What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

from my library (cd)



Tenth album from Robert Smith and the boys. They still have it for me. The use of strings and horns attracts me to a lot of this. Don't love it, but as close as you can get. Nothing I don't like, with four love tracks. A few lineup changes gave them some fresh energy. Not well accepted compared to the previous Wish. Smith still claims it as one of his favorites, but tracks were rarely performed live after it's release. Only Want and Club America making the regular concert rotation. This Is A Lie is my best track. Four singles were released, The 13th, Mint Car (also a love track), Strange Attraction, and Gone. None of those charted well, with The 13th doing the best at #44. The album did make a respectable #12, and although sales for this one began a decline, the guys are still kicking.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Round & Round & Round

Best Track - This Is A Lie

How each of us decides
I've never been sure
The part we play
The way we are
How each of us denies any other way in the world
Why each of us must choose
I've never understood
One special friend
One true love
Why each of us must lose everyone else in the world

However unsure
However unwise
Day after day play out our lives
However confused
Pretending to know to the end

But this isn't truth this isn't right
This isn't love this isn't life this isn't real
This is a lie

How each of us believes
I've never really known
In heaven unseen and hell unknown
How each of us dreams to understand anything at all
Why each of us decides
I've never been sure
The part we take
The way we are
Why each of us denies every other way in the world

However unsure
However unwise
Day after day play out our lives
However confused
Pretending to know to the end

But this isn't truth this isn't right
This isn't love this isn't life this isn't real
This is a lie
This isn't truth this isn't right
This isn't love this isn't life this isn't real
This is a lie

1) Want **
live - The Cure - Want (Live 1996) - YouTube
2) Club America **
live - The Cure - Club America - Later with Jools Holland April 23, 1996 - YouTube
3) This Is A Lie ***
live - cure - jools holland '96 - this is a lie - YouTube
4) The 13th **
live - The Cure - The 13th (Live 1996) - YouTube
5) Strange Attraction **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SEVZtNrOuk
6) Mint Car ***
live - The Cure-Mint Car [LIVE] HQ Video - YouTube
7) Jupiter Crash **
live - The Cure - Jupiter Crash (Live 1996) - YouTube
8) Round & Round & Round **
live - 6 - Round and Round and Round [ The Cure - Wild Mood Swings - YouTube
9) Gone! **
live - The Cure - Gone - Later With Jools Holland - 1996 - YouTube
10) Numb **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvs3Oc5R4eY
11) Return **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQXNI9YDSac
12) Trap ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mw5vZhEmlk
13) Treasure ***
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjH6-HtIbZY
14) Bare **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCtY84Go1OI

3's - 4
2's - 10
1's - 0

Grade - 2.3

so many albums, so little time