*Experts* Nerseus Posted January 28, 2004 *Experts* Posted January 28, 2004 I'm sure many of you listen to music while "coding"... so this is sorta computer related (yet still Random Thoughts). I just got The Cure's "Join the Dots - B-Sides and rarities". It's a 4 CD collection of The Cure with previously unreleased songs (on CD anyway). I've been waiting *years* for this! Previously, you could get one small collection but only on tape (Standing on the Beach, the singles). To get the rest of these songs you'd have had to buy every Cure single that came out just to get the B-sides. I'm all for paying for what I like, but I don't want to spend $8 for a single B-side (since I'd already have the main song on the full album). I started listening to The Cure in the mid 80's and been a fan ever since. This is a Great (!) collection if you're a Cure fan. Bad if you're not (twice as bad for my wife who hates them). Had to share the joy :) -Nerseus Quote "I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center." - Kurt Vonnegut
*Experts* Merrion Posted January 28, 2004 *Experts* Posted January 28, 2004 The problem with being a thirty-something is that most advertising executives are thirty-somethings and have raided their record collections for the advert backing music. Thus budweisser caused me to spend most of last weekend scouring Dublin record shops for "Love will tear us apart" by Joy Division. Also not appreciated by my wife ;-) Quote Printer Monitor for .NET? - see Merrion Computing Ltd for details
samsmithnz Posted January 28, 2004 Posted January 28, 2004 The Cure were a good band back in the day. I remember listening to them 10 years ago in Art Class, our teacher used to really like them, and he thought it helped us work. To this day I connect the too; Cure=art. ;) Its funny how theres always ONE band your wife hates. My wife is happy to sit down with me and listen to Nirvana and Soundgarden, but she can't stand Helmet. Quote Thanks Sam http://www.samsmith.co.nz
iebidan Posted January 28, 2004 Posted January 28, 2004 I started to like music when I was like 11, and the first band I ever listened was The Cure, many years later (now) I still listen to them at least once a week, Robert Smith was a genius in that days. There are other bands I listen too, like U2, but that doesn't means I don't like the bands that are now in the radio NOTE: I don't like pop music, Britney Spears, N'Sync and those guys can be shot for torture to mankind Quote Fat kids are harder to kidnap
kahlua001 Posted February 10, 2004 Posted February 10, 2004 I'm a big fan of the Cure. I would buy the new compilation if I didnt already have every single that I've collected thru the years. some demo dat tapes and rare mixes from producer friends. i guess i'm bias, but i still think the cure is a great band, not just back in the day, watching me fall from bloodflowers is genius. they are playing here in so cal in a few months and i cant wait. saw them a few montsh back and they played a 2.5 hour set at a music festival in which they headlined and they played 2 or 3 songs from each album in chronological order, that was great. Quote
Denaes Posted February 10, 2004 Posted February 10, 2004 One of the first songs I remember really getting into was Friday I'm in Love. We even had it played at my wedding this last summer. I have the CD for Standing on the Beach - The Singles. I don't think it's tape only. Thats the one that had Sorry Wrong Number on it and the cover had Robert Smith as a baby on the beach for the cover? All the music I listen to, my wife hates. She swears she's more open minded than I am, but in reality she just says she is. I'm truthful. There are some genres I don't like as a rule, like rap, hip hop and country. There are exceptions, but thats a general rule. My wife says she likes everything if its good. I guess that means she's by far more openminded, and likes 80's new wave, punk, classic rock, goth, ebm, country, industrial, synthpop, etc, but just doesn't happen to think any of it is good, because she es if she has to listen to a single song of those genres. I think the only stations I can normally stand are the ones that play classic rock music, new music with classic musicians and alternative. Most everything else I like is secluded to random shows at 1am or never heard on the radio. Damn, illegal or not (I'm not touching that one), I LOVE mp3s. I have some few hundred CDs, and each and every one of them is on my external hard drive. I buy a cd, it goes straight into my cd player in my car on the way home - then into my computer to rip the songs. From there, it probobly sits for all eternity in a rack until someone borrows it and probobly looses/keeps it. I have an Archos MP3 player the size of a thick wallet that holds 20gb of music and doubles as an external hard drive with a FAT 16 file system which is handy for going from PC to Mac and back. No longer is my car a mess of CDs pulled out of binders and strewn all about, scratched and soiled. No more piles of CDs near my stereo or computer, just inconspicious RCA jacks for plugging my lil mp3 player into, nomatter where I am. I've had it for over a year and a half and I consider it one of my soundest investments. Its acting up recently... I'll catch hell from my wife if I go out and get another one. I hope its just the batteries. Oh well, if not, the new version has twice the hard drive space and plays DivX movies :D Quote
iebidan Posted February 12, 2004 Posted February 12, 2004 Talking about The Cure, does anyone has the Join the Dots CD????? Quote Fat kids are harder to kidnap
kahlua001 Posted February 12, 2004 Posted February 12, 2004 I just broke down and bought it, $44! Quote
iebidan Posted February 12, 2004 Posted February 12, 2004 yeah, good CD, but where it was $44??? costed me like 120 bucks Quote Fat kids are harder to kidnap
*Experts* Nerseus Posted February 13, 2004 Author *Experts* Posted February 13, 2004 Talking about The Cure, does anyone has the Join the Dots CD????? Uhm... that was the whole point of this thread :) I got mine the day it came out at Best Buy for $39. I think it's back to it's normal price now, $49. These are US prices - not sure what it would cost elsewhere. Definitely worth it for a Cure fan, unless you're a SUPER Cure fan like kahlua001 and already own everything. :) -Nerseus Quote "I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center." - Kurt Vonnegut
iebidan Posted February 13, 2004 Posted February 13, 2004 I got mine for 120 bucks!!!!!!! geez!!!! Quote Fat kids are harder to kidnap
Joe Mamma Posted March 1, 2004 Posted March 1, 2004 (edited) Ahhh. . . da fuggin' cure! saw 'em at the warner theater during the head on the door tour tour in 84, i think it was, and then had drinks with robert and boris at posuers, the now defunct infamous club in the georgetown area of washington DC. the next year saw morrissey break his collor bone (the queen is dead tour) when an over zealous fan pulled him off the stage as he was reacing out and shaking hands with the audience. other highlights of my early 20's. . . Ray Manzerek (of the doors) playing keys with Echo and the Bunnymen on the Songs to learn and sing tour (with new order and gene loves jezebel, what a lineup!) Joe Jackson Big Worldtour when he told some guy in the audience to sit down and shut up 'I'm trying to work here and the bloke sitting next to you paid to see me do it!' Classic JJ attitude! Depeche Mode Black Celebration tour. Camper Van Beethoven touring to support to our beloved revolutionary sweetheart Love and Rockets ( ing rocked!!!) on the Express tour If you dont own Express your collection is incomplete (IMOSHO) Happy Monday's with Stereo MC's (bez was/is a trip!) Those were the days. . . ecstasy was not only really MDMA but it was and legal!!! I could go on and on! now you may wonder what is in my cd player. . . Poe: Haunted; Underworld: second toughest in the infants Monolake: Momentum Mateo and Matos: Inspirations. . . There is so much good music being made these days!!! rock-on! joemamma Edited March 1, 2004 by Joe Mamma Quote Joe Mamma Amendment 4: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Amendment 9: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
*Experts* Nerseus Posted March 3, 2004 Author *Experts* Posted March 3, 2004 lol, Camper Van Beethoven - still hear "matchstick men" every once in awhile (not very often though). I was more into Minor Thread, Fugazi, etc. until my sister got me hooked on Erasure (and eventually won me over to Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode). I didn't get to too many concerts, but I did see the Cure in '94, I think. It was disappointing though - very lackluster (in St. Lous, MO) except for one HUGE rainstorm that came in (in an open field where my seats were). Worst concert ever? Howard Jones about 2 years ago in Tucson, Arizona - VERY small theater. There were about 100 of us that showed up. In all honesty, I had a BLAST, but it was pretty lame :) -Nerseus Quote "I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center." - Kurt Vonnegut
*Experts* Nerseus Posted June 8, 2004 Author *Experts* Posted June 8, 2004 New news: The Cure will release a new CD at the end of June (in the US, likely sooner in Europe). I *think* it will be a self-titled album - strange, as the Cure has probably close to 20 albums :) -Nerseus PS - I'm only throwing this out there since there was some interest in the Cure last time AND I can't tell anyone at work or home because they all pretty much hate the Cure. You guys become my sounding board... Quote "I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center." - Kurt Vonnegut
samsmithnz Posted June 8, 2004 Posted June 8, 2004 (edited) I saw the cure on that pepsi chart program that is on the WB (??) at the moment. It was weird cos Robert Smith [Edit opps!;)] looks the same (except hes a bit older), but the rest of the band could be different people for all I know, they looked younger and didn't have the trademark cure hair.... Edited June 8, 2004 by samsmithnz Quote Thanks Sam http://www.samsmith.co.nz
Administrators PlausiblyDamp Posted June 8, 2004 Administrators Posted June 8, 2004 Robert Plant?? My girlfriend would be going mad if she realised someone thought Robert Plant was in the Cure ;) Then again she did used to be a tad fanatical about them when she was younger. Quote Posting Guidelines FAQ Post Formatting Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. -- Albert Einstein
*Experts* Nerseus Posted June 8, 2004 Author *Experts* Posted June 8, 2004 lol - Robert Plant :) That's the lead singer of Led Zeppelin (among others). Robert Smith currently looks *similar* to his younger days. That is to say, not so good. I haven't checked recently, but The Cure has switched members a LOT. Robert Smith has been the only one that's always been there. I saw the Pepsi Smash show and... well, I'll wait til the album comes out to pass judgement. Generally, the Cure releases albums in the following order: a lighter, poppier album followed by a darker, moody album. Bloodflowers, their last album, was the darker album so you might expect the next one to be a light and poppy album (along the lines of "Friday I'm in Love"). We'll see. -Nerseus edited to remove so many smilies Quote "I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center." - Kurt Vonnegut
techmanbd Posted June 14, 2004 Posted June 14, 2004 My first Cure CD was seventeen seconds, talk about a dark album. The Cure was awesome. One of my bassist Idle was Simon Gallup. Quote Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi
Joe Mamma Posted June 15, 2004 Posted June 15, 2004 lol - Robert Plant :) That's the lead singer of Led Zeppelin (among others). But Boris did replace John Paul Jones, believe it or not!!! Quote Joe Mamma Amendment 4: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Amendment 9: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
hog Posted June 22, 2004 Posted June 22, 2004 Well I just got their greatest hits for Father's Day cos I like some but not all their music. But the one which just blows my mind and always has is Lullaby :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Quote My website
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