From: pkang@acsu.buffalo.edu (Pablo Kang)
Newsgroups: alt.music.alternative
Subject: Re: Cure: I Wish...
Date: 1 Oct 92 21:17:06 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <1992Oct1.150523.20549@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> apash@mta.ca writes:
>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
>
>                                       


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