Discussion is "bread and butter" of the forum, flats "i voted" are useless IMO, that's why i like to put my thoughts, beeing criticized mostly, but hey, this is the way to make a forum run, i don't exspect all agreeto and i discovered i Sometimes don't agree to what i thought back in years
As for no-one buying the earlier albums, they appear to have sold enough to justify world tours & Robert himself has stated that he never intended for the band to get as big as it did even back in 89. & even if Seventeen Seconds didn't sell multi million copies, it still knocks spots off anything else that came out the same year.
the no-one buying was just a way of saying in general not just for the Cure, they were well known here before i discovered them, as all over the world. agree about Floodland, but i could add FaLaA as better than the Cure's 85 album, but a true thing is that in the 90's the boys gained a lot more fans
imaginarygirl I remember how criticized was Disintegration or KMKMKM when they came out, critics dismantled them after a few days So why after 30 years they are the best album of the year?
Because critics are not always correct because they often have hidden agendas. So let's say Zagat (the popular restaurant critiquing engine) gives a certain restaurant 5 stars and says it is the best. You eat there and hate it. You will say it's still the best because Zagat said so right? Wrong. You hate it because you hate it. Is it the best or was there a hidden agenda? Money changing hands for advertisement....etc... 80% of the music I listened to in the 1980s was The Cure. Therefore, I will pick the seven Cure albums. It's really just that simple. There is no right or wrong. Whoever gets the most votes will win. My favorite band is The Cure. I've been playing music and singing since I'm five. I know music. I know what difficult and what is not. What is intricate. Which musicians are more skilled than others. But is that what the poll is asking? No. It's simply asking what you, the listener, think are the 25 best albums of the 1980s. Disintegration placed first because the majority of the people voted for it. Period.
Actually, I am proud that I never judged any Cure album based on what critics have said about them.
Like I said on similar thread I started two days ago ( , I also voted for all seven Cure albums from 1980's, and just for them.
I always judge about Cure albums regarding their originality and progressive sound they bring to music all along. In my opinion there was not so much of that in all albums from WMS onwards. But I really like someone to teach me how for example Pornography was not original and progressive album in 1982. And yes, I like to say similar for KMKMKM in 1987. Perhaps, we are now more ready to take some things for granted, but really: The Kiss, If Only Tonight We Can Sleep, Snakepit, Just Like Heaven, Like Cockatoos, Icing Sugar, Fight... Are those every day things you were able to meet in 1987?
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I voted the other day, of course The Cure were top of my voting. But it was hard to pick 25, because there were a lot of great albums I listened to on the list. Let's hope The Cure win.