Album Poll #1

[The Silent One]

Quote Originally Posted by SwansSoilMe/SwansSaveMe

I hope someday to (or wish I had already) gotten more into The Cure. I have Disintegration, Kiss me-- , Bloodflowers, Staring-Sea-Singles, and my favorite thusfar, Seventeen Seconds. (I thought I had Pornography when I hit Reply...) A bit repetitive, their sound for me, which may mean I don't like much of their basic groove.

The opposite end, which is really odd. I'm not quite sure what I like about the Cure, in particular Pornography. I believe it's just that they're good songwriters. While this generally applies to pre-Disintegration albums, there are quite a few decent songs from then on. It's the albums that are iffy, particularly the production. Very few bands could pull off disoriented and vaguely creepy better.

I suggest, Mr. Pratt, that you get Three Imaginary Boys and Faith, which respectively preceded and succeeded Seventeen Seconds. Both are similar to said album, but are strikingly different. If you don't like repetition, the former is good, as are the aforementioned Pornography and the badly underrated The Top.

[the_havoc_man]

Quote Originally Posted by The Silent One

Beware! Righteous indignation ahead. They haven't played "A Short Term Effect" since 1982 with the exception of the Trilogy shows, nor "The Top", "Bananafishbones", or "Wailing Wall" since the tour for that album. It makes me quite sad; "Boys Don't Cry" was your first semi-hit, but if you keep beating it, the horse will die. And speaking of which, "Jumping Someone Else's Train" is far better. I don't think they've ever even played "Doubt" in concert. And where's "Seventeen Seconds"? "Splintered in Her Head"? Any of the better songs on Three Imaginary Boys? New material? Start playing some old material. The back catalogue is vast. Heck, play "Do the Hansa" and "I'm a Cult Hero" if need be. Bloodflowers is pretty good, though, if overproduced. It also kind of gives you the impression that if Smith had done anything poppier or slightly more pretentious, the whole thing would musically implode.

Actually, the Cure did play "Doubt" on the Faith tour in 1981 when they toured with the great big Circus Tent in England. There is footage on Staring at the Sea from the tour of the show with "Funeral Party" leading into "Doubt." Pornography was my first Cure record. A friend of mine dubbed me a copy with Pornography on the A-side and Ministry's 12 inch singles on the B-Side when I was in highschool. I have always loved "100 Years." I think that it is their best opening song of all of their albums. That tribal drum machine is hypnotic, Robert's lyrics have never been angrier. The bass and guitar parts are ferocious. My other favorites, "A Strange Day" and "The Figurehead." I love live versions of "A Short Term Effect and "Pornography" more than the album cuts. Luckily, I had a Pornography show CD many years before the re-issues came out. It's called M. It has an amazing song called, "All I Want to Do Is Kill Her." I recommend all Cure fans to track it down. I am in the group that thinks Pornography is one of their best albums; 8 perfect songs, along with Faith, and Seventeen Seconds.

[The Silent One]

Quote Originally Posted by the_havoc_man

Quote Originally Posted by The Silent One Beware! Righteous indignation ahead. They haven't played "A Short Term Effect" since 1982 with the exception of the Trilogy shows, nor "The Top", "Bananafishbones", or "Wailing Wall" since the tour for that album. It makes me quite sad; "Boys Don't Cry" was your first semi-hit, but if you keep beating it, the horse will die. And speaking of which, "Jumping Someone Else's Train" is far better. I don't think they've ever even played "Doubt" in concert. And where's "Seventeen Seconds"? "Splintered in Her Head"? Any of the better songs on Three Imaginary Boys? New material? Start playing some old material. The back catalogue is vast. Heck, play "Do the Hansa" and "I'm a Cult Hero" if need be. Bloodflowers is pretty good, though, if overproduced. It also kind of gives you the impression that if Smith had done anything poppier or slightly more pretentious, the whole thing would musically implode. Actually, the Cure did play "Doubt" on the Faith tour in 1981 when they toured with the great big Circus Tent in England. There is footage on Staring at the Sea from the tour of the show with "Funeral Party" leading into "Doubt." Pornography was my first Cure record. A friend of mine dubbed me a copy with Pornography on the A-side and Ministry's 12 inch singles on the B-Side when I was in highschool. I have always loved "100 Years." I think that it is their best opening song of all of their albums. That tribal drum machine is hypnotic, Robert's lyrics have never been angrier. The bass and guitar parts are ferocious. My other favorites, "A Strange Day" and "The Figurehead." I love live versions of "A Short Term Effect and "Pornography" more than the album cuts. Luckily, I had a Pornography show CD many years before the re-issues came out. It's called M. It has an amazing song called, "All I Want to Do Is Kill Her." I recommend all Cure fans to track it down. I am in the group that thinks Pornography is one of their best albums; 8 perfect songs, along with Faith, and Seventeen Seconds.

I have that one! Brilliant recording! Very strange, interesting final song. I must mention, though, that it misses two songs from the show, "Siamese Twins" and "The Hanging Garden". It's nigh impossible to find the compleat tape, though...

[G. S. Carnivals]

Quote Originally Posted by G. S. Carnivals

My copy of Pornography (which includes only the first eight songs mentioned in the poll) was most likely acquired in 1983 at a used record store in Flint, Michigan which was shameless in its wares. My copy of the album is stamped in gold print: "LOANED FOR PROMOTION ONLY / Not For Sale / Ownership And All Rights Reserved." Yeah, right.

I have just learned from the local television news that the store mentioned in my earlier post has been raided and busted on charges of running illegal gambling operations. I had no idea that R*r*b*rd R*c*rds was still in "operation" at this late date. The place seemed seedy and somehow suspect back in the 1980s. Today's news does not surprise me at all. And now sports and weather...