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Im sure many of you listen to music while "coding"... so this is sorta computer related (yet still Random Thoughts).

I just got The Cures "Join the Dots - B-Sides and rarities". Its a 4 CD collection of The Cure with previously unreleased songs (on CD anyway). Ive been waiting *years* for this! Previously, you could get one small collection but only on tape (Standing on the Beach, the singles). To get the rest of these songs youd have had to buy every Cure single that came out just to get the B-sides. Im all for paying for what I like, but I dont want to spend $8 for a single B-side (since Id already have the main song on the full album).

I started listening to The Cure in the mid 80s and been a fan ever since. This is a Great (!) collection if youre a Cure fan. Bad if youre not (twice as bad for my wife who hates them).

Had to share the joy :)
-Nerseus
 
The problem with being a thirty-something is that most advertising executives are thirty-somethings and have raided their record collections for the advert backing music. Thus budweisser caused me to spend most of last weekend scouring Dublin record shops for "Love will tear us apart" by Joy Division.
Also not appreciated by my wife ;-)
 
The Cure were a good band back in the day. I remember listening to them 10 years ago in Art Class, our teacher used to really like them, and he thought it helped us work. To this day I connect the too; Cure=art. ;)

Its funny how theres always ONE band your wife hates. My wife is happy to sit down with me and listen to Nirvana and Soundgarden, but she cant stand Helmet.
 
I started to like music when I was like 11, and the first band I ever listened was The Cure, many years later (now) I still listen to them at least once a week, Robert Smith was a genius in that days.
There are other bands I listen too, like U2, but that doesnt means I dont like the bands that are now in the radio

NOTE: I dont like pop music, Britney Spears, NSync and those guys can be shot for torture to mankind
 
Im a big fan of the Cure. I would buy the new compilation if I didnt already have every single that Ive collected thru the years. some demo dat tapes and rare mixes from producer friends. i guess im bias, but i still think the cure is a great band, not just back in the day, watching me fall from bloodflowers is genius. they are playing here in so cal in a few months and i cant wait. saw them a few montsh back and they played a 2.5 hour set at a music festival in which they headlined and they played 2 or 3 songs from each album in chronological order, that was great.
 
One of the first songs I remember really getting into was Friday Im in Love. We even had it played at my wedding this last summer.

I have the CD for Standing on the Beach - The Singles. I dont think its tape only. Thats the one that had Sorry Wrong Number on it and the cover had Robert Smith as a baby on the beach for the cover?

All the music I listen to, my wife hates. She swears shes more open minded than I am, but in reality she just says she is. Im truthful. There are some genres I dont like as a rule, like rap, hip hop and country. There are exceptions, but thats a general rule.

My wife says she likes everything if its good. I guess that means shes by far more openminded, and likes 80s new wave, punk, classic rock, goth, ebm, country, industrial, synthpop, etc, but just doesnt happen to think any of it is good, because she es if she has to listen to a single song of those genres.

I think the only stations I can normally stand are the ones that play classic rock music, new music with classic musicians and alternative. Most everything else I like is secluded to random shows at 1am or never heard on the radio.

Damn, illegal or not (Im not touching that one), I LOVE mp3s. I have some few hundred CDs, and each and every one of them is on my external hard drive. I buy a cd, it goes straight into my cd player in my car on the way home - then into my computer to rip the songs. From there, it probobly sits for all eternity in a rack until someone borrows it and probobly looses/keeps it.

I have an Archos MP3 player the size of a thick wallet that holds 20gb of music and doubles as an external hard drive with a FAT 16 file system which is handy for going from PC to Mac and back. No longer is my car a mess of CDs pulled out of binders and strewn all about, scratched and soiled. No more piles of CDs near my stereo or computer, just inconspicious RCA jacks for plugging my lil mp3 player into, nomatter where I am.

Ive had it for over a year and a half and I consider it one of my soundest investments. Its acting up recently... Ill catch hell from my wife if I go out and get another one. I hope its just the batteries. Oh well, if not, the new version has twice the hard drive space and plays DivX movies :D
 
Talking about The Cure, does anyone has the Join the Dots CD?????
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Uhm... that was the whole point of this thread :)

I got mine the day it came out at Best Buy for $39. I think its back to its normal price now, $49. These are US prices - not sure what it would cost elsewhere.

Definitely worth it for a Cure fan, unless youre a SUPER Cure fan like kahlua001 and already own everything. :)

-Nerseus
 
Ahhh. . . da fuggin cure!

saw em at the warner theater during the head on the door tour tour in 84, i think it was, and then had drinks with robert and boris at posuers, the now defunct infamous club in the georgetown area of washington DC.

the next year saw morrissey break his collor bone (the queen is dead tour) when an over zealous fan pulled him off the stage as he was reacing out and shaking hands with the audience.

other highlights of my early 20s. . .
Ray Manzerek (of the doors) playing keys with Echo and the Bunnymen on the Songs to learn and sing tour (with new order and gene loves jezebel, what a lineup!)

Joe Jackson Big Worldtour when he told some guy in the audience to sit down and shut up Im trying to work here and the bloke sitting next to you paid to see me do it! Classic JJ attitude!

Depeche Mode Black Celebration tour.

Camper Van Beethoven touring to support to our beloved revolutionary sweetheart

Love and Rockets ( ing rocked!!!) on the Express tour
If you dont own Express your collection is incomplete (IMOSHO)

Happy Mondays with Stereo MCs (bez was/is a trip!)

Those were the days. . . ecstasy was not only really MDMA but it was and legal!!!

I could go on and on!

now you may wonder what is in my cd player. . .
Poe: Haunted;
Underworld: second toughest in the infants
Monolake: Momentum
Mateo and Matos: Inspirations. . .

There is so much good music being made these days!!!

rock-on!

joemamma
 
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lol, Camper Van Beethoven - still hear "matchstick men" every once in awhile (not very often though). I was more into Minor Thread, Fugazi, etc. until my sister got me hooked on Erasure (and eventually won me over to Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode). I didnt get to too many concerts, but I did see the Cure in 94, I think. It was disappointing though - very lackluster (in St. Lous, MO) except for one HUGE rainstorm that came in (in an open field where my seats were).

Worst concert ever? Howard Jones about 2 years ago in Tucson, Arizona - VERY small theater. There were about 100 of us that showed up. In all honesty, I had a BLAST, but it was pretty lame :)

-Nerseus
 
New news: The Cure will release a new CD at the end of June (in the US, likely sooner in Europe).

I *think* it will be a self-titled album - strange, as the Cure has probably close to 20 albums :)

-Nerseus

PS - Im only throwing this out there since there was some interest in the Cure last time AND I cant tell anyone at work or home because they all pretty much hate the Cure. You guys become my sounding board...
 
I saw the cure on that pepsi chart program that is on the WB (??) at the moment. It was weird cos Robert Smith [Edit opps!;)] looks the same (except hes a bit older), but the rest of the band could be different people for all I know, they looked younger and didnt have the trademark cure hair....
 
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Robert Plant?? My girlfriend would be going mad if she realised someone thought Robert Plant was in the Cure ;)
Then again she did used to be a tad fanatical about them when she was younger.
 
lol - Robert Plant :) Thats the lead singer of Led Zeppelin (among others).

Robert Smith currently looks *similar* to his younger days. That is to say, not so good.

I havent checked recently, but The Cure has switched members a LOT. Robert Smith has been the only one thats always been there.

I saw the Pepsi Smash show and... well, Ill wait til the album comes out to pass judgement. Generally, the Cure releases albums in the following order: a lighter, poppier album followed by a darker, moody album. Bloodflowers, their last album, was the darker album so you might expect the next one to be a light and poppy album (along the lines of "Friday Im in Love"). Well see.

-Nerseus

edited to remove so many smilies
 

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