilia_zdjecia/robert_and_fozzie.jpg

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

It's Robert Smith and two Gareth Gates clones doing goth-trance.

― adaml (adaml), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.1980spopicons.com/Galley/David%20Levine/026robert_smith.jpg

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.srll.freeserve.co.uk/carics/smithy.jpg

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.jamescphoto.demon.co.uk/Cure11.jpg

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

http://members.aol.com/Zilllah/robert2a.jpg

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:33 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.pararadio.hu/id/robertsmith.jpg

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:34 (twenty-three years ago)

izzit that Earl Slick thing?

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:35 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.unm.edu/~lboykin/robert87b.jpg

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.chartattack.com/Gallery/20000619-cure.jpg
Ooooohhh - Barracuda!

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.thecure.com/curenewspages/images/cn1.jpg

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Given Nicolars' open disdain of Robbo, I have to say she's done a great job! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:40 (twenty-three years ago)

He isn't as scary to do as a Posh Spice picture thread, but less fun than Baby.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Was there a Posh Spice thread? I'd love to see that.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)

It was on one of the stupid C*lum or Chris *tt threads, I don't remember which one.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.unm.edu/~lboykin/robert87b.jpg

― Nicolars (Nicole), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, wait, maybe this is the song with Junkie XL? I've heard about that...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 October 2003 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Judging by the description, it's the Blank and Jones remake of "A Forest" that I linked on another Cure thread. (And yes, I did like it although it wasn't as good as I was hoping it would be.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 24 October 2003 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

yessir, that's what it is indeed.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 24 October 2003 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh that thing? Yeah, I heard about that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 October 2003 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

so its a remix? not a smith original?
i havent heard it yet, my week has been bad enough.

― kephm, Friday, 24 October 2003 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

oh for fucks sake!

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 24 October 2003 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

the video is hilarioussss!

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 24 October 2003 18:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not so much a remix as a remake (Blank and Jones do a standard trance rendition of "A Forest" that shuld have much harder percussion than it actually does with new Robert vocals over it). The Junkie XL thing should be better.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 24 October 2003 18:12 (twenty-three years ago)

that wasn't very nice. i'm all ouchie now. need asprin

― Brandon Welch (Brandon Welch), Saturday, 25 October 2003 13:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I like how everyone was expecting Dan and I to burst forth in outrage but we're all "Oh yeah, that, it is what it is, anyway."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 25 October 2003 14:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I like how everyone was expecting Dan and I to burst forth in outrage but we're all "Oh yeah, that, it is what it is, anyway."

Well it certainly offended me...hence the indignatuouramic response.

The vocal's definitely not one I've heard on any other Cure version of the song - I think the whole thing's an embarrassment, frankly.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 26 October 2003 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Of course you haven't heard the vocal on any other version; it's a new recording.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 26 October 2003 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Perfectly harmless and boring, and the riff played on piano sounds fairly nice actually.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Sunday, 26 October 2003 15:42 (twenty-three years ago)

++It's not so much a remix as a remake

Oh is it ? i cant even be bothered to care right now

― kephm, Monday, 27 October 2003 00:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I would just like to reiterate:
http://www.chartattack.com/Gallery/20000619-cure.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 27 October 2003 12:31 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

still ugh.

anyone go to wembley last week?

― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't.

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

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