Robert Smith has largely turned into Paul McCartney. When people go to a McCartney concert, they want to hear old Beatles/Wings songs, not whatever his new stuff is.
I have purchased every Cure album ever made (except Japanese Whispers). I feel I wasted my money on every album since Wish. That's twenty years worth of bad purchases. Fact is, if there was not a Cure discography prior to Wild Mood Swings, I doubt they would have sold more than a few hundred of all the subsequent albums combined.
With that in mind, I'll be happy to pay for a 3-disc Deluxe edition of Wish. But only that.
Robert Smith has largely turned into Paul McCartney. When people go to a McCartney concert, they want to hear old Beatles/Wings songs, not whatever his new stuff is.
I have purchased every Cure album ever made (except Japanese Whispers). I feel I wasted my money on every album since Wish. That's twenty years worth of bad purchases. Fact is, if there was not a Cure discography prior to Wild Mood Swings, I doubt they would have sold more than a few hundred of all the subsequent albums combined.
With that in mind, I'll be happy to pay for a 3-disc Deluxe edition of Wish. But only that.
So J are you saying it is impossible for The Cure to make an album that would measure up to Wish and behind?
What was it that made "In Between Days"? "A Night Like This?" or even "Like Cockatoos?" Was it the drugs? The past Cure bandmembers that Robert had a falling out with? Producers? Or all three?
Whatever was the magic formula, I have heard nothing in 20 years worth of albums that matched even one of those songs.
Album sales are a cruel measure. But Robert once said he despised being in the top 40 song charts, and one could say he eventually got his wish.
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What was it that made "In Between Days"? "A Night Like This?" or even "Like Cockatoos?" Was it the drugs? The past Cure bandmembers that Robert had a falling out with? Producers? Or all three?
Whatever was the magic formula, I have heard nothing in 20 years worth of albums that matched even one of those songs.
Album sales are a cruel measure. But Robert once said he despised being in the top 40 song charts, and one could say he eventually got his wish.
Particularly I doubt that with a new Cure album back that atmosphere of '80s, it would need to return at that time.
At night...I hear the darkness breathe...I sense the quiet despair...Listen to the silence...At night...Someone has to be there...
Robert Smith has largely turned into Paul McCartney. When people go to a McCartney concert, they want to hear old Beatles/Wings songs, not whatever his new stuff is.
I have purchased every Cure album ever made (except Japanese Whispers). I feel I wasted my money on every album since Wish. That's twenty years worth of bad purchases. Fact is, if there was not a Cure discography prior to Wild Mood Swings, I doubt they would have sold more than a few hundred of all the subsequent albums combined.
With that in mind, I'll be happy to pay for a 3-disc Deluxe edition of Wish. But only that.
So J are you saying it is impossible for The Cure to make an album that would measure up to Wish and behind?
I agree eduardo What is made is made, nothing can be replaced and every effort to do it could sound bad to the fan ears, so i prefere when a band, now talking about the Boys, takes through the years a different street and goes on keeping it evolving in that way, good or not. Talking about this changes, old school fans, like me for exsample, can't often like the new realises the same way the old ones, but i'm sure peoples who listen first to them and love them would look with different eyes to the band, judging great the the old albums but never criticizing the new ones
I agree, but we're talking about something that is not sure to see the day... I've been disapointed by every Cure album since 1992. Perhaps younger people here won't understand, but one of my worst memory is the wish tour. Since then, the only good surprises were the concerts, the 1996/2004 era was perfect for people like me, who grew up with a fascination for the cold trilogy (the 80'/82' one, not the...) as we could at last hear some of our favourite tracks, even if we except the 3 Trilogy shows. So i'm not really waiting for a new recording, not really waiting for a new Reflections like tour, but a classic Cure tour full of surprises every night.
I'd like to think they have one great album left in them, although I doubt it. I don't have a problem with that though, really. Most bands manage about 3 decent albums tops before they go off the boil, The Cure managed two or three times that, and their star burned for a lot longer than most of their contemporaries. And you can't expect a vastly wealthy and I imagine quite comfortable and happy middle-aged man to have the same kind of artistic and creative drives that led to Pornography, Disintegration, etc. I would like RSX to keep writing and performing new stuff so they don't just turn 100% into a 'greatest hits' band, but I don't necessarily expect it to be very good! Oh and SMALLER shows please! So they don't have to try and keep 30,000 festival kiddies happy and can go into that amazing back catalogue a bit more
I love them but I never really listen to the post-Wish albums, except for a few tracks off the Bloodflowers album. But even Bloodflowers is hard for me to listen through in its entirety.
ITA with ohfuchsia. They've grown older, settled down, started families, etc.... I can't think of any band whose members are past their 20s/early 30s who're still all gritty, creative, aggressive, younameit. I'd be happy about more gigs, though. But no more festivals, please! Leave the festivals to the kids.