This once would have made me ecstatic
The next Cure album is going to be a double album.
There was a time when that would have filled me with unspeakable joy, not as long ago as you might think. Up to Bloodflowers, I was right there with the Cure, supportive of pretty much anything they did. Then they released an album called The Cure.
The Cure was a horrible, horrible record. Not in the way that, sometimes a well-known band will release an album and people say "They could do better, but if this album had been made by an unknown band, we'd all be saying how great it was." No, The Cure would have sucked no matter who released it. It was the kind of modern rock dreck that passes for edgy with people who only listen to mainstream radio, and it pretty much killed any interest I had in whatever the band planned on doing in the future.
Still, I'm intrigued by what they might do with a double album. If they continue in the mold of The Cure, it's going to be a failure of epic proportions. But it's also worth remembering that the band followed Wild Mood Swings, probably their most critically abused album ever (which I vastly preferred to The Cure) with Bloodflowers, which most people agreed was quite good. Something tells me that Robert is still smart enough to know that if he's going to write a double album, it better be some Disintegration-type shit, but I can't just forget about The Cure and how aggressively terrible it was.
I assume we'll get an advance copy of the new album at KXUA, but I actually get a little nervous when I think about listening to it. I don't want to go through the pain of listening to The Cure again, and I don't say that sarcastically. Call me a stereotypical Cure fan, but listening to that album was like getting dumped by someone I had been dating since I was 10 (when I first heard the band), and it's not a pain I want to be reminded of for the length of two CDs.
There was a time when that would have filled me with unspeakable joy, not as long ago as you might think. Up to Bloodflowers, I was right there with the Cure, supportive of pretty much anything they did. Then they released an album called The Cure.
The Cure was a horrible, horrible record. Not in the way that, sometimes a well-known band will release an album and people say "They could do better, but if this album had been made by an unknown band, we'd all be saying how great it was." No, The Cure would have sucked no matter who released it. It was the kind of modern rock dreck that passes for edgy with people who only listen to mainstream radio, and it pretty much killed any interest I had in whatever the band planned on doing in the future.
Still, I'm intrigued by what they might do with a double album. If they continue in the mold of The Cure, it's going to be a failure of epic proportions. But it's also worth remembering that the band followed Wild Mood Swings, probably their most critically abused album ever (which I vastly preferred to The Cure) with Bloodflowers, which most people agreed was quite good. Something tells me that Robert is still smart enough to know that if he's going to write a double album, it better be some Disintegration-type shit, but I can't just forget about The Cure and how aggressively terrible it was.
I assume we'll get an advance copy of the new album at KXUA, but I actually get a little nervous when I think about listening to it. I don't want to go through the pain of listening to The Cure again, and I don't say that sarcastically. Call me a stereotypical Cure fan, but listening to that album was like getting dumped by someone I had been dating since I was 10 (when I first heard the band), and it's not a pain I want to be reminded of for the length of two CDs.