From: pkang@acsu.buffalo.edu (Pablo Kang)
Newsgroups: alt.music.alternative
Subject: Re: Cure: I Wish...
Date: 14 Oct 92 02:53:56 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <mtl2001-131092172446@m248-107.bgsu.edu> mtl2001@andy.bgsu.edu (gretchen) writes:
> No doubt- I can entirely relate to what you are saying. I love the Cure
>and their music...as I stated earlier, but there was something lost along
>the way. I don't know what it is but it's not the same anymore. I didn't
>jump on the Cure bandwagon after Disintergration came out (like many
>did...and there's nothing wrong with it)..but I've been here listening to
>the Cure for several several years....and Wish isn't them. I do agree that
>with each album the Cure change, but this time something was lost. If you
>ever get the chance to read Ten Imaginary Years, a compiled imported book
>about the Cure's first 10 years, you might understand what I'm saying. If
>you read the interviews between all the members (and I mean all the
>members- Hartley, Anderson,etc.) there's more subtance there than in the
>interviews that I read today in Spin, Alternative Press or I see on MTV. I
>even notice it in their videos too. When they first started out the videos
>were good, somewhat rescricted probably because of money...but then they
>evolved into masterpieces and creativty. The Walk, Let's go to Bed, Hanging
>Garden, the orginial Close to Me, Primary....they reflected the subtance
>the Cure had. When I first watched the videos from Picture Show---I enjoyed
>them..there is a lot of good stuff (Lullaby, Hot Hot Hot, possibly Never
>Again, etc) but I felt they weren't as creative as the previous videos.
>Now...the only video that can clearly say that I like is the video for
>Friday I'm in Love ( not the concert version one) I have gotten the opinion
>that the Cure has replaced their creativity with footage from Wish tours
>and just them standing around playing. I haven't bought the recent video
>Play-out (or whatever) so I could be mistaken, but when I looked at the
>back cover it looked like there was a lot of that kind of stuff like the
>footage from Unplugged...I'm not bad mouthing today's Cure, but I just
>don't see the Cure that I have spent so long listening to...I see it in
>their music, their interviews, and in their videos......they may be
>successful now, but success takes a lot away from you..and I think it took
>a loy away from what the Cure was all about. Thanks for listening-gm   

  Now this is an intelligent argument and indeed has some valid points,
  unlike many other arguments I have seen against the Cure's progression
  in their music. I think I can understand where you're coming from
  gretchen, it's true that the Cure isn't the Cure it used to be. Success
  does indeed change people, moreover changing their music. But to some,
  the Cure still have kept their magic. I really don't feel they've lost
  anything. I listen to their old albums as well as their new ones,
  including _Wish_, and I really don't think they've lost anything. I think
  they've just gained a different perspective in how they're going about 
  their music. This change has definitally brought on a different type of
  listener for the Cure...and maybe for the older listener, it's rather 
  disturbing...almost as if they did lose something. But it's only change.

  The Cure will probably never be who they were...so at the least, we must
  listen to see if they come up with something good and new. As for me,
  I think the Cure still have it. _Wish_ did catch me by surprise when
  I first listened to it (should've been there to see what my reaction
  was), but after listening to it a few times and listening to the Cure in 
  concert _Wish_ didn't seem bad...as a matter of fact, I loved it!

  But for those who can't stand _Wish_, well...I'd say, wait for the next
  album, you may just find something "different" spun out by the Cure that
  you may like. ;-)

pablo

(P.S. I really don't know what the whole fuzz about FIIL is. I actually
      think it's rather good to listen...I really don't care if it went
      top 40, RS may call it stupid...but then again, he hates Pornography)
                               :-)  :-) :-)
 
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