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Post by dandy panky on Mar 10, 2005 6:56:48 GMT -5
This is the one I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with. Some of the songs are great, some of them just sound like the band on autopilot, some are just a bit crappy. I don't know if it was because of the upheaval of Porl and Boris leaving, or the various producers and locations, but it just feels very scrappy to me.
Want is a great song, one of their best, and Treasure and Bare are a great way to finish off the album, but what's inbetween is a very rambling hour or so. This Is A Lie and Jupiter Crash are both lovely songs, but you can't help but feel they'd sound a lot better if they recorded them now. Gone tries for that lazy jazz sound, but sounds very stodgy. The 13th I like, it was a brave choice as first single after a 4 year absence, but (sorry, I know it has a lot of fans on here) Mint Car just sounds like the Cure trying too hard to do a Cure pop song.
I also think a few of the tracks they used as b sides were a lot better than many of the album tracks. It Used To Be Me, Ocean, Adonais and A Pink Dream are all superior to 3/4's of the album, but again maybe that's just me!
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Post by leo xiv on Mar 10, 2005 9:02:28 GMT -5
wms was my very first cure album, so it holds a special place in my heart. i agree with mint car, it took me a really long time to get into it, but everything (except maybe round and round and bare) i love love love. i think porl and boris leaving had a huge impact, as well as the differnt place, players, and producers like dandy just mentioned. and i think being away so long, taking a year to make the record, and just being open to experimentation had a huge effect as well. and just the personal stuff everyone was going through at the time adds in as well, so anyway. not much else to say i guess 
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Post by ghanisbuli on Mar 11, 2005 0:51:21 GMT -5
This album DEFINITELY lives up to its name. It swings a wild range of emotions...
Oddly, I'm not so keen on Want. And I'm not so keen on some other songs, but I haven't cared to learn their names... ;D. I agree that Mint Car does take it a touch too far... but I still listen to it when it's sunny and everything's happy... and I still like playing the bassline.
I'm not really a fan of Gone, or Round and Round... But I LOVE what's left.
Has anyone else noticed something that sounds like screaming through a megaphone, or feedback in the background of This is a Lie? Or is it me?
Me and the little one like to waltz around the room to Bare. Definitely need a good pick-me-up after that one...
I agree, the b-sides are A+, and I think it would be most interesting to hear the reasoning behind the track selections.
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Post by orange on Mar 11, 2005 10:33:13 GMT -5
dandy and I are in lockstep on this one. I remember being so frightened that they were done- one of those washed-up bands that hang on too long, embarrassing themselves. (this sounds a bit harsh, but that's why at the time I was so depressed about the band). I almost wanted to cry, because I thought the cure would never become that.
whereas 'head on the door' sounded to me like a band that had suddenly found its legs- where the band members could all play at the same high level as the writing and now anything was possible- wms sounded like a band that had just tripped over its feet. there were still nuggets of writing in there, but the band couldn't (or wouldn't) support the ideas. in fact, I thought it didn't sound like a band at all (no wonder, considering how it was recorded)- more like a parody of the cure- disjointed and lazy, settling for half-done songs and a thin recording.
all that said, I can go back now and listen to particular tracks and think they're really good- want, bare, treasure, jupiter crash. I still loathe the 13th and won't even listen to strange attraction, but at least wms didn't sound like anything else going on at the time.
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Post by Crimson Porn on Mar 11, 2005 12:35:30 GMT -5
I still like it, it got me back in to them after a bit of a break. I think the writing is fine and some of the songs are very good but admittedly it does have some weak tracks, but no more then The Top, for example.
I really hate the preachy druggy one though.
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Post by sangrebloom on Mar 13, 2005 22:15:54 GMT -5
i like WMS. if there's one song that i tend to skip it's strange attraction. I like it, but it's gotten on my nerves as of late...i actually started humming/singing it in class while trying to get some da.mned tulies to shape right. a sign of my frustration i guess.
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Post by dandy panky on Mar 19, 2005 9:17:49 GMT -5
round and round is the really annoying one for me, though strange attraction is pretty annoying too. and very much in agreement with crimson on the preachy one too (though not in agreement about the top!)
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Post by leo xiv on Mar 21, 2005 11:28:06 GMT -5
i never thought about it being preachy, just kinda sad. one of my favs, muscially, on the album tho
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Post by sangrebloom on Mar 22, 2005 0:18:57 GMT -5
numb? i like that song! i had SA stuck in my head up until the final chef table. madness man. just out of nowhere "strange attraction spreads it's wings it variys but the smallest things and you'll never know how it will change(in that high pitched soundy voice thing)
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Post by leo xiv on Mar 22, 2005 9:26:42 GMT -5
;D ;D
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Post by sangrebloom on Mar 23, 2005 9:42:32 GMT -5
what was worse was the strange looks of "man your so insane" being shoot in my direction!  |
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Post by leo xiv on Mar 23, 2005 9:52:46 GMT -5
;D ;D ;D
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Post by leo xiv on Mar 23, 2005 9:53:23 GMT -5
actually, that's what i titled my friends section on my livejournal (strange attraction spreads its wings)
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Post by sangrebloom on Mar 23, 2005 10:14:55 GMT -5
yeah cuz your all so strange!  |
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Post by dandy panky on Mar 23, 2005 13:54:30 GMT -5
I know I'm strange...
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