Post by AForestFan on Dec 6, 2023 13:46:55 GMT 1
First to post!
I just listened to Bloodflowers in my car this past week. The album is a testament to my changing views of Cure albums over the decades. How can it be 23 years since this was released?
I remember playing through the CD after I bought it at the Best Buy megastore. I thought "Hmm, poetry set to music. That's nice". Then I put it on the shelf and didn't play it for years after.
As a fan of audience recordings, I discovered the songs again listening to other people's recordings of the 2000 tour for the same album. I felt like the songs came alive for me, and wished I had bothered to attend when they came through Florida.
Now in 2023, I am actually listening to the lyrics of the songs and find new meaning. Which is what I was supposed to do in the first place. For instance, in "Where the Birds Always Sing", what is the band saying?
But the world is neither just nor unjust
It's just us trying to feel that there's some sense in it
It's just us trying to feel that there's some sense in it
I have actively disliked Maybe Someday every time I hear it. It sounds so out of place on the album, like a Duran Duran love song. I really can picture Simon Lebon singing this!
Watching Me Fall has lyrics that I never listened to before, even though I love the melody:
There's a thin white cold new moon and the snow is coming down
And the neon bright Tokyo lights flicker through the crowd
And the neon bright Tokyo lights flicker through the crowd
39 is one of those songs that pops up occasionally on a live setlist. As with most post-Disintegration albums, it's a variation on End or Want, about wrapping things up because Robert has little left to say:
Yeah the fire is almost cold and there's nothing left to burn
I've run right out of feeling and I've run right out of world
And everything I promised, and everything I tried
Yeah everything I ever did I used to feed the fire
I've run right out of feeling and I've run right out of world
And everything I promised, and everything I tried
Yeah everything I ever did I used to feed the fire
Of course, when Robert has run out of things to say, it's told to us in yet another album.
A bonus track only on Join the Dots (and a Japanese album) called "Coming Up" rounded out my listening experience.
The album is now cherished by me as a fine set of statements that I don't mind listening to. Even without some catchy pop singles, which was the intent I suppose...
(I think if The Cure releases their new tracks from the 2023 tour, it really sounds like Bloodflowers II, doesn't it?)
