The Cure

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Originally posted by den
[B]I'm indifferent. I may hear a snippet of their new stuff when it comes out and take a few mo's to try to appreciate, but heLl they've sold `Pictures of You' to Hewlett Packard, so this mainstream crap just makes me yawn when I hear them.
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Is it the same song though? I mean, the words seem different to me... Maybe it's just a part I don't remember, it's been ages since I last listened to it. And great songs are great whoever uses them.

Crisaor, albums... I haven't heard them all, but out of those I know I'd banally say Disintegration, though I can't really listen to it without geting more depressed than I usually am (especially 2 absolute masterpieces like Pictures of You and Prayers For Rain). I also love Bloodflowers even if many early fans don't seem to like it (I'd say I got into the Cure with that, before that I didn't care to listen to them for fear of liking them too much :rolleyes: ), and I have a soft spot for The Head On The Door.
Instead, I couldnt listen to Wild Moods Swings and Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me more than once...

Hey, what's the song of The Crow?

Koa they used the Cure's `Burn' in The Crow...

So you've seen that HP commercial? They've manipulated it somewhat to make it `fit' the continuity of the commercial.

"A PART OF 'PICTURES OF YOU' HAS BEEN USED IN THE NEW HEWLETT PACKARD AD RUNNING IN THE USA... AND IN EUROPE 'INBETWEEN DAYS' IS FEATURED IN A FIAT PUNTO (car) AD... 'JOIN THE DOTS' HURRY UP AND BE..."

above quote from:
http://www.thecure.com/home.html

`Lullaby' that's one of my fav song's of theirs, love the video for it too. And Boy's Don't Cry, Why Can't I be You? and it goes on.. they were on David Letterman in November I think it was...

Burn... is it on an album? I think the name sounds familiar...

The commercial...well I recognised the music immediately (curiously, I first got a melancholic feeling before my mind found the title of the song...), but at first I thought it was sung by someone else, with other words... I have never listened to it carefully, next time I will (though i always change the channel when adverts are on...)

Never heard In-between days (one of my favourites!!!) though... I'll watch out for it... *learnt to drive on the Fiat Punto of the damn driving school* :D

I don't like 'why can't I be you'... dunno why :rolleyes:

Ha! Fiat Punto.. friend of mine in Scotland has one, he thinks it's a piece of crap, they're so tiny, really scary to drive.

tiny????????????????so is it true that in the USA and Canada cars are huge...that's an average car for me, not too small, and of average quality i guess...I mean, a common one. The most common piece of crap was Fiat Panda, half of the Italian population had one, my mum too (it died when i got my driving licence...well it died in my arms almost :D), basicaly if you went to fast it sounded like it was going to break and open :D

There's a very tiny kind of car so in fashion here...well, people who drive that are considered posh girl or gays... and everybody makes fun of them :D

Back to the cure guys... no I'm not going to wonder which car they drive... Wait, Mint Car is a song I can't stand :D

By the way, i think Cure's new producer is Ross Robinson.

Great to make his acquaintance... :D

(in other words, who the hell is he? ;))

:D

I'm having a Cure-phase. Which is not exactly a happy thing, maybe I'm influenced by the common stereotype but they make me so depressed, infact I mostly listen to them if I'm depressed already, it kinda helps let it out.

Today I listened to part of Wish, part of Faith and part of Pornography. Damn, in these last 2 I love that early-80s-rock-feeling...some insisted sounds kinda reminded me a bit of Joy Division.

Then I printed some lyrics from their site cos it's really hard to make out words out of Smith's peculiar voice, and I also notice they use a lot of words I don't know or I'm not too familiar with.
Then I had to do a stupid thing... Copy some of those lyrics. Yes I mean copy on paper, it felt like some kind of waste of time (when I was supposed to be studying...well I'm able to invent any pastime in those occasions :D), but I really felt a need to write down those words, spell them, to feel them better in my head. I love it to see lyrics stretched on a page, like a poem. Old discussion, to me lirics are poetry.

I wonder how can a human being be so poetic... I noticed reasons why I feel the Cure so deep and sad... In most songs there's a sense of loss, they feel like the good song to end a relationship... or to think about your big love of 30 years ago (that's how I feel Last Dance)...infact there's a constant feeling of the past, the passing of time, which is something I'm personally very bothered about (one of my favourite quotes is yesterday I got so old I felt like I could die) . And death comes out at times above everything, somehow another reminder of the passing of time. Over and over we die one after the other...

Stylistically, especially in Wish and Bloodflowers, there's a lot of 'dialogues', things like 'she said' 'I said'... And they use a lot of girl's names... A special mention for 'A letter to Elise', I'm moved to tears when a poet uses that silly insignificant name. (Time for the coming-out, that's my name...Well, with -a instead of -e at the end). And all the small details, movement of people, concrete elements that appear...I said several times on the personal poetry forum that I love little concrete elements in poetry, they are a nice touch (while I'm so hopelessly abstract instead....)

Ok I'm sure noone needed my analysis but I'm in a poetic-Cure-day apparently...:o

Sorry again, I love this one so much...

Siamese Twins

I chose an eternity of this
Like falling angels
The world disappeared
Laughing into the fire
Is it always like this?
Flesh and blood and the first kiss
The first colours
The first kiss

We writhed under a red light
Voodoo smile
Siamese twins
A girl at the window looks at me for an hour
Then everything falls apart
Broken inside me
It falls apart

The walls and the ceiling move in time
Push a blade into my hands
Slowly up the stairs
And into the room
Is it always like this?

Dancing in my pocket
Worms eat my skin
She glows and grows
With arms outstretched
Her legs around me...

In the morning I cried

Leave me to die
You won't remember my voice
I walked away and grew old
You never talk
We never smile
I scream
You're nothing
I don't need you any more
You're nothing

It fades and spins
Fades and spins...

Sing out loud
We all die!!!
Laughing into the fire...

Is it always like this?

as Koa converts az...

Seriously, :) I've only heard them once or twice, and "poetic" doesn't do what you wrote up there justice. (Had NO idea.) And how wonderful to hear your name, and be Touched so far away, in both distance and time, and well, Everything...

Eh?:confused: Me a bit dumb but well, I'm glad if someone is touched, I like to spread my artistic convinctions around ;)

It's nice to share :)

Yuch! Am unclear Again; meant re: crying when you heard "a letter to Elise". Feel clueless like earlier in the a.m., when called gas works due to leak...only to find out the pilot light in the stove was off. (!!)

Yessss....whatever :D

On the "selling songs" issue, I don't wanna be The Cure's advocate (they don't need it and I suck at it) but maybe the songs are property of the record company, and they sold them. It happens. Luckily, I haven't seen any of those commercials you mention. I'd probably freak out. :eek:

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Originally posted by Koa
Crisaor, albums... I haven't heard them all, but out of those I know I'd banally say Disintegration, though I can't really listen to it without geting more depressed than I usually am (especially 2 absolute masterpieces like Pictures of You and Prayers For Rain).

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Yes. I think Disintegration is a sort of culmination of their previous albums, as if all the time they were heading into that direction, always up and forward, evolving. Everytime I hear it, it's like an endless song that sends out waves of sweet melancholy, never stopping. I feel as if the whole disc was recorded continuously (kinda like Abbey Road, another jewel).

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Originally posted by Koa
I'm having a Cure-phase. Which is not exactly a happy thing, maybe I'm influenced by the common stereotype but they make me so depressed, infact I mostly listen to them if I'm depressed already, it kinda helps let it out.
I wonder how can a human being be so poetic... I noticed reasons why I feel the Cure so deep and sad... In most songs there's a sense of loss, they feel like the good song to end a relationship... or to think about your big love of 30 years ago (that's how I feel Last Dance)...infact there's a constant feeling of the past, the passing of time, which is something I'm personally very bothered about (one of my favourite quotes is yesterday I got so old I felt like I could die) . And death comes out at times above everything, somehow another reminder of the passing of time. Over and over we die one after the other...

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I've felt like that in the past (still do in the present), exactly how you described it. I love that analysis, Koa. :)
BTW, have you ever listened to Tindersticks?