Track Listing: 1. Underneath the Stars 2. The Only One 3. The Reasons Why 4.Freakshow 5. Sirensong 6. The Real Snow White 7. The Hungry Ghost 8. Switch 9. The Perfect Boy 10. This. Here and Now. With You 11. Sleep When I'm Dead 12. The Scream 13. It's Over
I hope everybody had a great Easter...Easter's always a holiday I tend to forget about for some reason...Probably because I don't get the day off of work like the other Holidays...I do remember it being a biggish deal when I was a kid, though...
Getting 20 pounds of candy all at once was pretty cool and usually there would be some comic books or a bootleg Masters of the Universe figure in my basket, and that was always exciting...
And I know everybody else in the world hates them, but goddammmit, I love black jellybeans...
So waxy and licorice-ey...So yea, Easter is okay by me...I just tend to forget about it...Anyway, let's get down to business (cracks knuckles)...Man, I have a lot of Cure albums...How long have I been doing these Cure posts now? Easily over a month..But today is the last one (until the band puts out another album, at least)...I'm trying to remember where I was and what I was doing at the time this came out...I believe I was working at Bass & Associates in Tucson, AZ...
For some reason, I don't have many specific memories associated with "4:13 Dream." I can't really remember driving around and listening to it, or blasting it at parties...It's just always been there... First off, it's pretty amazing that the Cure has been around this long, consistently (although at a much slower rate the last decade or so) putting out albums that are usually within spitting distance of being as good as their big classics...I'm having a hard time thinking of many other artists from the post-punk era that has been able to maintain this level of quality and rate of output as the Cure, which leads me to believe a lot of listeners are taking them for granted at this point...Just imagine if you picked up the debut album by some band by a bunch of shaggy-haired kids and it sounded like this...Critics would be claiming that songs like "The Real Snow White" and "This. Here and Now. With You" out-Cure the Cure and they'd be playing Coachella with Edgar Magnet and the Absolute Zeroes, Pissypants, and the Corey Haim Trio...
So I don't want you acting too-cool-for-school, young man...I whupped yer ass then and I can whup it now...I'll admit that some of it falls into "re-write classic material" territory (most egregiously the Pictures-of-You-tastic album opener "Underneath the Stars")but I feel that argument against the album has been a bit overstated...For example, what the hell is "Freakshow"? What other album would that have fit on?
In fact, "4:13 Dream" is probably my favorite album of theirs since "Wish." "Wild Mood Swings" sounded like shit, "Bloodflowers" felt a bit too weighty to fully enjoy, and the self-titled album was too busy re-introducing the band to a new generation...This just feels like the band showed up, plugged in, and let the Cure-ness flow...
Originally, this album was intended to be much more immersive than it is...A 30-something track double-album, that the band eventually stripped down to a single-album focused on the poppier material, which was probably a good call...The only tracks I ever skip are "The Reasons Why" and "Switch." For the curious, the remainder of the album is set to be released later this year as "4:14 Scream." I'm sure I'll be at the local record store on release day, as usual, forking over my paycheck for the deluxe edition...
(exclusive sneak peek at the upcoming "4:14 Scream" album cover that I completely made up in MS Paint...) I had a ridiculously good time listening to/talking about the Cure for the last month or so...As my musical tastes have changed and expanded throughout the years, the band have remained a constant in my cassette deck/turntable/CD player/MP3 player...Long may they mope, she said... Here's "The Real Snow White" by the Cure (I promise you, the song is much better than the title)..Enjoy...
Track Listing: 1. Lost 2. Labyrinth 3. Before Three 4. The End of the World 5. Anniversary 6. Us or Them 7. alt.end 8. (I Don't Know What's Going) On 9. Taking Off 10. Never 11. The Promise
Damn, did someone toss an extra day into this week? It feels like it's been going on forever...Oh well, all that matters is that we're standing here now, beers in hand, and it's Friday Night...Wait, I think today's Good Friday...But a word as weak as "good" doesn't seem to convey the ass-blasting awesomeness of Friday...So let's call it "FREAKIN' AWESOME BEER-GUZZLIN' FRIDAY!!!! (with a minimum of 4 exclamation points...)" Wait, what is Good Friday anyway? Let me google it...
Huh? This is someone's idea of a good Friday? Why's it called that? I don't really know a lot about these particular religious holidays like Ash Wednesday or Lent or Fat Tuesday (if that's even a religious holiday...I'm a little hazy on that one)...I think they're more Catholic Holidays, since all my Catholic friends are the only ones that seem to celebrate them...It wasn't anything I ever heard of growing up...The only one I really knew about was Fat Tuesday cos it had something to do with Mardi Gras and you could give beads to girls and they'd show their boobs or something...Now, that day should be called Good Friday...
Waitaminute...This blog isn't called The Sunday Morning Bible Study...No, it's the Friday Night Record Party, so let's hook up the speakers and listen to the 2004 self-titled album by the Cure...
I remember I was working at America Online when this came out...
...So the internet was in full swing at the time and I remember a lot of folks using their 1,000,000,025 free hours to discuss the upcoming Cure album that was being produced by...gasp...
Nu-Metal guru Ross Robinson! Who routinely produces shit like...
"Raype Culture" by Skull-Face and the Red-Caps...
"Utah" by wrestling superstars KlownSpyke...
"Spit or Swallow" by MC Reality Show...
and "The Sorrow of Sisyphus" by Xerus...(actually, this one's a pretty good album...Sort of medieval squirrel-prog)
So yea, a shudder of dread passed through the Cure fan community...Would Robert Smith add a seventh string to his guitar? Would he rap? Would he weary scary clown make-up? The answers turned out to be, no, no, yes...
Turns out the only song that really warranted those fears was maybe "Us or Them." The album definitely rocks harder than any other Cure album (outside of "Three Imaginary Boys") but we're pretty far off from Korn, I'd say...
I was somewhat surprised at the lukewarm greeting this album got from Cure fans...Makes zero sense to me..It reminds me of a hard-rocking Cure greatest hits album, although I think I might be more partial to hard rock and power-pop than most Cure fans...Now that I think about it, most hard-core Cure fans I know aren't into it and most casual Cure fans I know love it...This might be due to the band misplacing their knack for delicious atmosphere, and the way the album doesn't really hang together as a whole in the way their best albums due...It's more of a "singles" album where the individual tracks are better than the whole...And casual fans love singles, and boy are there some good singles here...
When I first heard "End of the World," "Before Three," and "(I Don't Know What's Going) On," I was kind of taken aback at how intact Robert's ear for pop melodies actually was...I realized I had been settling for less...I had considered "Mint Car" or "Strange Attraction" serviceable pop singles?!?! I don't know...He sounds so much more vivid and tuned-in here...And it struck me upon hearing "Lost" that I hadn't really heard Robert raise his voice above a disaffected mumble since maybe somewhere around "Wish"? He might have screamed like this on "End," maybe... I don't know exactly...But I felt it...
Oh yea, I should probably also point out that if Robert Smith's voice was ever a bit of a sticking point for you before, he's probably going to really drive you nuts here...His drama has developed into full-blown greasepaint theatricality, and his moments of unbridled joy have manifested into a wide array of unpredictable whoops and Klaus Nomi-style falsettos...
It's like he's extra Robert Smith-ier on this album...And I like it...It's exciting, dammit! This was released at time when a whole new generation of guitar-based, Cure-influenced bands began popping up everywhere, highlighting how much of the fizzy excitement the Cure had lost along the way...It was fun to hear them cast off the measured tastefulness and crank up the guitars for a change...Were they inspired and re-energized after hearing their offspring, or was it merely a cash-in to capitalize on these band's success? I dunno...That sounds like a question for a critic, to me...And I'm not a critic...I'm just a guy that likes to blast rock n' roll records on the weekend, and this blasts nicely, so I'll take it...
Here's "The End of the World" by the Cure...Happy Friday everyone...
I'm in the mood for another Cure marathon...I know it's only Wednesday but let's stay up all night, drinking beer and listening to Cure albums anyway...
The Cure: Wild Mood Swings
1996
Elektra Records
Format I Own it on: Compact Disc
Track Listing: 1. Want 2. Club America 3. This Is a Lie 4. The 13th 5. Strange Attraction 6. Mint Car 7. Jupiter Crash 8. Round & Round & Round 9. Gone! 10. Numb 11. Return 12. Trap 13. Treasure 14. Bare
Most Cure fans agree this is the worst album the Cure ever released (inching out "The Top," which suddenly didn't look so bad in comparison)...And I tend to agree...I still like the album alright, but there's no denying its inferior to the strong run of recordings that came before it...
The biggest problem, for me, is the shitty mixing job...It sounds so odd...Like its trying to be overly slick, but comes up bizarrely hollow-sounding...Who in the hell mixed this thing? Well, a quick glance at the album credits reveals it was mixed by EVERY MAN, WOMAN AND CHILD ON PLANET EARTH!!! Holy cow, there's a lot of names on here...Some I recognize, some I don't...I don't know if this was done as an experiment, since the album is ridiculously diverse, maybe they were trying to play around with this aspect...I can't really say...
I tend to favor the more pop side of the Cure, and this album definitely leans in that direction. so it should be right up my alley...And you can kind of imagine under different circumstances something like "Mint Car" could totally work as a magic single...Everything seems to be in place song-writing wise, but the sonics do it a bit of a disservice...
The album starts out on the right foot with "Want," which picks right up where "Wish" left off (except with a bit more of an electronic feel due to prominent keyboards)...The type of grand melancholic rock that seems to summon a starry sky in broad daylight...So far, so good....But then suddenly the sleazy lounge funk of "Club America" comes on and things fall apart quick...The song reminds me of Zooropa-era U2, which was a risky proposition for U2, but a complete and utter mistake in the hands of the Cure...Yuck! Can't win 'em all I guess.... And it happens so early in the album, that it takes a loooong time to recover from it..."This Is a Lie" is a psychedelic acoustic ballad that falls far short of the bands previous ventures into that genre (most notably the kaleidoscopic confections on "The Top")...And things seem to sink even further with the mariachi experiment "The 13th" which is a song I greatly enjoy, but unfortunately it's in the wrong place at the wrong time...
I almost think if they cut the run of tracks from "Club America' through the "13th" and had "Want" go directly into "Strange Attraction," the album would stand up next to the other albums..Definitely keep "The 13th," but toss it later into the track listing once your ears get acclimated to the stylistic whiplash (since it's one of the songs most responsible for this feel)...and give the whole thing a healthy remixing....
I don't want to deter people from checking this album out though...There's a lot of worthwhile stuff here..I'd actually recommend this album more to people who aren't Cure fans, since the album ends up being a lot of fun once you check your expectations a bit...For example, you hear the Jazzy horns start up on "Gone!" and you think it's going to be a mistake, but the chorus hits the mark so squarely that all is forgiven and "Strange Attraction" is such a great, understated little pop ditty you can't help but smile while it's playing...
Either way, the used bins are usually overflowing with copies of this album...It's an interesting listen, if not up to the bands usual high standards, but I think most long-lived bands need stuff like this in their catalog...The weird albums you turn to when you've burned through their real classics...
I know my old cassette of this got a hell of a workout back in the day, despite any petty reservations I may have about it now...
Anyway, here's "Want" by the Cure...Dig it...
The Cure: Galore
1997
Elektra Records
Format I Own it on: Compact Disc
Track Listing: 1. Why Can't I Be You? 2. Catch 3. Just Like Heaven 4. Hot Hot Hot!!! 5. Lullaby 6. Fascination Street 7. Lovesong 8. Pictures of You 9. Never Enough 10. Close to Me (Closest Mix) 11.High 12. Friday I'm in Love 13. A Letter to Elise 14. The 13th 15. Mint Car 16. Strange Attraction 17. Gone! 18. Wrong Number
I've never been able to quite figure out why this second collection of Cure singles doesn't rule the world like the first singles collection ("Standing on a Beach/Staring at the Sea") did...On paper it sounds great...The run of albums from "Kiss Me,Kiss Me, Kiss Me" to "Wish" were some of the band's strongest...But somehow this is less than the sum of its parts...
Maybe it's the all the radio edits...or the inferior acid house remix of "Close to Me," or the handful of bum tracks (note that every single song on "Standing on a Beach/Staring at the Sea" was vital...). Or maybe it's the fact that there's not as many albums represented as the first singles collection (six albums on "Standing" as opposed to the four represented on "Galore.")
(this cover, however, makes me hungry for Goldfish crackers....)
All of these singles work way better within the context of their original albums and for that reason I'm going to recommend "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me," "Disintegration," "Wish," and "Wild Mood Sings" over this comp...Sure, you'll miss out on "Never Enough" (which isn't so hot) and "Wrong Number" (which is alright, but too 1997 electronica for my tastes...) but I enjoy any of the aforementioned albums more than "Galore"...
Anyway, here's "Never Enough" by the Cure...Enjoy....
Alright, there's still a few beers left...I think I got another quick one in me...
The Cure: Bloodflowers
2000
Fiction Records
Format I Own it on: Compact Disc
Track Listing: 1. Out of This World 2. Watching Me Fall 3. Where the Birds Always Sing 4. Maybe Someday 5. The Last Day of Summer 6. There Is No If... 7. The Loudest Sound 8. 39 9. Bloodflowers
If "Wild Mood Swings" showed the band slightly off-course, they sure righted themselves pretty quickly with "Bloodflowers" (if you consider the 4 years between "WMS" and "Bloodflowers" quick...).
The interviews and the press that followed the album made it clear that Robert intended this album to be the third in a trilogy, along with "Pornography" and "Disintegration," but I don't hear much in common with those albums...This album has always reminded me of some of the more downcast material on "Wish," if anything...
I don't think they've ever started an album with a song like "Out of This World" before...While undoubtedly an epic, it's a lot more...well...acoustic than you'd expect...When you hear something is a "spiritual sequel" to an earlier masterpiece, you expect to hear someone trying harder than this, but it's ultra refreshing that it's so easygoing...And boy, do I love that "Strawberry Fields Forever"-esque Mellotron...A brilliant choice of album opener that immediately puts this album leagues ahead of its immediate predecessor...Here, check out "Out of This World" if you don't believe me...
Oops...wrong video...Here's the real song if you're interested in hearing it...Although that ALF one was pretty frickin' dope if you ask me...
This album isn't so much about highlights (or lowlights) though...Not much jumps out at you on first (or third or fifth) listen outside of the catchy radio single "Maybe Someday." It's more about maintaining a comfortably dour mood...It's possibly even more single-minded in its approach than "Disintegration," since that album manged to squeeze in quite a few catchy singles...
Of course it'll never be a classic on the same level as "Disintegration" or "Pornography," largely due to the fact that
they don't take the same bold risks, production-wise, they did on those
albums...Again, it falls more in line with "Wish"'s safer, easy on the
ears, radio-ready sound, but that doesn't matter...I think longtime fans
were happy as hell (and probably greatly) relieved to get this, non Cure fans
probably asked, "Why are all the songs so long and samey" and the talking frog said, "Toad-ally awesome"...So all is right in the world...Turn world, turn...
Alright, I've had enough Cure albums for the night and that case of beer is lookin' pretty empty...It's time to pack it in, but before we crash out, here's "Maybe Someday" by the Cure...Have a good one, have a safe one, and thanks for shopping...
Track Listing: 1. Open 2. High 3. Apart 4. From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea 5. Wendy Time 6. Doing the Unstuck 7. Friday I'm in Love 8. Trust 9. A Letter to Elise 10. Cut 11. To Wish Impossible Things 12. End
Oh yes, I remember when this album came out...Vividly...I had recently fell head-over-heels in love with "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me" and when the cassette of this suddenly appeared on the shelves (and "Friday I'm in Love" started appearing on the radio), I hit the lawn mower and earned some cash...
"There, I spent 5 hours mowing your 40 acre lawn...That'll be five dollars, please..."
To this day, when I listen to this album I still sometimes catch a faint whiff of lawn clippings and gasoline and suddenly I'm acne-studded and wearing a Simpsons T-shirt again...
I don' really know what I'm wearing in this picture...It appears to be a white skirt or something...I don't really recall wearing skirts but nothing would surprise me, really...I was just talking about this the other day, how back in the late 80's/early 90's the only eyeglasses you could find were 10 feet tall and 8 feet wide....And I'd make the worst choices too...
"I'll take the ones with the tiger print...I bet people won't fuck with me when they get a load of these babies...Roar!.. And if I get the lenses tinted it'll look like I'm wearing the biggest, baddest pair of shades ever...Yes, I choose the no. 15 Shading..."Smoky wine"...Look out, ladies..."
And while you're at it, check out that long, lustrous mullet...I'm pushing bald now, as you can see in this picture of me taken at the Time Out lounge yesterday...
Alright, I didn't invite you here to look at stupid pictures of me...I invited you here so I can defend "Friday, I'm in Love"...
A lot of the group's fans tend to treat it like it's some dumb pop trifle unworthy of the great Cure...The band selling themselves out for a bit of radio airplay....But I disagree...I love the song! It's the Cure tackling British Invasion pop and having a bit of fun with their mopey image, with Robert acting like every day's the end of the world except Friday...And I personally relate to that sentiment...Notice the name of this blog isn't the Monday Morning Record party...Besides, compare this song to Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA" or anything in the Black Eyed Peas discography and then talk to me about dumb pop trifles and trolling for airplay...
Besides, "High" is a waaaay dopier pop song than "Friday I'm in Love." Man, I can't stop thinking about that video they did for it with Robert flying around on the kite...lol...I almost feel like it's something I dreamed...Like there's no way they made that video...Like I'm remembering it wrong...But nope...Here it is...
But I like "High" too...I find its unguarded happiness kind of endearing...The only song on here that I dislike is the tasteless funker "Wendy Time" which is the only bomb-ola on the record...I can't understand it...Prior to this album, the group knew how to effectively utilize funk to their advantage, but they miss the mark so completely here (see "Club America" from "Wild Mood Swings" for another example of the band's mishandling of the genre)...
I think what I love best about this album is the focus on guitar...I can't help it...I love guitars...Can't get enough of 'em...And the band piles them on with this album with six-string epics like "From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea," de-emphasizing the keyboard drone that helped characterize "Disintegration." Which I think was the right move for the post-"Nevermind" guitar-based alternative explosion that was going on at this time...(Although, I do have to say, whenever "To Wish Impossible Things" comes on, I'm always fooled into thinking it's "Lullaby" for a second or two...)
The best of these guitar epics is the album closer, "End," which, to me, is the perfect Cure song...Thick layers of ringing guitars that gradually build in crashing intensity while Robert shouts his mantra, "Please stop loving me...I am none of these things..." You'll find yourself holding your lighter high, like it was 1992...I don't think people do the lighter thing at shows anymore...
I think you hoist your cellphone or something now...Unfortunately, you can't light your concert doob with a cellphone, so don't throw away those lighters just yet...
"Wish" has become one of the Cure albums I listen to the most now...Some of their more critically acclaimed works can seem like a bit too much of a commitment to me at times...I don't always feel like being drowned in an all-consuming tide of melancholy, or take a double-album length trip to alien worlds...Sometimes I just want some smart, catchy pop-rock and this is exactly what "Wish" is...No grand concept or mood-based trilogies here...And I think that's why this feels much shorter and breezier than the albums immediately preceding it, despite sharing a similarly bloated running time...This, to me, is the height of the "Mature" Cure style...All highs and lows flattened out and consistency achieved...
Track Listing: 1. Plainsong 2. Pictures of You 3. Closedown 4. Lovesong 5. Last Dance 6. Lullaby 7. Fascination Street 8. Prayers for Rain 9. The Same Deep Water as You 10. Disintegration 11. Homesick 12. Untitled
I didn't really get a chance to edit this so it probably rambles and there might be some mis-spelled wurds, but it doesn't matter because dammit, we all made it to Friday intact!
Time to pull a few beers from the fridge...
...hook up the speakers and invite over a few friends...And what good-time, party-starting album are we going to throw on tonight to get the festivities started?
"Disintegration" by the Cure! Yea, I can see the party's raging now!
"TWEEEEEE!!!!!"
Alright...Maybe it's not the best record for livening up a party, but who cares...We're going to talk about it anyway...
In contrast to the blinding array of candy colors on display on "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me," the band released possibly the most sparkling gray album ever recorded, "Disintegration." Although it's often lumped in with "Pornography" or "Faith," I don't hear much of a connection with the inky, crippling despair of those earlier albums..."Disintegration" seems to be colored more by the gentler, everyday bleakness of a cold morning, or an indeterminable rainy day...In fact, I don't think you've truly experienced a dreary, rainy day if you haven't spent it listening to "Disintegration."
Not to mention, Robert Smith wasn't able to summon swirling beauty back in 1983 like he does in 1989..."Plainsong" is still startling in the way it constructs a vast, hazy palace right before your ears after about 25 seconds of relative silence...If it was easy to get momentarily lost in certain tracks from "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me," you could spend an eternity roaming the halls in this place..Like it says in the liner notes, "Play them shits loud!"
Then comes the familiar chimes of the majestic "Pictures of You," which is about Robert losing his wallet?!?! This is what I mean about the underwhelming defeats of everyday life that just kind of add up to paint your life grey...
"Lovesong" was the album's big pop moment...A song Robert originally wrote as a wedding gift to his wife, it's a lot gloomier sounding than its origins would imply...
"Here you go, honey...To celebrate the joyous occasion of our marriage, here's a dour, moping celebration of our love..." (cavernous guitar and doom-laden drums....)
Actually, I'm not sure where the dark cloud in he song comes from...The lyrics are very nice, actually...Probably all those minor chords...Either way, that faint hint of despair is exactly why the song will live on forever (Note: it's only out of the context of the album that the song sounds moody...It sounds like it radiates with pure positivity when heard next to the other tracks on the album...Although "Pictures of You" has always scanned as "joyous" to me too, despite the fact that most people tell me the song makes them want to cry...As usual, I'm probably missing something...)
I remember always catching the video for "Lullaby" on MTV back in the day...I loved the song, but I hated the fact there was an icky tarantula in the video...Yuck! Why didn't someone step on it?! But I guess it fits alright, cos he talks about a spider-man in the song...Oh yea....Whenever Robert sings about Spider-Man having him for dinner tonight, I know he means this guy...
But I can't help but think of this guy...
You might not wanna have dinner with that guy, Robert!
He eats a lot of processed cheese! So much of it that he gets a backpack with his own face on it! That stuff's bad for your cholesterol!
Anyway, I want to take a poll...Is there anyone out there who's ever listened to "Lullaby" and not had the image of the Amazing Spider-Man flash in their head for even a split second?
To vote, just take a Sharpie and write a big, black permanent "X" in the 'Yes' or 'No' box on your computer screen...I will enter your house unexpectedly in the middle of the night to count your vote and I'll deliver the final results in a court of law where I will be judged before a jury of my peers and Almighty God himslelf...
To this day, Simon Gallup's amazing, aggressive opening bass-riff on "Fascination Street" never fails to hit me like it did the first time I'd heard it...I swear to you, the bass guitar he's playing it on must be at least 100 feet tall and have the power to summon sheets of metal rain...And Robert's shadowy guitar line compliments it beautifully...I've always considered this song to be the spiritual successor to "A Forest"...It has the same dreamy, urgent feeling, although "Fascination Street" has more of a "your running from something but you're not actually going anywhere" vibe...Why is this song only 5 minutes long? Why not 30? Why not a 100?
I've always considered "The Same Deep Water as You" and the title track to be the thick of the album... The point where "disintegration" becomes "DISINTEGRATION." Vast, sprawling chasms of infinite guitars and keyboards that are somehow simultaneously icy yet warm and inviting...Like making peace with the fact that you're drowning in freezing water...Everything peaks in the title track, where Robert finally cuts loose after an oddly restrained vocal performance throughout the rest of the album:
"I leave you with photographs
Pictures of trickery
Stains on the carpet and
Stains on the memory
Songs about happiness murmured in dreams
When we both of us knew
How the end always is..."
Those lines are the National Anthem to Cure fans...We can reel that shit off in our sleep...I always go back and forth over whether I like the song "Disintegration" or "Untitled" better...A lot of times I think "Disintegration" should of ended the album, but then when "Untitled" comes on the pendulum swings the other way...It's so sad and lovely, bopping along with its sing-songy vocal line...When it fades into the accordion at the ending and it sinks in that the album is over, I usually find myself sitting in silence for a half a minute afterwards thinking about how awesome it all is...
Most Cure fans will point to "Disintegration" as their favorite Cure album, and I would never argue with those people...It really is quite an achievement...And it is the most satisfying Cure album when I'm in a certain mood...But on the other hand there are Cure albums that work for me no matter what mood I'm in...Still, it's unrelentingly beautiful and it sounds better and better with each passing year...Who knows, maybe next year it'll finally be my favorite Cure album...
Until then, here's "Plainsong" by the Cure...Happy Friday everyone...
So waxy and licorice-ey...So yea, Easter is okay by me...I just tend to forget about it...Anyway, let's get down to business (cracks knuckles)...Man, I have a lot of Cure albums...How long have I been doing these Cure posts now? Easily over a month..But today is the last one (until the band puts out another album, at least)...I'm trying to remember where I was and what I was doing at the time this came out...I believe I was working at Bass & Associates in Tucson, AZ...
