Solid list, good points on WMS. But does anyone else really think A Pink Dream could've been a big single?
To be fair, A Pink Dream & Mint Car are pretty interchangeable.
As for this "The 13th" was chosen as the lead single, and while it's a work of demented genius, it had zero chance of becoming a hit (and it didn't)."
3 weeks in the UK chart, peaking at number 15, is pretty much hit territory if you ask me. Arguably a bigger hit than Close to Me which never even broke the top 20
You'd think a website called PopMatters would surely have Greatest Hits at #1. Anyway, seeing Bloodflowers at #11 kinda proves what a futile list this is...and probably why the band always do the pop encore to appease such muppets. Nothing substantial since Bloodflowers, 20yrs is a long time...
No disagreements about Us or Them and Never being "unlistenable"? I couldn't really tell you myself. Especially with self-titled I feel that there's no incentive to go back. Not bad, just not interesting enough.
No disagreements about Us or Them and Never being "unlistenable"? I couldn't really tell you myself. Especially with self-titled I feel that there's no incentive to go back. Not bad, just not interesting enough.
I still think that Self Titled was okay except for the singles. Lots & lots of layers in there harking back to earlier The Cure. The singles were pretty lame though
Hrmm..Just stumbled on this thread..for me the self titled album was monumental in Bob's writing. From dawn he's been a higher grade Hemmingway, an equal to Yeats. The self titled lp seemed to me to be ...ahhh actually that cover just dawned on me...the self titled Lp seemed to be his, was it Picasso who said 'at 14 I could draw like a man, it took me years to be able to draw like a child' I don't play it or like it..but I do feel it's an 'important' piece of work in the history of Robert Smith.