From: mtl2001@andy.bgsu.edu (Gretchen)
Subject: Re: Cure: I Wish...
Followup-To: alt.music.alternative
Organization: bgsu
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 20:22:26 GMT


In article <1992Oct1.150523.20549@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, apash@mta.ca
wrote:
> 
> In article <u882517.717902263@bruny>, u882517@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Blos!) writes:
> >kzimmerman@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
> >>>> 
> >>BAD POINT. That makes no sense. So they can start churning out Tiffany-style
> >>music and I should still adore them?
> >
> >>"Rape me like a child... christened in blood... painted like an unknown saint... 
> >>the only choice is left... your voice is dead and old and always empty..."
> >>vs.
> >>"Monday Tuesday Wednesday blahblahblah..."
> >
> >>Even Lovesong was great IMOFOSPO because it took convention and turned it on
> >>its head... "Whenever I'm alone with you/You make me feel like I am free again"
> >>                                                                        
> >>So let's just lay it on the line... once the Cure made some good music... as
> >>recently as 1989 by my count, but the best was 1980-1982. So I'm not a "real
> >>fan" for no longer adoring them? Oh no! Certainly not like those high school
> >>kids with their _Wish_ t-shirts!! 
> >
> >>Yeah I must say I can't hate the Cure for making a trashy album. But I'll be
> >>damned if I'll listen to anyone try and say that they're "alternative" these
> >>days or that the new stuff is good and I should adore them. Respect for an
> >>individual should be separate from respect for their art. And people shouldn't
> >>be so blind as to love anything a favorite group makes.
> >
> >Hear, hear!  This is the most accurate description of the way things stand
> >with the Cure I hace read.  The best track record in the world does not even
> >slightly excuse the lame shite on _Wish_...I just don't really care what
> >they do any more.  I wish they'd split up after _Disintegration_, because
> >that would have been the ultimate epitaph.
> >
> >			Matt.
>    What exactly is your problem anyhow? The way I see it is you think
>  that just because_Wish_ went Top 10 that The Cure are no longer
>  alternative.The album _Wish_ is just as alternative and just as
>  much Cure as any other Cure album. So what if they have a couple
>  happy,poppy songs on it, that's not exactly anything new for them
>  (Why can't I be you?,Love cats, Hot Hot Hot,etc.). I happen to like
>  a lot of those songs and they are just as much of the Cure as their
>  slow depressing songs and if for some reason you don't like those 
>  songs then listen to the rest of_Wish_ it's not exactly what I'd call
>  "lame shit". IMHO the Cure haven't changed their sound any with _Wish_
>  and if you want to dislike the Cure just because they got a Top 10 hit
>  then I guess that's your perogative. In my opinion that's just as bad as
>  the Top 40 junkies disliking a band because they don't have a Top 10 hit.
>                                                    
>                                                   A.Pash
> 
>                                        

************ Wait a minute...the cure hasn't changed their style? No no no
no-- they indeed have, and I would say (as much as it hurts) that it's for
the worse. They should have broke up after 89, it would have been the
educated thing to do....I still listen to them, they are my favorite
band....but no way can you compare the sound of The Top or Japanese
Whispers to that of Wish. Do you even have The Top, Boys Don't Cry, Faith,
Seven Seconds, etc? Or do you compare Wish to that of Disintegration?(
which was good, but not that good) I never thought that I would ever hear
the phrase "let's get happy" from Robert Smith's voice......whatever
happened to Pornography's morbidness..I liked that..and I was disappointed
at the Wish concert when they didn't play those kind of old songs. I was
sickened when I looked around at the concert and saw all of those "kids"
with Wish shirts on MC Hammer dancing to Friday, I'm In Love and then
sitting down during songs like A Night Like This and A Forest. If anyone
adores Smith and the Cure it would be me, but give me a break, their sound
has changed a whole lot since the days when Tolhurst and Rob were in the
band alone. gretchen
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