Spotted while looking for updates on the NME awards show. Not that I don’t have a fondness for a lot of their catalog, but “the most popular band in existance [sic]“? Has this person seen the SoundScans for 4:13 Dream? [Twitter]
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Yeah, but does anybody actively dislike the Cure?
Uh, yeah, that would be me. Five years in the Murfreesboro bubble taught me to loath the Cure..
I actively dislike the Cure, the sound of Robert Smith’s whining voice sends me running.
You’re both fired.
(More seriously — much as I hyperadore the Cure, that post is insanity personified. However this gives me the chance to post a link this entertaining recent interview:
[entertainment.timesonline.co.uk]
A mix of this, that and the other…)
It must’ve been a typo - I think they meant, “the most polarizing band in existence”
oh, i used to be a huge fan of the cure. then i met robert smith backstage at the end of the 2004 tour, and uh, yeah…he was really really really lame. the experience kinda ruined them for me.
that and the fact he has become a self parody and hasn’t put out a decent album since 1992.
This is false.
The most popular band in existence is the Foo Fighters.
See, while very few people love the Foo Fighters, absolutely nobody hates the Foo Fighers. Everybody just likes the Foo Fighters.
They are the single most universally well-liked band on the planet.
I hate the foo fighters.
@eriq78: then i met robert smith backstage at the end of the 2004 tour, and uh, yeah…he was really really really lame.
Yeah, but how much of your disappointment was in realizing that the person whose image you built up in your head didn’t equal the actual person?
@eriq78: that and the fact he has become a self parody and hasn’t put out a decent album since 1992.
Wow - have you not heard the brilliance of Bloodflowers or the latest, 4:13 Dream?
You’re missing out my friend. The opener for the latter is pure Disintegration.
@Whigged: Maybe that’s the problem? That fat Bob can’t seem to move beyond referencing high water marks from the ’80s, not to mention that there are severely diminishing returns each time? And when he does attempt to break out of the box, he shames all surrounding parties (Wild Mood Swings)?
@Brad Nelson: Hey - nobody faults Lemmy for rehashing the same Motorhead formula every album.
It’s what the fans want, so why not give it to them? There’s a reason that some fans hated the self-titled one from a few years back.
@Whigged: Store clerks who had to put the latest Motorhead album on the racks, only to have to remove them from the racks 6 months later would probably fault Lemmy for rehashing the same Motorhead formula every album.
@Chris N.:
Er, I don’t hate “The Band”, but I’m not too fond of them either!
Anyway, take a huge pinch of salt with anything the NME writes, I gave up reading it years ago when they had an article on how women were the worst thing that could ever happen in successful bands. They gave Courtney Love and Yoko Ono as examples of the worst offenders, and then a few pages later they had a huge ass kissing interview with Yoko Ono about how misunderstood she is, and how we are all bad people who say she is the the reason the Beatles broke up…
By this definition The Cure are merely the least unpopular band in existance, which is a funny thing to be a part of.
@relaxing: Hey now that you mention it I hate Christgau. And I dont’t like the Cure and Christgau doesn’t like the Cure. If the enemy of my enemy is my friend does that mean I really like the Cure or Christgau. I’m so confused
i feel like the cure gained a lot in popularity a few years ago, around the time that curiosa tour took place, if only because a lot of the popular younger bands were citing them as a influence. i’ve always liked them, and always taken a lot of shit for it, especially during most of the 90s. 4:13 dream is actually a good record, much better than anything since wish. but sales are horrible, and this is the 3rd trip they’ve made stateside since the release (tour, a spate of tv appearances in december, coachella.) those god awful remixes certainly didn’t help matters.
I also hate the Foo Fighters.
Wings is pretty lame too.
The Cure is silly. It is silly to like The Cure.
Pornography [A&M, 1982]
“In books/And films/And in life/And in heaven/The sound of slaughter/As your body turns . . .”–no, I can’t go on. I mean, why so glum, chum? Cheer up; look on the bright side. You got your contract, right? And your synthesizers, bet you’ll have fun with them. Believe me, kid, it will pass. C
[www.robertchristgau.com]
My new theory is that The Band is the most well-liked … er, band ever. Nobody hates The Band.
@relaxing: Ah, thank you for quoting that, because I knew it would come up, and because I am profoundly irritated by Achewood and its cult. (It doesn’t help that they have posted defenses of Bruce Springsteen, my hatred for whom makes everyone’s complaints about the Cure here seem like mere pinpricks.)
I hate the Foo Fighters also.