The weeklies announced it was getting screened - it was the first public announcement of the April/May tour dates, probably only 5 minutes or so in length. There was a very small crowd in the store to watch it.
I guess it's more likely someone has a scan of the news thing - it would have been Feb-March time, I guess.
Still waiting for my Wish Deluxe demos and outtakes.
Perhaps some things should always be unfulfilled on our wish list, but it'd be nice to hear what Robert Smith thinks should be a two or three disc collection for this.
A lot of the wish b-sides could have been on the album (The Big Hand, A Foolish Arrangement...)...Wendy Time or A Letter to Elise are not really better, but well just my opinion.
A lot of the wish b-sides could have been on the album (The Big Hand, A Foolish Arrangement...)...Wendy Time or A Letter to Elise are not really better, but well just my opinion.
Well yeah, but if I recall correctly, it's said that Porl didn't want The Big Hand on the album, though it's kind of odd he used a big hand for some cover art for the Wish era releases (can't remember which exactly). And for the case of A foolish arrangement, they actually recorded it while on Wish tour. I guess Robert didn't have any lyrics for that and in the end the lyrics are based on a poem or a book, can't remember that either.
But I agree, they both should have been on the album. Scared as you should have also made the cut in my opinion.
While many dislike Wendy Time, I think it's a pretty good song. Also I've understood that most people like Doing the Unstuck... I can't stand it. It's terrible.
Also I've understood that most people like Doing the Unstuck... I can't stand it. It's terrible.
I have to vehemently disagree there. DTU is an unashamedly, balls-to-the-wall, out & out pop song that makes High sound like a nursery rhyme by comparison. The current live arrangement of it is nothing short of euphoric. Should have been a single really.
There are some odd track selections on Wish certainly. But don't forget that it was supposed to be a double album with Music For Dreams as the partner disc. Sadly that never came to be (probably commercial decisions) & I guess some songs that were supposed to be on MFD ended up on Wish. Until the fabled deluxe issue, we really won't know for sure which tracks.
As an album itself though, it has some of the best production ever to grace a The Cure release & i honestly hope that isn't spoilt on the deluxe if it ever sees the light of day.
I do regret killing some of my darlings today, ngl. But this album hasn't aged that well. Guess I listened to it too much when I was younger or something, it happens. I wish they would've completed the Music for dreams bit more than anything. I can't be the only one that loves instrumentals surely?
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Trust, High, Apart, take your pick. All dull as dishwater, I agree. Open and End too. I'm feeling kind of feisty today.
Not at all. What we think of as "The Cure" sound is a group effort, of Robert Smith doing demos and then in the studio the band's (and producer's input if any) shapes the final album.
Starting with Wish and getting steadily worse, we only hear the sound of one hand clapping as RS vision is the only one presented.
This is why Star Wars is better than The Phantom Menace. Star Wars was edited by other people. The Phantom Menace is George Lucas' vision with a bunch of yes men in the studio. The difference shows.
I don't care what Robert Smith's personal relationship is with ex-Cures. Every single album that was made after Disintegration would have been improved with the input of ex-band members.
I could be wrong, maybe they would have turned out a bunch of nineties albums that sounded like Pearl Jam or Alice in Chains, which we don't want. But I have to think an album like Wild Mood Swings or 4:13 Dream would have had a few more hits with other input.
Now I say that knowing full well that RS never wanted The Cure to be a top ten band. He got his wish, eventually.