If The Cure go metal will it sound like...

I have the box set on order for the end of the month. I await patiently.

Exactly, and I've been praying this is not an omen regarding the remasters. The bass was a total drone, it's ridiculous. And in spite of all that the vocals drift in and out of the mix (though that may have been intentional). I imagine Bob has a lot of say in the remastering process, and he hasn't been particularly respectful to his back catalog in the past.

I'm not selling mine back until I hear the remasters (and if I prefer the older issues, I'll keep those in the new cases with the extra disc of goodies for each staying right where it is, of course).

"One Hundred Years" and "The Kiss" are a heartbeat away from metal songs; "M" and "The Blood" would lend themselves to snazzy metal remakes. Hopefully Messr. Smith will have the savvy to poach some bad-ass Scandinavian dark-metal musicians to play the new material live -- you just know Dimmu Borgir have some Cure records sitting around.

I was thinking more along the lines of Ben Affleck, unfortunately.

OTT OTM.

-- Sean Carruthers (oneiro...), July 6th, 2001.

Siegbran has said Katatonia is an even more likely candidate.

"The heavier sound we're going for is more to do with the tempos and dynamics and the space were leaving," he says."The more space you leave, the heavier you get. It's actually the antithesis of the new-metal assault, which is all about piling things on. It's going back to the Faith period, but making the sounds themselves a lot heavier and more savage."

DOES NOT COMPUTE

yeah i thought affleck, has he had plastic surgery? Ben affleck? recently? he looks so perfect.

Also, the people saying he looks like Been Affleck or Bruce Springsteen on the cover seem to be going blind.

I'm not sure what your point is by quoting me above, Tad, but I stand by that comment.

But some of the old CDs sound terrible - especially Boys Don't Cry (for instance, the scream at the end of "Subway Song" is cut off very sloppily) and Pornography (ugh, so cruddy) - the North American discs anyhow. I can't imagine that the remasters will be worse than these - a remastering of the Cure back catalogue is long overdue.

HA that makes more sense now; I couldn't get the picture to load yesterday.

Obviously, bass guitar should generally be compressed to bring up the sustain, but on Bloodflowers it's so compressed that there's absolutely no difference in volume between the initial pick and the sustain. It's particularly irritating on "Watching Me Fall" (which, if I recall, you adore... ahem...), on which it sounds like they might as well be using an e-bow (nothing against e-bow in general, of course); that lack of definition just doesn't work well in a rock-out song, at least to me.