What's the main difference btw 'importance and fav.' Got confused really...
I wrote my post about the significance, or special worth, that each album had in my life, because I don't really see an album being significant necessarily making it my favorite album. For example, Kiss Me will always be special to me because it is the first The Cure album I ever bought, but I would rather listen to one of the albums below it in my ranking.
I will admit this difference between "importance" and "favorite" is really nit picking on my part. For many people these two ideas are probably the same. Rank your albums however you want figie
Wish - Always be my number one on all lists. I love this album so, so much. There is something magical about it. Every single lyric, every single note on this album is perfection. Not to mention, the way Robert's voice sounds on it, I think it is his best vocal work. It is the first album I ever heard and what made me the Cure fan I am today.
Kiss Me - This is the first album I bought. I too would skip over The Kiss. My sister had always said that Catch is her favorite song because a friend of hers had given her a tape of it and said to listen to Catch. A week later he died in a car accident. So of course, Catch is the first song that fall in love with on Kiss Me. Plus, it has Just Like Heaven. A masterpiece. And apparently A Perfect Girl is the song that my best cure friend reminds her of me.
Faith - Robert and I have very similar views on religion. I grew up in a Christian household... even went to a youth group... Now I look at churches and temples and find it all to be mythology. the afterlife is just a campfire story that someone told once. So I get Faith. I get romanticizing death. I do it all the time. I picture my own funeral and wonder what happens... hell, this is what the book I am writing is about... also, 'I HAVE A GREY CAT!!" (I have another grey cat).
Bloodflowers - I bought this album the day it came out. It was the first album I was finally old enough (thanks mom) to go to the shows. (WMS came out when I was 15 and I wasn't able to start going to concerts until I was 16... needless to say I was so mad I broke my window). Bloodflowers reignited my love... not that my flame was ever too small... it has always been burning.
Japanese Whispers - I have fun memories of listening to this album on my headphones trying to sing along to Speak My Language and Just One Kiss. JOK is brilliant.
Disintegration - This was my total wannabe goth phase... I would stay up late at night and just listen to this album and think about the goth boy that worked with me. He had nice hair. It was also when I had to write my I-search paper in my high school English class on whatever I wanted. I wrote about the goth culture.... while listening to Disintegration... since I am such a procrastinator, I did it overnight in one night... it was the same time our Swedish relatives were visiting and I was too busy trying to get this done. This was also the album I was listening to when I got dumped by my alcoholic, emotionally abusive boyfriend (who drove a Pontiac)... lets not go there.
Pornography - I find something I love more and more about this album every time. Right now I am stuck on "I scream you're nothing. I don't need you anymore, you're nothing."
Wild Mood Swings - See above with Bloodflowers. It was a new line up, new hope. I did get into a fight once with this girl I knew in school. She kept saying she saw a video for Round and Round and Round where Robert was wearing leather pants and making love to a microphone stand... she was a liar.
Boys Don't Cry - Every time I see smoke somewhere my mind starts - burn like fire, burn like fire in.... gurnee.. Over the weekend I drove out to my parents house and someone was burning leaves... there I am - F I R E I N C A P R O N... not to mention I'm half arab... I have to love this album. I mean think about it, I am meant to be a Cure fan.. I have a grey cat, I'm part arab... my sister married (now divorced) a guy who's last name is Smith (who's dad's name is ROBERT SMITH). meant to be.
Three Imaginary Boys - "sleep sweet child the moon will change your mind."
Head on the Door - This one goes in and out of my top 5 favorites all the time.. it is number 5 or number 6? There is a cover (100 Tears) of Sinking that I love so much. All the songs on this are just wonderful. Despite Close To Me not being a dance hit, it has become such a dance hit.
17 Seconds - I feel like I need to love this album more. I don't.
The Top - For some reason this I remember this album to be forbidden.. I have weird memories.
The Cure - I bought this album a day early. After Bloodflowers I thought they couldn't do any better... I was so disappointed with this one. Some words and music is really great... but it needs to be remade a different way I think.
4:13 Dream - I thought they would come back from The Cure with nothing but more hope. A new line up (which I wasn't happy with) but it meant new things. a new Wish??? This is why I am soooo nervous about the next album. Please do better.
Post by acousticwarrior on Mar 12, 2017 16:23:26 GMT 1
I would rank The Cure's albums (not including compilation CDs like Japanese Whispers or Join The Dots):
1. Disintegration 2. Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me 3. Pornography 4. Bloodflowers 5. Wish 6. The Head On The Door 7. Faith 8. Seventeen Seconds 9. The Top 10. The Cure 11. Wild Mood Swings 12. Three Imaginary Boys/Boys Don't Cry (same album for the most part) 13. 4:13 Dream
I hate the production on 4:13 Dream, and that's why it's at the bottom of my list. It's too loud, the drums sound bad (especially on The Hungry Ghost, where the snare is totally out-of-tune), Robert's vocals are excessively processed, the wah guitars are tiresome, the keyboards (an essential pillar of The Cure's music imo) are sparse. I consider it to be The Cure's only bad album. Three Imaginary Boys definitely got the band off to a good start, but it lacks several key elements which went on to define The Cure: the dark/brooding/gothic element, keyboards, guitar effects.
1. Pornography (by far, in fact distance is rising with the years) 2. Faith 3. Seventeen Seconds 4. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me 5. Disintegration 6. The Head On The Door 7. Japanese Whispers 8. The Top 9. Wish 10. Three Imaginary Boys 11. 4:13 The Dream 12. Bloodflowers 13. The Cure 14. Wild Mood Swings (last, but still better than 95% of music output in general)
An impression of sound Then everything is gone Forever
1. Pornography (by far, in fact distance is rising with the years) 2. Faith 3. Seventeen Seconds 4. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me 5. Disintegration 6. The Head On The Door 7. Japanese Whispers 8. The Top 9. Wish 10. Three Imaginary Boys 11. 4:13 The Dream 12. Bloodflowers 13. The Cure 14. Wild Mood Swings (last, but still better than 95% of music output in general)
I can relate to this chart.
Not exactly my order, although close enough. The first three poitions are spot on.
1. Pornography (by far, in fact distance is rising with the years) 2. Faith 3. Seventeen Seconds 4. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me 5. Disintegration 6. The Head On The Door 7. Japanese Whispers 8. The Top 9. Wish 10. Three Imaginary Boys 11. 4:13 The Dream 12. Bloodflowers 13. The Cure 14. Wild Mood Swings (last, but still better than 95% of music output in general)
I can relate to this chart.
Not exactly my order, although close enough. The first three poitions are spot on.
Thank you. Their whole art-context from 1980-1982 and meteor-like development in such a short time-frame are simply unmatched by everything else.
An impression of sound Then everything is gone Forever
Post by bernhardblase on Feb 16, 2018 17:54:12 GMT 1
The subject of the thread says it all. Please have in mind that I like all of their albums, but of course some are weaker than others. Only studio albums are allowed, so no Japanese Whispers or any live albums.
Here is my list:
13. Wild Mood Swings 12. The Cure 11. 4:13 Dream 10. Three Imaginary Boys 9. The Top 8. The Head On The Door 7. Wish 6. Seventeen Seconds 5. Bloodflowers 4. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me 3. Pornography 2. Faith 1. Disintegration
For me Japanese Whispers is much more a compilation than a studio album.
You stick around mister There are plenty of others that share that notion too. Some around here even think Tape is a song. I'm on the other side of that little disagreement.
I know that you all love Wish, and I remember buying it when it came out and yeah I loved it too but I gave it to a friend for his birthday and then I didn't hear it for years and then when I did..well I don't wanna upset anyone so I won't say what i thought but I left it alone...I liked some of the stuff on Paris and sure yeah I liked some it sure ok? but I just didn't like it as an album, a collection of songs...anyhow... i just recently got it on tape and played it in the car and it was the first time since the first time that it all worked for me...itt sounded wonderful...and I thought of you all and thought , hey they were right