Maude

I love Grinding Halt from the first album. The first track that really caught me was Charlotte Sometimes. Being born in '73 I was too young to know them from the start, and had only heard pop tracks like The Love cats that would've been played on the radio, I swapped Little Creatures by Talking Heads for Standing On A Beach (cassettes) with a mate and as it was halfway through, the first track that played was Charlotte Sometimes. I was amazed at what I was hearing. There started a life long love of The Cure. There are so many phases to explore, the punky beginnings, the gothic trilogy, the electro poppy rebellion against their record company (not sure I totally believe those stories), the jangly mid eighties pop, the list goes on. Their singles and albums cover such a range of styles but still completely 'The cure'.

Fire Fire - The Meteors

I'm going to go curve ball and say try their B sides. The B side of the earlier cassette singles collection, 'Standing On A Beach' (Staring At The Sea was the CD version without the B sides, or was it the other way round?) is fantastic, but hard to find now. Luckily you can buy a four disc CD compilation of B sides and rarities called Join The Dots, disc one is essentially the B side of Staring At The Sea with some extras thrown in. Confused? I am, 😄. In short Join The Dots, disc one, is most of their B sides up to around 85ish, and it's great. Throwing away songs on a B side that most bands could only dream of writing and releasing as a single. They quite often marry up sonically with the corresponding single. As Inbetween Days caught your ear here's the B side, The Exploding Boy, with some fantastic drumming from Boris Williams.

Standing In The Way Of Control - Gossip

Arise - Sepultura

Murder the Government - NOFX

Wayward Son - Kansas

Best use of a wah pedal in the history wah pedal usage... evaaar! Think About It - Fleetwood Mac

Sheep! 🤦‍♂️

One of the purple ones sold on eBay a couple of days ago. They look fantastic but I've got a sunburst one that I'll probably sell soon, so no point drooling over the purple ones.

If Only Tonight We Could Sleep - The Cure

Negative Creep - Nirvana

Wednesday Evening Blues - John Lee Hooker

Is Wilcock anything to do with Shergold/Hayman? There's a definite resemblance.

15 Years - The Levellers

You don't want to know the extortionate fee they were charging on the Wish tour then!? 😂

Yes, Smith uses a bass vi a lot for melodies while Simon Gallup plays the 'regular' bass lines.

Jesus Loves You... But I Don't - The Almighty

That doesn't look like the shops storage area. 😁

All You Ever Wanted - Rag 'n' Bone Man

Infected - The The

I remember their version of "I'd Rather Go Blind" on an old Peel sessions tape I had years ago. I had no idea it was Christine.

Babylon's Burning - The Ruts

It always makes me chuckle. Typical Justin Hawkins writing a song with the lyrics "bells end" and "ring in peace".