New album before the end of March 20XXX!

How nice to read similar stories here ;-) The first *new and unexisting* album for me, after fallen in love with the back catalogue at that time, was Wish. I remember every second from ordering the CD to driving to the music store, from unpacking to listening song after song, sitting on the small chair in front of my parent's Pioneer hifi tower, underneath my headphones.

When WMS came out, I was in shock, in panic. What happened to the dark side and the funeral atmosphere? I heard trumpets announcing the end of a Cure era in which I had drowned for years as a struggle to survive youth and the world. Similar feelings with all albums that followed, all I could hear was happy happy happy but I wanted sad sad sad, and nights, and dark and suicidal bats.

However... Between 2008 and 2024 I started to rediscover the jewels that I missed, the gems I overlooked because I was too much focused on the to-joyful-to-be-from-the-cure album songs. Gems like Treasure (which brings me to tears instantly), Want (in its unique sauce of insatiable desire), but also More Than This (from X-files) and Dredd Song (from Judge Dredd) and There Is No If... (oh how I love the carving of that guitar before the 3rd chorus), The Loudest Sound (and its painful truths), Labyrinth and Going Nowhere (and their brutal honesty), Switch (and its schizofrenic on/off button), and last but not least the majestic The Scream (and its... well... eh... terrific scream).

If there's one TC lesson I learned over the years, it's one of gratitude for the basket of fruits I have being served by TC with the sole intention to pick my favorite ones, and leave some (the less attractive ones of course) for my friends ;-) I learned to stop being angry at the pile of fruit because of that one, little, silly worm. It's a living being after all.

And here I am, more than 3 decades after listening to my first TC song (and it prescribed no crying), endulged in the juice of the fresh The Cure fruit, all looking tasteful like never before, and of which nothing is left for my friends, since I ate them all.

thebighand : You're absolutely right, there seems to be 2 TC era. In my case the 2nd one started the day my expectations grew too high and I was only looking for more of the same instead of more bewilderment. Today I believe there is only one TC era and we're experiencing it since the very first TC encounter, with ups and downs along the musical road.

justlikeheaven : I couldn't agree more, "There is not a single bad song for me on this album, each song has its place and is a part of the story." Let's hope the coming albums RS promised also have some rotten apples, if not, we'll all suffer from indigestion I'm afraid.