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 enlarge | Artist: The Cure
Label: Geffen Records
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  184 reviews
Sales Rank: 129000
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.4
UPC: 602498628683
EAN: 0602498628683
ASIN: B00029PBYE
Release Date: June 29, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Lost | | • | Labyrinth | | • | Before Three | | • | The End of the World | | • | Anniversary | | • | Us or Them | | • | Alt.end | | • | (I Don't Know What's Going) On | | • | Taking Off | | • | Never | | • | The Promises |
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Album Description
Deluxe edition includes 30 minute Making of the Record DVD. Album produced by Robert Smith and Ross Robinson.
Amazon.com
Having threatened to enter into retirement after 2000's bleak goodbye letter, Bloodflowers, weathered British goth idols the Cure turned around only to discover their sound being commandeered by the likes of the Rapture, Hot Hot Heat, and Interpol. Is it any wonder the band seems a little put out on its self-titled 13th studio album? The disc sounds like a terse history lesson covering all eras of its back catalog, from the baroque post-punk of 1981's Faith ("Labyrinth") and jangle-pop of 1987's Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me ("Taking Off") straight through the atmospheric dirges of 1989's Disintegration ("The Promise") and the dark-tinged MOR of 1996's Wild Mood Swings ("The End of The World"). It's not so much a comeback effort as a collection of templates affirming that no one does the Cure better than themselves. --Aidin Vaziri
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 Robert Smith Decides to Be Himself July 5, 2004
16 out of 25 found this review helpful
Because Cure fans are fiercely loyal, they're also pretty harsh on new product. What if this album were a new release by a west coast "emo" band? The band would be hailed as the "new Cure," wouldn't they? But is this as good as "Pornography"? It can't quite measure up, because ... The Cure's style will never sound as new and original as it did back then. This IS a strong album from beginning to end, and more satisfying than the last two. Robert Smith has decided to relax a bit. "Bloodflowers" was a conscious attempt to recreate the style of Disintegration, Faith and like albums. It was good, but all that effort made it a bit labored. This album, recorded fast, is just a bunch of Cure songs. There's no heavy theme, and no claim that the band are breaking up. There is an unguarded emotionality in songs like "Lost," and the surest sense for melody in "The End of the World" and "(I Don't Know What's Going) On" we've seen since "Wish." So, be thankful, listeners, that The Cure are still doing their thing. No other band could have made this moving, sentimental, childlike cd.
 DEVASTATED January 21, 2006
11 out of 20 found this review helpful
I gave this CD another listen today remembering Robert Smith's words right before the album was released: if you don't like this album than you don't like The Cure.
Not only do I like The Cure - I LOVE them and have for about 20 years. I was introduced to them in the mid 80s. For some unkown reason I picked up Japanese Whispers in a bargain bin. I had heard of The Cure but had never heard their music to my knowledge. I will never forget going home and listening to it on my tape deck (I don't even think CDs existed then and if they did it they were brand new). After listeing to that tape and all of the WONDERFUL songs on it (Including one of my ALL TIME FAVES: Speak My Language) I went out and bought their entire catalog up until that point and loved it all.
I was never one of those Cure fans who was firmly in the pop camp (Love Cats, Why Can't I Be You, Just Like Heaven, etc.) or firmly in the doom and gloom camp (The Figurehead, Disintegration, Faith, etc.) I loved both, heck ALL sides of The Cure equally.
Anywho - people who say here that this album is for die hard fans only are in my opinion wrong. I feel this album is HEARTBREAKING for die hard fans. I have often been quoted for saying the only people who have NEVER let me down are my mother and The Cure and I am afraid to say after this album my dear mother is the only person remaining in that category :(
I have seen The Cure in concert about 15 times (The Prayer Tour can be likened to a religious experience) and yet I couldn't even bring myself to see this album played live - too painful.
The lyrics while substandard for Mr. Smith are okay but WHERE is the brilliance of lyrics such Faith, A Night Like This, Pictures of You, The Edge of the Deep Green Sea, The Loudest Sound, Maybe Someday and Disintegration?
The music is simply awful. WHERE are the catchy riffs or haunting melodies of songs such as Push, Maybe Someday, Plainsong, Disintegration, Fascination Street and Why Can't I Be You?
If a song is gonna be long I want it to majestic ala Disintegration - not endless distorted guitars with Robert wailing.
This is garbled garbage. The few songs that even resemble anything a die hard Cure fan would like (alt.end, Taking Off, End of the World) simply pale in comparison with similiar, older efforts.
This Mr. Robinson person should be brought up on charges: he MURDERED my favorite band!
I can only PRAY the record they are currently working on returns them to their former glory.
Please Robert, RETRACT your statement about - if you don't like this CD, you don't like The Cure. It really HAUNTS me. I understand that bands can't constantly do the same thing over and over but before this CD you always seemed to strike the perfect balance in coming up with ways of making The Cure sound different while still remaining Cure-esque.
And before any "Cure" fan attacks me do know, writing this poor review is the last thing I ever thought I would do.
Favorite Cure Songs of All Time (In No Particular Order):
The Figurehead
Faith
Charlotte Sometimes
Why Can't I Be You?
Hot! Hot! Hot!
A Few Hours After This
The Exploding Boy
2 Late
Edge of the Deep Green Sea
Disintegration
Pictures of You
Untitled
Homesick
plainsong
Maybe Someday
Cut Here
The Loudest Sound
Fascination Street
A Strange Day
Speak My Language
Push
OH MAN July 1, 2004
10 out of 16 found this review helpful
Are we ever going to get another great cure record? The best in my opinion are Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, Distergration, and almost 1/2 of Bloodflowers.Now I've read all the reviews and some people really like the new disc. But theyre probaly either : 1. wanna be goth kids or 2. love is blind cure fans. The truth of the matter is none of this album soars. You know, like the guitar intro to The Last Days of Summer. None of the songs hit and make you feel. Remember how you felt the first time you heard Pictures of You?
I hope you do, Because if Robert keeps this up, you might never have that feeling again. Oh and and I'd like to publicly thank Geffen Records for the worst bonus DVD ever created. Wont catch me buying any of those ever again.
The cure for the norm December 5, 2004
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
I'm not exactly sure why a lot of reviewers don't like this album. Several people complain that this isn't the real Cure. But you have to remember, the Cure was never like your typical band; they were always kind of out there. And I personally think there are several good songs to find on their self-titled album.
Fans of Robert and the boys should be pleased with tracks like "alt.end", "Labyrinth" and "The End of the World". "Anniversary" is also a great song, and although it might not be quite as romantic as, say, "Love Song", it's still impressive. And I think "Before Three" is one of the most invigorating tracks I've heard in a while.
I can kind of understand where some of the naysayers are coming from when they say that Robert is screaming too much on the album. Not that he didn't "scream" in most of the songs to begin with (like in "Why Can't I Be You", which is still my favorite song from them), but he DOES overdo it sometimes, like on "Us or Them", the only song on here I really don't like. Speaking of that, this is another one of those albums that makes you wonder who forgot to stick on the explicit content label.
Oh well, if you stood by the Cure up until now, you should still want to stick with them after this album. It might not be as great as The Head On the Door, but it's still a stellar album from the band.
Anthony Rupert
 Cure's successful flirt with irrelevancy.. July 1, 2004
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
I heard this album 3 or 4 times and after each time i found myself asking "what's the point"?? That it's in no way reminiscent of Cure's glorious past is obvious for anybody that knows the group unless you happen to be a hardcore die-hard fan. If not, i hardly see how this LP will not be soon collecting dust on your shelf. Almost all the songs (with maybe 1 or 2 escaping) are mediocre at best, uninspired, tired, perhaps even hurried. Smith's voice is hardly recognisable, and if he was trying out new things it seems that he should immediately drop the experiments and stick to singing the way he knows how. Unless that's not an option anymore. Ultimately, the worrying signs were already there in "Bloodflowers" to be heard, even though that album was even better than the current release. That says it all. If the group continue on this path they will put a stain on their legendary name. Others have done that before them. Pity...
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