The Cure- The Cure

[Ragin]

I've got to say this album is MUCH better than Bloodflowers. It won't likely blow you away, but I was very satisfied with it. To put in context, my favorite songs by them are Pictures of You, In Between Days, and Why Can't I Be You.

There were a few good songs on there that would've done some radio damage yesteryear, but nothing will be too likely to burn up the charts. Who cares? It's a good solid album with good songs and what more could any Cure fan want?

There is not a whole lot of slow methodical brain dead monotony like what I remember from Bloodflowers, my biggest disappointment from them.

Lost is classic cure, certainly classic album track anyway, and Labyrinth does get a little tedious at least for me. Before Three and The End of The World pick the album up significantly, and I kind of bop along to those. Anniversary and Us or Them kind of take things down a notch (but hey! It's the Cure what do you expect?), and then alt.end puts the album on stride for the duration. On is a pretty decent mid-tempo for them and then Taking Off comes close to sounding poppy like Friday I'm in Love, but doesn't quite get the happy. The album ends with probably the hardest rock edge on the album, but I must say I found Smith's comments regarding "rock" to be a little off the mark. The album is classic cure, just the way I like it.

[singingsparrow]

I actually don't have anything much against "Bloodflowers".

I agree it is a more tedious album, and not The Cure that I'm used to, but the album I feel exercises Smith's versatility in that he could write epics too. So many criticize Smith for being the same lovesick puppy in his lyrics for over 25 years now, but "Bloodflowers" I like to think of it as an experiment-to-prove-them-wrong-that-wasn't-entirely-necessary.

"The Cure" is a better album however, I agree there. Actually, it is not a "metal" album as Rob Smith originally described it would be. There's some hard tracks, most notably "The Promise" and "alt.end". The guitars are loud all throughout the album, and that may because the keyboards that defined the band are particularly absent.

This album, produced by the same producer of metal-heads Slipknot, really isn't radically hard from the original Cure sound. An enjoyable album for Cure fans alike.

My Review: 4 out of 5

Sincerely,
Noah Eaton

[Crushcrushchris]

After listening to it, it became the best album I've listened to that was released this year surpassing Kanye West's College Dropout.

Amazing stuff especially Lost, The Promise, Us or Them and of course The End of the World. Lost is my favorite track. Great opener.

I give it a 4.5 out of 5. Not perfect, but best album that I've listened to all year.