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January 26, 2021 OPENING TRACK I think this is a terrific album opener – heart on the sleeve, in your face, setting the tone and preparing you for what is to come. When I first started listening to this song, while doing stuff in the garden (i.e. not analytically, just in the background), every time …
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January 23, 2021 ALL MANNER OF GRIEF THE PROMISE How time will healMake me forgetYou promised meTime will healMake me forgetYou promised meLove will save us all and time will healYou promised me… How love will saveMake me forgetYou promised meLove will saveMake me forgetYou promised meTime will heal us all and love will saveYou …
January 11, 2021 FIRST IMPRESSIONS – SELF-TITLED 2004 ALBUM The general vibe about this album from other people had been fairly negative – including from my husband, who sampled it in a record shop when it came out but decided he didn’t like the sound. But you know what, I’ve just given it a spin …
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January 6, 2021 MANIPULATION, ANYONE? Unlike most of the other tracks on this album, Wendy Time is not a lovely track to listen to, but if you’re writing a tune about shameless manipulation and terrible pick-up lines, you probably don’t want a lovely tune – but one that reflects the nausea-inducing scenario related. And in …
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December 31, 2020 The end of the year was rapidly approaching and two Cure albums are still queueing – I’d rather like to listen to them, so I better get finished with looking at Wish. LOVE GONE WRONG, LET ME COUNT THE WAYS (finale) Cut is a jagged sort of number, a lament for a …
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December 5, 2020 LOVE GONE WRONG, LET ME COUNT THE WAYS (continued) End was one of our personal favourites on Show, which we had for yonks before Wish. I guess we’re not particularly into shiny music most of the time, so a song like this appeals to us way more than Friday I’m In Love, …
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November 24, 2020 I’m really enjoying our new acquisition Wish, on multiple levels – musically there’s so much on there that’s lovely, and even the stuff that’s not I think is the way it is to reinforce the story told by the lyrics – e.g. Wendy Time isn’t exactly a beautiful song, but the quacking …
November 12, 2020 THE MAILBOX IS GROANING CDs have descended on our mailbox thick and fast and yesterday we found Pornography in it. OMG, the things that happen when you’re ordering from the Cure back catalogue… Alas, that and the self-titled are staying in their wrappers while I take a look at the …
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The right-wing Australian federal government and their fundamentalist PM are currently trying to pass legislation which would make it legal for religious people to spout hate speech against LGBTIQ and to discriminate against them, including specifically the expelling of transsexual children from private schools. This has led to impassioned discussion on The Guardian. Amongst the …
If you want to know what the musical theme was about, read the previous instalment. With this present instalment, I’m wrapping up my look at The Head On The Door. October 27, 2020 What’s that doing here??? That’s not The Cure! Today, the microscope is back out and we’re looking at the lyrics for Push. …
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