do you want dark....?

Dave M. Allen would have been great.
And as a record label ?
Back to Fiction Records.
Round and Round and Round . . .
Full circle things.

Trent would have been great though,to work with RS upon a project of their own.
Like a movie soundtrack let's say.
Ouh well...To Wish (Im)possible Things (but always with a cost)

What?

Mmmmmm, sounds like a pretty bad idea to me.

Anyway, regardless the producer, the important issue here are songs. No producer is going to write the songs. And Robert is so far away, IMHO, from the genius songwriter he was once.

I thought you were talking about artistic production, not technical. Hence my what. You may like NIN or not, but that the guy has (had) musical talent is undeniable. I'm not familiar with his work after 'The Fragile', according to Chuck, is still worthy, I don't know. But c'mon, 'The Fragile' is even better than 'The Downward Spiral'.

About last albums of The Cure... I don't know, I keep thinking that the real Cure career ended with 'Wish' (mmmm, Boris...). Everything that came after for me are just some yes, some noes, some maybes and quite a few what the fork?. But there's not a single great record since 'Wish'. But it's just my opinion.

Yeah, I was referring to the technical production & on the subject of Wish, I truly believe it was the best production of any The Cure album. Since then it has been patchy & I still think of the fabled Wish deluxe & wonder just how they can actually make it physically sound any better. It's absolutely mind blowing in detail. That is how I would expect any new records to sound (with different material of course)
Artistically, Robert always tended to write about real life experiences or novels he'd read or a mix of the two. When you're 20 something years old, that's not a lot of fuel compared to when you're 50 something & there is so much more to write about. So diversity now, for The Cure, has to be there or they'll just shed half their fan base in one fell swoop. (IMHO)
As for NIN, they are one of the few bands whose music actually sounds better as phone ring tones. Mainly as they're so damn loud & the aural equivalent of being smacked in the face with a cricket bat over & over. I don't think that's the sound The Cure suit & not even Robinson went that route with them.

Oh yes. Chris Parry totally took over the TIB stuff & Robert hated it & kept Parry's involvement in Seventeen Seconds to the bare minimum. And it really shows.
Robert's in control. Even the band say that in interviews. But he has the talent & "tools" around him to make something very special.
Like I mentioned earlier, I think they need to sound "majestic" again. Happy, sad, I don't really care. I want the tingling, the knowing inner smiling, the heart break, the whole spectrum not buried behind a wall of noise.