Has a live version ever changed your opinion for the better?

Started by Secrets, August 13, 2007, 13:25:17

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Steve

EOTW is definitely better live than the recorded version.
But then having it not playing at all is an improvement.
Not sure my opinion has ever been reversed though. Enhanced I would say is a better word.
I guess the closest I've come is Piggy In The Mirror.
On the LP it's fairly crappy, but I love the guitar break live.
Another "sort of" candidate is A Night Like This. The Cure & saxaphone solo's (or any brass instrument sounds) simply don't do it for me, so to get a guitar break live is just perfect.
Cheers
Steve
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Secrets

Quote from: Sussex on August 22, 2007, 04:25:50
By the way, The Drowning Man...oooohhh...damn scary when i heard it being played live.. :rocker

Good call.  I've always liked the song, but when I first heard it played live on the Curiosity tape (tape - so it was a while ago!) it really blew me away. It was so stark and fragile..and that guitar line Robert plays so simple and haunting.

One of my Cure highlights hearing it played during the Dream Tour.

(And hearing The Big Hand this time round was THE moment for me on the current tour).

FarFar

for me...the kiss...after heard in live concert the kiss really hit me....the starting of the kiss song always made me thinking about someone.......crazy... :smth020 :smth020
Life full of colorful, beautiful and mystery...just need to wait...it will come and chase you...

slit-the-cats-like-cheese

i never like so much many song on bloodflowers album when i listen to this record first. but some get better when live. like watching me fall.

but some other song they play so many times live already that im sick to hear these songs either on record or live version, like inbetween days. not bad song but  too many live-playing destroy it. it is shame. i was in a shop yesterday and this song come from radio and i not even realize its a cure song for long time! because too familiar, too much over-play.

carycameron




I really like the live version of 'Pornography' on Trilogy. 

The loud background keyboard really adds to the song,  which is not as evident
in older versions

Sussex

Quote from: FarFar on August 25, 2007, 05:46:29
for me...the kiss...after heard in live concert the kiss really hit me....the starting of the kiss song always made me thinking about someone.......crazy... :smth020 :smth020

can i guess who is the person.. :smth047
"Thick As Shit"

FarFar

Quote from: Sussex on August 26, 2007, 19:57:02
Quote from: FarFar on August 25, 2007, 05:46:29
for me...the kiss...after heard in live concert the kiss really hit me....the starting of the kiss song always made me thinking about someone.......crazy... :smth020 :smth020

can i guess who is the person.. :smth047

ya you definitely can guess...the guy who were the orange shirt....still remembered???? unfortunately.........
Life full of colorful, beautiful and mystery...just need to wait...it will come and chase you...

Steve

Just heard How Beautiful You Are from the Melbourne gig & it knocks the kmkmkm version into a cocked hat.
Cheers
Steve
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figurehead

Yes definitely it has.
'TEOTW' for sure was the one i never really liked as an l.p. version ,but it sounds a lil better as a live version.
'Is It Always Like This?'

melly

As I have said elsewhere, I am not an "expert" on all of the Cures' music, can't reel of oh so many titles like lots of people here...and some of the stuff I had heard on C.D.s etc was, a mixed bag to me, some I liked, some I didn't.. BUT we saw them live in Adelaide this year and I can truthfully say, I was blown away by the whole concert, every song. My son felt the same way...seeing them live is just a whole experience that engulfs every sense one possesses...seeping into every pore and leaving you elated.  :smth051
" Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...it's about learning to dance in the rain "...

Soxguy

wow!  i'm not sure if it's because i'm getting older or what.  it just seems like whenever i see or here the Cure live (and when i say see, i mean in DVD as the Chicago show will be my first live)i get all emotional...hahaha  like Melly says, their music engulfs you.  to me, like in a state of dark, joyful bliss.  i've been to about 75 concerts in my life, seen all kinds of music from Iron Maiden to the Crystal Method, Pink Floyd to Moby. believe it or not, i've actually seen Menudo, with i might add an itty bitty Ricky Martin.  the Cures music just gives off a burst of what i like to call "so happy". i'm thinkin' the chicago show will be the best of any live music i've ever heard and i' know i'll definitly be SO HAPPY.. :-D
"...Ambition in the back of a black Car"

CureCrusader

guys, I have never seen a live concert before I saw The Greatest Band (Our Band), my first and ever gig, in Melbourne. I will always remember that concert, HOW LOUD IT WAS and just how amazing an experience!!  :smth023  I am only 13!! Other gigs I go to will have to live up to The Cure. I really don't think they can. I am going to Crowded House in November, I'll post back here then, and compare the two then. :smth023

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Who am I? Who are you? Is this world what we percieve it to be? Do we even exist?

cure89

Yes, "Plainsong" during "Prayer Tour" and then "Holy Hour", "Drowning Man" and "All Cats Are Grey" in Paris ... 1989 as well.

snakepit

Other Voices, All Cats Are Grey, Funeral Party, A Strange Day (Orange 86 version !), The Walk, Dressing Up, Piggy In The Mirror, The Top, Push, The Kiss, Torture, Like Cockatoos, Fight, Homesick, Untitled. :)

psychophysio

I was thinking about this and the recent versions of "Wrong Number" were absolutely magic for me - much better than the single alone (I never really liked the lyrics much). I think the Melbourne version had the best solo but the Auckland one (which I was at) has a better outro.
Nice for The Cure to have a Guitar God in their midst again....