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I really like this album. One of my favourites. This album is a personal one, imo. It's a moody album, which is reflected by the cover pretty well. The songs are like the rain on your window on a grey day. Monotone, subtle, dreary but comforting in a way. I feel like this album is great for when I'm in a certain mood, it's not trying to be anything it's not, it knows very much what it's going for and does it well. It takes its time
I don't know if this was on purpose, but the more gothic stuff worked very well in France. I remembered my older cousins loved The Cure, the same way they would love Smashing Pumpkins.
Next one, "Faith" is even better, and yeah, can't wait for your reaction to their "Pornography" album, it's a masterpiece Hope you gonna like the rest of the "dark trilogy" Thank you
@@princeofcupspoc9073 I haven't listened to them for now but I've heard that Bloodflowers really sucked, the only one that I've listened from now is 4:13 Dream, which is for now favorite The Cure album (along with The Top and Seventeen Seconds)
Faith is probably the Jewel in The Cure discography, sound production is outstanding, it's a real romantic album (in a litterary way) it's dark but the melodies are shinning.... Unfortunately at this time (1981) critics clashed the album, and public ignore them.... Robert Smith was so desesperate and anger that he decides to do the ultimate fuck off album with nothing fancy, a pure antirock record feed by a cold rage with Pornography
Hi Alex! This album is so special... It grows inside every time you listen it... Hope when you do "Faith" you react to the super great non album single "Charlotte Sometimes / Splintered in Her Head" (a real nexus between "Faith" and "Pornography"), and maybe you could react to "Carnage Visors", a 28 minute instrumental track which was the soundtrack from the film that worked as support in the 1981 tour, it really worth it... Thanks from Argentina!!!
To me this album sets the cure for sure / At night: It's an awesome song, one of my favorites ... it sets the mood for “All cats are gray” next time soon on the faith album
The UK & US cassettes had Play for Today and A Forest swapped (likely to make the two sides more equal in length --15:46+19:44 versus 18:02+17:28). I got used to them in that sequence. Now then ending of A Reflection and The Final Sound each feel weird when I hear them end in the "regular" sequence (CD/LP) going into the other respective track. The swap makes some sense musically as A Forest's long beginning fits after A Reflection's long tail. Likewise, Play for Today's abrupt start fits after The Final Sound's tape abruptly ran out.
The Cure have carried 🍃me through decades of my life. Every phase ~ now in my 60’s I can definitely now feel the groves of memories of the past and the power of stunning writing and musical structures that the Cure brought to my life. Forever engraving these memories. For now I can say what my fav Cure albums are that carried me through this wonderful life. 1 .Seventeen Seconds 2. Pornography 3. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me 4. Disintegration
Okay, seventeen seconds is probably my all time favourite album from the Cure. Don't get me wrong... Pornography and Disintegration are absolute masterpieces, but lets face it.. You gotta be in a really specific mood to put those ones on. With Seventeen Seconds it can be played in so many other settings. Usually when I'm working or driving or just chilling. Faith is also good, but feels more like leftover ideas from Seventeen Seconds
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I prefer 17 seconds over "Faith" because it has a far more "closed" atmosphere - "At Night" and "In your House" are my absolute favorites. The album has a consistent mood that i love, far more innocent and playful - Just walk out in the woods after fresh fallen snow and listen to this - Nothing more fitting.
These songs will grow on you, if you work on it, it's a real grower, at first all the songs will sound much the same , it creates a mood, I think unknown Pleasures was a real influence on all bands after, in the fact everyone stripped down their sound more, after that album
It would be cool it you started adding the B-sides to these reviews, for The Cure they are all out there for this whole time period on the "Join The Dots" compilation. This album would have been "Another Journey by Train".
Play for today is definitely a highlight, crowd goes crazy everytime they play it live , i love playing that song on my guitar, that harmonics at the start and punishing baseline are amazing, also that reverby shooting in a distance sounds by drums
One of my favorite Cure records. It's not for everyone! One of my back tracks after my first Cure album Standing on a Beach. Kiss me came next and then I fell backwards for the Cure. I became obsessed with the Cure and that continued from the middish 80's when Cure fans were still freaks to....forever I suppose. FAITH is beautiful and Pornography is ink black
" A forest" is one of their finest songs from that period, but I find It exponentially better when played lived, specially the versions featuring Boris Williams on drums, who joined the band in 1985. He was the best drummer the cure ever had and helped taking the band to another level. Unfortunately he left in 94.
@@princeofcupspoc9073 well, maybe u should check the definition of post-punk first before acting so sure about musical genres, i see what u may mean there, it's punk energy that transferred through Post-punk, but there are differences between them as well..
It's been a while since I listened to these early Cure albums. I lost my way with them in after the 1990s. They deserve more credit for integrating guitar with synths...
Goth music came much later than The Cure, and if you ever listened to goth music, you would not say, not only "A Reflection", but whatever Cure did sounds like goth music Immediately after the punk wave there wasn't goth music, but the stream that can be the closer to goth that could be found was the batcave stream with bands like Bauhaus for instance, but the sound of The Cure cannot be related to the batcave style either
I hope you get around to Pornography or Faith at some point, pornography is best in their dark trilogy of albums ( consisting of 17 seconds, faith and pornography), it’s their peak IMO , the albums that followed pornography never really gripped me as much.
Also faith is a beautiful album, it’s also a little more accessible than pornography. Some of the tracks on Pornography can be painful to listen to for me depending on my mental state, it’s deeply emotional, nihilistic, and angry.
I remember the first time I listened to A Forest and feeling really meh about it after listening to a lot of the hits that were to come from The Cure. I then listened to a live version of it from 2019. Hearing Robert Smith still sound pretty much the same as he did in 1980 is magnificent and they seem like a band that are well worth seeing live. The live version I heard - ua-cam.com/video/r54jwZvtJck/v-deo.html
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I really like this album. One of my favourites. This album is a personal one, imo. It's a moody album, which is reflected by the cover pretty well. The songs are like the rain on your window on a grey day. Monotone, subtle, dreary but comforting in a way. I feel like this album is great for when I'm in a certain mood, it's not trying to be anything it's not, it knows very much what it's going for and does it well. It takes its time
I don't know if this was on purpose, but the more gothic stuff worked very well in France. I remembered my older cousins loved The Cure, the same way they would love Smashing Pumpkins.
M is one of their best in my opinion.
It's my favorite Cure song.
Next one, "Faith" is even better, and yeah, can't wait for your reaction to their "Pornography" album, it's a masterpiece
Hope you gonna like the rest of the "dark trilogy"
Thank you
Faith is so boring, I really wouldn't recommend it it's one of their worst albums for me
@@jinxwadhill7260 Compared to anything after Disintegration? Even Smith admits that those albums suck.
@@princeofcupspoc9073 I haven't listened to them for now but I've heard that Bloodflowers really sucked, the only one that I've listened from now is 4:13 Dream, which is for now favorite The Cure album (along with The Top and Seventeen Seconds)
@@jinxwadhill7260Bro really said Faith is boring lmao
Faith is probably the Jewel in The Cure discography, sound production is outstanding, it's a real romantic album (in a litterary way) it's dark but the melodies are shinning.... Unfortunately at this time (1981) critics clashed the album, and public ignore them.... Robert Smith was so desesperate and anger that he decides to do the ultimate fuck off album with nothing fancy, a pure antirock record feed by a cold rage with Pornography
Faith is the kind of music that you hear once in a lifetime. Easily in my top 50.
One of the strengths of Seventeen Seconds is that it succeeds to maintain consistent mood throughout the album.
Speaking of the Banshees, reactions to their albums would be cool. Robert was a guitarist for them in 82-84 and played on their Hyaena album.
Too much to ask
@@czarmty1 A Kiss in the Dreamhouse would be a great album to react to.
Hi Alex! This album is so special... It grows inside every time you listen it... Hope when you do "Faith" you react to the super great non album single "Charlotte Sometimes / Splintered in Her Head" (a real nexus between "Faith" and "Pornography"), and maybe you could react to "Carnage Visors", a 28 minute instrumental track which was the soundtrack from the film that worked as support in the 1981 tour, it really worth it... Thanks from Argentina!!!
Happily Ever After (Seventeen Seconds/Faith) was my goto album in high school. Great stuff.
A Forest stops you in your tracks , Haunting and dense truly timeless this song transports you to another time and space .
To me this album sets the cure for sure / At night: It's an awesome song, one of my favorites ... it sets the mood for “All cats are gray” next time soon on the faith album
The UK & US cassettes had Play for Today and A Forest swapped (likely to make the two sides more equal in length --15:46+19:44 versus 18:02+17:28). I got used to them in that sequence. Now then ending of A Reflection and The Final Sound each feel weird when I hear them end in the "regular" sequence (CD/LP) going into the other respective track. The swap makes some sense musically as A Forest's long beginning fits after A Reflection's long tail. Likewise, Play for Today's abrupt start fits after The Final Sound's tape abruptly ran out.
The Cure have carried 🍃me through decades of my life. Every phase ~ now in my 60’s I can definitely now feel the groves of memories of the past and the power of stunning writing and musical structures that the Cure brought to my life. Forever engraving these memories. For now I can say what my fav Cure albums are that carried me through this wonderful life.
1 .Seventeen Seconds
2. Pornography
3. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
4. Disintegration
Okay, seventeen seconds is probably my all time favourite album from the Cure.
Don't get me wrong... Pornography and Disintegration are absolute masterpieces, but lets face it.. You gotta be in a really specific mood to put those ones on.
With Seventeen Seconds it can be played in so many other settings. Usually when I'm working or driving or just chilling.
Faith is also good, but feels more like leftover ideas from Seventeen Seconds
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That's FUCKING HILARIOUS about Faith because while I love Seventeen Seconds, Faith is a definite progression from there, into a deeper, darker level of depression, more moody, like if the rain from Seventeen Seconds stops and instead it becomes night time and then it is foggy and dark and cold and heavy and drizzling and even darker. Faith is the precursor to Disintegration. Seventeen Seconds has some half-baked instrumental ideas on it, but also some fucking killer tunes, like In Your House, one of my faves. But to say "The Holy Hour" sounds like a leftover from Seventeen Seconds is just ridiculous.
I prefer 17 seconds over "Faith" because it has a far more "closed" atmosphere - "At Night" and "In your House" are my absolute favorites.
The album has a consistent mood that i love, far more innocent and playful - Just walk out in the woods after fresh fallen snow and listen to this - Nothing more fitting.
These songs will grow on you, if you work on it, it's a real grower, at first all the songs will sound much the same , it creates a mood, I think unknown Pleasures was a real influence on all bands after, in the fact everyone stripped down their sound more, after that album
It would be cool it you started adding the B-sides to these reviews, for The Cure they are all out there for this whole time period on the "Join The Dots" compilation. This album would have been "Another Journey by Train".
Play for today is definitely a highlight, crowd goes crazy everytime they play it live , i love playing that song on my guitar, that harmonics at the start and punishing baseline are amazing, also that reverby shooting in a distance sounds by drums
One of my favorite Cure records. It's not for everyone! One of my back tracks after my first Cure album Standing on a Beach. Kiss me came next and then I fell backwards for the Cure. I became obsessed with the Cure and that continued from the middish 80's when Cure fans were still freaks to....forever I suppose. FAITH is beautiful and Pornography is ink black
" A forest" is one of their finest songs from that period, but I find It exponentially better when played lived, specially the versions featuring Boris Williams on drums, who joined the band in 1985. He was the best drummer the cure ever had and helped taking the band to another level. Unfortunately he left in 94.
Post-punk's minimalistic masterpiece, that's what 17 seconds is
It's punk. It has always been punk and will always be punk. Not "post-punk" whatever that really means.
@@princeofcupspoc9073 well, maybe u should check the definition of post-punk first before acting so sure about musical genres, i see what u may mean there, it's punk energy that transferred through Post-punk, but there are differences between them as well..
@@princeofcupspoc9073what part of this album sounds at all like regular punk to you?
It's been a while since I listened to these early Cure albums. I lost my way with them in after the 1990s. They deserve more credit for integrating guitar with synths...
M is by Mary Poole.
oh you want A Forest to be longer? well lucky theres a 14 minute live version ;)))
Goth music came much later than The Cure, and if you ever listened to goth music, you would not say, not only "A Reflection", but whatever Cure did sounds like goth music
Immediately after the punk wave there wasn't goth music, but the stream that can be the closer to goth that could be found was the batcave stream with bands like Bauhaus for instance, but the sound of The Cure cannot be related to the batcave style either
I have given u a hard time on more dance music part of new wave and synth pop but you did a good job on this review for this album.
I hope you get around to Pornography or Faith at some point, pornography is best in their dark trilogy of albums ( consisting of 17 seconds, faith and pornography), it’s their peak IMO , the albums that followed pornography never really gripped me as much.
Also faith is a beautiful album, it’s also a little more accessible than pornography. Some of the tracks on Pornography can be painful to listen to for me depending on my mental state, it’s deeply emotional, nihilistic, and angry.
Nice to see another Cure fan who believes “Seventeen Seconds”, “Faith” and “Pornography” are the REAL “dark trilogy”!
It only gets more interesting from here on out, I hope you like it!
The stuff you heard that sounded like "Play For Today" copied "Play For Today", just to say 😉
I remember the first time I listened to A Forest and feeling really meh about it after listening to a lot of the hits that were to come from The Cure. I then listened to a live version of it from 2019. Hearing Robert Smith still sound pretty much the same as he did in 1980 is magnificent and they seem like a band that are well worth seeing live.
The live version I heard - ua-cam.com/video/r54jwZvtJck/v-deo.html
"M" is my favorite.
Play for Today sounds much better live, listen to The Cure Paris album