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| 60% Recommended by our customers. Label: Geffen Records Catalog: Music Release date: 2008-07-15 Media: Audio CD discs number: 1 Format: Single Ean: 0602517781139 Upc: 602517781139  Tip: compare prices with similar music CDsArtist:
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The Cure, one of the most revered British bands of the past quarter-century, have unveiled their plans to release four singles, one each month starting May 13th, leading up to the release of their thirteenth studio album, as yet untitled, which will be out on Suretone/Geffen Records September 13, 2008. It will be the band's first album of new music since 2004's self titled album The Cure. Physical and digital singles will be available. Why the 13th of each month? The forthcoming album is The Cure's thirteenth studio album... A lucky number indeed! Led as always by lead singer/guitarist Robert Smith, the Cure line-up comprises longtime members bass player Simon Gallup, drummer Jason Cooper and, back in the band for a third time, guitarist Porl Thompson. The Cure first formed in southern England in 1976 as Easy Cure. In 1978 the 'Easy' was dropped, and The Cure was signed to the Fiction label. In May 1979 their debut album Three Imaginary Boys was released to great acclaim. Other landmark Cure albums include Pornography (1982), The Head on the Door (1985), Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me (1987), Disintegration (1989), Wish (1992), Wild Mood Swings (1996), the Grammy-nominated Bloodflowers (2000) and their last full length release, the self-titled set The Cure (2004). 2006 saw the Suretone/Geffen release of Festival 2005, an award winning 5.1 DVD featuring 30 songs, shot by fans, band members and professionals during the summer of 2005's European festival run. |
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 Written on July 26, 2008 Summary: Not sleep-inducing, at least! Of all the new released singles by The Cure, Sleep When I'm Dead is the most lackluster, in my mind. I really really like the somewhat derivative-but-still-charming The Only One, and I love the post-punk funk of Freakshow. But this isn't to imply that Sleep is a bad song at all. It's just that, to my ears, it's the least inspired single lyrically and structurally. The high-pitched vocals are delivered with potent urgency, which gives fire to the song, and the rhythmic throb lends the tune an almost dark wave/disco feel. And of course, Porl's wah guitar is again fiercely prominent. Some people have lamented that the studio version of Sleep When I'm Dead is rather inert, and does not match the raw energy of the live song. But I prefer the studio version because it is more dreamily textured. I like the paradox of sounds - the ethereal vocals melting within a cauldron of guitars and percussion. Interestingly, but certainly not crucially, the original song is an actual relic from the "Head on the Door" sessions. And indeed, it does sound a bit like Head's "Baby Screams" meshed with Kiss Me's "Torture." But let's not dwell on comparisons - a rather sloppy tactic of the unimaginative. Lyrically, the song is a mixture of comical surrealism (childlike references to animals abound) and snooze-inducing banality ("take one for the team"). There are, however, a few interesting lines, such as "THAT'S A GREEN EYED PANIC CLIMB TO THE EDGE OF NOWHERE," the weird sense of which could have been exploited more throughout the song, to give eager lyric-dissectors more tools to work with. However, I can appreciate that the lyrics likely have more import that I am able to discern at this point. Despite my reservations, Sleep When I'm Dead is a savory, mercurial song that begs to be turned up to illegal levels to absorb its full impact. B-side Down Under is the second best song of the entire batch, in my assessment (Freakshow b-side All Kinds of Stuff being the best). It is dreamily remiscent of Wish b-sides like This Twilight Garden. Texturally, the song almost sounds like it's imitating the lyrical content, which involves the sea somehow - either symbolically or otherwise. The song is practically "drowned in sound" - swimming amidst a guitar mimicking sea-creature sounds, and floating bass-lines. It's really the most complex of all the songs, musically and lyrically. The lyrics are likely sexual in nature, although compulsive analysis has yet to confirm this. Lines like, "Disguise the stroke/entice them out/call out their number" are highly evocative, and perhaps the song truly is about an incident of "aqua-erotica." But the lyrics are opaque enough in other areas as to defy tidy deconstruction. Or perhaps I lack discernment. Anything is possible, really. Written on July 25, 2008 Summary: You like "The Head on the Door" Album ? Then you like this song. It's a pulled out from "The Head on the Door" Album session. I like it !!! - I just don't like to wait, until October now, for the new (13th) album. Written on July 22, 2008 Summary: Monotonous, but has it's moments I read in an interview with Rolling Stone that Robert Smith recently found "Sleep When I'm Dead," which was a demo from the recording sessions of The Head on the Door, which is, in my eyes, The Cure's best album to date. What that said to me was that this song was going to be another classic along the lines of "In Between Days," "A Night Like This," "Push," or any song off of THOTD. Oh, how wrong I was. It isn't that the song is bad, it just doesn't really go anywhere. It stays in the same mood and, instead of offering any sort of push forward in The Cure's sound, Robert Smith just croons some of the worst lyrics that he has written in his nearly 30-year career ("In a monkey suit again/Having fun with all your friends" is a perfect example). However, the song does have a few good moments, such as a lyrical reference to one of the band's best songs, Push, (at least I think it's a reference), and the music itself is good. I have heard some people refer to the b-side, "Down Under," as the best b-side off of the 3 singles that have been released so far for the band's upcoming 13th album. I feel, however, that it's the worst one: the lyrics are easily forgettable, and, if it had made it onto the upcoming album, I can see it as a filler track. At least the A-side of the single has a good rhythm to it and the music is good, but "Down Under" is just one of those songs that I find myself forgetting at the end of the day. All in all, I would recommend buying the singles for The Only One (good) and Freakshow (great), and wait to hear "Sleep When I'm Dead" once the 13th album comes out. However, if you've already bought this single, and wish to hear where it comes from, make sure to buy The Head On The Door if you haven't already.  Written on July 21, 2008 Summary: "Give it to the wonderful, wonderful me..." "Sleep When I'm Dead" is The Cure at their best in almost every way. Kind of a cross between "Shiver and Shake" and "Possession" style sound. This one could be one of my all-time favorite Cure songs now. The only thing that could top it would be a slower 6 to 8 minute Disintigration-style epic along the lines of "Pictures of You", "Prayers for Rain", "Closedown", or "Same Deep Water as You". I have a feeling they are holding some awesome ones like that back, maybe the upcoming single "The Perfect Boy" will deliver on that front?? The b-side "Down Under" has a lot to offer as well. Very ethereal, wide open, and expansive tune. A little Big Country-esque musically (which is not a bad thing) but Robert's atmospheric vocals make it entirely Cure. Can't wait for the next one!  Written on July 20, 2008 Summary: Try harder or give up and go away Smithy Boy & Co. After having followed The Cure since seeing them on the Pornography tour in 1982, the latest releases can only be described as the most dismal nonsense ever released. Here we have yet another single to add to the last 2 uninspired releases, all 3 now only serve to confirm that The Cure are band that has lost it's way, has no idea in which direction they are going in and seem to find it worthwhile to release drivel just to keep insulting their fanbase. Perhaps they need the money to ensure that the pension contributions are being paid? Who knows? But the last releases are simply shocking. The Cure now seem to rely more on their cult status to keep them going as the standard of songwriting is now at such a purile level that it is embarassing. It is stunningly clear that Robert Smith had writers block when recording these tracks. Uniunspired, boring, re-hashed rubbish is what this can only be described as. I thought that I would never say it but it really time that Robert Smith & Co realise that they have their time and it's time to stop inflicting this rubbish on us. This release adds nothing to The Cure's repertoire and only serves as a confirmation that they should had stopped after Bloodflowers was released. the only cure left for The Cure is to let themselves be put down. It seems the only humanitarian thing left to do to them. Try harder or give up and go away Smithy Boy & Co. Boat number 13, please come in, your time is up. |
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