The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

Boys don't cry

Jesus Christ. Endsong? WTF is this?

Keeps getting worse

So in summary you've been listening to this 'awful mess of AI-generated nothing' for the past three weeks now?

This was a really cosy Cure nostalgia thread until @perunamuusi showed up

  On 11/23/2024 at 2:58 AM, perunamuusi said:

Jesus Christ. Endsong? WTF is this?

Keeps getting worse

I’m glad I’m not alone in hating the cure to the max!

  On 11/23/2024 at 12:02 PM, eye said:

So in summary you've been listening to this 'awful mess of AI-generated nothing' for the past three weeks now?

Unfortunately it gets played quite a lot on the radio in my kitchen. I am not actively seeking out this dross.

Might play this for the first time a bit later. It's a bit miserable weather wise today. The Cure weather. I've heard (generally) good things about it. 

Quick and genuine. All the radio hosts here call The Cure for "goth". Is this goth? If so then I don't know what goth is.

  On 11/23/2024 at 12:50 PM, perunamuusi said:

Unfortunately it gets played quite a lot on the radio in my kitchen. I am not actively seeking out this dross.

You have a radio station that plays a 10 minute song where the first half is without vocals? Wow. Radio formatting isn´t what it once was.

I love the track btw. Keep listening to that radio!

Yes. Radio 6. My wife has it on in the kitchen. It's for middle aged people. Really bad.

Not sure where you are from but the UKs biggest radio station used to play 10m plus Autechre tracks in the 90s, so not sure why hearing music from the Cure, one of the biggest and most successful bands of all time would be that strange.

seems like a lot of people in this thread haven't listened to disintegration 

I think chat GPT listened to disintegration

  On 11/22/2024 at 11:29 PM, hayhook said:

A Fragile Thing 7” comes with 2 remixes. The first sounds pretty damn close to the original. The second is sitting in the “Mixed Up/Torn Down” realm. 
https://shop.capitolmusic.com/products/the-cure-a-fragile-thing-7

now on spotify. 

radio edit

rs24 remix

live at troxy 2024

album version

  On 11/24/2024 at 12:58 PM, perunamuusi said:

Yes. Radio 6. My wife has it on in the kitchen. It's for middle aged people. Really bad.

Damn as an alternative radio guy I would kill for Radio 6 just so I can escape having a station that plays nirvana every 2 hours or the corporate one that plays imagine dragons and TikTok hits as new music

Sat down to listen to this album yesterday and I think I now understand what Rubin means. It feels to me like production took precedence over songwriting or something along those lines - the tracks aren't really interesting and quite bland in the instrumentation, like the strings on the second track, some of the melodies and the solos. They get more interesting when the vocals enter, but it seems like each one is more a theme/topic than a song - Warsong for example. And then the production is really showy in trying to fix what isn't there musically, lik e a broadway musical instead of a rock show. Might be a bit harsh, but I couldn't really shake that feeling.

  On 11/30/2024 at 7:52 PM, President Squidward said:

Damn as an alternative radio guy I would kill for Radio 6 just so I can escape having a station that plays nirvana every 2 hours or the corporate one that plays imagine dragons and TikTok hits as new music

Radio 6 isn't that bad compared to most other radio stations, Hobbs and Ravenscroft are pretty good. But it's like every radio station really, if it's on, day in and day out, sooner or later it will get unbearable. 

Out Tomorrow: Songs of a LIVE World. - The "album" section of their recent Troxy Album Release Show.

https://shopeu.thecure.com/products/soalw-mmxxiv-1lp-blk

just bin the hair mate