Noah Deere Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 [quote name='floFC' timestamp='1393284714' post='2378395'] Oh. I am a 17 Seconds kind of guy (?). I'd love to play A Forest in a gig. [/quote] +1 on playing A Forest at a gig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 [quote name='phil.i.stein' timestamp='1393354431' post='2379255'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp7m2sApVd0[/media] [/quote] Oh yes, indeedy ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maude Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 What I've always loved with The Cure is that they put amazing songs on B sides, most bands just chucked any old rubbish on there to fill the space but a lot of The Cures B sides could easily have been Singles. 'I'm Cold' is a favourite, and is there a happier song than 'Throw your foot away'? And people call them a miserable band, pah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonnp Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 was never into the cure but after reading the posts i will check out the bass lines, any more from that era you would recommend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miles'tone Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 [quote name='Noah Deere' timestamp='1393357297' post='2379330'] +1 on playing A Forest at a gig. [/quote] Playing A Forest at a gig in a forest. That would be the biz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingus Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 (edited) I have a hard time listening to the Cure. Looking back on their heyday with the benefit of hindsight, they were an highly creative band with an uncompromising approach to making music and willingness to be experimental. All refreshing qualities. Never really my cup of tea, particularly not at the time, but I can certainly see their appeal and Simon Gallup knows how to write a hook bass line, and that is a very rare and very valuable skill, so big respect to the chap for that. However, the big problem I have with them is that they remind me so much of various ex-girlfriends during the 1980's that their music gives me such vivid flashbacks to canoodling in teenage bedrooms festooned with Robert Smith posters whilst listening to The Head On The Door[i] et al[/i] and pretending to like it ( the music that is, not the canoodling. I genuinely did like the canoodling. Still do, in fact.) that after a couple of songs I need psychotherapy , or more likely half an hour on Facebook reminding myself that the girls in question are not as pert as they once were . To my sensibilities, Robert was always a highly unlikely sex symbol, but for a whole generation of girls he seemed to be the ultimate . I still can't understand it. Edited February 27, 2014 by Dingus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 [quote name='Dingus' timestamp='1393528781' post='2381564'] Robert was always a highly unlikely sex symbol, but for a whole generation of girls he seemed to be the ultimate . I still can't understand it. [/quote] He was the vulnerable and sensitive type - birds like that, y'see. Or they used to at any rate. Now they just seem to like vodka and big cocks. I blame reality TV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingus Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1393529066' post='2381569'] Now they just seem to like vodka and big cocks. I blame reality TV. [/quote] I blame myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 [quote name='floFC' timestamp='1393351368' post='2379178'] I have got the urge to watch the Cure In Orange video. Yeah, the actual video tape... [/quote] plus the one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 (edited) [quote name='bonnp' timestamp='1393527054' post='2381531'] was never into the cure but after reading the posts i will check out the bass lines, any more from that era you would recommend? [/quote] Oooh, tough one. They've been around for a while, so there's lots of choice, and different styles. 'Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me' would be a good starting album - 'Seventeen seconds' and 'Faith' are very bass heavy, as is 'Pornography', but they're pretty heavy going, mood-wise. Edited February 27, 2014 by ahpook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted February 27, 2014 Share Posted February 27, 2014 (edited) [quote name='bonnp' timestamp='1393527054' post='2381531'] was never into the cure but after reading the posts i will check out the bass lines, any more from that era you would recommend? [/quote] Less heavy-duty is Love Cats. Check out Phil Thornalley's line. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPObUqoYSaY[/media] Edited February 27, 2014 by discreet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the boy Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1393529066' post='2381569'] He was the vulnerable and sensitive type - birds like that, y'see. Or they used to at any rate. Now they just seem to like vodka and big cocks. I blame reality TV. [/quote] I always thought if him as a girl. I know he isn't and he's not cross dressing or anything like that but in my head he was a woman. Weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted February 28, 2014 Share Posted February 28, 2014 [quote name='the boy' timestamp='1393558530' post='2381909'] I always thought if him as a girl. I know he isn't and he's not cross dressing or anything like that but in my head he was a woman. [/quote] Maybe it's the hair and lipstick..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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